Directing Workshop Week 4

In this weeks seminar we took part in an acting workshop. We where given scripts in last week’s seminar where the director and one other member of the group would perform this short scrip. We had decided that Beth and Ellie would act and that we would all take it in turn to direct. However when we arrived at todays seminar Ellie wasn’t feeling very well so I had to do her part.

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The scrip we where given was very basic, we weren’t given any directions or character bio’s so working out the persons motifs where part of the challenge. We started off by just reading the scrip, the scrip it self was quite simple as it was about a person who lost his dog but the other character didn’t believe the first character.

We had decided that character A was called Bob a stereotypically chav type character who lives in the estate, we had decided that Bobs motif was that him and his friends where robbing house next door and he was on look out. Character B was called Margret she was quite an old lady and court Bob snooping around her garden, she is unaware of Bobs intention and decides to confront him. When we had decided what the characters motifs where it became a lot easier to act. When reading through the scrip again we decided to change a couple of lines which Bob said instead of saying “Pardon” he now said “what” and the line where he says “that’s envy not jealousy” he now said “whatever man” as a group we just thought that this is what Bob would have said as he’s quite rough.

Before performing it in front of everyone we decided to add a couple of stage directions so that Margret would approach Bob while she’s delivering her lines. I was a little nervous about preforming it in front of everyone, as I hate acting. However it wasn’t too bad and the feedback we got was pretty good.  The workshop was to show us the difficulties that we might face on set with lines not working or actors not feeling confortable in the environment. I wish that I had ago directing as its something I’ve never really done and it would have been the perfect opportunity to try it.