Rehearsal 11

First showing
3/3/11

We are still all researching Chaplin, through out I will put in my research as its own entry soon.

Today we used some of the material from our long improv and made a short five minuet section to show Kevin. It was all centered around a table at the back of the room. And we kept the idea of a coffin and a wake evident through out to see if Kevin like the possible fictional setting we were leaning towards.

Notes from Kevin’s Meeting;• Something interesting about the ‘gays’ dancing together.

• Anna sat under the table is redundant

• There needs to be value in what Jess and Lisa are doing

• Rufaro spelling out Tobacco was nice

• The interruptions become annoying

• The Charlie Chaplin material isn’t there

• lacks the dominance of silent films

• Rufaro ‘pumping’ looks odd

• Hugging Anna and the break being disrupted is nice

• Kevin didn’t know why he was feeling awkward

• Look into Vaudeville, the material feels like it is a group of vaudeville sketches

• The Chaos is not clean enough

• Setting the scene isn’t important

• The Jazz dance is really nice but didn’t go on for long enough and it is significant for that era

• Chaplin walk is odd but likeable and rather interesting

• Trying to hard, treat the material with a bit more respect

• Work on the shifts between the foreground and the background

• Skits (punch lines without the context)

• First ventures into film were Vaudevillian

• Recapture the early era of films

• Glens walk is good but after a while looses its impact, was better when he was doing it in the background.

• Look at the live and the mediated space

• Look at the story of the train in the cinema

• Look at how to make noise effects

           

The idea, of Chaplin’s walk being incorporated would be really great. I think it would subtlety lace the legends presence through out it.