Historical Context - Rehearsal - 16.04.15

In today's lesson, we brought the multimedia aspect into our lesson. We recorded us speaking as a chorus and some choral breathing to be played back during the performance. This also adds to the multimedia aspect of our performance. We will have it blasted through speakers as we perform it on the football courts below the window where the audience will spectating from. We will perform the actions to the words while it plays through the speakers. This gives an effect that the speech is being proclaimed by the people of Thebes as they also act out what is being said.

However, recording the speech also supports the scene technically, because the audience will hear it much clearer if it’s broadcasted into the room. Our words might get lost if we speak live, because of wind and other outside noises, not to mention our distance from the viewers.

After this, we discussed how our scenes are relevant to a modern audience today. My group modernised our scene by incorporating a news report broadcast which isa very modern representation of Antigone. We also used a clip of some "CCTV" footage that I filmed and edited myself of the crime that Atigone committed. We played it on the TV screen at the top of the stairs where we perform. This is relevant to today's audience because the way most people find out information is by the news, therefore, I feel like this is very appropriate for today's audiences. The multimedia is relevant to the scene because a lot of the time, if a news broadcast is reporting a crime or a serious situation, they will sometimes use some footage from the scene.

Our filming was a huge success as we managed to get it done in one take. We did some planning beforehand where we talked about what we would need it to look it for it to be effective. It was also a simple piece of video to film as there was no script  nor was there much to rehearse. 

This is the CCTV footage I created: 

We then shared the what progress we have made in our individual groups, these are some notes I made on each group: 

Antonia's group:

• Great comedic timing, Antonia and Tim are working well together, although they seem like they are trying TOO hard to be funny.
• Breaking the 4th wall to address the audience makes the audience more comfortable 
• Using mobile phones to make the fact that it is set in the modern day obvious

Logan's group:

• Nice choral movement 
• Movement links into the script and spoken words

Nancy's group:

Eric's characterisation and his use of pause and body language made a convincing portrayal of a leader.

I liked the inflection used by Sherene. It was strong which made me feel as though she was trying to convince herself that she had done no wrong

The modernization of language made Creon more casual. Almost like a prime minister so that's how this relates to a modern day audience.

Rory’s Group:

• Phone torches make Tara and Pheobe look more like mythical beings, like magic  spectating

• Rory was very convincing as his role of Haemon. He showed a sort of desperate love for Antigone. 

Harmony’s Group:

• Jake's characterisation was very convincing – he used voice and physicality to take a physical representation of a frail old man.

• Natasha and Harmony used the space well and kept the running theme of them being ethereal beings

What meets need to be developed and why? 

We are still in the process of developing our scenes so there is still a lot to do. For my own scene I need to make sure I'm off script as soon as possible. For the other groups, every scene jus needs to be cleaned up a little bit. 

How did the pieces become relevant for a contemporary audience? 

They became relevant when the different kinds of multimedia were incorporated. Some groups also managed to modernise their scene in terms of topic and textually. By this I mean some scenes were physically modernised by body language and movement whereas others were adapted verbally.