Bouncers 1

1.      Today we have started our performances of Bouncers and looked at our first scene. The first scene for the version that we have done is where the Bouncers come on first and introduce ourselves. We decided we wanted to show their social awkwardness straight away, so for the start we placed Ralph, Judd and Les in a line with big gaps between them, they each say each other’s names but for this we kept them looking forward, not keeping eye contact with the rest. Eric joins in with the line and keeps up the idea of not keeping eye contact. We kept this going for a while until Les burst forward and says “I wanted to have ‘em, but Eric said no.”,  after this Eric and Les get aggressive towards each other, this ends with Eric getting Les’s face and then they both back off. In the script this is followed by Judd saying “I got a basket meal for nothing yesterday” but before he says this we decided to have a long silences to emphasise the social awkwardness in the group again.

2.      This week as a company we had our first look into multi-rolling, during the class we went through several different techniques for learning how to multi-role effectively. The first technique we looked at for creating our characters was a challenge that would help us create a walk for the 3 characters. This involved walking from one end of the room to the other but in the character styles of whoever are teacher said out of the 3 characters we have. Each time we did it wrong or it wasn’t convincing enough we were sent back with advice on how to improve our walk.

3.      This first week went well in for work in class as we managed to get a lot done in our first lesson for Bouncers; we managed to get through the first scene for the Bouncers, Girls and Lads which is a good eleven pages of our script. Our area for improvement would be to look into and improve our multi-rolling skill as from this week we learned how to multi-role but we need to work on perfecting this so it is clear to our audience we are a different person when we change.

4.      To develop our production further I would of like to look into the behaviours and attitudes of our 3 main characters (Bouncers, Girls, Lads). I think it would help us to research each of the 3 in detail to pick up key characteristics in the way they walk, talk, stand and respond to curtain things. I think by doing all of this it will help to build better characters for the show.