thursday john & emily

Thursdays rehearsal was , in my opinion, very successful. We spent about half of the rehearsal working on character. I had them first find themselves before they found their character. I had them also observe each other to pick up details they might not have noticed. Then once they found their own bodies I had them find how their characters walk, stand, sit, and move. This got them into a relaxed state and made them conscious of their bodies during the run through.

We ran through the show two times completely uninterrupted. While they preformed I would take notes. This was a new experience for me to let them keep working instead of stopping them. After I would go over the areas that need work and give my input as to how I thought the scene went. Some comments I made were about chemistry, which is something we still need to work on and Katelyn and Brendan need to get comfortable about. Also some of my notes were about them not going 100% for the emotion or action and that made some parts of the scene unbelievable.

Then I asked them both to find lines or movement where they did not understand or needed to work on. I helped explain but mostly had them find the motivation behind those lines and then had them repeat the lines over and over.

This was a longer rehearsal but I think we covered a lot of areas and made a large improvement.