2.3 Performance - Report - Rehearsal

Our class had a technical rehearsal in the David Sharp today where we had 2 or 3 quick run throughs of our full mime performance from start to finish. Meanwhile our teacher Mr McIntosh chose what lights to put up at the right times, where to direct them exactly, what colour lighting we could use, and made a timing order of the sound and lighting. This gave us a clear understanding of where exactly we had space to perform. We were able to practice it and tweak it to see what parts did not match or needed changing, for example the beginning part after Abisola mimed a wall being between her and the audience, we decided that instead of us all moving forward altogether to help push the wall, we would send Abigail and Renee to move forward after Abisola, then they would motion with their hands for the rest of the class to come forward and help. We changed our original idea to this as the first idea of us moving altogether looked messy because people stepped forward at different times and as we have a very active class, it was hard to get the timing right. Nonetheless the second idea looked much better than the first and was less boring also. We had to create a list of the sounds and timings of the lighting, when it appeared to hand to the Sound and Light Technicians, Tangina and Tiyonne, so they could work with Mr McIntosh to fix it for us for the day of the performance. We decided to cut out dances such as the end ‘Candy’ dance so that it could be shortened, less complicated and allow us to focus on the main parts of the show: our group and pair performances.