Week 4 13 by Mike Bartlett Sophie's blog

Week 4

In this blog I am going to talk about my the background of 13 and learn information about my characters. Also the rehearsal process.

Firstly we presented our prevention on All of aspects of 13. I came up with an idea of making a poster to be different to other presentation. However the poster was too digested with words and was unclear to see. From the feedback there was some uncertainty with the topic but the research was clearly done because of the facts that were written on the poster. Having thought about our presentation I thought I should have rehearsed on saying it to a audience instead of putting notes down on paper with not planning to say something detailed because I didn't go into depth about my topic which Ruth. I think I just made another way of saying the same thing on the poster. Having done this prevention I think that I will improve by rehearsing it more instead of being vague. With the poster idea the audience said how creative it was. To improve this presentation is to not make the poster too congested is to have separate posters on different topics this way everyone can see the writing. I will now take this feedback on board and I have learnt that I shouldn't go outside of the box too much.  

The other presentations have strengths and weakness. For an example most of other presentations had too much information on the powerpoint and they didn't explain in detail. However one presentation stood out for me which was Sophie's . The reason being that this presentation stood out for me was because she used cue cards which helped her about what she was going to see next. Sophie made eye contact with the audience which made the audience connect with her therefore it made it more professional and interesting to learn from. Sophie engaged the audience in what she was talking about. Sophie made a presentation which only had the main facts on the power point. The main points were easy to read because there wasn't too many words on slide. Sophie made a mindmap on the power point the views on the reviewer of 13. I thought this was a great way to express Dan Hultons ideas and views of the play. The bit of criticism I would give is that the mind map was not left on for long so the audience can take notes. It was clear and understandable. From one of the presentations I found out about my character. I found out that Shannon is that the critical part of her life is meeting John. I agree with this because she watches her videos John on social media and she had the courage to say hi to John.

In the Act 2 scene 11 Shannon sees John live for the first time. Her reaction is using her facial expressions such as smiling because Johns biggest fan. Shannon strongly believes in Johns views because she quit to her job because of the what  John said in his speech's such as in act two scene eleven he says "well I want to remove the barriers and believe that this may be the facts on the ground". Having read this I think that Shannon's barrier is her work because she is not enjoying it and it is keeping her away from her dreams.  Also Shannon is one of the twelve therefore she is drawn to John because she is related to the 12 disciples.

The rest of the week was focusing on Act 2 and the swift changes from one scene to the next. When moving from scene to scene it makes the performance look more professional. With '13' the scene change need to be quick because of the jumping from scene to scene with is not related to the previous scene.

Next week is starting to run though Act one and Act two under the lights.