The Key:

What = Green

How = Blue

Why = Red

The ‘Morning’ Scene:

We chose to do this scene to, not only demonstrate our use of multirole, but to give the audience a sense of the individual personalities at Whitewall School. Take my parts for example, for this scene alone I had to play 7 separate roles! Although this does include non-speaking roles as well, I still had to use different body language, facial features and gestures to imply those different characters. However with the speaking parts, some of them were often quite similar. For example, I played Gail at one point and then ‘Girl-with-gum’ at another. This meant that, because of these characters common dislike for school, the personalities might be difficult to portray without making them seen to similar. However, in our version of the scene, we wanted to show the idea that the ‘Girl-with-gum’ could not care less about the teacher, whereas Gail, being the flirtatious girl that she is, would most probably be very interested in the teacher considering that he is male. From this, I can choose distinct, stereotypical drama technique that represent these slightly different personalities; gestures. The gesture I used was that of ‘fiddling with my hair’. However, for when I was Gail, I curled the hair around my finger so to imply that she was trying to appear girly and sweet (flirting), but when I did it as the ‘Girl-with-gum’, I was just running my fingers through it to imply boredom or a desire to be somewhere else (thought). This just goes to show that, although being very similar, this gesture, if done in two different ways, can mean two completely different things.

If I were to do this scene with the aid of lights and music, I would have a set piece for when each actor came in, that clearly represented each character to further the audience’s understanding of the separate personalities. I would also use a darker spotlight and maybe even a step or block for the more sinister characters, (Mr Basford), to help show both personality and status.

 

By Cerys