Silent Movie

                                                             Silent Movie


Acting skills

For the silent project with Shenagh, we done exercise where we lay down on the floor and closed our eyes while Shenagh gives us instructions of how to realise stress and anxiety.
After, we would be doing warm ups such as going up and down, touch your hands to the floor, squat 3 times, stick your bum up and then slowly go up. This is what we mostly do every Monday to keep us wide awake and energized.
After woods, we would be doing tongue twisters such as "sally sells socks at Sainsburys", etc, in order to help with our pronunciation to Shakespearean old English and also improve our English. After, Shenagh would put me and my classmates in groups and practice the quotes from the characters that Shenagh has picked for us to remember.


However, for the silent movie with Rob, we would first warm up by doing different dances from each person in order to keep us awake and energized.
Then we would get a fake piece of gum and hum with our mouths closed, after he would tell us to stick our tongue out and do some weird sounds. After that we would do some tongue twisters in order to keep our listening on set.
Then Rob would get an random equipment or object and tells us to act out something different other than the object that is there. Rob decided to get a shovel, so I went out there and decided to act out like an old lady with a stick walking slowly and taking her time, I have also pretended that I was skiing.
After that we would play a game, how the game goes is we walked around and when Rob says stop we still walk but when he says go we stay still. Also to make us even more confused he added jump when u have to clap and clap when you actually have to jump.
After we would be around in the white board and Rob would tell us if there is anything we should work on, etc, gain confidence, remember your lines.
Then what ever we need to work on we would  work on it.


Context

Silent movie is when your acting out a scene without talking, it includes face gestures or body posture. E.g. Mr bean, we don't understand what he is saying but he does gestures to make us understand what he is saying. Also Charlie Chaplin is the person who uses gestures and body movements to make people understand what he was doing in the act. This was set in the Victorian times. Chaplin's childhood in London was poverty and hardship, as his father was absent and his mother struggled financially. At 19, he signed to the prestigious fred karno company, which took him to America which is career started to grow. He soon directed his own films and continued to hone his craft. By 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world.


Example Scene Breakdown for Silent movie:-

Include list of:-

• Props
cat mask
tea cup
poisonous cup
bed
tables
chairs
exercise books
newspaper
pumpkins
spider webs

• Make up
Henock used fake blood on the side of the face
Then he got some nail vanish feel of to make it peel of easily and dry fast and finally Ashley used the little mix eyeshadow and applied it on the blood to make it more realistic.

• Costume
Albiona - a modern black and white dress with bronze high heels


Shadhut - a orange coat and a grey t shirt underneath, plain black trousers with blue and black trainers

Alana - she wears a grey and white hoodie with denim blue trousers and black stylish high heels


Henock - he wears a blue and black long sleeved top with a t shirt underneath with adidas on the t shirt, he weared plain black jogger and Nike trainers


Adina -she wears plain black hoodie and a plain black joggers with winter black shoes

Green screen Acting

Scene 1. Shadhut is lying down in bed until Adina comes out of no where and tries to choak Shadhut to death until when he woke up everything was a dream.
Scene 2. Shadhut now sees that there is a killer on the lose in the newspaper so he tells Alana and Henock about it but they however don't believe him and think that he needs help. 
Scene 3. Before the teacher starts to teach that students, a new student decides to put poison on the cup of tea and gives it to the teacher, the teacher didn’t see her do that but however one of the student saw and tried to warn people but didn’t listen, so the teacher leaves with her cup of tea.
Scene 4. Henock tried to tell the teacher that there is a killer and not to drink the tea but she doesn’t listen but drinks it anyways, when drinking, the killer pops out of no where and points the gun at Henock and SHOOTS.
Scene 5: Shadhut however gets chased by the zombies and tries to run away as fast as he can.
Scene 6: Shadhut finally escapes but he bumped into the KILLER!, the killer tries to stab her but he
takes it away from her and knocks her out. But however more zombies come to kill him and he stabs one of them in the stomach, and knocked the 2 rest out.
Scene 7: Shadhut stands up with a proud soul like he saved the world until the zombies rose up and put there hands up to his back.


The performance acting


The act is about a group of teenagers entering a haunted mansion, there was 3 door that they had to entre. Each door had a fright.
Scene 1: Henock and Shadhut goes in and walk around cold and frightened, when they open the first door, Shadhut disagrees with him but Henock grabbed his ear and went in anyways.
Scene 2: Adina tries to get signal but there's no signal in the haunted mansion, she tries to open the first door but it doesn't work, however when she opens the second door it worked so she bravely decides to go in.
Scene 3: Alana and Albiona goes in the mansion freezing, Albiona steps forward and tries to open the first door but it didn't work, Albiona walks to the second door but it doesn't open either. Alana decided to open the third door and opened, at first Albiona was scared but when she heard a sound she ran inside and was ready to explore. Alana didn't want to go in the haunted mansion but she went in anyways.
Scene 4: While Henock tried looking for Shadhut, Shadhut tapped him out of nowhere and Henock went straight for a slap. After that they hear a weird sound so they decide to go in, Shadhut didn't want to go in but Henock dragged Shadhut to where the sound was leading to.
Scene 5: Meanwhile, when Adina goes in she finds a strange guy with a mask, when she taps him he looked at her angrily, she steps away and looked at him scared, he convinces her to take the stick but she refused, when he told her again she quickly took it and stood away from him, as Adina turned around to the audience she had a electric shook.
Scene 6: As Alana tries to find Albiona, Albiona decides to run and tap on Alana which almost made her have an heart attack. As they walk around Albiona finds a mouse and pets it, she shows it to Alana, Alana freaks out and leaves, Albiona looked confused so she decided to chase her with it.
Scene 7: As Adina stands there with her head down, All of the characters come in telling her if she is alright or not but Adina tells them that she is alright.
There is a plot twist, Adina makes a very high pitched which makes every characters head hurt and feel woozy, as she puts the stick down everyone falls down, she smiles creepily towards the audience and leaves.



P- Problem Solving from the green screen- This is during the rehearsals leading up
to the performance.

 What problems arose?
What problem arose is that they didn't bring the costumes because they either (forgot) or (got stolen).

 How did you deal with them?
They decided to go to there normal cloths for acting the scenes

 Were people absent or late?
Well not really, Henock would normally be late but this time he decided to be on time which was important to all of us as a team.

 How did you work as a group?
We worked in Staging, Blocking, costumes, props

 How did that affect the work?
The reason why this would affect the work is because certain people are in certain scenes and we cant replace them because we have been recording the scenes for 4 weeks so no costume can change or no people either




 What did you bring to the piece?
I decided to bring a cliff-hanger to the movie because I would like the audience to think about what would eventually happen next.

 How well did you collaborate with others?
I think it went great, working as a team and giving each other a chance to say what they think they would make the movie not only interesting but also shows how we have different topics every time.

 What ideas did you personally contribute?
I thought of being in a school where there are some students dis obeying what the teacher says or tells them what to do and to make it funny she claps hardly so that the student wakes up frightened.

Evaluation
I was very exited to do green screen, it was my first time having this wonderful experience with working on green screen. I feel like it went great, although there was retakes, it went great!.


P- Problem Solving from the performance- This is during the rehearsals leading up
to the performance.

 What problems arose?
What problem arose is how we didn't really have the props that we were planning to buy and bring.

 How did you deal with them?
We decided to rehearse multiple times to get the scenes right.

 Were people absent or late?
No one was late to the performance.

How did you work as a group?
We worked on the fourth wall, projection, talking clearly and costume

How did that affect the work?
I feel like having teamwork and practicing without anyone hating on each other is amazing, we cracked straight to the scenes and practiced multiple times.

What did you bring to the piece?
We decided to bring a cliff-hanger to the performance because I would like the audience to think about what would happen next.

How well did you collaborate with others?
I feel like we have collaborated nicely and respectfully to each other without any arguing and cursing.

What ideas did you personally contribute?
I was thinking about a group of friends just finished school and on there way home they see a haunted house, but they all had hidden powers that they didn't know until a old man approached them and told them to not go in.

Evaluation

As I was about to rehearse, I felt happy and welcome by the Camden peoples theatre staff. Going through the scenes again and again made me even more confident because my memory is not that good. Rehearsing plenty of times and people just watching me made me fully prepared for the up coming show to start. As the show started, I felt a bit nervous so I decided to go out there and make my mum proud.