Christmas Stage V Screen Log Book

Acting Stage V Screen Log Book
During the Christmas holiday period we were all set a task to research theatre pieces of our choice that could be adapted into films. The first session back from the Christmas break we all sat in a circle and shared our ideas, we then managed to get ourselves into groups based on the ideas that appealed to us. A student called Naomi and I had very similar ideas as we both looked at the film For Coloured Girls by Tyler Perry. This film stood out to me as the story is told in a very dramatic and abstract way. The film was adapted from Ntozake Shange 's 1975 stage play ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf’. Another student called Clement also had really similar ideas; he looked at the play ‘Feiffer 's People’ which is also very dramatic and uniquely abstract. Both plays are based on women feeling unappreciated and abandoned by men, and also include sensitive issues such as rape, domestic violence, abortion and mental abuse. We liked both ideas so much that we could not decide which one to go with, so we had an idea that we could combine the two plays, and that was when we formed our group and came up with the name ‘Feiffer in Colour’. At the end of the session we all agreed to go back and watch
This really started to make me analyse my character; how does my character walk? What traits does my character have? What kinds of people does my character get on with? I tried to imagine how my character would behave in reality, I became my character. I then had to consider that my character is not on stage and is in fact on screen. This meant that my character didn’t have to talk so loud to be heard she was able to use her inside voice; I also had to consider what kinds of facial expressions my character would pull as being on camera would require close ups to really see the chemistry between