B.O.B Rehearsal 19/01/2010 UNIT 4 continued

Tuesday19th January 2010, 7-10pm, Room UTG06

Aim:
To pull the lyrics together from unit 4 and run through vocals. To run through all units in chronological order from start to finish and then finally sketch out Unit 5, part a.

*warm up with the Sam*

Recap:
Unit four recapped by the group and the vocal build up is focused on.

Mapping out of Unit Four; Just to recap the unit, here is what the Iumentum has set so far:

B.Beast captures Father
Beast has sets his trap and waits in a dark area for the inevitable to happen. You see a slight hint of pride in Beast, this is his plan and its working. A Flawless creation in his eyes.A dark alley. A quiet time. A hunt. He will not be seen. He will capture his victim, take them home and then play the good Samaritan in the aftermath. He will look after the stranger. He will make them well. He will make them his best friend or they will pay for his aid.
This time, the stranger is Father. It is late at night. Father has been working hard. He is tired, unaware of quiet signals all around him.

Beast did not know who to expect, only that there would be someone to expect. He does not care for the gender, race or class of the victim, he only thinks of them as prey. We see Beast’s animalistic traits.


Development of Unit Four:


The lyrics to be used are yet to be formed into a solid and fluent text. The cast move back into their lyric groups and begin swapping lines discussed last Thursday.

Inspiration given for the vocals: Imogen Heap- Hide and Seek(Speak For Yourself), which draws out harmonies.

Beast and Farther practice the poigniant moment when the beast attacks father at the end of unit 4.

The group collect together again and begin vocal practices with lyrics 'let me be' and 'let me in'; holding out notes in harmonies and dropping semi-tones to pull in minor notes.

Sam highlights that the vocals that have built should immitate a lulluby and illistrate the feelings the Beast has for the Farther. The scene is to show Beast letting the Farther know he is going to help him, almost against his will but letting Farther know he will understand. Very eery! This is practiced on a canon role and over again to perfect the right atmosphere.

Lyrics include

'its cold,
its dark,
Its late,
Your tired,
Not Long..Now,
We'll escape,
let me keep you..awhile,
learn me suits and a smile etc...'

(2 mins break)

The group rejoin. Its explained that there are lots of little narratives within this scene. Beast is in tumoil; feeling pain for doing something you feel you have to do, need to do. He doesn't want to hurt father, just care for him and so should display he is pained to poison Father but he has to for the greater good.

The group are sent off to play with the actions and feelings of crawling and yearning of the Beast. Sam tips that the simpler the movements and emotive display, the better. All is practiced in silence.

The group shares their practiced movements. Bijan shows a pained lifting of hands from his face, Lauren then adds slow reaching, Danni adds opening and strained palms followed by Rocky making a 'clawing face' action. Sara holds herself with the last movement, looking cold and insecure. Sam throws in the imaginative idea that the movements collected together should mime playing with sick. This should help the cast remember the moments, if not make them laugh.

The vocals are then layered over the top of the movements as the group stand in a circle. Next they move into a collective group and adding the key scene when father is preyed upon by beast and finally poisoned. The focus is on the Beast and the Beast shows the internal pain he feels; the struggle he faces knowing what he is about to do. The vocals are the Beast's internal monologue and he breaches the scene with improvising stressed mannerisms with repeating lyrics painfully. Vocals build as Father is laid down and Beast tends to his new best friend; singing along with the choir behind him to Father.

(Brief chat the summarise the session)

Thursday's aim:

To run through all units as unfortunately there was not enough time today. Map out unit 5 a, b and c. To mark out individual journeys of each cast members as they revise all units.