Thursday 4th February 2010 7-10 pm, Room UTGO6
UNIT 8
Aim: To run over the unit eight, build on the scene by pulling the Iumentum apart and adding ideas.
*warm up*
Recap: Wednesday session was a vocal build up of lyrics and development of unit 7.
Mapping out unit 8 : Just to recap the unit, here is what the Iumentum has set so far:
Unit 8- Trapped
Belle wakes up in Beast’s house. She begins to panic. Realistic panicking, thinking hard, looking around the room, not much movement at first, slowly realizing the fact that she is not safe. Beast watches her from a distance- looking at her through the keyhole. She hears him at the keyhole, (maybe some vocal stuff here building up to this point) then she screams & he turns away. He begins to feed her- Leaving food in her room as she sleeps. Eventually he writes her short notes, she begins to respond. Eventually they meet. Beast, ecstatic, asks her to fix him, shape him. Days, weeks, months pass. This relationship is different. Belle hates him, but a softness develops, a twisted tenderness. He finds her different too. A relationship develops through the routine of eating. Beast admires and copies something as simple as the way Belle eats her food…(reverting back to the Disney beauty and beast maybe? Maybe not?) Beast and Belle develop a fragile truce. Stockholm syndrome. She realizes that she may love him. At first she tries to ignore herself but feelings override her want to do the right thing. She can give him the companionship he wants. They then spend more time together, in which the food becomes more extravagant. (Thus more time is spent eating together). Beast then trusts her to be in his presence, and she is free to roam- with some restrictions.
She then stumbles across the room where Beast keeps the letters from Belle’s Father. Beast finds her and stops her from entering- He becomes a beast. He looses control. (We see the true Beast?)
Belle is desperate to see her father again.
Development of unit 8 in session:
The cast sit round a table and discuss unit 8. To feel the reality of the scene, they pull apart the realistic reaction of someone (Belle) waking up in a strangers home. The cast toy with light rising and dropping to illustrate days passing as Belle lies in her knew home. Mini-scenes are thought best to show Belle's first few days and her relationship with beast. A 'ground hog day' theme is discussed, Belle is to have a bunch of flowers left in her room each day, she will tear them up in despair yet each day the room and the flowers are re-set, the same music plays and the emotional cycle of Belle is shown; anger, despair and then finally drained acceptance.
Joesph (in house composer) discusses how he is able to use the same strand of music but use it in different ways. He considers starting with a few key notes in the first scene to set the music, then gradually building it up and then warping the end scene's music with echos and the tune slightly out of sync.
The scene will show Belle pretending to be asleep, Beast enters to place a fresh bunch of flowers, she wakes asking him who he is. Beast is shocked and as Belle confronts him. He is not used to human contact. Beast is to show he is scared, more scared than Belle and very humble when he next enters Belle space, knocking on the door first. There will be a cycle for Belle and Beast's relationship, they will meet and it will be awkward. Belle will ask questions that will anger Beast. She will eventuallyknow not to ask questions again.
The cast discuss stocholm syndrome and that Beast needs to share a part of him with Belle; like a real friend. The whole scene is mapped out but still yet to be set in stone, the directions are to be put up onto the blog.
Overview of session
Possitive development has come from tonight's session. The cast had alot to get in unit 8 but have managed to map it out. The final agreed unit 8 scene will be released on the blog soon.
wednesday’s Aim: To run exercise unit 8 and the scene discussed.
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