1. Report – Pair Meeting
Shapla and I came together at the beginning of our technical rehearsal to fix up our Mime
Performance, as we’d been unable to tweak it earlier due to various different reasons such
as absences etc. We cleaned it up and decided on what sound effects or background
music we could use for it. We both contributed as when we realised our old performance
–Weight’s one would fail, we decided to come up with another concept and object. We
fixed with Shapla’s idea of blowing bubbles in the scene and combined it with my idea of
a box with various strange objects in it. We then put it all together and I came up with the
idea of using a bubbles popping sound effect when her character pops all the bubbles I
make, as well as other sounds. Also we want to use funny/speedy background music.
Report – Group Meeting
In our rehearsal today, the group; Humaira, Suma and I delegated out the responsibility of
the various sound effects and music. We decided that Suma would record the baby crying
sound and get the sound of a tyre screeching. Humaira would get the Piano Music playing
at the background and record a sound effect where she shouts ‘Wow’ at the yummy food,
as well as getting a ‘crash’ sound. I would record the sound of pots clanking together and
get a ‘Mwahahahahaha’ Evil laugh sound, as well as bringing a speeded up, squeaky
chipmunk voice yelling for when Humaira’s character shouts at Suma’s character for not
paying the bill. We also gave a list of our sound effects to Tangina, the sound technician
to know what sounds go where in our scene. We all contributed by volunteering for
which parts we would bring in for our performance.
Report - Rehearsal
Our class had a technical rehearsal in the David Sharp today where we had 2 or 3 quick
run throughs of our full mime performance from start to finish. Meanwhile our teacher
Mr McIntosh chose what lights to put up at the right times, where to direct them exactly,
what colour lighting we could use, and made a timing order of the sound and lighting.
This gave us a clear understanding of where exactly we had space to perform. We were
able to practice it and tweak it to see what parts did not match or needed changing, for
example the beginning part after Abisola mimed a wall being between her and the
audience, we decided that instead of us all moving forward altogether to help push the
wall, we would send Abigail and Renee to move forward after Abisola, then they would
motion with their hands for the rest of the class to come forward and help. We changed
our original idea to this as the first idea of us moving altogether looked messy because
people stepped forward at different times and as we have a very active class, it was hard
to get the timing right. Nonetheless the second idea looked much better than the first and
was less boring also. We had to create a list of the sounds and timings of the lighting,
when it appeared to hand to the Sound and Light Technicians, Tangina and Tiyonne, so
they could work with Mr McIntosh to fix it for us for the day of the performance. We
decided to cut out dances such as the end ‘Candy’ dance so that it could be shortened,
less complicated and allow us to focus on the main parts of theshow: our group and pair
performances.