Rent- 2/10/15- Reviewing 'Rent' & 'La Vie Boheme'

2/10/15- Reviewing 'Rent' & 'La Vie Boheme'
During the Blocking of act 1 we realised that 'Rent' might work better if we were not as heavily involved in the dancing as we (Me and Luke) have to sing most of the song and it would also make more scene thematically if we where up in the flat while the movements on the 'street' go on below us. So we changed 'Rent' so that mine and Luke's parts in the dance will be preformed by others in the year 12 class or the other year 13 class. Only toward the end do we come down from the scaffolding for the climactic ending of the song.

We also changed La Vie Boheme too as some things did not makes sense with the story. Josh and I had created our movement piece together but the characters we are playing hate each other and would not be dancing together plus Josh (playing Benny) is meant to be sitting on another table during this scene and isn't suppose to even join in with the dancing. So we changed it so that Josh has been replaced though the movements will stay the same.


We then watched the past videos of 'Rent' and 'La Vie Boheme' and reviewed and evaluated them:

'Rent' has good movements and dynamics, with a great use of different levels and other dance like elements while still keeping its urban/street feel. It's angry and rebellious... perfect for the song. The relationship between Luke's and my own character is important in the musical and now works very well after we changed it so we are singing and are less involved in the dance. I also personally love the ending of the song as well when the whole cast are gathered in one space and then drop to different levels leaving me and Luke in the centre almost like a tableau, it looks very effective.

I think 'Rent' could be improved if Mark and Roger (Me and Luke) had a movement duet together to show our characters friendship when the rest of the cast have duets and I also think that it could be more polished as some movements still don't look dynamic.

Targets:

• I will ask Luke's opinion on a movement duet between our characters and work to possibly devise one.
• I will also work on making some of my movements more dramatic and dynamic.

'La Vie Boheme' is beginning to look much more polished and I think we are all getting more confident with it. I feel I am beginning to embody my character and act as Roger would during this song and the changes also now make sense with my character as me and Josh are no long dancing together.

I think 'La Vie Boheme' could be improved by making sure everyone is in just the right place as at some points when dancing in our pairs people bump into each other or get in each others way, which needs to be addressed, I also feel that I could push my embodiment of Roger even more during this song.

Targets: 

• Try to act even more like Roger would.
• Remember exactly where I need to be at all times to prevent getting in the way of anyone else.