This is a copy of the programme that I created for ‘The Man Whose Memories Fell Out’.
Finalising before Show Day
Everything is going to schedule! The boxes have been built, painted and are currently sitting safe in the scene dock! There a only a few items that need to be finalised before show day. It is probably not a necessity but I personally want to hand my final designs, ground plans and props list to our stage manager before our Get In on show day. This means that if there is any problems with anything I am in charge of, I know that there is the proper documentation on hand so rectifying the problem doesn’t become a problem itself.
Shown below are previews of the the documents that will go into the book. They have all been fully uploaded into the Set section of the Documents page on this blog.
First are my 3D plans of the stage. These give the venues technician’s and idea of the stage and what they need to do to any what we as a production team can help with. For example, the legs and masking had to be brought down and Bars 1 and 2 of the lighting rig will have to be lowered so the boxes could be hung properly.
The final ground plan, which has been tweaked since the work in progress to be able to comply with Lincoln’s technical capabilities. For example the number of boxes upstage centre went from six to four, and the clusters stage left and right increased to five adn the venue only had lightbulbs in sections of five.
The final props list is also included as a check list for myself mainly so I can make sure that everything is set correctly and if we are desperately lacking in ribbon or if a prop has been misplaced and has to be sourced quickly before the show.
Everything is now together and ready for our Get in and finally, the show. I am incredibly excited and hopefully it all goes as smooth as possible!
Hannah.
Smile… You’re On Camera.
I decided to take some new pictures of the cast for the programme rather than using the ones we already had on the blog. The photos on the blog are look very casual and fit with the manifesto for the company where we state that…
‘Our ten company members channel their energy, excitement and enthusiasm in the devising process, to create focused and significant theatre’ (Fill In The Blank, 2015).
This led to me creating images for the blog which reflected this.
These picture are in colour and show the enthusiasm and energy of the company.
For the programme I decided to go in a different direction with more professional headshot style images. Below are two examples of this…
Works Cited-
Fill In The Blank Theatre (2015) About Us. [online] Lincoln: Fill In The Blank Theatre. Available from https://fillintheblanktheatre.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/about-us-2/ [Accessed 15 May 2015].
Rehearsal notes
Attached to this post are some notes I have taken throughout this process. They mainly explain what scenes I wanted to work on each week, what I neededto work on/figure out as well as a couple of texts we used as starting points.
Rehearsal notes week 1 – 16.02.15
Rehearsal notes week 2 – 23.02.15
Rehearsal notes week 3 – 02.03.15
Rehearsal notes week 4 – 09.03.15
Rehearsal notes week 5 – 16.03.15
Rehearsal notes week 6 – 23.03.15
Rehearsal notes week 7 – 06.04.15
Rehearsal notes week 8 – 13.04.15
Rehearsal notes week 9 – 20.04.15
It’s the Final Countdown!
Hello! A lot has been going on in the last couple of weeks, and stress levels are definitely going up with performance day looming. Yesterday was our tech day so I was in from 9am on standby for when Alice S. needed me. A lot of it was staying quiet and letting Naomi, Michael C. and Alice programme everything and make sure the stage was set. We didn’t have the boxes for the set (see Hannah’s blogs for more on these!) so we had bare light bulbs on the stage just to get ideas for spacing and where everything would be. The cast and Michael W. joined us at 11.30 and Verity and I explained that the most important role today was to be quiet and make sure we’re not being disruptive until we are called to the stage. It took a while to get going and as we hadn’t been on stage running the piece all of our spacing was a little different. In terms of the run we did, it was a disappointment to the piece and it actually let down the tech. I think that because it was our first time in the space with the full tech there were a lot of new elements to deal with and the performance wasn’t up to the standard it should have been.
There are some new elements to the performance as well, on Tuesday (the day before yesterday) we got a final running order, which meant a lot of late night editing cue sheet for the production team but at least we had it in time! Michael and Rachel also decided to make the wife leaving scene more ensemble work which is where our strength as a company is, however what it means is that we now all dance! This is not a strength of mine so I’m panicking about it rather a lot. Another thing slightly panicking me is that it’s taking me a long time to pick up the steps, because the way I learn best is by watching it repeatedly (like when we did the office scene) I’ve asked Rachel if she can upload a video so that I can go over it in my own time because we’re running low on rehearsal time now, so fingers crossed that will happen in the next couple of days so I can stop worrying so much!
Another scene that looked a little lacklustre in the tech was the ribbon sequence: I’m unsure as to whether this is because of the new spacing or if it was just a bad run today but it’s definitely something that needs to be prioritised in our rehearsals in the next week!
All in all things are looking very positive for ‘The Man Whose Memories Fell Out’, we just need to make sure all our transitions are smooth and finish off the rough endings to scenes.
