20/09/21 Auditions The Witches Task One

Task One - The Witches

Me and some friends from my class arrived, we spent the remaining time waiting, by doing activities that helped with our acting abilities and responses. 

This included small games like: Splat

This is where someone steps into the middle of the circle of people, and they either say someone name, or point their finger like a gun and say splat. That person then ducks and the people who were next to them aim at the other, they then have to say splat, if the other person doesn't, or didn't say it quick enough, they're out.

Wink Murder

This is where someone decides they're the detective, steps out the room, and the group of people in a circle, decide who's the killer. Once they're all aware, someone steps out the room and get's the detective, they then step back into the room, the detective get's into the middle, and looks around, watching peoples faces, and seeing where they're looking, or if they're gonna wink. Those who do get winked at by the murderer, die dramatically, in a choice of their own. After their death, they then stay dead, now out. 

Both of these game's have different varieties of each other. Such as, splat has splat question, which is where the person in the middle, instead of saying splat, they point their finger gun at someone and ask a question, such as "Name a clothing brand" The person they "shot" at needs to duck, as the people next to them attempt to answer the question. This tends to lead to a laugh due to the fact you have to think on the spot. 

Whereas, Wink Murder has a variety called Wink Murdered Mob Boss. Which is where the victim, when the murderer winks at them, goes to kill someone else, and when their target is dead, they return to where they were and is still in the game. This continues until the detective finds the murderer, to which the game ends.

End of Task One - The Witches

After we finished the activities, we went on to doing activities made by Stanislavski, where we pretended we had bags, or we were packing, this was so that we could try and act like we had objects around us, so if something was heavy, we'd struggle picking it up, or if something was light, we could move it with ease etc. This helped get into the headspace of our characters, and improvise a scene, like we were going on holiday, and the taxi was closing in, you'd act as if you were panicking, worried about missing it, and rushing the process of packing when you'd do much better being slow and steady. 

Afterwards, was the actual Auditions. Everyone had a set time on when to go into the studio, and perform for the part they wanted. My audition was the first one to happen. I was auditioning for the part of "Second Chef" in the play "The Witches" by Roald Dahl. So to give my performance a boost, I had bought an over-sized chefs hat the night prior, I found it funny and considering my role was a slapstick part, meant to make people laugh. I figured It'd be a good idea to have at least a part of me be slightly goofy. So I set it on, walked into the studio with my partner who was auditioning for the role "head chef" I immediately saw my Teachers smiles rise, one of them even laughing as we got into our places, and being told to start when we were ready. It was a nerve racking experience, but when we messed up a line or two from the script, we improvised and continued on, and once we were finished they were still smiling, and then we had to leave. So we did, and the next people went in. I was confident in the fact we got our parts, but I was prepared in-case I didn't get it.