24/05/2023

 Candidate Declaration - I confirm that the attached portfolio is all my own work* and does not include any work completed by anyone other than myself 

Today's been very productive, I've done a little bit of everything, I've helped marketing, I've organised a plan for interviews with the help of Morgan, and I've also ran all of my scenes apart from the finale

Production for marketing, I sat down in the HE common room to use a touch-screen whiteboard, which we wrote down the names of the 4 main sisters, and the 3 male leads for each cast, this way we can organise what people we need, for what role, and we can call them and start the interviews, they'd only be a short time per role, we're thinking 15 second interviews, and then moving onto the next role and thus the different cast members. 

I also helped Set Design with cutting out some swords from cardboard boards, I cut one out and I said that if we get some glue, we could stick two of them together so that they're more firm and stable, they liked the idea which is why I offered to help. I started it by placing the original cardboard sword on the board, and tracing It's edges with the razor, before then using the trace's lines to fully cut it out, I gave both to someone in set design as we didn't have glue on them, and then I left to go rehearse. 

And then I met up with cast one to rehearse some scenes. We started at the end of Act one, and went through the scenes we all wanted to rehearse. We continued on through act Two, skipping a scene because we didn't have enough of the characters to do it. And then came my scenes, I worked with Cast one Jo, Emie, up to our second scene together, when she had to leave, This is when I worked with my Cast three Jo. Where we redid those scenes, and got up to our third scene together where we ran it a few times. I was very pleased to get to run that scene as It's the only scene I've not been able to go over with anyone yet, and I'm thankful we had time too. In the scene I am introduced to Jo's family, and whilst I try and dismiss myself from the area a number of times, as I believe Bhaer is put off by Laurie being there, as he's attracted to Jo and believes that they're engaged. This is until Laurie steps forward and introduces Bhaer to his wife, Amy. And from saying that he may not have time to come back, now knowing that Jo isn't engaged to Laurie, he now asks Marmee Politely if he's allowed to return when he's able, before thanking everyone in the family, and leaving. 

Overall, on reflection, I'd say I've done well today. In my moments of feeling unproductive, I made sure to go and do something, to try and do anything, and I managed to uphold that to a good degree. I hope I'm able to continue to rehearse my scenes tomorrow, as It's the last day I'd be able too, and whilst that's a concerning thought, I hope, that It's a good possibility. To my knowledge, I'll be doing the interviews tomorrow, as well as going over the Finale, my final scene, with my Cast three Jo, Millie Trodden.