Blog post for the
holidays
I wanted to get a
strong start on my sign for my second scene. So I started working on the Monday
of the holiday, so when it came to the second week, I could really focus on the
character of my signing. I started on the Monday and it seemed more complex than
the first session on it with Sally, I find that there was a part I remembered
and a part I didn’t, so I found it easier to break it down for me to remember
it, so on….
Which I found easier
than just going through all of it at once, but the following day I would add
the signs on to what I learned the day before.
I find the problem I
had the most was when I was practicing I didn’t have the BSL script for the
first week; when it came to the signing, I couldn’t remember or know I could
look it up on my BSL or my script as we had changed who was saying what, as
well as changing the words to make the scene for the deaf audience. I find the
best way was to learn the signs and I could and then add the words over the top
when I got the script.
At the end of the
holiday I know the signs but I am not as strong as I was hoping to be at the
end of the holiday. I am glad that I have learnt it so I can go back and just
work on delivering it and making sure I am signing it clearly.
My teacher scene is
still my strongest scene to signing as I can deliver and I can use my character
to performance. I do need to practise it with someone talking the lines so I
can get use to someone read as I sign because I know I do not sign the same and
it makes it work. So I am going to practice with my partner as well as
when my partner is not there I can record someone else reading the lines so I
can practice.
At the beginning of
this project, I did not know much about the benefit system, so as I learned the
signing, I was also getting more knowledge of this subject. I also find that
working on our benefit section in physical theatre, I worked with someone who
knows what it’s like to be on benefits, as well as what the benefit system is,
and therefore I could get a primary source of information during the
preparation of our roles. One very important aspect I found out was that each
year they review you entitlement to benefit, which then means you do not get
any support over the time you are getting reviewed, so it becomes hard to live
when you aren’t working or getting money. I also know that being on benefits
you get only the amount that the government thinks you need to live off, but
sometimes that isn’t the right amount for the family or person.
The way I am going to
develop my character for the panorama scene: the way I have gone about picking
my character for this scene is looking at what I’m saying and what the feeling
is from the speaker, but for this scene the speakers finish each other’s
sentences and in signing they do not do that, so I find it hard to base my
character of the speaker who’s playing the reporter. I feel that the way the
signing has been done is through on- going conversation/discussion between two
people on a TV show, which isn’t the same as the speakers where the reporter
doesn’t know much about what she is talking about, so the report is putting in
the right information.
The way I have thought
about my character is looking at what they are saying and how they responding
to the other characters on stage. Doing this, I started developing my character
without realizing. On the other hand, with my teacher character I have worked
on the different sentences first, and then when I learned them, I have linked
all the sentences with that one character.
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