Week 4

Focusing more on the screen aspect rather than theatre, meaning not over exaggerating the body as much as we have to show to a live audience on a stage. As we have a media group to professionally film our contemporary version of our chosen scene of act 3 scene 5 with the three characters Rosalind, Silvius and Phoebe, we started to develop and improve specifically what moves and actions used and Finally deciding on a specific set and story journey.

We wanted something based in the modern day and age, so it's easy for the audience watching to understand it better with it's contemporary twist. However trying to think of a short story line to base it on the specific scene of when Rosalind tries to match the two characters Phoebe and Silvius together as a love pair to start with was rather a difficult and challenging task. As shown from the picture above, we brainwaves and thought of many scenarios to link each of the characters. Then finally settles with the idea of it being based at a house party which the two characters Phoebe and Silvius are both at. 

Another wall as a group we hit was how to link Rosalind to this specific moment, it couldn't be random and unnecessary and had to make scene within the short film. Then linking it to her disguise as Ganymede i had the idea of her dressed as a male and as she walks past the house party late at night, the two loudly exit the house overly tipsy and having a drunk argument with Silvius being a soppy drunken love puppy. With Rosalind being nosy and watching in the dark with her hood up in the background, Phoebe notices her thinking she is a male and drunkenly tries to make Silvius jelous. This scenario works with the scene very well as it connects not only to the moments happening within that scene but also moments happening before then in the play such as 'why she is disguised as a male?' To answer this question in our film i decided for the first shot of the film should be of Rosalind's feet walking on the path then treading on a  recent newspaper which has a picture of her normally as a female as a 'missing person'. This is so the watchers understand her disguise straight from the start of the film. But to make it clearer that it is her in the photo and when she is disguised she has a small tattoo on her wrist which is clearly shown in the photo in the news article and then as the camera pans up from Rosalind you notice a glimpse of the same tattoo on her wrist while she is walking.

As well as the technical aspects of the project, we have to connect to each other clearly as well, showing that i am a stranger to them and when they start talking to me i am taking aback, especially while a drunken Phoebe tries to take her chances with Rosalind. We have to be realistic and naturalistic for the camera, not being to over the top with out facial expressions. This will be a weakness which will be focused on for next weeks lesson which is all based on acting Shakespeare for film and camera.