Blocking scene: Six

When blocking scene 6 (the skating scene), we decided to firstly get Bonnie and Sylvia skating on the spot, centre stage (moving legs back and too) whilst the chorus stand huddled in the corner. They would be speaking their lines in a sort of monotone with actions and also all staring at the two girls like hungry wolves. I didn't really like this idea because to me it looked quite boring to watch, I would of preffered a lot more things going on such as possibly the wolves having more actions (swaying/breathing heavily/etc.)
 We then furthered this scene by improving it. As a group we decided to keep the skating motion going with the two girls but getting them to expand more by them turning to different angles in sync. I thought that this worked really well because it gives the audience more to watch and in my opinion it is a lot more interesting. We also got the whole chorus to gradually move around the space but not going too far away from each other, keeping in the pack. This to me brings the wolves more to life than the first idea, it also brings more energy to the performance and makes 'wolves' actually come to life. All of this is a big improvement I think from the first draft of blocking because it is more alive and there is so much more going on instead of it being dull and boring.
 We then continued to block this scene even further with Jill, now deciding on the chorus turning into wolves with the cannon effect but fast, getting them into different levels to eventually jump down softly but still visually aware (like a real wolf.) They would then slowly start to surround the girls evilly and prowling. Also, we decided that it would be a great idea to get the chorus to also hold up pieces of white card, whilst a projector aims directly at them making a background scene. As the 'wolves' speak, they will be holding up their pieces of card but when they start to scat and move, they will drop the card and then the backdrop will project into the background of the scene whilst everything else goes on.
 I enjoyed blocking this scene and was really happy with the final block. I thought that it worked really well and that the scene had progressed quite a lot. It went through a lot of blocking from the start, but in my opinion the end result of this has worked out a lot better.