SPA- Chasing Pavements -7

Today, we worked on Olivers scene that he had scripted in advance. His scene was set on the first day back at school, and shows the struggles of trying to get everybody out of the door that so many of us can relate to, everyday. Ollie played the father, whom was good friends with John, Cel played his wife and mother to my character, Kira (Who is true representation of a stereotypical 'emo', moody teenager) and James (classic annoying little brother), who starts the scene groaning in bed, pretending he's ill as he doesn't want to go to school. We broke up what Ollie had scripted, into different snippets of conversations until it flowed from the mother forcing the boy to get ready for school, the father and daughters painfully one-way conversation, to the mother and daughter having an argument over makeup, to the dad trying to bribe the son to behave, until them all finally making it out of the door. Or though what we had produced was short, it was humorous, flowed well and you could notice the obvious differences in characters, but when trying to elongate the scene, James suggested that we could change the ending of what we had produced by having me, Ollie and Cel all hear faint singing, we creep upstairs and into the bathroom, to find him singing a 'girly' song in the shower, Cel and Ollie thought that this was a good idea, that would gain a laugh from the audience, however I think that it isn't actually funny, its too childish and would become awkward when nobody laughs. We devised it, the others in my group found it funny so we are going to keep it, Oliver is going to re-write his scripts and add these songs to a playlist; 'Anaconda' by Nicki Minaj, 'Damn I feel like a women' by Shania Twain and 'Milkshake' by Kelis. Next lesson, we are planning to record Olivers scene and start working on Cels scene.