Tuesday 13rd October 2015 - Dialouge before America

In this lesson we focused on the dialogue before the song America, this is supposed to be friendly but the comments can sometimes be rude to each other, for example "you came with your mouth open". I thought that I struggled quite a lot with my accent however I am going to further research Puerto Riccon accents so for the next rehearsal I will be able to say my lines better. When rehearsing this scene we had to work on the background acting rather than just the main dialogue, for example when Bernardo and Anita are talking we have to react to what they were saying, this is to add depth and interest to the scene and keep the audience engaged. At first I found this difficult but the more we ran the scene I found it easier, my character has established relationships with the other characters in the scene, for example I have a flirty relationship with Consuelo and close friendships the other shark boys, therefore my character does things like playing with Consuelo's hair and encourages Bernardo to continue to be flirty with Anita. I think this needs to be further developed to make the scene more interested, however when there are more people from the Rent clast and year 12 class involved in the scene this will naturally improve as there will be more people to build the scene up.