knife dance scene

When we went to see Let the right one in, at the Apollo theater in London. The cast done a very interesting interpretive movement piece involving knives. When we started to rehearse let the right one in, we decided that we would draw inspiration from the West end version and develop our own interpretive knife movement. We have the music from the official trailer of let right one in as an undertone for the scene as we use this to keep in time with one another. Similar to the west end show, ours starts off with Oskar alone stabbing a tree. But as when he does the set of movements three times, two people join in, then when they have done the movement three times two more cast members join in and so on until the whole cast except Eli is involved in the movement. Everyone except Eli is in the scene and this suggests to me that we are all still our characters and the reason we are all doing the movement is to represent that as a town we are all scared of the murderer and want to be able to defend ourselves if we come face to face with him. This is pointless as whenever one of our characters comes in contact with the murderer we arent able to defend ourselves at all and this is shown by the death of Jocke right at the start and when Micke almost dies but Mr Avilia breaks down the door in time to save Micke. I personally really enjoy doing these movement pieces and I am looking forward to developing and rehearsing them in the future.

Mind map of micke

I have made a small mind map about everything i know about Micke. As the weeks go on i hope to make more mind maps. Each more detailed than the last.

How To Have A Scottish Accent

I have been using this video as a way of helping me Try and do a scottish accent. At the moment I am finding it very difficult. However this video has helped me with certain points such a rolling R's. I feel that if I keep practicing the accent it will come over time. However learning the accent is not my goal as of yet. At the moment i am focusing on developing my character and learning my lines first. When i know my lines the accent will be easier to do and i can focus all my time on learning how to do it instead of trying to multitask.

video of death scene

>For the death of my character Micke and his friend and friends older brother Jonny and Jimmy we use a movement piece where Eli picks up off and eventually kills us. The piece starts when Jimmy is holding Oskars head in the sink. Eli runs in and throws us all backwards one by one. I really enjoy doing the movement piece as it is very fast paced but the movement are so simple that we can all do them effectivelly. Watching the video of this scene really helped me as I can see it from a perspective that ive never been able to see it from. This helps me out as i can see if i can improve on anything. For example sometimes when i get thrown i hit a tree which will be a problem as it means that i may break part of the set. Seeing the movement from the point of view of the audience helps out and lets me anaysis every movement. The next time we rehearse the scene i am going to try and improve on everything i feel that went wrong the last time we rehearsed.

1) dont hit a tree

2) crouch down more so steve can roll on my back easier

3) try to hold breath more when i die

4) try to make my death look more realistic

5) try to stay still when i am dead.

This week in rehearsal

This week we work mostly on our movement pieces. So fair we have a total of four movement scenes. These scenes are a knife dance, a movement to represent the emotions of our characters, a snowball fight and the final death scene of Micke, Jonny and Jimmy. I feel confident in three of these movement scenes, the only one that I don't feel 100% on is the knife scene. I always feel like I am slightly off time and I can never remember when the movement ends. It ends when the music during the scene changes but because we have the music looped I always have to listen out for the end of the song and this always makes me feel worried because I think I might mess up the movement. We came up with the movement scenes ourselves as a class. I was mostly involved in the death scene at the end as this scene focuses on only three character, one being my character Micke. The final movement scene takes place in the second to last scene. This scene starts with Oskar washing his hands in a sink, my character Micke walks in and stares at him. after some dialogue Jonny walks in then Jimmy. Jimmy then threatens Oskar saying that if he can hold his breath for three minutes he will only 'knick him' with his knife, and if he cant then Jimmy is going to stab him in the eye. At this point in the play we realize that Micke and Jonny are actually no were near as horrible as we thought. When we compare them to Jonny's older brother Jimmy, we can see that they are actually quite calm and and reasonable characters. The furthest that they have gone is threatening to throw Oskar into a hole in a frozen lake. Because Oskar fights back and stops them before it happens we can't tell if Jonny and Micke were going to go through with this threat but we can guess that they would have because of how they made him eat sand earlier in the play. For the death scene we wanted a mixture of symbolism and realism. We wanted the deaths to look as real as possible but at the same time we wanted Eli to look like a capable killer and to achieve this we needed to break the realism factor of the deaths. We came up with the movements for the scene by thinking logically about what would happen next. At the start we are all standing in a line so naturally Eli would walk in behind us and throw us one by one away from Oskar. Jonny is then in the center so its obvious that Eli would go for him first. She pulls him forward and strangles him. To make this look more convincing, Steve ( Jimmy) and I run towards Danny (Jonny) and lift him by his legs. This creates the effect that Eli is lifting him up by his neck with ease. Next she targets Jimmy. This is because Jimmy is older that Micke and Jonny, so he is the biggest threat. For this movement I bend over and straighten my back. Eli then throws Jimmy and he roles over my back. I then reach out to help Jonny but I'm grabbed by Eli and spun round then thrown into Jimmy. She then attacks Jonny again, Me and Jimmy start to get up and we run towards Eli as we wanted it to look like we want to put up a fight so that when Eli does eventually kill us she looks stronger. We run toward Eli and she throws us both to the ground without even trying. She then throws Jonny over her back and we try to run from her. She causes to fall over and pulls Jimmy then myself and throws us against a wall. I then try to run away again but Jonny is thrown into me. I am then grabbed and once again thrown into Jimmy who jumps over me. Eli then slams Jimmy and Jonny into each other and they fall over. THis is when I see my chance at escape and try to get away again. I run past Eli but she grabs me and pulls me into her. She then grabs me around my necks and snaps it whilst i struggle. I wanted my character to struggle until the very end as I don't think Micke is the type of person to accept death. Also he is only a child, aging around 12-14 so he would be terrified of dying. Also this is the only scene where Micke is completely powerless so as a character he doesn't know how to react to being over powered so easily.

More character work.

I have decided that I dont want Micke to be scared of Jonny anymore. We have completed a read through of the play and I feel that the way i pictured the character in the beggining doesnt fit well in the script. I still want Micke to feel awkward and guilty about what he is doing to Oskar but instead of being afrain Jonny will bully him as well I have decided that Micke is now scared of Jonny's older brother Jimmy.

I picture the town that the play is set in to be quite small and that all the children, such as Jimmy and Micke all know each others whole family. Because Micke and Jonny have probably known each other for years, Micke is going to know exactly what Jimmy is capable of. Because of this Micke is actually scared of Jimmy and doesnt want to do anything that Jimmy might not like.

For the background of my character I have decided that Mickes mum isnt around anymore and he lives with his dad. When growing up Micke and Oskar were very close friends. This is shown by him asking Oskar about a summer camp. This shows that they have a history and used to be very gold friends but because Micke was oskars friend he used to be bullied. This was before he met Jonny. Micke eventually noticed that they were only bullying him because he was friends with Oskar. So he took his dad advice and also started to call Oskar names. This got the attention of Jonny who befriended Micke and made sure no ine bullies him anymore. This has caused Micke to look up to Jonny a little. That was until Micke met Jimmy. Micke soon realised that Jonny wasnt even bad compared to how messed up Jimmy was. Micke became afraid of Jimmy and tries eveything to make sure Jimmy likes him. For example at the end of the play when Micke says 'he squells like a pig.' Micke says this to show Jimmy that he is capable of being a bully and that he isnt going to chicken out and try to stop them.

Character work

Accents

Let the right one is a play where the whole cast were scottish. Because of this they all used their normal accents. We have decided that for our performance we are going to do scottish accents. So far I have found it quite difficult to do the accent. I believe this is due to lack of practise. So im hoping that as the weeks go on my accent will get stronger. At the moment I think I can do the accent however i keep slipping into a Liverpool accent as they are very similiar. I have been looking at guides online about how to do the accent and some of them did not help at all. However some of them came in handy and have helped me a lot. These videos have given me tips about the sound of vowels and how to use pronouce certain words.

Micke character analysis

The character ofMicke is very complicated. At the start of the play he seems like a standard bully. This is shown by the way that he treats Oskar in the locker room. The way he calls him Piggy and tells him to squeal like a pig. However as the play progresses we see that he is actually copying Johnny. I believe this to be because he is actually afraid of Johnny and doesnt want to be bullied himself. Mickes true nature is shown when Oskar is in the sandpit. Micke just wants him to leave so that johnny doesnt see him. He says to Oskar 'you dont help yourself. You know that?' This shows that Micke doesnt want to Oskar to get hurt by Johnny. However in later scenes we see that Micke will not stand up to Johnny and will help Johnny push Oskar through the ice later in the play. In act two Micke has a nice scene with Oskar where he is trying to convince him to come back to strenght training. I think that what he says in this scene is sincere and actually wants to be friends with Oskar but his goal is to get Oskar to the training so Jimmy can get back at Oskar for hurting Jimmy. I think Micke only went along with this is because of Jimmy. If it was Johnny's idea, I dont think Micke would have helped. I think it is actually quite sad when Micke dies at the end as he never wanted to hurt Oskar and only went along with it due to fear and peer preasure.