frantic assembly

THE VIBRANT AND VISCERAL FRANTIC ASSEMBLY" THE INDEPENDENT

Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. The company attracts new and young audiences with work that reflects contemporary culture. Vivid and dynamic, Frantic Assembly's unique physical style combines movement, design, music and text.

Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett formed Frantic Assembly in 1994 (with producer Vicki Middleton). Scott and Steven have since performed in or directed all of the company's work. They seek to collaborate on original ideas with today's most inspiring artists. Frantic Assembly has toured widely throughout the UK, building its reputation as one of the country's most exciting companies. Internationally Frantic Assembly has performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries.

In addition to its productions Frantic Assembly operates an extensive Learn & Train programme introducing 6,000 participants a year to the company's process of creating theatre, in a wide variety of settings. Frantic Assembly also delivers Ignition, an innovative vocational training project for young men, particularly targeting those with little previous experience of the arts .

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14th november

we spent the morning working on our ties polishing our timings and adding time to our physical theartre this creates a repition only non when the old lady is around making it a familia factor maybe we could do something like this in our national performance we then used our suitcase and our props and to make sure they would fit i need to now make the backdrop video and we need to get the music on to disc i will have this done by next lesson.
strengths of the lesson
we finally asaw our performance come together well and im starting to play with my character as the old lad i have decided not to do the stereotypical old lady with a walking stick and do a more of the emperor in star wars old but extremely powerful because i think it will make it more fairytale and give me more to do with my charecteristion . my character will now be very strong upright still and patient i will also  have a very serious plane face showing no emotion other that determination . my only concern wich i have informed the group that the story line may be unclear and that my character being muted looks like a after thought i have suggested me speaking but the group is very for this i shall have to see how it goes.

the second half of the lesson i learnt all that jazz routine for the chicago show ans have desided to also sing in the dance show this will give me the chance to gain confidence for chicago and we will rock you in the future .

8th november

we finally finished our tie performance and now looked at props and effects like back drops. in this lesson we filmed the piece to see what we could improve  we observed that there needed to be improvemnet the story line was not clear and the transition betweens scenes  was terrible we needed to go back to the drawing bored and look at how we could do thins we  desided to make laurens charecter the fact and informer character also to make it clear she would now make the story line clear with actually telling the story a bit like she did in the begging-in story . and how the timing went we discovered that that maybe the tension in the piece could be improves so we made the evil scenes slower and more deliberate and slower paced this could be used in we will rock you with the killer queen. we did this by using the creepy juke box muxic the music is slow and we could stay in beat with the music by havving the music it gave pace to the performance.






























one of our posts using brecht techniques of only having simple props

25 th october

after learning physical theartre we knew we needed to include this in our performance so this lesson we looked at music and how we could fit it in to our piece we looked at having the old woman not speaking and only being included in physical theartre in a backing track so week looked again how we could do this so we thought we could have the doors and the spell as part of the psychical theartre when the creepy box muxic apears  however when looking at it we didn't want to make it look to stereotypical so we mad it short and chose a peice of music that would fit like a piece of music from a horror film i explained we could use the them song to dead silence or one missed call however this didnt fit with our timings and the idea we wanted so we then looked at music box recordings and found this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCtgTpxgwjc wich worked really well im basically going to be putting Dylan under a spell by using my hand like a witch.
in the bggining scene the dinner scene i infused the idea of putting in more psychical theartre and instead of sitting round a dinning table being on a sofa watching tv so show we are watching tv we will have the xfactor theme tune blaring like a tv sound with the crackling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ZWuD9eqlw and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK4TYZQkSnc this gave us great ideas as to having a sofa war like seen in normal householder in present time.

stengths of the lesson
i think as a lesson we worked really well we were all presents and we started making alot of leway i think picking the music has really helped create pace for the piece with such a strong beat in the next lesson i think we will develop the movemvent between me and dylan maybe inrease the length.

weakenss of lesson
we found it difficult to crack down on what sort of image we were goign of rin the play at first waisting a bit of time , i dont htink i can ensure most of the rehersals are focused i can only ensure i am focused and point to what i need to be doing i cant make someone else focus .