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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

A very few days ago, on the 30th of november,
Prakash and I had a meeting with Mrs Kamal.
After laughing at the silliness of our first scene together,
We explored other possibilities.

First we went the melodramatic way.
being both drunk actors trying to find their way.
I felt myself laughing harder.

Then,
Mrs Kamal took blindfolds for us.
she made us put them on and start groping around and saying our lines.
The experience was magical.
In the dark, you lose your sense of vision and you rely on your other senses.
In turn, this will make you feel around as if you're searching for something.
As we said our lines, Mrs Kamal called out emotions for us to modulate the lines
And as we progressed, we got scarier and scarier and scarier!
This would be the new feel of our first scene since we liked it so much.

However, i want to talk about the magic of being coincidence.

Sometimes, the things you do wrong will become magically right.
For intance, at times when either of us forgot our lines,
the other person gave a hint by personally saying it out.
This allowed the other person to recall his lines and deliver them.
As the other person delivered their lines, the first person faded out.
This gave the effect of two actors being one same person.

Another conincidence that occurred was the effect of one person standing up and the other moving down. As we were behind the blindfold, we didnt know what each other was doing and magically, at more than one instance, prakash stood up and i went lower to the floor and vice versa. the way we reacted to each other's voices was also extremely interesting.

With this meeting, we discovered new insight and areas to work on with blindfolds.
Also, i learnt that when we tape down our performance and look at it, we learn and gain much much more.

Super productive rehearsal!

The actor froze at 8:14 PM