Posters

Hayley Quinn Cooper
This is the finished version, i went back and tweeked the poster because it didn't stand out enough, hope this is pleasing to all of you :')

Like ·  · Follow post · 29 October 2011 at 21:38

Abbie Flitton If were putting them around different places we need to say where it is ? Or something ?
29 October 2011 at 21:40 via Mobile · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper Oh you mean like Lutterworth College, i'm on it, i'll add it on
29 October 2011 at 21:41 · Like

Abbie Flitton Thanks Hayley :) :) xx
29 October 2011 at 21:42 via Mobile · Like ·  1

Hayley Quinn Cooper i've put "Lutterworth College Proudly Presents across the top, just above Tales in wonderland (:
29 October 2011 at 21:43 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper cause i wanted to sound dead cool...
29 October 2011 at 21:44 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper ‎:D No problem lover, onto hook and smee! :DDDD
29 October 2011 at 21:44 · Like

Beckiee Durham how many do you think you'll have done by wednesday?
29 October 2011 at 21:45 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper well it all depends on how many more photos we take (:
29 October 2011 at 21:45 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i can get hook and smee done probably by tonight
29 October 2011 at 21:45 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper but i cant do charming and cinders because i need to retake cinderella with better makeup once it arrives
29 October 2011 at 21:46 · Like

Taz Maguire i wasnt sure if sarahs was a makeup photo or not so i just stuck it in there
29 October 2011 at 21:46 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper you can start printing the ones i've done as soon as i have (: i'm working out now how many posters there will be so you know how many to have for each character so you can go and print those ones off and not have to worry about not having any, i think over the week the posters will basically just build up until we have the whole collection (we sound like trading cards.)
29 October 2011 at 21:47 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper ima collect one of each of us for my bedroom wall.
29 October 2011 at 21:47 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper but like i'll be able to do aprils on monday, chloes, rachel, alys (probably, it just takes a long time to do is all) me (i'm not having makeup in my photo because i'm just editing it so all you can see are the eyes and mouth, which i'll photoshop to curve further than it does) James, if abbi brings the wig in for him, and probably some others (:
29 October 2011 at 21:49 · Like

Beckiee Durham could you send what youve done too me at TJABDURHAM@sky.com instead please so i can print them :)
29 October 2011 at 21:49 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper but hopefully the makeup will arrive by tomorrow or tuesdayish
29 October 2011 at 21:49 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper will do :D
29 October 2011 at 21:49 · Like

Beckiee Durham cheers baby chops
29 October 2011 at 21:49 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper what colour for hook and smee's background, i'm thinking red or green
29 October 2011 at 21:50 · Like

Beckiee Durham yeah i think green, or blue
29 October 2011 at 21:50 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper ooo yeah, like ocean blue...
29 October 2011 at 21:51 · Like

Beckiee Durham yeah, as they are men of the sea!
29 October 2011 at 21:51 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper SEAMEN. Wait...
29 October 2011 at 21:52 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i don't think i'll put "This show has seamen!" on their posters :')
29 October 2011 at 21:52 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper however, i was thinking of coming up with a tagline for each character poster, but i can't really think of anything right now :P
29 October 2011 at 21:53 · Like

Beckiee Durham yeah its whether you can think of any that everyone will understand :@)
29 October 2011 at 21:54 · Like

Abbie Flitton BECKIE how many we thinking to print of off each character if were having about 60?
29 October 2011 at 21:58 via Mobile · Like

Beckiee Durham i say do about 5 of each because theres no harm in doing more than 60 is there?
29 October 2011 at 21:59 · Like

Trailer?

Hayley Quinn Cooper
Right guys, this is something that needs to be addressed, right now.

This bloody trailer thing.

I hate to burst everyones bubble but it won't happen next week, and tbh i don't think it should happen at all, and it's not "Oooo i can't be bothered." I went through the pros and cons, this is what i came up with...

Pros:
-We can send it to other schools to widen our audience
-We can play it in forms
-It could look really awesome and draw in crowds
-It could be funny and amusing and really effective
-It could make our panto more memorable

Cons:
-We can only do headshots
-We can't even do everyones headshots next week because i have only just ordered makeup this afternoon, meaning half the cast will be in makeup and half won't.
-If we are only doing from "Mirana." to "MAD HATTER!" It is going to only be 10 seconds long, and quite ineffective if we are trying to sell our panto, because it gives absolutely no information as to what our panto is even about, it just shows the characters, but if we go past "MAD HATTER!" All shots will still be above the neck and it will look like we don't know how to zoom out.
-If it is about 10-20 seconds long, it is really really not worth the time it will take to apply the makeup we don't own, and the hours it will take to edit (i heard a few people say it will take five minutes to edit, you people have clearly never had to edit anything... it will take a long time to get the timing swift and right.)
-The years that have gone before us have packed out every single night and they didn't have a trailer.-If it looks like cack, it will more likely drive people away that bring people in.
-Most people already understand the idea of a pantomime and the posters and broadcast takeover should give them an idea of what it's about.
-All of this is going to suck up what little rehearsal time we have left, and considering we are already so scarily far behind where we should be, i think we need all the time we can get.
-Did i mention i can't do any of your makeup?
-Did i mention that at all?
-You'll all have naked faces :P
-Just sayin'.

The posters i can do over this coming week, as soon as my makeup kit arrives, i will get on it like anything and stay up late doing some serious editing if i have to, but really, this can be spread out, but it's doable and will look good once i'm done with it.

But the video... it just feels as though we've wasted an entire week faffing about with it... and we have balls to show for it... i think the time would be far better spent rehearsing.

Please tell me someone feels the same way about this, because it's doing my head in so much... it seems like so much effort for so little a result that people will forget by the end of the day... I hate to be such a moany bitch but it's driving me up the wall that this has become such a big deal...
Like ·  · Follow post · 28 October 2011 at 19:01
April Rose Hill, Abbi Ellingworth and Katieann Bird like this.

Abbie Flitton i feel exactly the same as i said today! me and beckie were going to go at lunch to tell mr cooper its off anyway :) we need to prioritise what is going to happen on the night as we dont want to look like a bunch of students who have pulled off a shit performance and we had a great trailor?
so yeah i totally aggree with you hayley!
28 October 2011 at 19:05 · Like ·  2Hayley Quinn Cooper oh thank god someone agrees with me, i felt like i was going to have the whole class being like "WTF HAYLEY. SHUT UP NO ONE CARES."
28 October 2011 at 19:05 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper Such a relief, you have no idea xD ♥
28 October 2011 at 19:06 · Like

Abbie Flitton haha oh hayley!! do not worry, i think alot of other people agree!! your just the one to get it out in the open :D
28 October 2011 at 19:10 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper ahaha i feel so much better now that i have, it's been on mind all week xD i've been so stressed about panto i only slept for 3 hours last night xD talk about freaking out :p
28 October 2011 at 19:11 · Like

Abbie Flitton oh god!!! SLEEP WOMAN SLEEP!!!!!!!!
28 October 2011 at 19:12 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i plan to! XD
28 October 2011 at 19:12 · Like

Katieann Bird I said this last week! :')
I'm saying no to the trailer!
28 October 2011 at 19:14 via Mobile · Like ·  2

Hayley Quinn Cooper eugh thank fuck, no one listened to me when i said it in radders class and no one else seemed to be that against it, so i was worried the whole class still wanted it.
28 October 2011 at 19:16 · LikeAbbie Flitton i thought it was a good suggestion when we first said about it, but it think we all thought costume and our scenes where all going to be perfect we are meant to be doing a "pretend run" at the beginning of november!
28 October 2011 at 19:19 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper exactly xD we just have to rehearse, we should be off scripts now, although a lot of us are now, so that's great :D
28 October 2011 at 19:28 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth As am i, i really do agree with this hayley, we need to prioritise the actual panto rather than the trailer.. i preferred the james going to the head broadcast thing :') x
28 October 2011 at 19:30 via Mobile · Like

James Sampson im fine for this, but i wouldnt mind you guys asking me first, i feel like im getting walked over a bit. also hayley, how come youve orded the make up?
28 October 2011 at 21:42 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i ordered it because 1)we have shit all at school, and i have a very limited amount, 2)beth keeps going on at me to do these posters and can't without makeup 3)i haven't been given budget myself to order them and because of beth being on at me, i have to get it as soon as possible, and 4) we need makeup xD
28 October 2011 at 22:02 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper oh and i went to the market first, yes :P they didn't have what i needed
28 October 2011 at 22:02 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper i checked every stall when i went to buy the fur for my outfit
28 October 2011 at 22:03 · LikeHayley Quinn Cooper they were either not enough colours, or the wrong sort :P cause they suckkkk
28 October 2011 at 22:03 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper and in regards to running it by you, although you are director, and make directorial decisions and shit, things like this ultimately fall down to the production roles, like for the trailer it would concern publicity, makeup and tech, because of filming and editing, so me, abbie, beckie and taz, but mainly abbie and beckie really, cause if it sucks ass it's on their heads because they put it out there. I get what you mean about you wanting to know about these things, which if it'll effect a massive lot on stage is fair enough. But just so long as you know that you may be playing one, but you're not really a queen ;) so don't feel personally offended if individual departments haven't let you know something straight away, don't worry, they will (: ♥
28 October 2011 at 22:07 · Like

Taz Maguire so...no trailer?
28 October 2011 at 23:52 · Like

I was gutted that we didn't do a trailer as they are a lot more convincing to get an audience to watch the show. This was based on the fact that when you perform a little segment of the panto is honestly looks rubbish.

Birth of The CanCan

James Sampson
OH BTW!!! Me and Alys were speaking, and we decided aht my opening to Proud Mary, as awesome as it would be wouldnt be able to have enough dancers on stage. there for we need something we can have more linear formations... then good ol' genius struck in... so sorry Abbi, but we've changed it to the Cancan :)
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Abbi Ellingworth oh meh. how much do you want so that i can do it right now? if you have a copy of it that would be great, as audacity is still being a bitch to edit from download, which is annoying as fuck.
24 October 2011 at 22:20 · Like

James Sampson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Diu2N8TGKA
24 October 2011 at 22:23 · Like

James Sampson i really want the opening to my enterance on stage too!!!!! i think we can forget about Motzart, sorry. errrrm i want a good lot of it... fck it, lets do all of it :D
24 October 2011 at 22:23 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth james thats not fair. okay i'll put this onto the soundtrack for tomorrow but i'm going to discuss anything related to the orchestra until tomorrow
24 October 2011 at 22:26 · Like

James Sampson no wait stop it aattttt...... 1.04
24 October 2011 at 22:26 · Like

James Sampson whats not fair?
24 October 2011 at 22:27 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth they've rehearsed that one so much its ridiculous
24 October 2011 at 22:29 · Like

James Sampson oh shit i forgot they played the mozart one
24 October 2011 at 22:29 · Like

James Sampson which one have they done again?
24 October 2011 at 22:29 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth ones? the mozart one, a piece of sad violin music for leah and the waltz for april. they've started tell everybody, you're a mean one and pure imagination...
24 October 2011 at 22:32 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth however i found this one and found it hilarious http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001QPEXR4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=AE2QNCE40KCLM
24 October 2011 at 22:32 · Like

James Sampson i meant which mozart piece. and promise me that the drum beat isnt in the waltz for april. Your a mean one i really do want the cd, its got all the sound affects on it
24 October 2011 at 22:34 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth i'll email it you.. and it wont sound like that on the waltz because like audacity is a bitch and doesnt do the drummer beat how it sounds.
24 October 2011 at 22:37 · Like

James Sampson i dont like the techno version of the can can :/
24 October 2011 at 22:41 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth i found it hilarious. ;)
24 October 2011 at 22:43 · Like

James Sampson which mozart piece, i wanna recap what it was
24 October 2011 at 22:43 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth ive emailed it you.. its like 15 seconds of mozart symphony no40
24 October 2011 at 22:44 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper I gotta agree with Abbi on some of these, if they've worked really hard to learn and rehearse something, it's completely unfair to tell them their hard work was for nothing. We can work around these little things. Oh and Abbi, I think we were in about removing the drum beat from that song, it sounds great but when the drum kicks in it throws the natural delicateness of it off a bit (: oh and also, I think I know why we had the mix up with the last song being on a backing track or not, I think you thought it was going to be an orchestral number because Dr Ratcliffe was pushing for it, but we all know we can't sing it loud enough (or manage any of the crazy fuck words :P) but I'm sure it's easily fixed (: tell Beth Btec really appreciates all the work they've been doing ♥
24 October 2011 at 22:44 via Mobile · Like ·  1

James Sampson what do you mean? i want the mozart in i forgot they were playing it thats all
24 October 2011 at 22:47 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth regards we go together, i spoke to her at lunch and she's really pissed but accepts our apology. i've got a version of it with lyrics on the cd already cuz i'm baddass and have spent too much time doing this shit. i'll talk to beth and the drumming debacle, but yeah... and james so you want both the can can and mozart? and i take it you want the can can on cd?
24 October 2011 at 22:49 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth james i'll email you my re-done list of what is being done where.. it might make more sense to you :)
24 October 2011 at 22:51 · Like

James Sampson yes ill have the mozart still, i completely forgot what piece it was. defo that and i would indeed like the Can can on cd. and what piece are you and hayley on about?
24 October 2011 at 22:53 · Like

Winter Wonderland

Abbi Ellingworth
yo kids, something to discuss tomorrow, what about as people are leaving orchestra do 'winter wonderland' so that there is an xmas song but we also don't have to do it etc...
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Leanne Amy Hollingsworth thanks a good idea
24 October 2011 at 21:24 · Like

James Sampson if we come to it. we have scene 1 and 2 to polish as well as get the dancers in for the first dance
24 October 2011 at 21:40 · Like

Abbi Ellingworth we also have a lesson with sara :)
24 October 2011 at 21:40 · Like

James Sampson in which i also planned on getting alice and mad hatters scene and rapz and lil red scenes finally done
24 October 2011 at 21:43 · Like

Leanne Amy Hollingsworth wicked!
24 October 2011 at 21:44 · Like

Abbie Flitton one slight problem but can be sorted, as im a douche and injured i had planned to print the scene off today (as i dont own a working printer) and so i couldnt print it, i also have to go back to hospital tomorrow morning so i dont know if ill be in for my free in the morning to print it again.. ONE OPTION IS, i could send it and someone could print it out? i shall be in for drama!! sorry for my lack of movement ill be able to do as i am on crutches and cannot put my foot down, i will do my best!!! im a trooper and nothing will stop me!
24 October 2011 at 22:05 · Like ·  1

James Sampson i can print it tomorrow for you :)
24 October 2011 at 22:12 · Like

Abbie Flitton thanks james :D want me to send it to you now ?
24 October 2011 at 22:12 · Like

James Sampson jsut as long as i have it by first tomrrow :P
24 October 2011 at 22:13 · Like

Abbie Flitton okayyyy, what do i send it too school ?
24 October 2011 at 22:13 · Like

James Sampson can do :)
24 October 2011 at 22:14 · Like

Abbie Flitton okay ill do that now :) thanks so much
24 October 2011 at 22:14 · Like

Beckiee Durham flitton we have to get those letters to the schools out like NOW. want to send them to me and i will give them to the schools tomorrow?
24 October 2011 at 22:15 · Like

Abbie Flitton yeah can do :) ill send you the message rachel sent me
24 October 2011 at 22:18 · Like

Beckiee Durham thankyou, i hope you get better soon!
24 October 2011 at 22:18 · Like ·  1

Abbie Flitton thanks, school account or normal ?
24 October 2011 at 22:19 · Like

Beckiee Durham TJABDURHAM@sky.com
24 October 2011 at 22:20 · Like

Production Manager Meeting Revised

Leah Peirson
Okay Joe Taylor-chedel, Rachel Howard & Leanne Amy Hollingsworth. I'm calling for our meeting for today, Joe you'll be really quick so you can either do lunch with set people or just do it at break xxx
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Leanne Amy Hollingsworth Can we not do it in a lesson? I'm going home at lunch as I've said I'm going hospital with my mum xx
13 October 2011 at 08:50 via Mobile · Like

Rehearsing ...

After sorting out the table for the mad hatter scene, we carried on to the final scene


-The White and Red Queens and their friends sit at the table, all of the evil characters sit on the right side (from the audiences point of view, this was done to relate back to the theater convention of having the goodies and the babies on certain sides of the stage) of the table, and all of the good characters sit on the left, all squashed in, and then the queens are sat on their thrones at either end, the Hatter is sat in the center, on a toadstool prop.


The Hatter begins talking in rhyme and everyone else at the table rhyme's too. There is a comic element from The Red Queen with her line of "I won't rhyme not one bit, I find all this rhyming to be quite sh..." at the the characters gasp as  everyone know which word he is about to say. The Hatter explains that he stole the lost pages for himself to stop the fighting in wonderland and says that the pages will go to the most deserving which inadvertently starts a fight, as the Red Queen thinks the most deserving means the strongest, or the one who wins a fight.


"A fight scene commences between the two queens, and The Red Queen distracts The White Queen and then pushes her to the ground, she then snatches the remaining pages from The White Queen and The Hatter, and shows off about having them. As she gloats the good characters use Fairy Gee's want to pop one of The Red Queens balloon boobs, distracting her, whilst the good characters free Alice and capture Hook, Smee and Evil Stepmother. While they do that, Tweedle Dee takes the remaining pages and hands them to Dum as a peace offering, he accepts and gives them to Alice, who in turn, gives them to the Hatter, back to the original owner. The Cheshire Cat sneaks away as The Red Queen is captured and chained up by Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood, and then everyone notices that The Cheshire Cat is missing, he is seen sneaking offstage but is caught by Prince Charming and given the 'Cone of Shame' a pet cone to stop animals from biting wounds, but also greatly humiliating, he is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and with The Red Queen is lead off to her own dungeon."


-Each of the characters are sent back to their books, evil characters are banished from Wonderland, never to return, and the good characters return to their books, but not before a song. The song 'We Go Together' from Grease plays, and this is when the characters go off and everybody takes their bows.


This scene has been very clearly structured now, and is almost perfect, the only thing it lacks is slickness and smoothness, and that is simply due to amount of rehearsal time. When we first did the finale bows the whole group enjoyed it and it was amazing it's just a shame that the same energy is not present in the rest of the panto.


We are roughly 6 weeks away from performance currently, and i believe with hard work, this pantomime is going to be a massive success. 


All scenes are now blocked and staged and ready, all that is left is to rehearse until perfect.

Off Scripts Task

Hayley Quinn Cooper
guys, do you think we should be off scripts in one to two weeks?
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Abbi Ellingworth personally yes, it gives us half term then...
10 October 2011 at 17:22 · Like

Hayley Quinn Cooper cool shit, i'm learning mine now, just after i've done sarahs log book and double checked all budget costs for costume (no rest for the wicked eh? ;D) but after that, straight onto line learning (:
10 October 2011 at 17:24 · Like ·  1

James Sampson tats what my thing was for friday. to learn scripts aha
10 October 2011 at 21:11 · Like

Rehearsing ...

Tonight we have a 3-7 rehearsal after school, and a lesson 4th period with Sarah on rehearsal.


Rehearsals tonight will be the whole of act one, including extras and dancers with as much costume as we have currently (as some are being rented, but due to price we cannot have the costumes until a week before performance).


Rehearsal schedules have been drawn for the next two weeks.

12/09/11

Lesson 4

1/1

Falling into Wonderland

• Alice
• White Rabbit
• Little Red
• Rapunzel
• Captain Hook
• Smee
• Fairy Godmother
• Cinderella
• Evil Stepmother
• Prince Charming
• Mad Hatter

13/09/11

Lesson 2

1/1 – Finish

• Alice
• White Rabbit
• Little Red
• Rapunzel
• Captain Hook
• Smee
• Fairy Godmother
• Cinderella
• Evil Stepmother
• Prince Charming
• Mad Hatter

13/09/11

Lesson 3

1/2

Meeting the Red Queen

• The Red Queen
• Cheshire Cat
• Evil Stepmother
• Captain Hook
• Smee

13/09/11

Lesson 5

1/3

Characters Meet Alice

• Tweedle Dee
• Tweedle Dum
• Cheshire Cat
• Alice
• White Rabbit
• Rapunzel
• Little Red
• Cinderella
• Fairy Godmother
• Prince Charming

13/09/11

After School Rehearsal

Run all so far

• Whole Cast

(No Taran or Katie)

15/09/11

After School Rehearsal 

1/4

Meeting the White Queen

• White Queen
• White Rabbit
• Tweedle Dum
• Alice
• Rapunzel
• Little Red
• Cinderella
• Fairy Godmother
• Prince Charming

(No Abbi E, April or Taran)

16/09/11

Lesson 3

1/5

Red Queen needs a Rest

• Red Queen
• Evil Stepmother
• Cheshire Cat
• Captain Hook
• Smee
• Tweedle Dee

16/09/11

Lesson 4

Recap anything anyone missed

• Full Cast

16/09/11

Lesson 5

Run All

• Full Cast

Rehearsing ...

Since blocking the scenes and staging the entire script, we have been focused heavily on rehearsal, including the rehearsal of songs, we are now approximately 23 days away from our first performance, and we are having a runthrough of act one during a 3-7 after school rehearsal. We are now at a stage where everything is slowly coming together, and everyone is off of scripts, minus a few forgotten lines, we are not yet ready for performance but I believe the next 23 days will be used effectively and hopefully we will get all we need done.

Posters and tickets are going out this week, I have been designer for these posters, and there are multiple character posters going out, as of yet I do not have photos of all of the characters to make the rest of the postes, due to a techincal issue with the camera, but I aim to have all of the posters done by the end of the week, and they will begin to go out as soon as they are printed.

Performance wise, I have learnt all of my lines, however I need to work on learning cues for when those lines fall, as occasionally I won't realise my line follows another. Other than that I believe I have developed my character effectively, but I need to constantly work on projection, regardless of the fact that i will have a radio mic, I cannot let vocal projection slip

Finale Dance

James Sampson
check us out and our mad finale dance skills!

Rehearsing ...

In this lesson we didn't have a warm up, but we worked on the final scene, Act 2 Scene 4, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, in which we discussed various ways in which we could set up the table, my original idea, as script writer, was to have one long table, spanning the width of the stage, with the Hatter in the middle, and the two queens on either side, next to The Red Queen would be all the evil characters, squashed in together along one side, and the same with the good characters next to The White Queen, the squashed in look would be funny because all of them would be cramped, too cramped to fit in at that table, whilst trying to eat.

However, as this was not discussed beforehand, most people did not understand how the table had been originally mapped out, meaning lots of people had different ideas, some wanted the table to go down the length of the stage, getting bigger as it got closer to the audience, so at the edge of the stage, it would be large, but at the back of the stage it would be smaller, giving the appearance that the table was very long, however, this would mean it would be hard to see all characters, and some audience members would be able to see some characters, but not others, not just this, but the illusion would only work for those sitting next to the isle, for everyone else the angle wouldn't be right and the purpose would be lost, not to mention the excess material and wood used to craft the table. In terms of practicallity, this idea would just not work, and so was cut.

The other idea that was discussed was the idea of having two tables diagonally at either side of the stage, one side for evil, and one for good, but this would look too much as though it were broken and in bits, which in some aspects may work, seeing as the Hatter is 'Mad' but in the end it was dropped. This idea has a better chance of working, however, in terms of stage space, it may be problematic. So this idea was cut also.

The third idea mentioned was the idea of completely removing tables, and having it laid out as a picnic, however, this was also impactical in terms of stage space, as the fight scene at the front of the stage could not happen, because there would be a picnic blanket with cultery, plastic food and crockery, and so fighting over it would be too dangerous to continue. So we got rid of that idea too.

We later, went back to my original idea, of having a long table, covered in table cloth, that will seperate during the fight scene between the two queens. Because this idea works out of practicallity, which i mentioned at the start, but due to many people having ideas, we had to try all options, just in case we found something better, but as it came down to it, we didn't.

The idea of having the table in a line works in terms of being practical, because it leaves pleanty of space at the front, however, the Queens thrones are moved from next to the Hatter to the ends of the table, simply because the bases that they are on (mounted on wheels for movement) are too large, and would not allow the rest of the characters to be at the table. So the queens were moved to the end, and benches were put along the tables for the other characters, allowing maxium squashing to occur. The reason this works is because the space left at the front works for the fight scene, and the queens being at the edge means that they can get out of their seats easily, without an awkward fuss or knocking the tables over (although this was an original idea that was scrapped due to lack of interest) As the fight scene commences, the tables have to be seperated so that they can allow the evil and good character to rush to the aid of thier queens. The tables would be moved away, to the back, diagonally towards the back of the stage, towards the book, because there was not enough room offstage to fold the tables away, plus it would leave the stage bare.

Real Tree's ?

Leanne Amy Hollingsworth
Hey guys, my mumma had a really good idea today. Instead of us using wood to make the trees she said we could ask a garden centre aka ullesthorpe to see if we can borrow some of there trees if we put them in the ummmmmm leaflet? booklet? um whats the fucking word :(... the things we have when it's the shows? but yeah anyway, she said we can go down tomorrow. So Rachel Howard I think I may be going down third... I shall let Beth know as it is to do with set and if they say that's fine, then we shall go down tomorrow and have a look :) this will be easier for not only our budget, but also make it look more "foresty" (Katie Bird's words) Is that okay? xx
Like ·  · Follow post · 5 October 2011 at 17:34

Hayley Quinn Cooper noice.
5 October 2011 at 17:35 · Like

Beckiee Durham programme babes.
5 October 2011 at 17:35 · Like ·  1

Hayley Quinn Cooper go for topiary plants if you can, they'll look shaped, and mad like they would in a queens castle!
5 October 2011 at 17:35 · Like

Leanne Amy Hollingsworth Thanks Beckie! ;D
5 October 2011 at 17:36 · Like ·  1

James Sampson if you do that, try and see if ashby parva plant centre will do it. there smaller and more likely to do it i think.
5 October 2011 at 18:16 · Like ·  1