Finding Rosamund rehearsal

The characters from "Finding Rosamund" (me and Kendall) met up with the director, script supervisor and the director of photography to go through the shooting schedule and to rehearse certain scenes. After we discussed the schedule we moved onto rehearsal.

What did we do? 

• We talked to the director to get a better understanding of what she was aiming for, we learnt that she wanted us to be close to each other, during the final scene she would prefer us to lay on our backs (rather than our side) so the camera could pick up more facial expression and for us to just put as much emotion in as possible.
• We ran through the final scene once to see if it was similar to the directors image, but as it was our first rehearsal it wasn't brilliant. She changed a few gestures and movements to suit the camera e.g when I touch "Kendalls" cheek I need to use the back of my hand and not lean over, this means it dosn't block "Kendalls face.

As we didn't have the room for very long we had to stop the rehearsal fairly quickly, yet as we were still struggling with the scene Me and "Kendall" decided to stay back to rehearse furthur. This was incredibly helpful as we had a chance to disscus facial expression, movement and improvements we could make in the scene. We came up with a few movement ideas e.g  when the girl is talking to her sister (Rosamund) about heaven, "Rosamund" could look up into the sky as if she was aspiring to be there , the girl could also catch "Rosamunds" hand when it falls from her face after wiping a tear from it. We ran through the scene a few times after each change which helped us to become more comfortable with the scene and it allowed us to accustomise to the changes made. Finally we disscussed whether these changes mean we will have to cheat the shots or make our movements smaller (as it will be a fairly close shot). We decided to keep our arms higher and to make the movements slightly smaller, therefore they should fit into the shot. Overall I have become much more comfortable with the scene and how we will perform it. I have also got to know the crew which means I feel more comfortable around them aswell.