Transitions

We were working on our plan for staging of 39 nine steps and our plains for transitions as we are performing in the Avenue theatre as it is a small theatre that will accommodate the tone of the show helping the audience to be immersed in the humour. Our transitions will be done by our cast to help with the humour side having random bits of scenery come on like in Crofter's house when i'm told to take a seat, so I look around see there is nothing so go into the wings and pull on a table with 3 chairs on, or in the professor's house when the professor appears he slides on in the armchair acting like he's alway been their. I like these scene changes as they add their own bit of humour to an already funny show making the show just as quirky. We played with the idea of transitions by using the idea of our characters being aware their in a show, so like in the pilot scene when the plain crashes they keep screaming, look at the audience like whats going on before getting up and just leaving like this was suppose to happen which was but has the illusion of it going wrong.

Today we have found out that the Avenue have a performance booked on the day we want to perform our production so we are now doing the show in our schools main hall as it has helped us change some transitions to make them more appealing. A member of our group suggested having our stage curtains closed a it helps makes the stage look more full with us on it as we are a small cast, this idea helped us come up with an another idea for transitions which involves having the train scene preset behind the curtain and for the start of the scene having it open into the train scene. After the train scene ends it would close until Crofter scene when Margaret lets Hannay into the house which is the que to open the curtain showing the house. I liked this as it was an easier way for us to set up scenes as well as creating an illusion of entering the house with the curtain opening. Another new transition we added was in the radio announcer scene where Hannay jumps of the bridge, for this i'm actually going to jump of the stage as it will help add to the humour of the scene when our sound effect of me falling goes off. Overall for 39 steps we have managed to create a load of creative and humours scene changes and movements between our scene.