Connors Acting Journey

  Thursday 25th April This was day after cast list, so me and Will ended up swapping around doing the first scene. When one of us was doing Dr. Spivey for one flew over the other would do Dr. Vonshochoky for radium girls. At first I was holding back a little bit as I had never attempted the German accent before so I was a little scared to take on this challenge of the German accent. So in my own time I had asked Callum if he could quickly teach me a little bit of it just to get me started and teach me the changes on the scripts so I understood what letters were different to the English language. I then went through my script and changed it all to be more German changing words like 'and' to 'und' and words like 'thank you' to 'danke. Then I went and tackled the accent for my first scene and it wasn't too bad I was just a little fast cause I was trying to get it over with since it was my first time trying this accent.  Monday 29th April So on Monday I knew

Wednesday 29th April / Thursday 30th April I didn't do much of One Flew Over on these days as I was running back and forth between both shows but I did get the first two scenes of Dr Spivey done. I also jumped in for a Scanlon since one of them was off ill and the other was needed for Radium girls. When Olly had returned though for Scanlon I placed myself in the background of the institute to just be part of the scenes and give it more of a mental institute feeling. Tuesday 7th May Today I was Dr. Spivey and we did all the act one scenes and I feel comfortable with this character I just needed to lose the script asap. Since I understand the character and have him in my head how I want to portray him I just need to get off script now and bring it more to life. So when it wasn't my scenes I was off at the side trying to learn my lines whilst also watching what scenes they were doing.  Thursday 9th May So today was the first day I received an added extra challenge for Cheswick. So

My production role for both of the shows was sound. For this I had to make a power point with the other people that were on sound and that was Jess and Harvey. We started off by getting a tech script for both of them and going through the scripts and sorted out music and just random sound effects that were written down in the stage directions. After this we made our power point based solely on One Flew Over since it was the show we had finished the tech script for fully and we added on our power point what we would be working on next. As part of this production role we have also made a sound cue document, with details of what the sounds signify and what the cue lines are when the sound is played and what page it is labelled on the tech script. I have downloaded all the sounds for everyone so now all that is needed is to get them onto Q Labs so we have all the sounds ready for the show. Jess has been working more on the radium girls script and has downloaded the sounds for that ready fo

The radium girls were a group of female factory workers who contracted radium poisoning from painting watch dials with luminous paint containing radium. This all took place in the early 20th Century. A corporation by the name "United States Radium Corporation" or "USRC" was one of the leading companies in the production of the luminous watch dials. This corporation used a radium paint which they called "Undark" which made the dials glow in the dark. The working conditions for these women in the corporations was what led to them their jaws decaying and dying to the radium poison because they were instructed to use a technique known as "lip-pointing" where they would shape the paintbrushes with their lips to ensure a fine pointed brush. This was the process that led to them digesting the radium, as when they were shaping the brush with their lips the brushes were laced with radium and they were doing this multiple times a day.  No one knew the risk

Character Analysis My main research source that I will be using is from the book, to fully understand these characters as it is closer to the portrayal and have more similarities of what both of them are like in this show compared to what they are like in the film. For Cheswick I think the film and book do a really good job at diving into the character similarity wise whereas for Dr. Spivey you don't get to see too much interaction with him and McMurphy in the film to fully understand and see the strings McMurphy wins over the Dr.  Charles Cheswick Like in the book and the same as the other acutes Charles is seen as a significant secondary character because of the actions him and the other acutes do to help pave McMurphy's life in the institute. Whilst also bringing to life the harsh reality of what they all have had to suffer for to the hands of Nurse Ratched before McMurphy's arrival.  From the start of the show you can already see a more angry side to Cheswick, this is d

Mia Tuesday 23rd This was my only filming day for this film and it was two scenes. We were at location of another cast members house and we used their back garden for the scene. The scene was a close party of just a few of us. Were talking, laughing and drinking, some of us were even smoking. The context of the scene was that its Sonny's 18th birthday so he's having some drinks with his mates round his. The other scene is the first scene where they meet at a party and he offers her a cigarette.  The character I played in this film was called George and I say the line "talk back you knob." As much as this wasn't a stretch for me, it was fun to be back in front of a camera and have a chance to show of characterisation through smaller roles that may not say a lot.  Echoes of Monday In this film I play the character Jason Winter, he is a business man with insomnia who believes he is living in a loop since he keeps waking up in his bed when he falls asleep at his desk.