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March 5, 2008
Thunder Clown - Six Ring Show 3/4
Thunder Clown rocked the house last night, slowly inching their way toward total world domination… and performing their first Harold. I really feel like their high energy and playfulness set the tone and the bar for the rest of the night and once again, they set it pretty high.
- Suggestion: Turtle Neck
- Goal: Continuity
- Eight Scenes, Two Transformation Games
During rehearsal we toyed with using different edits rather than only using the transformation edit so that we had better control of the pace of their show. This was also a piece of my diabolical plan to use their transformations as the game in a Harold and introduce them back to sweep edits in a comfortable environment.
The team immediately enjoyed mixing in various edits and recognized the power and fun they had when they could effect their own pacing. The confusion set in when trying to fit their scene work into the scaffold of Harold.
I used the old AB BC DA structure to explain the relationship potentials, and then layered it up a level to AB BC DA 12 23 41, so that their scenes looked like:
AB
12
BC
23
DA
41
Maintaining and remembering relationships and character became a little frustrating until I inserted their transformation edit back in to the game slot of the Harold:
AB
12
Transformation
BC
23
Transformation
DA
41
and suddenly a little light went on somewhere in the group mind.
It’s a little dim yet, but it’s there.
Their show reflected their new-found joy in the pacing and their brains began firing on new cylinders as they investigated the idea of continuity. We’re almost there.
Posted by Chuck Charbeneau at March 5, 2008 12:37 PM