iO Level Four - Week Six & Seven

I'm combining the last two classes of this level into one post (partly because I forgot to post last week and because most of the notes were fairly similar in both).

Our second to last class before our performance had us running full length Harold's exclusively with a focus on reaching a clear ending to our shows (instead of simply performing until someone kills the lights). The big note we took away form this class, besides how to end our shows was: Either you're doing something all together on stage - or you making an active choice to change it

Some of the tips we were given on finding ways to end our shows were:

• Return to and repeat the opening
• Return to the opening and finish it (if it ended with some sort of cliffhanger)
• Have one strong narrative in your show reach a conclusion (if you have one)

So our last class before our big show this Sunday is also the last class of this level (because apparently our performance counts as a class since the instructors all have to be there). This class much like the last one was all about running Harolds to prepare for the show.

I left the class with these notes:
Harold's are malleable, the strict version is just a teaching tool
You can break the form is the show calls for it
Play the Distractions in your scenes
Mix in both Narrative and tangential inspiration for Second beats
Look for moves/patterns that can tie the show together
Ideally each show should have a form unique to the suggestion