reflection - week three

Our trip to Camden was really interesting and I found it very useful in so many ways. While we were on our way I wanted to see the difference between people in South and to people in North, this was because I decided that it would be good to see two sides of people entering the play; not everyone being from North London.

When we got there we set off in groups and the first place we went to was a comic store. This isn't in our play but we wanted to find out what the owner thought of the area and how the atmosphere is during the day coming to night. "You get a different vibe each day, no days are the same, especially at night you have people from Leyton (East London) coming over just to party". That gave me a huge boost mainly because I'm considering doing an East London accent and to incorporate that with my character would be good because it shows the different people that come to Camden each day.

Another thing we found positive was the use of sitting in a park, watching the trains go past every 15 minutes and the sirens going into the block of flats - this just added to the intensity of the area and the feeling that we can bring to the play not for my character perhaps but for the others.

To continue, the feeling of going into the market was essential for us mainly because there are two stalls in our play and we wanted to see how the environment was when working with other's with the same objective as yours. One man told us "You see another stall grabbing more customers than yours and you just have to think on your feet and shout out whatever you think will grab their attention. It's a bit of healthy competition." This definitely showed me that in our piece we need to make it clear that there is competition in each aspect of the play and how we can include something that symbolises this rivalry between two or more groups.

One thing that didn't really work for me was the fact that we didn't go later on in the evening when you would've been able to see bouncers and how they worked but in all honesty I'm glad that happened because now I can go off on my individual task and look out for them myself and ask them questions that hopefully they'll be glad to answer.