Actors Workshop Evaluation - 200 Words

The actors workshop was a great experience to be able to flex the script and gain some valuable feedback from peers and the actors taking part. As we only had a script with us to work from, we used the session as a reading, in which to go through the script in its entirety to see what its strengths and weaknesses were. The most important feedback we received was that the script seemed to lack any sense of actual conflict or struggle that stopped our main protagonist getting what they were after, in this case, self-confidence, independence and being freed of grief. Suggestions were given, such as changing the attitudes of the characters to be more aggressive, causing friction that would help bring out the ‘drama’ from the script, or to use the location of a previous scene as a recurring motif almost, were we could use it as a playground to expand upon the more surreal parts of the film and display the battle of memory loss. Since the workshop, the script has gone under development and rewrites to accommodate for a better sense of conflict, with an extension of the dialogue in the ‘Therapy Scenes’.