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Rich, beautiful Allie falls in love with Noah, who is a young boy who has been brought up in a low social class family, their relationship was strong and passionate but also very turbulent. Ali is from a high class family and her father has plans for her to be going away to university however once she meets Noah her plans change immediately putting Noah into her fathers bad books. Ali is a very innocent young girl who loves life, she's energetic fun and outgoing.
Ali and Noah argue alot but they cannot live without eachother theres just as much laughter as their is arguments.
I really enjoy portaying Ali's character i feel like i relate to her in many ways and im really looking forward to playing her in the performance.

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This is another rehearsal clip from out stage rehearsal today.

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Uploaded by Kennedy Gardiner on 2016-12-14.

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Today I sat and thought about all our scenes and what lighting would suit them best, I also timed the music and downloaded it to my memory stick, I then created a script for Nina and Angie who are incharge of the lighting and sound on the day, its very important these things are corrected as the lighting and the music really sets the scene, for the romatic scene ive gone for orange and red dim lighting with the piano music playing softly in the background, The reason I decided on the piano music is it suits all moods and as the performance swaps different emotions quite often we dont have to cut and play about with lots of different tracks, also when the 'young version of the couple' are acting out the scenes in the background thatrs a flash back to the 50's when the couple were younger so it would have been hard picking music that suits todays date and the 50's all at the same time. Heres a picture of the lighting and sound script.

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Today me and my group scheduled an extra rehearsal on the stage, this was really helpful as for our group choregraphy we could work on the correct spacing, a few issues came up as a few moves especially when we coming into a line was harder as we had further to go now we have more room, a part of this choreogpraphy was what we created right at the start we just adapted it to suit the theme of frantic assembly, I also wore the skirt I will be wearing in the piece this was a great help and im very glad i practiced in it as it was very difficult performing certain moves as i kept slipping on it and standing on it, so i had to find ways to not make that happen and even change certain dance moves. Today was a very sucsessful rehearsal, we had full attendance by everybody and really worked through each scene and its really starting to take shape. The group chreography at the end of the performance is a very nice moment in the story, the scene previous Ali's memory is regained for a few seconds and there is a lovely moment between the elderly couple, they go to sleep and both peacefully pass away in their sleep just like the movie, me and luke (the younger Noah and Ali) walk on to stage and open our hands to them, the old Noah and Ali join the young couple in heaven and we dance together this shows there back to how they remeber life and back to their prime in heaven.

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Uploaded by Kennedy Gardiner on 2016-12-14.

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here you see the first scene of Noah and Ali reading the beginning of the story, openeing up to the younger couple acting it out in the background, it then goes into the second scene with the table, most of this has remained the same apart from the end bit on the table with the old lady as it didnt work, now me and Luke stand of the table either ends and lean in towards eachother this gived sophie more room to fall

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Uploaded by Kennedy Gardiner on 2016-12-11.

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Here you see us trying to create the couples 1st fight, we wanted to start with a few lines of dialoge which then went into the old man reading the story to ali and we continue to act out the story in the background.. however this scene is now cut as it wasnt working, it was getting slightly to complicated and we want the audience to understand whats happening at all times.

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Uploaded by Kennedy Gardiner on 2016-12-11.

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This is our romantic/flirty scene between the younger couple, we sit down as if we are watching the TV,  we start playing around when towards the end we go to kiss each other before we get chance the old lady 'Ali' who has been watching the whole scene from the background (its really in her mind) leans in to kiss him, the music stops and the lights go out and shes left alone on the table, soon to be found and looked after by her husband who she is struggling to remember.

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At the start of our rehearsal process we started with a contempoary style, this video shows a few bars of my choreography i created for the final group piece, however since creating this we completely changed our theme we are still using some of the choreography in this clip, I just adapted it to suit our new theme of 'The Notebook' and Frantic Assemblys style.

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Uploaded by Kennedy Gardiner on 2016-12-11.

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Making notes, trying to organise the performance, into the right order.

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I feel we should use soft piano music with no lyrics throughout our piece, this leave all beauty and imagination down to the audience.

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Love Songs in Piano: Best Romantic Music

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The inspiration for our Physical theatre piece, originates from the story of 'The Notebook' which is about an old couple, the lady has Alzheimers disease. Noah, her husband writes a story of their life and reads it to her to try regain some of her memory, whilst he reads the book the film is acted about by the young couple, this story relates a lot to frantic assembly's 'Lovesong' which is why we chose that to be our inspiration for choreography - Sparks, N. (2014) The Notebook. Little, Brown & Company

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i feel this should be our first scene of the piece,
The old lady starts on thinking about her past, the young couple appear in front of her creating what she is remembering, its the first time the couple fall in love - they dance romantically around the table with the old lady looking on, (soft, dim lightning- with piano music)... as the couple are about to kiss, the old lady sits on the table in-between the couple and goes to kiss the young man, music stops, lights go on and she's left laying on the table by herself, when her husband shouts her (from offstage) to see if she's ok.

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Unmissable Culture - Frantic Assembly's Lovesong Exclusive Clip

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Unmissable moments from Digital Theatre productions. Watch the full production of Lovesong at: http://bit.ly/1bnAmHj To browse more productions go to http://digitaltheatre.com or subscribe to our Youtube channel for £3.99/month.

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I've been watching this scene over & over as it really captivates me, you see the older lady dancing and clinging on to her younger self, this shows that she's still young in the mind but her body cannot keep up.
You also see the emotion between the male and female, you can see the sadness but also happiness in their eyes, i feel like they are sad as they talk about their memories because time flies by so quickly but then talking about their memories also makes them grateful.  6/12/16

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Director's Cut: Playing with Time in 'Lovesong'

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Doing some research into the company.

founded in 1994 by Scott Graham, Steve hogget and Vicki middleton who were all university students graduating in English lit & Geography.
none of them were trained in dance or performing but couldn't wait to get learning. 29/11/16

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8f9saYLJJc
Our group have decided to base our piece on this stunning piece of choreography.
"Love song interwines a young couple in their 20's with the same man & women a lifetime later, their past and present selves collide in this haunting tale of togetherness"  available at - https://www.franticassembly.co.uk/ 11/11/16