This was our first reference shoot for the mime assignment. It was more of a practice run than anything else, a chance for us to really get in the minds of our characters, and learn a little bit more about them, try different approaches. It was also a chance to se what worked in each scene, and what didn't, we were able to 'trim the fat' as it were, to drop any superfluous actions that just added dead weight to the scene, or took up too much screen time. From this session, came to realise the main character wasn't any of the mime artists, but the director. From here, the group fleshed out the director's personality, and added to the mimes accordingly. We wanted everything the mime characters do on stage to be a reaction of something the director says to them, be it following an order, reacting to an insult, or even ignoring the director completely. It's in these reactions, most of the pieces comedy lies.
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