The cast was split into two group, I was working with Chris and Alex. He gave us the square piece of wood and told us to create as many ways to get around these piece of wood. We tried to create a variety of ways, but most were using a rotational action that would be controlled by Chris and me and Alex would move the piece of wood corresponding to how Chris manipulated it.
After creating a small sequence we were told to relate this to the war zone. We liked the idea (as we knew the square was actually representing a door) that every time Chris came out one side, he'd want to hide from what he was witnessing. This meant we could develop some moves and actually came up with an idea that we shut him in the 'bad' side and he climbs over. Instead of it always being the door manipulated by Chris, me and Alex held the door down so that Chris had to lift himself over the top of as if he was climbing over a wall, during this transition we made him into one of the people living in the war zone as he then got shot. We then laid him on the door and rolled him off as if he was a discarded piece.
We were then given the prototype door, it was very big and much heavier. This helped us to take into consideration what the real door would be like, as that one would have a steal frame. We took out as little as we could from our sequence and tried to adapt the moves with the new challenge of the door. It was challenging to put the story across so we made sure that Chris carried it most of the stories feelings so me and Alex could focus on leaving the right amount of times for pauses as well as keeping the flow of it smooth in connection to Chris' movement.
Emily, Kelly and Matt then showed us their sequence and we showed us ours. We had a certain amount of time to teach each other our sequences we required a lot of attention and focus, I felt I was quite strong at remembering what the other group had done just from performing to us. After this we separated again and cherry picked our favourite parts of each other's sequences.
We then further adapted our piece by adding our favourite parts from their's and the parts that were the strongest from ours. By doing this we had a sequence that was not only a lot stronger, but was able to carry a lot more of the story that was necessary. We still felt our final part of the sequence where it looks like we're shoveling off a dead body was a good way to be able to link the sequence back to the start.
It was nice to take a break from the naturalistic acting and look into the what will be the physical theatre opening sequence that is to show a glimpse of that world and previous experiences of the Photographer and Journalist before the point the performance begins.
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