23|10|13 - Open The Door - Interaction

The last part of the devising process was to decide where and how we were going to interact with the audience. We discussed a place where we could each character could talk to the audience. The places we decided were

-Before the Journalist's speech - to set the reasoning of the piece
-The Army Guard - to give his side
- The Child's - Journalist to take control and get the audience to create the scene the child was last in
- Photographer leading the debate on whether they should take the child or leave it 

For my speech we decided that were going to talk about subjects that related to the teenage audience. These had to be current topics, such as Miley Cyrus's VMA performance and Cheryl Cole's arse tattoo. I would be asking them to raise their hands as this tells them from the beginning of the performance that they will need to stay alert in order to be involved.  We then juxtaposed this by presenting a news report that will not be well known to them, in this case, 'president assad's new regime'. This will make less hands raised and create a bigger point as the first two aren't really life changing stories. We will start the speech of by relating back to the Photographer and state how 'the world is always watching' so we can move on to the fact that you chose what you see and what you ignore. 

The Army Guard will be talking to the audience about how he is not a monster and that he has his own reasons and you can't judge the soldier for being scared of the child because of the affects the war had on his little sister. 

The second part of interaction that I participate in is when the child looks up, which is the first sign of movement throughout the piece. The Photographer asks what the child is looking at and I say she is remember. This will then be the most challenging part of interaction as we will be asking the auditions to create their own responses. We had to think of many different variations of what they could respond so we could lead them into a path in which they would be able to come up and create an image. The goal was to find out why she had blood on her hands, so as long as she was trying to stop someone from dying, I would have an idea of where I was going. I would bring the people up by the hand and give the character to them, I'd then ask them how they'd stand if they are that character in order to get them thinking and putting themselves in the characters position. 

The photographers lead the main debate, but it is also controlled by myself as the Journalist as well. We put the decision into the audiences hands because we want them to get to grips with the real life situation of having this problem and what they should do about it. We will split them into two groups, to side with either the Photographer or the Journalist. We will then in these groups create the points so we can have a debate and then decide on the ending so the audience can feel like they have molded the performance and decided the correct ending.