As I knew I would only be there for the first half of the session it was decided that I would lead the first half and Kelly would take over before I left. We also knew that it was a year 10 school trip so we did not have Med, James, Romina or Megan on this date.
We wanted to experiment with showing Red being naive, so I wanted to play around with her being a passive character that is easily manipulated. For this I told Richard and Sam that they would have to be comfortable with picking up Emelia. I wanted them to pick her up just by the arms, and then have the females come through and support her underneath, in the same position as when they did 'I'm flying!' in one of our first sessions.
This took a while to develop, But I wanted that part to end with her hugging Blue, as if the incident with the Wolf raping her had just happened because of her passive actions. I wanted the women to run in with urgency, as if they were directing more of their energy towards the men and helping red rather than protecting her and making her aware of this. I wanted the men to seem very aggressive, we worked on the way they held there body posture and their gait would be relaxed as they felt in control of the situation and they'd become aggressive at the site of a girl.
We decided also that we would begin to put the final performance together, which meant structuring the performance and selecting our favourite idea's.
After, Kelly developed this so it was ready to perform, this is that performance:
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Wednesday 13 November 2013
13|11|13 - Directing - Male Dominance
For this session, we split the cast into two, I would work with one half and Kelly would work with the other. As Kelly wasn't here the week before, I thought it would be a good idea that she worked with the biggest group from last week and develop the movement that they created and possibly some more transition ideas.
I worked with Emelia (Red), Abbie (Blue), James (Wolf) & Med (Huntsman). Me and Kelly were discussing on the idea of presenting the Huntsman as a negative character aswell in order to reflect how society see's men as violent. I decided to test this out, by making these four create a piece of movement that showed the women's naivety/weakness against men. I told them small features I wanted to be part of it, these were
-a point where they're not touching the floor with their feet.
-a hinting towards sexual activity
-a moment where the girls meet
-the frame represents the females person comfort zone/safety
Again, as last week, I allowed them to work independently creatively on this with little input, as I wanted them to enjoy the experience and wanted to see what idea's I could adopt into the final performance so they could feel self fulfilling when they have contributed. Their performance was this:
The only thing I could improve is the fluidity but that would come with rehearsal. I think they managed to do well with the synchronising and thought it did well in symbolising how Blue could try and teach Red as her mother could not. The dominance the men had over the females was clear, and the final end where the men kicked the frames away suggested that the frames was a metaphorical 'safety zone' well and that the men would corrupt that.
I worked with Emelia (Red), Abbie (Blue), James (Wolf) & Med (Huntsman). Me and Kelly were discussing on the idea of presenting the Huntsman as a negative character aswell in order to reflect how society see's men as violent. I decided to test this out, by making these four create a piece of movement that showed the women's naivety/weakness against men. I told them small features I wanted to be part of it, these were
-a point where they're not touching the floor with their feet.
-a hinting towards sexual activity
-a moment where the girls meet
-the frame represents the females person comfort zone/safety
Again, as last week, I allowed them to work independently creatively on this with little input, as I wanted them to enjoy the experience and wanted to see what idea's I could adopt into the final performance so they could feel self fulfilling when they have contributed. Their performance was this:
The only thing I could improve is the fluidity but that would come with rehearsal. I think they managed to do well with the synchronising and thought it did well in symbolising how Blue could try and teach Red as her mother could not. The dominance the men had over the females was clear, and the final end where the men kicked the frames away suggested that the frames was a metaphorical 'safety zone' well and that the men would corrupt that.
Wednesday 6 November 2013
6|11|13 - Open The Door - Opening & Final Rehearsals
The last thing we needed to do was set the first piece of physical theatre that would create a massive impact for the start of the performance. We want to show the traveling aspect which can allude to the audience that they are being taken out of this country. We also projected news images that set the correct tone for the piece. It's also nice to use more
technological aspects of media as it gives a more professional feel to the performance.
The door sequence consisted of Me, Emily, Alex and Matt. The boys did most of the movement and lifting of the door whilst me and Emily created ourselves to be the people that manipulated the scene around us. Whenever we exited off stage, we would then bring on a part of the set the next time we entered. Gradually building up the scene made it more interesting for the audience to watch as well as getting a sense of character from the opening. Once we had created this, we rehearsed it to get it up to speed then moved on to the final rehearsals.
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We went through each scene and decided on the scipt and fixed any incorrect tones or problems.
We manage to get the first scene with the Photographer walking in with the trousers down right straight away as we had the script set already and the humour was relaxed and easily achievable.
My first bit of interaction's tone needed to be changed. I wasn't showing a mature enough response to realising the audience. I was holding a mug and originally I would spit the water out quite dramitcally, but we decided a slower release of water from the mouth back into the mug would create just as much humour. I am also going to expand on the 'partner' implication and make the sexual gesture bigger and slower in order to create more humour. I need to think of the tone of my voice when talking and remember to keep the language more mature and remove hedges and fillers such as 'erm' and 'um' except when I am doing so to create a more informal and comfortable feeling between myself and the audience.
When I'm going through the formal speech of the article I make my voice a lot clearer as if i am dictating everything in a clear reporter style. When beginning to read the story, Mr Chipp started to show me the images of the mutilated children, this made me do a word replacement list for when I am describing the child as I can then make the audience feel more uncomfortable and start to imagine what I have been witnessing whilst working on this story. It also creates a specific bond with the Journalist and the audience as I am the only person on stage and therefore the focus is on me and they have to listen to me. I decided that I wanted to continue holding the piece of paper, because I think you can tell a lot of the emotion from when i'm holding. When it becomes more involved with the story I look at the paper more in order to show the audience it was not a pleasant scene to watch and I can't look at them and admit that I did nothing but watch. I can also grab the paper and grasping them to show discomfort at the event I witnessed which adds another texture. I will also be using a dictaphone, as I get more and more lost in the reporting, I will not focus on it as much in order to give a natural performance of the Journalist.
When the bangs went when the Photographer reentered, we start laughing, this gives the first bit of relief from the serious tone, as well as being able to suggest to the audience that it's such a regular occurance that they are learning to laugh at what scares them. The only piece of improvement I was told was to make sure that I didn't sound so paniced and that I maintained an authorititive tone over my decisions.
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The Army Guard's piece of interaction revolves around the way the audience will view him. We have given the him a reason to behave like a monster so therefore the audience can rethink their initial judgements of the character. The Army Guard also makes the audience question that they would do in this situation, so this case of empathy is a way
When with the child I will clean the blood of her with a blanket, this links to a moment in the story when I say the woman that the man takes his dead child too cleans her. This connection and reanactment of the world surrounding the Journalist and Photographer, shows the different connections the two reporters have made with their surroundings which utimately could represent the world and choosing to ignore and take action when the conflict is presented infront of us.
technological aspects of media as it gives a more professional feel to the performance.
The door sequence consisted of Me, Emily, Alex and Matt. The boys did most of the movement and lifting of the door whilst me and Emily created ourselves to be the people that manipulated the scene around us. Whenever we exited off stage, we would then bring on a part of the set the next time we entered. Gradually building up the scene made it more interesting for the audience to watch as well as getting a sense of character from the opening. Once we had created this, we rehearsed it to get it up to speed then moved on to the final rehearsals.
We manage to get the first scene with the Photographer walking in with the trousers down right straight away as we had the script set already and the humour was relaxed and easily achievable.
My first bit of interaction's tone needed to be changed. I wasn't showing a mature enough response to realising the audience. I was holding a mug and originally I would spit the water out quite dramitcally, but we decided a slower release of water from the mouth back into the mug would create just as much humour. I am also going to expand on the 'partner' implication and make the sexual gesture bigger and slower in order to create more humour. I need to think of the tone of my voice when talking and remember to keep the language more mature and remove hedges and fillers such as 'erm' and 'um' except when I am doing so to create a more informal and comfortable feeling between myself and the audience.
When I'm going through the formal speech of the article I make my voice a lot clearer as if i am dictating everything in a clear reporter style. When beginning to read the story, Mr Chipp started to show me the images of the mutilated children, this made me do a word replacement list for when I am describing the child as I can then make the audience feel more uncomfortable and start to imagine what I have been witnessing whilst working on this story. It also creates a specific bond with the Journalist and the audience as I am the only person on stage and therefore the focus is on me and they have to listen to me. I decided that I wanted to continue holding the piece of paper, because I think you can tell a lot of the emotion from when i'm holding. When it becomes more involved with the story I look at the paper more in order to show the audience it was not a pleasant scene to watch and I can't look at them and admit that I did nothing but watch. I can also grab the paper and grasping them to show discomfort at the event I witnessed which adds another texture. I will also be using a dictaphone, as I get more and more lost in the reporting, I will not focus on it as much in order to give a natural performance of the Journalist.
When the bangs went when the Photographer reentered, we start laughing, this gives the first bit of relief from the serious tone, as well as being able to suggest to the audience that it's such a regular occurance that they are learning to laugh at what scares them. The only piece of improvement I was told was to make sure that I didn't sound so paniced and that I maintained an authorititive tone over my decisions.
When with the child I will clean the blood of her with a blanket, this links to a moment in the story when I say the woman that the man takes his dead child too cleans her. This connection and reanactment of the world surrounding the Journalist and Photographer, shows the different connections the two reporters have made with their surroundings which utimately could represent the world and choosing to ignore and take action when the conflict is presented infront of us.
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