WEEK 2

In todays lesson we had lost a member of the group who played a main role in the camping scene we’d been so focused on, so we decided it would be a good idea to pay attention to creating a scene that fixated on expanding the idea of a camp throughout the performance. Whist doing this we thought adding in a plot twist as well as focusing on the idea that Kneehigh devise around being twisted and spontaneous. In this lesson we began crafting a short scene, showing the ‘happy camper’ to be a serial killer that uses her camps to lure campmates into a trap where she is to kill young teens. During the focus of creating a new scene, we also used the time to talk about ideas on how to expand our storyline, and came up with the idea of using the fairy tales to explain how each happy camper was murdered.

We used the idea of a stabbing in Cinderella to show one traumatic event, and then created the idea of using the fairy tale of Alice in wonderland. This was to show being stalked and killed, by 'The mad hatter’, who is used in the happy camper in the scene. We didn't really go through with this idea, as we struggling to find a good confident starting point, and some of the group didn't feel confident enough on the idea of the story, and thought we would be able to expand more on the piece if we knew the storyline better. We also did research on different story endings of Cinderella and chose the idea of a Young Cinderella, having to cut off her toes to fit into the glass slipper that was left at the ball. Cinderella ended up murdering her sisters so she wins the princes heart and gets to live happily ever after. We also choose to add humour into the story line by creating a drag queen mum, who enters the scene at random moments to bring a sense of humour to the scene. We used the idea of drag queen/ transvestite after watching some small clips of Kneehigh performances, and took the idea from them so we could create a Kneehigh effect in our piece as much as we could. By watching clips of Kneehigh performances we managed to gather ideas and also got ideas by researching Kneehighs background on what we could use. We used Kneehigh a lot as we felt comfortable with the idea of it, as we had done research on it before for a previous ISP.