WEEK 3

We decided to use the two ideas of, a camping background theme and then to tell twisted versions of fairy tales through physical theatre, to use the ideas of Kneehighs twisted fairytale links.

 We agreed this would be a good idea, as Kneehigh is based on the unexpected and we thought that by creating a piece with such split scenes, that are so clearly differentiated in the performance, people would be brought in by trying to understand the split. We also done this as we couldn't really decided, which Idea we'd prefer to use and agreed that both clashed well together, and that we could use both to try to aim for a Kneehigh effect.

 The three characters of the campers, have been created to have very opposite opinions and personalities, this is because it shows the contrast in teenagers and we aimed to try and pass along the themes that were taken from Red shoes, such as selfishness, addiction and guilt. We also tried to show these off by using the camping group as a child support group, to try and help them resolve problems, and then decided to pick fairy tales that we all agreed most likely fit in with the themes we had chosen, so that we could spend time highlighting certain aspects of Red Shoes and Kneehigh in general. We also decided to do this and choose the fairytales after we decided the themes as we would rather take as many themes as we could from Red shoes, instead of trying to take themes after deciding the fairytales.

As well as this we also decided as a group that we would create an unexpected plot twist that the camp leader would become a serial killer. Kneehigh company tend to create scenes that are dropped into random parts of their performance to create an unexpected turn that almost shocks and confuses the audience. They do this too grab the audiences attention as they always are engaged to find out what's happening next, so we used this idea and created our own unexpected twist to keep the audience engaged throughout. We wanted the audience to have full engagment on our piece and decided that if we added a confusing and unexpected twist to it, that tjhey would have full attention on our piece.