WEEK 7

Over the two lessons this week, we managed to create and film a few new scenes and add music and lighting to them. As over the weeks before we had created a strong theme and overall idea and had all become comfortable and happy about the final idea we had created we wanted to focus on trying to create the overall piece quickly and then expand on the scenes once we had created the performance start to finish. We thought this would benefit us and our piece as we believe once we had a strong idea we would feel confident with the piece and would then be able to focus more on characters and adding more content, script and characterisation to the overall piece.


We decided that we would begin by creating relationships between the characters and focus on creating the physical theatre and movement that was going to be involved. We then focused lastly on scripting this scene. We decided to do this as we wanted to gain a personal perspective on how Kneehigh works and believed if we created a piece like they do, we would be able to understand how Kneehigh theatre company works.


My characters relationships take a while to break into in the performance, but here we see my characters relationship begin to blossom with the character 'Jack'. We see a connection created with in the idea of love and trust and see how strong their friendship becomes. We focused on showing this as we believed it would later create a stronger effect when the audience begin to see their relationship fall apart due to the drugs. It helped me develop a personality for my character and focus on showing these traits with in my acting. By looking into Kneehigh before hand it really helped us develop a strong idea on the way Kneehigh worked and made us focus on narration and adding a sinister effect to our piece.
We have naturalistic scenes with in our piece to create the idea of a basic lifestyle , and then using the more Kneehigh based sinister scenes to show the effects drugs can have on the human mind and family life.


Our first dream scene is the first sense of a mysterious and sinister scene we get, and is used to show Jacks first 'trip' on Drugs. We took an original song known, 'American Horror Story' and used the dubstep remix which created a scary and unexpected effect, and created a physical theatre movement piece with quick sharp demon like movements to put together a scene. We thought by using physical theatre we could create the effect of how the drugs completely take over Jacks mind and thoughts and show the weirdness of his dreams. Coming to this decision was difficult as we couldn't decide whether we wanted to go straight into showing how the drugs can take a bad effect or show the slow transition throughout the dreams of how drugs can cause positive trips but can lead to bad situations.