Thursday, October 9, 2014

Task:
         We performed what we have devised so far for Mrs Christa from our devised piece.  As a group we designed some more outlines for the performance and decided what we shall all be working on, which we will be fleshing out over the holiday (This weekend, and next weekend as we have China week in between) so we will have four days to complete the task.  We also discussed the technical aspects and what sounds and lighting we should have.

For the technical aspect we decided on a constant heartbeat, it would almost become background noise after a while, if the right sound file is chosen it could help create the atmosphere of being trapped, while also serving as a reminder that we are inside the body, as the different aspects of the psyche.  As for lighting we decided that we would go with a red, which we then amended to a dark dingy blood-red, as Lulu said "almost like a dungeon" with a trapped sensation (also the lighting arrangement, which normally hinders progress in an awkward circle, helps us create that trapped feeling) and an off-kilter colour, blood-red not normally being a lighting colour that would be seen helps show that something is not right.

To work on:
         Mrs Christa told us that we should progress emotionally slower.
I will slow down the transition from a character that seems emotionally stable to the wreck that the character actually is.  I might not actually get all the way by the end of the performance.

The character not deteriorating completely could change the character's believability and/or impact, it could both strengthen or weaken the character, by not showing the whole deterioration it could not carry the whole impact of the almost madness that takes over the character, on the other hand completing the deteriorating could be taking it too far.

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