Creating with our idea

Today we split into 2 groups to create two scenes to help decide who shall be our psychiatrist for the piece. We were given a photo of one of the tunnels which is used as a church, so we used it as inspiration for Tom's character who believes he is Jesus. We create a scene where the psychiatrist out thinks the patients logic that he is Jesus causing the patient to get aggregated. This scene can be approved upon later but has the potential to bea very creative and controversial scene. This can be done by using parts of scripture that can reflect on the asylum as a whole and the people in it. This would be interesting as we could bring in religious views on the mentally handicapped and how they can be helped. I also think this could be a controversial scene as religious views can be interpreted in many ways and we could use that to our advantage by tying to find our own dark twisted meaning in scripture to use for our piece. I feel this is a good idea as we could add layers of meanings to the piece by creating our own interpretations of religious scripture. Another idea we came up with today was that the doctor and the nurse were actually patients at the hospital and the actual doctor is missing. This is an interesting idea as it can be a good twist for the ending and a great shock for the audience when they find out they spent the whole journey with not actually being safe from the danger of the patients as they were being lead by the patients. Today was a very productive lesson as both groups created a scene for the show that could be developed upon later but we have actually managed to start creating our show. We had also decided that we were going to use the seven devils piece we created at the start of the unit and would just improve upon it later and add others into it. 

First ideas pieces

Today we split off into 2 groups to work on a single idea for our site specific. My group was me, Toby, Dan M, Ellie, Meg and Freya and we worked on the idea of a mental institute or the idea of mentally disabled people being drawn to a place and studied. Our group wanted to create a unsettling piece and we tried to achieve this by using Promenaded technique in the piece by having our audience move around us while we perform. To start the piece we liked the idea of all of us being spread across the room on chairs as we then had someone else in our group walk the audience through as like a doctor. We used the doctor for expositional purposes before leaving the room. We then wanted to spread our audience around us to help unsettle them as they won't have the comfort of being in a crowd. We then used "Seven devil" a song by Florence and the machine to perform our piece too, their are these key sections in the song where a drum pick up the pace for a burst where we then in time with these burst make quick sudden movements building up to more erratic movements that had us reaching out to audience members. We then all rise up in unison to drop as our doctor re-enters and then shouts at the audience for touching the patients, while this was happening, one of the patients gets up and sits the doctor down, after which they say that their actually doctor and then move on.
I like this piece we have created as I think using this idea for site specific will let us use very creative and unique physical theater pieces as well as a strange atmosphere for the audience.
The other group create a idea where we are waiting for an evacuation from some kind of apocalyptic setting but there has been no sign of rescue.

Locations

Today we started to plan out where we wanted to go and perform in our Site Specific piece we need to create, so for this lesson we split into 3 groups to come up with ideas for locations we could go and perform. This is the list of ideas my group came up with for potential performance areas:

• Hospital
• 3G (Football area)
• Super market
• Road
• House
• Beach
• Golf Course
• Gym
• Blue water
• Zoo
• Tap n Tin
• Casinos
• Dobbies
• Class room
• Prison
• Tom's tree house
• Castle
• Play ground
• Abandoned places
• Chatham Dockyard
• Alley way
• Boat
• Warehouse
• Graveyard
• Behind stage
• Park
• Fort Amherst
• Field
• Pub
• Matt's hill
• Farm
• Woods

After we had thought of all these idea we talked to the class as a whole about what ideas are practice and would be good to create a piece around.
We then chose one of our location to create an idea to present to our class so my group chose a Abandoned place as we want to create a ghost story as well as a present day story that overlapped in the scenes and narrative as these 2 groups effects what happens to the other group. I personality liked this idea thinking we could be very clever in our use of space and split screen to have scenes overlap each other in a creative way. We also had the idea of having a moment where the audience decides the out come of a situation in the show. This is what my group came up with while the other groups came up with the idea of a Mental institute at Fort Amherst and an abduction at a warehouse.