7 Devils

Today we worked on our ending movement piece which we had created back when we started site specific but we wanted to work on it and put others into it. The purpose of this was because we really liked this piece and thought is would be a good movement piece to end on, we went over what we had created before and just added to it further focusing on the idea of demonic movement. For this we watch the video for the song seven devils by florence and the machine which helped inspire a lot of our movement we then created for this piece, like previously said a lot of the movement is very demonic using twitches and claws scratching upwards. We had worked on ways to make this piece unsettling and we have done this by wanting our audience to be all around our performance space so they feel unnerved by being surrounded by us. We expanded upon this with the idea of not being stuck to our chairs by at one point getting up and walking through the audience around us to remove their feeling of safety, this is effective because our piece should naturally be seen as unsettling as it's a tour of a mental asylum so this movement piece will help to kick this up a level before the end so that the audience comes away with a bigger impression on the piece focusing on the obscurity of it all that made it unsettling.

We had a talk about costumes we should wear in the asylum for each character, whether we should all be themed of identical to each other. We simply agreed that the doctor and nurse should be dressed like a doctor and nurse even though the two of them actually are patients. The psychiatrist we decided should be dressed very smart as he actually would be very smart from a rich upbringing so would be dressed like a upper class person. For the boy patients, pale colour were agreed on to wear like grey, light blur ext, plimsolls or slippers and something like a white top to go with, The girl patients would be simply dressed in nighties because these clothes would be era appropriate for the 60's.