Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Inspiration from Fort Amherst

Today we were given Three photos of Fort Amherst and split into groups, my group was me, Tom, Dan M and Ellie, we were given the photo below as our inspiration for a new idea to use for site specific.



We struggled at first to come up with ideas for this picture but we then came up with an idea of performing under the bridge and having a dead body fall off of it. My first idea inspired by this was a gang themed idea were two groups had met at this location and were starting to argue over like a drug or smuggling operation, things would get more hostile until suddenly a dead body from above would fall down. I thought this would be a good opening as it would be able to hook an audience's attention and get them involved in the story but i'm not sure what we could follow this idea with in terms of location as the idea of drug smuggling doesn't work that well with Fort amhurst for inspiration of furthering the idea.
Another impression I got from having the body fall was having a group of kidnapped people interacting with each other who are scared and confused about where they are and why their here, as tensions rise the body would fall with a note on it saying they will have to traverse the Fort. I like this idea at first but then thought it was a bit movie like similar to the concept of the "Saw" films so I decide to scrap this idea for it being to much like a film.
The third concept I came up with was to have our first bit of the performance on the bridge and our audience looking up seeing a meet up between three guys who start arguing about a conspiracy ending with one of them going over the bridge. The other two coming down deciding to hide the body and keep it secret. I thought this was a cool idea that had a lot of potential to become a very unique performance but my only downside to this would be the idea is very ensamble friendly and more main character driven so if we were going to do this idea we would need to spend sometime on coming up with how we could use our whole cast in an effective way.
Our final idea we came up with for this was of a distant future that has lost almost all forms of power causing the development of the planet to stop still. Several people receive a call informing them to meet below the bridge to collect a new form of power to use. Upon arriving they all see they weren't the only person informed about this offer, a phone suddenly rings which hasn't happened in years due to the power issue, They answer to hear a voice claiming to be a person called Jordan telling them they will get their power but first instructing them to look up, when they do this they see the body fall in front of them.
As a group we presented our power idea to the others to be used as the site specfic idea for Fort amhurst.

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