Thursday Week 2 (Devising)

We had to now start piecing 8 scenes together and come up with our main, name, aims, themes and specific audience here's the final outcome of the story:

• Name: Lost in Sanity.
•  Aim: Lost in sanity explores the notion of identity, isolation and freedom through the action of movement and to confront and challenge the perception of the "self."
• Themes: Isolation and Self Identification.
• Audience: 16+

Our aim and audience both link together, as at the age of 16 you are in your final year of secondary school, you are having all these colleges, and ideas for the rest of your life thrown at you, you are also going to have a fresh start during the next year, new friends and teachers, and on top of this your taking your GCSE's and this can be hard for some young adults because your faced with hardest question "who are you?" Well this piece explores this subject in an abstract way.

The other half of our group the day before came up with a train scene, but we thought it was to naturalistic, so what we did was we, had the idea of "who is the real Christina?" She is being pushed down deep inside by all these emotions, so that is literally what we had done, we took three strong emotions, sadness, anger and happiness, each emotion was played by someone, and they said something that came from Christina's memories and every time the "real Christina" popped up the emotions would push her down further.

We had to later preform the scenes we had to the other group and the feed back we got for our chair scene was the same, as we had spent our time developing the others scene with them, but the emotions scene's feedback wad as follows:

• We needed to lengthen the piece more, and we had planned to use our movement class to develop an idea of using the whole group, like a flock of birds copying one person at the front all together.
• More emotions: the emotion characters need to completely separate themselves from one another the emotions need to come on very strong towards how they are feeling.