Week 3 (Devising)

On Monday we started coming up with ideas and developing a new scene, one of our ideas was combining two exercises we had learned in previous classes, the first being an obstacle scene where one person would try and make it from one side of a room to another by crawling, but at the same time people were making obstacles in front of the person crawling, when we first did this exercise I thought of it as Christian's struggle in life, I now thought we could fit the obstacle idea into our piece as it is about the struggle of a young girl finding out who she is. We later developed the scene by adding on a mirror scene, after our character struggles through the obstacles, she is then met by lots of different versions of herself that copy what she does, we thought that this could be Christina (our version) trying to break free from the world, just like Jim Carrey's last scene in "The Truman Show" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6NNGxVt7h4) but instead of it being a wall, its an endless set of mirrors stopping her. We later thought we needed to start the scene some how, so we stuck with the idea of having a monologue every so often so that the audience could understand what was going on, my idea was to have Christina saying a monologue in the middle of the stage and the rest of us standing with out backs to her, until she say "can you feel that?" Then we held hands and curved round our character creating a circle, I also had the idea that each of us in the circle should say a short sentence that would be meant for Christina, but if we say it to the audience, then it would fit with our aim of trying to making them think who are we. Rae came up with the idea of us using a rule in our monologues, where we could each label our selves positive and negative, but the positive people followed up from the negatives with a but, and the negatives finished the sentence with a question. Then Yasmin thought of the idea that after each monologue we could turn into the next spot rather than stepping, we had to wait for the person speaking to stop and then count three beats before all turning at the same time.



On Wednesday we went back over the obstacle/mirror scene, and decided to add some music for quite a pacey scene, so Imogen played the song from the nutcracker, but she played around with the tempo that she would play it in, we then carried on polishing this scene.

We then added everyone into our "the real Christina" scene, by having Rae and Alicia kneeling in front of the boxes, and when everyone said "we are all the real Christina" they would rise, and Shelby, Bradley and Yasmin stepped of the boxes, then me, Dan and Bradley stepped back up onto the boxes, which later led into us all doing the same movement sequence that the others created earlier, we then came up with a lift, Dan would stand on a block and get pushed of by Shelby where the rest of us would catch him. We carried on perfecting the whole scene so that we could work out how we could move around the stage.

Later we started board storming ideas for some new scenes because we needed more minutes, so we came up with a hospital scene at the beginning, to show how Christina slips into a coma, but we planned to work on it next Monday.