Today we started our unit of devising in my single performing arts classes. We were given our stimulus which is Adele's Chasing Pavements song / music video.
We then got told our groups that we shall be working in for this unit, my group consists of Myself, Oliver K, Cel and James. One of the other groups consists of Lorna, Kat, Rob and Oliver M, which leaves the last group to be made up of Lewis, Hope and Charlie. I am looking forward to this unit as I love devising and feel that I have some creative people in my group which could lead to some interesting work being produced.
The first thing that we done was to discuss any initial thoughts we had and to write any topics / ideas that we could work on, simply from watching and listening to Adele's Chasing Pavements. As we are at the beginning of our devising process, any contributions have potential as we are trying to build up a strong variety of ideas so that when we are devising, if we try something and find that we don't like it or that it is not working for us, we can move on quickly and start testing out a new idea. Here are some of the ideas that me and my group came up with;
The first idea that we worked on is based on the idea of the point of view of somebody who is in a coma. We wanted to try and show the various different emotions of / how different people may deal with tragic news, in this case, having somebody who means a lot to them be in a coma. I played the role of a young women who has been left in a coma after being hit by a car, Cel played the role of her best friend, Oliver of her fiance and James of her Brother. We decided to have Cel and I facing each other with Cel showing all of the anger and sadness she has through dialogue as well as hand movements,whilst my character would stay quiet as to try and make it more clear that she is in a coma but also slowly copying Cels movements as if to show that she will be okay and to calm her. We didn't have much time to create the other two stories so me and Oliver kept it simple with a basic lift that we have done together before and are comfortable doing whilst Ollie spoke of how he misses me. The final part to our first piece of work had to be improvised whilst on stage as we had run out of time to devise it properly, luckily it worked out okay, our presentation of the first idea we have worked on for this unit is below.
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