We were all coming up with ideas but were finding loopholes in them where certain aspects would not work, Luckily, James came up with the idea to kill one of the characters off, me and the others thought that it was an extremely interesting idea that we could do a lot with. All we now had to figure out was who would be killed and who would do the killing. We all instantly saw that it made sense to kill off Harlequin, as he is a character who is low in the hierarchy of them all, but due to his annoying and cocky nature, each character would have a motive to want to kill him, I especially liked the idea of killing this character off, as my character, Columbina is extremely flirtatious in nature, but is a step ahead of all of the other characters, Harlequin is flirtatious back to her which I think she would find annoying as she only uses her sexuality as a weapon to better herself. After we decided that we are going to kill Harlequin, we had to try and figure out who we wanted to kill him. When we were trying to figure out who would kill him, and importantly, how they would do so, it was becoming a little frustrating and complicated, making it almost like a game of Cluedo, which I jokingly said to James, to which he replied "yeah, its like a murder mystery". This then sparked our plot for our piece, a murder mystery!
We would start with the crime scene of Harlequins death, and then throughout the piece, have the blame and accusation of being the murder passed onto all of the different characters, until it's passed down to the final character, who is the murder, who murdered him by accident, but gets promoted due to every bodies mutual dislike. We decided that this should be Zanni as he has the lowest status of all of the characters, so would make sense for him to kill somebody in order for their higher status, Zanni is also a very clumsy and inelegant, always hungry and therefore spending a lot of time in the kitchen where there are a lot of dangerous things that could happen, especially when around characters like Zanni. The two ways in which we were thinking about having Zanni kill Harlequin are:
-To have Harlequin stood by an open oven, with Zanni searching for food around in the kitchen, but not notice him and pushing him into the oven.
-To have Harlequin him die by falling onto/walking into knives, electrification from kitchen appliances, poisoning from cleaning products, or food poisoning / eating out of date food.
After figuring out our story line, we started to physicalize our characters. We researched into how each of our characters moves, practised until we had got the movements down and then taught the stance, movements, poses and gestures of our characters to everyone else.
Columbinas Stance; She has one knee bent, whilst the other leg is pointing outwards, and a slight forward tilt to show best features, she also often has her hands on her hips.
Columbinas Poses;
-A cross between laying down and sitting, usually with one knee up and one leg extended flat.
-Hip cocked outward, bust out, and hands extended behind back.-Leaning forward, hands together with arms extended accenting cleavage with the upper part of the arms.
-Wrapping leg around a male performer.
-Stand upright and "perky" and arms at sides and palms parallel to the ground.
-Profile with weight shifted back on hip with arms folded under cleavage.
As I couldn't find much information on how Columbina walks, I have decided that rather than having a more defined walk (like some of the other characters) I am going to do a quick, light-footed walk from one pose into another, whilst having my arms kept close as she keeps herself to herself and to head jolting around, as she is alert and always trying to be one step ahead of the others.
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