Finalising the piece
Tuesday 8th December 2014 In this double lesson, Harry and I recorded some sounds and voice recordings for manly Harrys piece. This, as technical stuff usually does, took around 25mins to just get the microphone to work properly! Everything took
Finalising our piece
9th December 2014 Today me and Meera worked on the set design (creating a plane) while Harry and Emma worked on the sound. Me and Meera decided to create a plane out of cardboard and to give it a 3D effect
Lighting, Props, costume and sound
In our double lesson me and Chloe used the time to create a plane made out of cardboard for Harry's nightmare while Emma and Harry worked on getting the sound recorded. We had already decided that we wanted the plane to
Finalizing our nightmare piece
This week we started by some of the group leading a drama warm up exercise, the ones we did were: Messages (very relaxing) Emma's really tiring dance thing ("hip, shoulder, air, clap, shoulder, hip, thigh, clap") having to do this on
Sound Design
I have chosen the role of sound design in my group and over this past week I have been putting sounds together. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/video/designing-sound-for-theatre this Meeras Dark Corridor The first record sound we hear the doors opening and closing- symbolising life
Finalising our piece
We started the lesson by doing some warm ups that were taught by other people in our class. We started by the massage warm up which we had done previously. We also did: Pushing backwards together and moving up and down
Developing Nightmares
We started todays sessions with three warm ups; Massages Pushing back to back with a partner and trying to sit down then stand back up without touching the floor "hip, shoulder, air, clap, shoulder, hip, thigh, clap" in which you had
Developing our piece and surrealism
This week we started to develop our Artaud piece. We started by using nightmares that we had each experienced and then transferring them into a piece of theatre. The four nightmares we had were: Emma's - She is in a plane
developing our piece further
1st lesson: In our first lesson last week we were given the simple task of maintaining eye contact with one other person from the group, without fidgeting or doing anything. Although the task was simple enough, I did actually find it
Eye contact
25/11/14 Today we started the lesson with an activity based on eye contact. It was fairly straightforward, all you had to do was look at someone else straight in the eyes with your face and body in neutral. However we found
Acid Tests, Surrealism and Nightmares
What a week! We finished off the week before by creating Acid Tests, where you record your scorch moments from a performance. We did ours to Curious Incident: The circle in the middle is the face that Christopher draws at the
Acid Tests | Surrealism | Developing Artaud
Acid Test Response To Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime An acid tests show scorched moments of a performance. I decided to have my acid test in the shape of a circle to represent the face which was always projected onto
Surrealism and starting our own piece
What is Surrealism? a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. The fist thing we were given to do was look at