Acid Tests, Surrealism and Nightmares

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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 beginning of the play. Siobhan, bottom right saying right left for when he was panicking in the train station, teaches him how to read peoples emotions using these drawings.
  • The two people at the top represent the scene when he is on the train. A memorable quote is "is this train going to London?"
  • The square on the right depicts the stage and how when he walked, red lights on the stage would light up where he walked. 
  • I wrote a bunch of prime numbers as Christopher loved them and knows them all up to 7507, he counts them in his head to calm himself. 
  • I used metallic colours to show the technology used in this production and representing the music which was very 'techy' this link will take you to one of the songs.

This is an image that really stands out for me. This symbol of touching palms shows TRUST, FORGIVENESS and LOVE. Christopher does not like being touched, so to show affection he simply touches his fathers palm. Even when I read the book when I was 12, it stood out. I find it so beautiful and touching, such a small gesture really creates a huge emotional response. 
I used this clothes line to show characters costumes. I remember Christopher wearing a green hoodie, Christopher's mother blue spotted dress and the police hi-vis jacket are some that I remember vividly. The old lady behind is a friendly neighbour or Christopher's, the houses behind represent the community Christopher lives in. 

Surrealism:

I was given this imagine (The Persistence of Memory- Salvador Dali) and told to write the first few things that came into my head:
  • Time
  • Bending time 
  • heat/melting
  • baron- no people
This painting is oneric meaning it is dream like perception of surrealism. Surrealism believed dreams reveal work of the unconscious. In class, we discussed what SURREALISM meant:
  • Words should be used differently 
  • Sound quality can be used to create different atmospheres
  • Not just saying the obvious 
  • Not seeing things for what they are 
  • Words should be super charged- having different meanings. 
Brekt's political theatre is a good example of surrealism as it provoked thought. 

We started work on out devised piece: 

Here are some brainstorm ideas we had a couple weeks ago about things we wanted to involve in our piece: 
 
 

We are using our nightmares to stimulate this piece, we are using 4 totally different styles because nightmares are not structure and usually dont have much sense or meaning. 

Meeras Nightmare: running away from something down a long dark corridor, doors are opening and closing and then suddenly falling.

Harrys Nightmare:Flying lesson at night, he sees the city lights below fail, and then suddenly the plane is falling out of the sky.

My Nightmare: Flying in a big airplane with my family and friends when the plane crashes into the sea, black. I am swimming towards a pillar where my brother and mum are stood, I go to hug my mum she does not know who i am. 

Chloes Nightmare: Her and some friends are in a swimming pool when suddenly a bunch of ambulances arrive and are rolling dead bodies out on these trays. 

Tuesday 25 November 2014

We played an eye contact game where all we had to do was look into each others eyes and hold the eye contact. Sounds easy right? It was very difficult, I found it awkward, strange, I felt vulnerable and exposed. I found trying to keep a straight face hard because staring into your friends eyes feeling really awkward, it just made us all giggle. Something our teacher mentioned was that i tend to fidget. No surprises really! I always move wether it be tapping my feet or moving my fingers, I cannot stop moving. I dont even feel myself moving I just do it naturally. We all found out that we felt a lot more comfortable moving around than standing still and keeping a moment paused. We then played another game were 2 people had to keep eye contact and another person had to try everything to get them to break eye contact. We learnt that us, as a group, did not take enough risk and we didnt really leave our comfort zone.

Thursday 27 November 2014  

We spoke about who contributed ideas to the group, we all found it difficult to say anything. Throughout our lives, we are taught to not say people arent doing anything in the group and we are taught that saying you have come up with the most ideas is wrong and rude so our teacher made us individually draw a pie chart with how much we thoughts each person had contributed. We were then each set a role in the group to do, I choose sound as I do have an interest in it.

Sound for the scenes-

Meeras:
  • doors opening and closing 
  • drips 
  • uneven breathing  

 Harrys:
  • Plane taking off 
  • Cabin sounds 
  • Crashing, a lot of sound, crunching metal, very loud, messy sounding
Mine:
  • dream like, frantic music
Chloes:
  • new pop song
  • heart beat on a machine sound in the background 
  • song begins to distort 
  • beeping gets louder more uneven 
  • flat line.




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