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 without falling (I taught this) - I thought this warm up game made me focus and also acted as a trust exercise. 
• "hip, shoulder, air, clap, shoulder, hip, thigh, clap" game, we had to jump up and down while doing these actions. It was really complicated and definitely needed a lot of focus.

We then went on to develop the final nightmare (Chloe's nightmare), we settled on the idea of having everyone take an audience member and sit around the pool separately with their audience member. We then decided that to involve the audience member we would talk to them, but not expect a reply, we came up with 4 different types of conversation and spent the rest of the lesson practising them. They were: 

1. General conversation 
2. Anger 
3. Seduction 
4. Confession (I suggested this) 

I found doing the Anger and seduction ones the hardest as I just couldn't think of anything to say, I also found it hard to not get distracted by the others who were talking. I found this much easier to do when there was no one in front of me, although I will probably have to work on this because in the real performance there will be someone there. I found the easiest to do was the babbling on general conversation because it didn't involve any thought and I could just say anything and it would be fine.  

At the very end of the lesson we decided to make the audience members into the corpses by using makeup and maybe costume. We also decided to lie them down on the blue sheet and wrap them up in it, this also created the musky smell as the blue sheet smelt musky. By including the musky smell we are also working on our piece as being total theatre.    

On Thursday and Friday we took the time to work on our separate elements of the piece, mine is costume and make-up. I started looking up ideas for the corpses makeup in chloes scene. Some ideas I came up with were: 



Obviously we would only focus on the actual wound areas and not anything else. We would also need to make them slightly more simple, but I like the fact that they are all slightly different. For costume I decided that I wanted a clear difference between being in the train (naturalistic) and being in the dream. I decided to have 4 clear different characters on the train. These were: 

• The schoolgirl/boy listening to music - headphones  and phone/ipod 
• The housewife - lots of shopping bags 
• The businessman - briefcase and tie
• Sports person - sweatband and tennis racket

I wanted to have costumes that were easily changeable, but really fitted with each separate character. After discussing this with the group we also decided that when moving from the train to the dream we would give the costume/props to the audience, this would enforce the idea of specactor and give them the idea that these nightmares could happen to anybody. 

For the actual dreams I wanted to keep the costume plain and simple. White T-shirts and black leggings/trousers. This would also fit really well with the idea that in a nightmare you usually don't know who you are with or that no one is actually real. Wearing white also means that it's possible to have projections on us.