5.11.14

THE GAME OF LIFE: Infinity sign

1 week until our performance....
My group have made some vast changes to our performance. Since returning from half term we made some decisions about our performance and it is coming together well and has a great structure to it. We still need to put together the ending, but so far we have an interesting piece with very strong meanings and emotions. We have each written a monologue and have learned these, the monologues are based slightly on our own personal emotions and situations, and focus on the ups and downs of life and how you can get stuck within a "viscious cycle" in life, but at the end of our piece we want to come together and perform a group monologue using movement as well on how life is not all bad, we do not want our piece to be full of negatives, we want it to end on a positive note and we want our audience to relate to us and understand the meaning of our performance. Our piece explores the bad parts and good parts of life. 
We decided not to use the music we previously chose, as we felt our piece was relying too much on the music and was being too influenced by the music and the narrative, we want to use "ambient" music which does not have a strong beat, and has no dialogue involved. So it can play on a loop in the background throughout our whole performance.  I have been on YOUTUBE and have found some playlists of atmospheric music which I feel would suit our piece;

This playlist is 10 hours long!! So has a lot of choice and I think my group will like parts of the song. We just need something ambient to be playing in the background, which will flow with our movement and monologues, rather than the song leading our performance which the previous song was doing.
We have created an abadoned and eerie feel in our room, and have used fake blood and drawn a X  and the Infinity sign inspired by Yoshi Oida on the walls. On the day of the performance we are going to collect leaves from outside and bring them into the room as we want to create an urban and neglected feel to our space. And we are also going to use L.E.D tealights as our main source of lighting, we will put the tealight candles around our "box" we have created, this will create an ambient effect and will also look very effective as they will be outlining our box, and the audiencre will be in the round. 
Our piece is very abstract, but we want to portray all the different ways life can bring you down, and ways you can pick yourself up again. Basing on our own personal experiences and also exploring emotions we have not neccesarily felt ourselves, it is a mixture of fiction and non fiction. 

When I am peforming my monologue, Jade and Max have created a movement piece to flow with my words, almost like acting out how I am feeling in my mind. We are still sticking with the idea that we are 3 beings in the universe, and do not know each other or acknowledge each other. But we do work together as a team now, as at first it seemed like we were not performing as a group as we were all too seperate, but this has developed now.
We performed our whole show to the 1st years today and recieved some really positive feedback. Everyone's pieces are very deep and raw, they bring out a lot of emotion in everyone, and I feel I can relate to everyones performances as they are all based on emotions, choices, actions and human nature. It is a very hard hitting yet refreshing performance and I feel the audience will engage strongly with our pieces, and will feel at the end they have learned something about life, or feel OK about situations they may be in right now. It is an unaplogetic piece, which does not try and sugar coat life.
Today was created our finale movement piece, which will be performed in the Reception area of college. It is a small space, but we have made it work. We were working on it today for about 2-3 hours and performed this to the 1st years. It is to a playlist Siou created, which includes Bad Education and Baggy trousers. It is about 2 minutes long. It is based on school, exploring conformism, play and authority, all using movement. We begin playing as if we are in the playground, and we end playing as well. It is a good piece of movement and with more rehearsals it will be very effective and will end our performance very well. 

Below is a photo from today's rehearsal of our movement finale piece. I am being lifted by the rest of the group.
Video of our finale piece