Single - Fighting James

In this scene we wanted to make our audience feel rather engaged in our piece and by doing this my character Jeremy starts to beat Ashley's character ('Newbie') and as the violence increases the more that the character feels deathly like and starts to fall to his knees, that's when Jeremy and his gang start to torture this poor man more and more by whipping him. He lays there nearly dead and then they all walk off. Personally i believe that the piece would sound better something more aggressive however the group has decided that it would be better suited if we had music that isn't really relevant to the piece as it makes the audience feel like 'what the hell'...

Intro to divised

At first we all decided that we wanted to have a bit of a thriller and horror but live on stage and have that 'wow factor' which would really engaging for the audience, we thought that if we done this it be rather different as there's not many shows that do this. We had an idea of having a dinner party but it all goes horribly wrong when the host decides to play a game which involves his guests living or dying.We soon realized we were making it to much like a film and didn't want the audience to feel like they've seen it all before so we shortly scrapped it and began to think of our current idea/s.

Our idea that we are working on at the moment is a lot less horror and thriller and heads to more of a futuristic, post apolitical kind of theme, we thought that this would engage to an audience with out really having to attempt to scare them and we can tell multiple stories with in one instead of just having the audience watching a group of actors play a game...

Double - Group Work

In last weeks lesson we were split into groups, I was put into a group with Tom, Ashley and Dom. We decided to base a story of Greek mythology around the fallen Greek God Hades. In a group we came up with Brain Storm around things that are quite dark and sinister and evil, an Idea of the 7 deadly sins came to mind and we looked into them and decided that we would use Anger, Greed and Envy. I was given the Character of Anger which is a type of character that I'm used to playing.

The Start to our piece begins with the 3 men blindfolded, meaning they are not able to see where they are and are unsure of how they got there. We thought we would add a bit of childish humor into the piece as we are performing it to year 7's, so somewhere in the beginning scene some of the dialogue goes like this:
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(Blindfold Man 2 hears breathing)

Blindfold Man 2: Did you hear that?
Blindfold Man 1: See what?
Blindfold Man 2: No! Did you hear that?
Blindfold Man 1: Yeah I'm hear!
Blindfold Man 2: NO! FOR CHRIST SAKES, LISTEN.
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This week we decided that we would make a start on telling the stories of each character. The first Character is Anger, Then Envy and Finishes with Greed.
The story starts off with a man named 'Edward Smith' (Anger/Blindfold Man 1) walking into an interview at a multi-million pound Bank. After a Small interview Edward is offered the dream job he's always wanted. He then has a short phone call with his wife sharing the excitement, and promising a better life for the family. To show his feeling happy, the song 'You make my dream's come true' is played as it tends to have that happiness about it and is a good song to show movement. When the movement ends and Edward reaches home he opens the door to find a letter from his wife on the floor, explaining that she has left, and that she has taken the children with her and that she doesn't love him anymore. Whilst Edward reads out the letter, "What I've Done" by Linkin Park is played in the background and one he has finished reading the letter, Edward unleashes his anger, throwing chairs, shouting, crying. He then pauses and notices that there is a man in his house, with out hesitation he pins this man up against the wall and tells him to leave. There is a pause and the man replies with "I'm just here to get here stuff". Edward then gets even more angry and starts a fight with this man. The fight is choreographed and starts with Edward throwing the first punch. The random man picks Edward up by his hair and knee's him in the face and throws a punch. Edward then turns around and tries to show masculinity by picking up this man and throwing him on the floor, Edward then gets caught up in the moment of rage and brutally beats this man to death. Once he is calm he then realizes his mistake and hangs himself, leading him into the underworld. Edward then wakes up on this island along with the blindfolded men we see at the beginning. He then get furious when he see's that this man he has killed is also there with him in the underworld and tells the other 2 men to leave him alone. With all this shouting and suffering me tries to sleep.

Research into 'The Curious Incident of the dog in the Night-Time'

The Making of 'The Curious incident of the dog in the night tim'

Single - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Performance (Man With Socks)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time. 26/11/2014

In this production, one of  the characters I played was 'Man with Socks'. As there was no real give away with this character, I decided to then look into way in which I could reveal this kind of character in an obvious way so that my character was easy to identify if people were to have scripts. I decided to go for this kind of skater look, hence why my hair is tied up and why the bottom of my trouser legs are rolled up and why I was wearing some Nike SB's (a type of shoe brand that is designed for skaterboarders) and also due to the fact that it is an activity that i partake in outside of school, I thought the fact that the front part of one of my shoes is slowly deteriorated due to this. 

Single - Developing A Character (Police officer diary entry)

12/04/2012


Well last night was a long, tiring experience. It was late at night, 8 o'clock to be more accurate. And the station had received a few calls about some loud behavior from a lady named Linda Shears, which we thought was a bit unusual seeing as she's a rather well known lady with in the community and even though she is rather sad and upset a lot of the time, when you have a conversation with her, she's really nice. Anyway I was called out to the scene and in her front garden was a young teenager, around 15 year's old and he was crouched down next to a dog (belonging to Linda) with a pitchfork going straight through it's stomach. So I approached the young man and ask him a few questions: 'How old are you' , 'Is this you're pitchfork?' and 'did you kill the dog?'. So anyway, this young man started to make some sort of groaning noise and tucked up into a ball, so I thought that he was either on drugs or he had special needs, so I asked him if he could stop and he didn't so I tried help him up by touching his shoulders and then the bastard right hooked me. That put me in a bad mood instantly, so I was able to detain him and put him into the back of the police car and then the Sargent took him in for questioning to find out what he was doing there in the first place. Meanwhile I grabbed a few paracetamols to try and stop my thumping headache but it didn't really work, so when I finished my shift, I asked my wife if she could drop me off at the hospital as the paracetamol did absolutely nothing.

Single - London Paddington Station

revolutionarts2016: London Underground Sequence - Curious Incident

So this week we have worked on some sort of introduction for Chris's arrival into London (we assumed that it was based at Paddington as there is a line saying "Paddington Bear at Paddington Station") So the link above shows what we were able to come up with as a group.

This week I've been thinking about the Man with Socks character that I play as i find him a fairly difficult character to play. So I've been thinking about how people genuinely react when put in the situation of a stranger (especially a child) jumping onto the train tracks. I've come to the conclusion that this character should be very stressed and could show that by pacing up and down the platform and shouting at Christopher to get off the tracks.

As far as strengths and weaknesses are concerned I believe that I have defiantly improved on the Man with Socks as I've actually managed to remember dialogue for this character. One weakness that I could improve on is tensing my "muscles" when being lifted in the Paddington Station Scene as I can understand that that it can be a bit of a struggle for people if all my body weight falls on them