Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Journal Entry Three - Extending the Compositions
Describe how the creation of the thematic pieces assisted in readying you for the text pieces. What skills did you use, and how have you modified these skills in your textual compositions? At this point, also describe the process you used to create the transitions between your 3 eyes open/eyes closed theme scenes... to make it run as one full scene. What difficulties did you experience here? How well did this full thematic scene run?
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Sight is a powerful gift. When sight is taken away the audience is left in anticipation as to what is going to occur. Eyes open/closed gave us the opertunity to introduce the audience to our piece without them seeing us prepare and move to our places. The introduction of sound before sight also intrigues, and makes the audience eager to see what is going on.
The three pieces, the Silenced, tell-tale and the hunted also gave the main events within the play. Lavinia is hunted, silenced and then has to try and tell the tale of what has happened to her. This meant that we had ideas to build on for the performance. We had forumlated physical movements that could then be applied to our final piece.
We used our bodies to try and establish what we were trying to say, and instead of using words we used sounds and unrestricted movement.
At eyes open/closed scene endings the actors moved about into different spaces, so that the audience was looking at a different begining to the scene each change. To make it run as one full scene was challenging, yet thinking about the pieces that were missing from the middle helped in this instance.
Establishing the final draft for the 3 main ideas with all of the phyical theatre elements in mind really helped us to concentrate and use everything that we had learnt. With these new movements and symbolism the performances were much stronger. This was great preperation for what we are working on now.
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