Character Ideas / Relating back to the text

HERO

Shakespeare version: 
Hero -  The beautiful young daughter of Leonato and the cousin of Beatrice. Hero is lovely, gentle, and kind. She falls in love with Claudio when he falls for her, but when Don John slanders her and Claudio rashly takes revenge, she suffers terribly.

Modern( for our piece) :
What we are creating hero is she isn't in this piece as such, she is haunting a character that left her on her wedding day. She is going to have mental issues and we only see her appearance in and out of the scenes. But she is a big character she is the whole story about this piece.  She is haunting Claudio and she comes back till she gets justice.  No one knows who HERO IS? We find out further into the story why she killed herself.


Claudio:

Claudio(Shakespeare Version):  Claudio -  A young soldier who has won great acclaim fighting under Don Pedro during the recent wars. Claudio falls in love with Hero upon his return to Messina. His unfortunately suspicious nature makes him quick to believe evil rumors and hasty to despair and take revenge.


Modern:(for our piece):

Claudio is still a main character however he isn't the hero in this.  He is more the victim and he is guilty of what he has done in his past. He is in love with Hero but he left her at there wedding day because of rumours. Claudio is under a lot of stress and physically can't function.  We have turned it completely round how Claudio isn't the good guy in this he is guilty.



B&B

B&B( Shakespeare)  Beatrice -  Leonato’s niece and Hero’s cousin. Beatrice is “a pleasant-spirited lady” with a very sharp tongue. She is generous and loving, but, like Benedick, continually mocks other people with elaborately tooled jokes and puns. She wages a war of wits against Benedick and often wins the battles. At the outset of the play, she appears content never to marry.

Benedick -  An aristocratic soldier who has recently been fighting under Don Pedro, and a friend of Don Pedro and Claudio. Benedick is very witty, always making jokes and puns. He carries on a “merry war” of wits with Beatrice, but at the beginning of the play he swears he will never fall in love or marry.


Modern B&B: 

We are either thinking a lesbian couple or a couple showing different class. We wanted to loose the idea about how can different classes separate people. There marriage is ruined and they need something to save there marriage. So by coming to this hotel they want to help sort there marriage.

Benedict: will be more higher class and he would want to pay for the best. He won't accpet anything that isn't worth class . He is all about money and wears the fashionable expensive brands. He is very stubborn and it's either what he says goes or he won't like it . Beatrice is his love of his life but they are stuck in a really bad patch. 

Beatrice: she is more lower class money doesn't matter to her . She just wants to be loved and have a happy marriage. She doesn't take shit and she is also very stubborn. She wants to work this marriage out and she wants Benedict to put in effort to the releationship . She doesn't like how Benedict likes everything worth money. There social class sometimes clash . 

Leonato (shakespeaers) -  A respected, well-to-do, elderly noble at whose home, in Messina, Italy, the action is set. Leonato is the father of Hero and the uncle of Beatrice. As governor of Messina, he is second in social power only to Don Pedro.

Leonato modern(modern): will be the hotel manger and will be in control or what goes on with the hotel.  


We are currently building on some more characters we can use into the piece. We need more characters which will add comdey and a hotel is normally packed with different people.  But relating back to the text these are the characters we are going to be using . 

Research of Different Theatre pieces/ Ideas for theatre work

We have decided to look up different shows/ theatre companies that can relate to our show or ideas we can add in. My job with in the group was to look up more key information about faulty towers because, we are wanting to set the hotel a bit like that atmosphere. I have also looked into Benidorm because, I liked the comedy the show brings and we could think of characters to add into the piece.

Faulty Towers: 

The reason for looking into fault towers is because, we like the story line of how there is comedy added into the piece.  We like how each different character makes showing to the show. 

The hotel idea of how we have different characters walking in and out of the hotel we could, copy some of there characters.

Casting:   

John Cleese ........... Basil Fawlty
Prunella Scales ........ Sybil Fawlty
Andrew Sachs ........... Manuel
Connie Booth ........... Polly Sherman
Renee Roberts .......... Miss Gatsby
Gilly Flower ........... Miss Tibbs
Ballard Berkeley ....... Major Gowen

For example we have done the same idea for our hotel we have added a maid like Manuel in the faulty towers. Its going to be a dark comedy but, by adding key characters that will lighten the piece from the dark comedy.  So one of our research was really done on faulty towers of what sort of characters they use.


Also we have looked into PunkDrunk and watched some of what they do ....

 PUNKDRUNK:

 

 

Punchdrunk is a British theatre company, formed in 2000, the pionee of a form of "immersive" theatre in which the audience is free to choose what to watch and where to go.This format is related to "promenade theatre".
The company was founded by its artistic director Felix Barrett. Its executive director is Griselda Yorke. Company members include associate director and choreographer Maxine Doyle, enrichment director Peter Higgin, producer Colin Nightingale, sound and graphic designer Stephen Dobbie, technical director Euan Maybank and design associates Livi Vaughan and Bea Minns.
The company is a National Portfolio Organisation with Arts Council England.

 

 

what I have been doing, is looking on youtube for different things punkdrunk has done and I have been watching ready to be able to get physical movements or to pick up anything to add into the piece

 

 

 

 

How the brain works / Nervous system

How does your brain work?

Your brain is the hub of your nervous system. It is made up of 100 billion nerve cells - about the same as the number of trees in the Amazon rainforest. Each cell is connected to around 10,000 others. So the total number of connections in your brain is the same as the number of leaves in the rainforest - about 1000 trillion.














 

Every animal you can think of -- mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians -- has a brain. But the human brain is unique. Although it's not the largest, it gives us the Power to speak, imagine and problem solve. It is truly an amazing organ.
The brain is an incredible number of tasks including the following:

• It controls body temperature, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
• It accepts a flood of information about the world around you from your various senses (seeing hearing, smelling, tasting and touching).
• It handles your physical movement when walking, talking, standing or sitting.
• It lets you think, dream, reason and experience emotions.

All of these tasks are coordinated, controlled and regulated by an organ that is about the size of a small head of cauliflower.
Your brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves make up a complex, integrated information-processing and control system known as your central nervous system. In tandem, they regulate all the conscious and unconscious facets of your life. The scientific study of the brain and nervous system is called neuroscience or neurobiology. Because the field of neuroscience is so vast -- and the brain and nervous system are so complex -- this article will start with the basics and give you an overview of this complicated organ.
We'll examine the structures of the brain and how each section controls our daily functions, including motor control, visual processing, auditory processing, sensation, learning, memory and emotions.

Facts about stress

Looking into research on the internet I wanted to find out what the effects of stress can have on someone. The reason for looking into this research is because, we want of the characters he can't cope he is losing his mind. For us as actors to able to show that in our show we need to research different reasons which help us get a sense of how to play that certain character.

What is post-traumatic stress disorder?

Post-traumatic stress disorder affects people who have suffered a terrifying experience like a violent attack, car crash or earthquake. Sufferers often have recurrent nightmares of their ordeal and may feel guilty about their survival. They may also suffer from vivid memories or flashbacks - reliving the event through sounds, smells or feelings that seem as real as they did at the time. Post-traumatic stress disorder was first recognised as 'shell shock' in veterans of the First World War.

What is depression?

People with depression may have feelings of sadness that persist for weeks, months or years. They can experience different symptoms, including lack of energy and motivation, weight and appetite changes, sleep problems, anxiety and tearfulness. Some sufferers feel suicidal. About 15% of people will have a bout of severe depression at some point in their lives. However, the exact number of people with depression is hard to estimate because many people do not get help, or are not formally diagnosed with the condition.

Each of these our examples we can put into the piece to relate to how the character should be acting. Also by researching this information I have found it really interesting because, I have been able to find interesting key facts of how the brain actually works.  And how different parts of your brain works.

The factors Of Depression and Post-traumatic stress disorder is because, our character is going through a lot ever since his wife to be killed herself. He is lost and doesn't know who he is anymore.  Personally I think by researching different effects it may have on it will be a good starting stone for the research.

The type of atmosphere we want for the hotel

We want it very dark and depressing atmosphere but we have funny characters to keep it funny and create that dark comedy to the audience.  But the picture in my mind is these images and how i created the play in my head and how i wanted it to look like. Its what i think of when i read the play or what i think about it. I want it to look like this dark.

But the charatcers will bring the piece alive and colorful by the comedy

Brain

The brains of people with depression, even in remission, respond differently to feelings of guilt, suggesting Freud was right, said researchers from the University of Manchester in the UK who compared magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of people with a history of depression to those of people who had never had it. If further tests prove successful, they suggest the finding could lead to the first brain scan marker for future risk of depression.

The new study, part-funded by the Medical Research Council was published on 4 June in an online-first issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

It is the first piece of research to show there is a brain mechanism behind Freud's classical idea that depression differs from normal sadness by proneness to exaggerated feelings of guilt or self-blame.

Dr Roland Zahn, from the University's School of Psychological Sciences, told the press:

"For the first time, we chart the regions of the brain that interact to link detailed knowledge about socially appropriate behavior - the anterior temporal lobe - with feelings of guilt - the subgenual region of the brain - in people who are prone to depression."

For their study, Zahn and colleagues took fMRI scans of people while they imagined themselves or their best friend acting badly (eg in a mean, tactless or bossy way) towards others, and said what they felt, for instance, guilt, shame, contempt, or disgust, and whether this was toward self or another.

The participants were 25 people who had been in remission from depression for over a year (16 of whom were not currently taking anti-depressants), and 22 healthy volunteers with no history of depression who served as controls.

Previous studies have suggested that the subgenual cingulate cortex and adjacent septal region (SCSR) become active when we feel guilty, and in healthy people with a low risk of depression, this effect is "selective relative to equally unpleasant feelings associated with blaming others (indignation/anger)", write the researchers.

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) has also been consistently implicated in moral feelings such as guilt, but unlike the SCSR, this part of the brain is "activated irrespective of the type of moral feeling, whether it is guilt or indignation", they note.

There is also evidence to suggest the right superior ATL is important for constructing social concepts that help us make different judgements (eg such as distinguishing merely critical from fault-finding behavior). This in turn protects us against over-generalization and self-blame (eg my pointing out a typing error in a colleague's piece of writing means "I am critical" as opposed to "I am unlikable").

So, prior to this latest study, it had already been proposed, but not shown, that a coupling between these two brain areas, or "ATL-SCSR functional coupling", helps people with low risk of depression blame themselves in an "adaptive" way, without damaging their self-worth or hating themselves.

Zahn and colleagues found the fMRI scans showed the coupling between these brain regions was weaker in the group with a history of depression than in the healthy controls with no history of depression.

"We corroborated the prediction of a guilt-selective reduction in ATL-SCSR coupling in MDD [major depressive disorder] vs controls ... and revealed additional medial frontopolar, right hippocampal, and lateral hypothalamic areas of decoupling while controlling for medication status and intensity of negative emotions," they write.

They also found that lower levels of ATL-SCSR coupling were linked with higher scores on a validated measure of overgeneralized self-blame.

"Interestingly, this 'decoupling' only occurs when people prone to depression feel guilty or blame themselves, but not when they feel angry or blame others," explained Zahn.

"This could reflect a lack of access to details about what exactly was inappropriate about their behaviour when feeling guilty, thereby extending guilt to things they are not responsible for and feeling guilty for everything," he suggested.

Zahn and colleagues suggest the finding is important because it shows there are brain mechanisms that may explain why some people respond to stress with depression rather than aggression.

The team is now testing whether these findings can predict the risk of depression following remission. If they succeed, this could lead to the first fMRI marker for risk of future depression.

Looked through this information regarding guilt and shame and the affects.

Guilt and Shame

We all know that pinching sensation of guilt when we feel like we've done something wrong. It's an unpleasant feeling that can be hard to shake until we apologize for our wrongdoing. Shame can have a similar effect, making us feel badly about who we are. These two emotions are often confused with each other and in the psychology world can be controversial when it comes to defining them and their differences. "There isn't really a lot of agreement about how to define guilt and shame and there are various thoughts on what makes them different," says psychotherapist and authorBeverly Engel. Here we delve into what each word means and uncover what makes them different.

What is Guilt?

Guilt is both a cognitive and an emotional experience that occurs when a person believes that he or she has violated a moral standard and is responsible for that violation.^[1] People can feel guilty about something they actually did or didn'tdo.

Spiritual teacher Iyanla Vanzant says the three reasons people feel guilty are because they:

1. Did something wrong but, knew better
2. Caused hurt, harm, or injury to someone
3. Disappointed or upset someone^[3]

What is Shame?

Webster defines shame as "a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute."^[4] Shame can be explained as the discomfort people feel when they don't live up to the expectations of others or the remorse and/or embarrassment they feel when they think they have let others down.^[5]

What's the Difference Between Guilt and Shame?

In his book, "Shame: The Power of Caring," clinical psychologist Gershen Kaufman explains that the meaning of the two experiences is as different as feeling inadequate is from feeling immoral. "In this comparison, immoral goes with guilt and inadequate goes with shame," says Engel.

Engel adds that "another clear distinction I've heard is that guilt is when you feel disappointed in yourself for violating your own personal value system or your own code of behavior while shame is when you actually feel disappointed in yourself because you failed in your own mind in some way, whether you failed to cope with something or a failure or weakness of yours has been exposed in front of other people who define it as wrong," she adds.

Still, Engel says another way to distinguish the two is to think of it this way: when we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do and our conscious bothers us whereas when we feel shame we feel badly aboutwho we are in general.

Is Guilt Worse than Shame or Vice Versa?

Since guilt is tied to what we think is moral and immoral, when we violate a moral standard, we feel guilty and want to right the wrong. Because of this, guilt actually helps us as a society and as individuals to maintain standards for right and wrong.Guilt is viewed more positively. If somebody feels guilty and they admit that they did something wrong, we like that because we want to forgive people who admit they're wrong. However, as a culture we have shame about shame. We equate shame with weakness," says Engel.

Effects of Guilt and Shame

Feeling guilty or shameful can have different effects on people. The following are some common things that these emotions can do to a person.

Guilt

"Feeling guilty overtime can cause someone to become depressed and self-destructive," says Engel. It can also cause you to do the following:^[6]

• Try hard to make things right by overworking and over-giving in an attempt to to make everyone happy
• Ignore your needs and desires in order to avoid upsetting others
• Become overly sensitive to making right decisions in your personal actions, choice of words and decisions
• Become fearful of doing or saying something wrong to the point where you give in and choose to stay within the status quo
• Lack decision-making skills since you always want to make the "right" choice
• Create self-denial by always putting other people first
• Become emotionally closed off and only able to see the negative aspects of life
• Use the discomfort of guilt to motivate you to change things in your life to eliminate the guilt
• Use guilt as a mask for your low self-esteem
• Make irrational decisions based on the guilt

Shame

"Shame is the most destructive of human emotions. Shame destroys a person's self-esteem and sense of who they are and causes people really serious problems. It's core issue of addiction and can cause other issues like suicide,depression and anger," says Engel.

People with shame may also experience the following:

• Have issues with intimacy and therefore have superficial relationships
• Find themselves in relationships with people who encourage their ongoing experience of low self-worth
• Isolate themselves from others
• Have self-condemning attitudes and talk negatively about themselves, which can lead to self-loathing and self-sabotaging behavior
• Tend to bring others down in an attempt to make themselves feel better
• Seek perfection to avoid future shame
• Aim for power in attempt to feel more valuable
• Blame others for their faults and problems to avoid shame
• Be overly nice to others in hopes to prove their worth

How to Overcome Feelings of Guilt and Shame

Since guilt often arises from something you've done or think you've done, Engel says an easy remedy is to apologize for the wrongdoing. "But shame can be something that was done to you. People who have been abused feel shame and they didn't do anything wrong so shame is a more difficult feeling to get rid of," she adds.

Engel believes that teaching people self-compassion is a way to heal shame. Directors of the Conflict Information Consortium at the University of Colorado agree. "By showing people empathy and caring, we indicate that doing something wrong does not necessarily reflect on the person as a whole. By differentiating between the action and the actor, we can help prevent shame and its negative connotations, while still encouraging a healthy sense of right, wrong, and guilt when necessary."

Hallucination / Haunting

In the play we wanted one of the characters to see a ghost of his girlfriend because he is guilty of what has happened. Which we could look into whether it is a hallucination or it could been haunting. I decided to look into both of these and see how it could relate to the piece.  I wanted to find out what Haunting is like and what happens when you hallucinate or what triggers someone to hallucinate.

I wanted to get a good understanding of how these both work and what happens if you do have anything happen to you like this. So once we have the play up and running and on its feet we all know how to create that feeling to the audience to help bring the price alive for them.


Hallucination : 

There are a lot of different types - audio, visual, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, thermalceptive, hypnagotic, pendicular and so on. Any sense in the body can trigger hallucinations. 

Basically a hallucination is just a misinterpretation of one's perception of reality. Its when the brain experiences a perception without any stimulus. And there are many many reasons why they occur. In fact we don't even know all the reasons. There are times when hallucinations seem totally spontaneous and they cannot be explained. Then there are even pseudo hallucinations, delusions brought on by delirium. 

Hallucinations do not work in just any one area of the brain. Rather a bad connection made between one area of the brain and the pre-frontal cortex, which deals with perception of reality and cognitive functions. 

How a hallucination works? Well here is an example say an area of the temporal lobe (which controls auditory abilities and hearing) sends the prefrontal cortex a signal without any external stimulus and cortex interprets the signal by alerting a person to a sound that is not really there. This is actually among the most common hallucinations and happens usually just before a person falls asleep. Its experienced lby ike saying you hear your name or thinking you can hear someone talk or even hear music. It happens because as the brain gets relaxed as part of the sleep cycle it enters whats called a hynagotic state, where the brain can experience predreams, or basically a type of hallucination. 

But hallucinations can happen for all sorts of reasons - drugs, dementia, a head truama, epilepsy, psychosis (ie schizophrenia), animia, sleep deprivation and sometimes they happen for no apperant reason at all. Just a glitch in the system.

What is schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia affects one person in a hundred at some point in their lives. The illness usually starts in the teenage years or twenties, and alters the person's experience and interpretation of the world. This may lead to delusions – strongly held false beliefs. Experience of hallucinations (particularly hearing voices) is a common experience, but disjointed and hard to follow thoughts, personality change, absence of emotion and depression can occur as well.

hallucination, the experience of perceiving objects or events that do not have an external source, such as hearing one’s name called by a voice that no one else seems to hear. A hallucination is distinguished from an illusion, which is a misinterpretation of an actual stimulus.

A historical survey of the study of hallucinations reflects the development of scientific thought inpsychiatry, psychology, and neurobiology. By 1838 the significant relationship between the content ofdreams and of hallucinations had been pointed out. In the 1840s the occurrence of hallucinations under a wide variety of conditions (including psychological and physical stress) as well as their genesis through the effects of such drugs as stramonium and hashish had been described.

how the brain works for different things?

II thought it was very important to look into facts about the brain and how the brain works. Because we are relating to mental health and how one of the characters have made up a hotel in there mind. Also the impacts it has on there brain and what happens if there brain cant work. Found out these key facts and found it really interesting founding out different things with the brain. Its very important i have a good understanding with how the brain works in different ways so we can add it into our piece. 

Which area of your brain controls emotions?

Emotions enable us to react to situations – for example, anger or fear will set your heart racing, and feeling happy will make you smile. One of the key areas of your brain that deals with showing, recognising and controlling the body's reactions to emotions is known as the limbic system.

How does your brain work?

Your brain is the hub of your nervous system. It is made up of 100 billion nerve cells - about the same as the number of trees in the Amazon rainforest. Each cell is connected to around 10,000 others. So the total number of connections in your brain is the same as the number of leaves in the rainforest - about 1000 trillion.

How can illness affect the brain?

Because the human brain is so complicated and has little capacity to regenerate, it is vulnerable to the effects of damage and disease. Losing part of the vast network of cells, or changing the level of a neurotransmitter, can have devastating results. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases are examples of disorders of the nervous system in which brain cells gradually die. In disorders of the mind, such as schizophrenia and depression, the symptoms are caused by more subtle changes in the brain that are as yet poorly understood.

Why is your memory so important?

Your memory is your brain's filing system. It contains everything you have learnt. You can store an amazing amount of information – for example, as a child you learned around ten new words a day, and you may eventually know 100,000 or more.

Why do we dream?

No one really knows why we dream. The psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud thought dreams were the key to our subconscious. Some researchers today suggest that their purpose may be to keep us asleep - the brain's natural entertainer. Others think that dreams are a way of deleting unnecessary information and retaining important information to be 

What happens when you’re asleep?

For about a third of your life, you are asleep. While you sleep, your heart rate drops, your muscles relax, your breathing slows and you respond less and less to the outside world. Sleep also restores the body's energy and may help you commit to memory things that have happened during the day.

stored in our memory.

We are thinking of our hotel name as ( Di Colpa) which is Italian( And means Guilt)

 What we are wanting to do is create a hotel of guilt and Di Colpa Is all about blaming and the quilt of someone . It fits really nice into the theme of our play and we are wanting to create a dark comedy. 


Looking into research i have found other words that link into blame and guilt. 

We are going to making posters which relate to what the hotel is called (DI COlpa) no one at the hotel will understand why the hotel is called that but, it all relates to the character that has made this hotel up in his mind. He is a little bit crazy ever since his wife passed away and its his fault. 

The audience will click on that he is the only character that can see the ghost of Hero no one else can see her. This is because, the character has made up this hotel in his mind where Hero Has come back alive. 

The reason from choosing Italian language is because, they all have festivals for the dead and carnivals celebrating there lifes so we thought it sounded a bit creepy and smooky having a hotel called that name. 

Translation of colpa in English:

colpa

Pronunciation: /ˈkolpa/

F

• fault (biasimo) blame (colpevolezza) guilt (peccato) sindare la colpa ablameessere in colpabe at faultper colpa dibecause ofè colpa miait's my fault

Mental health issues - spilt personality

The reason for researching mental health for a spilt personality is because, what we are wanting to add in is hero could have a spilt personality when she comes back as a ghost. We wanted to show the effects she has had in life has lead to this impact on her. Also by relating to our pitch out sponsorship is mental health awareness which also fits into our piece. 

Hero was left at her wedding which could of lead to her having a mental health issue because it was all too much for her to cope. 

Also it fits win with her being a ghost so she has two sides one of what she normaly looked like and the other side is a dark side of her being dead. 

I did look up different mental health issues but we didn't to go for this one. But here is some examples  

Characters

We have gone over clear key plots of what characters we are wanting to add in from the text of muchado about nothing. I have added them in and explained what affect we want them to have on the piece. 

The reason we have gone over characters is to make ourselfs more clearer and relate back to the Shakespeare text of the play. We need to make sure we are relating back to the text as well to help us. 

We wanted to make sure we add comdey into the piece aswell. And a hotel is always really busy so we need to make sure we have random characters that pop in and out of the scene. 

Having loads of characters we need to make sure we can multirole. 

We were thinking for hero the main character to wear a wedding dress and a vaile that way we can muilt role the characters and everyone can play here but, also we can relate back to the text explaining the reason hero killed her self by jumping I front of a train is because she was left at her wedding that's why she killed herself. And through out the piece the audience will just see a woman popping into the piece in a wedding dress. Which is good coz we relate back to the piece .

Main plot for the pitch

Have explained each scene and plotted each idea of what is going to happen. 

Also have planned out  where each scene will be and what is going on in each scene.  

We went over this idea talking about what we want to explain in the pitch about the over all plot is. We have planned what bit we are going to talk about. 

Main idea

Set in a hotel where we are wanting it to based on someone has made this hotel up in there mind. We start off with hero jumping and killing her self. Then we look into how everyone turns in heor and it's all about hero trying to get back . And the other person kills there self instead of hero. There will be other characters and we learn a little bit about them too. 

Also we are going to look at a lot of mind games and how people make it up in there. 

For research I am going to look at mental health why people look down at mental health. Forms of mental health and memory. 

Becca is looking at dreams and about dreams. 

George is looking about memory and different parts of the brain. 

Amy is looking back at the text seeing how it can relate. 

Beth is looking up guilt and how it can relate and poems on guilt. 

Megan and Nicole are going to look at texts and stories and films that relate 

Final idea

We have finally come up with a main plan of what we want the story to be based on. We like the hotel we have looked around t different spaces we can use to set each scene. Also looked at lighting to see what effects we can use. 

Now what we need to do is go back to the text of the play and see what bits we can fit in to relate to te story. 

We like the idea of how hero is left at her own wedding and this is why she could kill herself. Also b&b we can let them argue and how there marriage is ruined yet they love each other still. 

Also. We are going to look at some other characters we can look into what they are doing .

Went over pitch aswell just seeing what bits we are doing. 

Are main forucs is to play on the mind games in the piece and how it's all slow motion and then we are wanting to make it werid. The main thing is this is all in someone else's mind. 

Freeze frames

11.03.14

Going over pitch ideas for the piece

We are talking about ideas and what places we could start the scene. Thinking of different story plots. 

We have started to look at different freeze  s. Showing different points of the story. There are five points which are throughout the story.  

Once we had clear 5 points we took pictures to remember each point of the story.  

This is really useful because it's a starting point of where we want to base the story line and what key points we want to be made clear to the story.  Also we looked at casting but we don't want to cast yet because it will stop all creative points 

Article about devising a new piece

Time table

These are the dates we are going to rehearse as a group. 

We know who can make it and can't on certain dates. We have worked put on the Easter holidays too. 

Time table

These are the dates we are going to rehearse as a group. 

We know who can make it and can't on certain dates. We have worked put on the Easter holidays too. 

07.03.14

Today we are going over each key point for each three ideas . We are being open minded to each point but we really like our hotel idea. 

Today we have : 

1. Gone over each idea and plotted in bullet points what are themes out and what characters we want to fources on a idea of looking at each story 

2. Gone over what characters we want in each scene and what types of story's we want to go on. 

3. Theme of the story is love losing someone, family, class and mental stage. 

4 . Our three ideas are: 

Hotel 

School reunion 

And London Underground

Today we are presenting our ideas to the group and seeing what response we get from each idea 

Production meeting 03.03.14

• Setting up our log pages/group blog pages
• Talking with our group with ideas
• How to connect to different blogs

Got into our groups and spoke about how to add a group.