Chapter 3.1 – What Causes Schizophrenia?
We can never get too much research for our production project since we’re trying to teach Schizophrenia in an artistic, abstract way. So if we are trying to teach it, we must know everything there is to know about it, like the cause.
However, even now the cause of Schizophrenia is unclear. The NHS website states that ‘Most experts believe the condition is caused by combination of genetic and environmental factors’. Because of this lone reason we decided not to go into too much detail about how our protagonist (Lucy) gets Schizophrenia but rather how she lives with it, and how the ones close to her live with the fact that she is suffering.
Chapter 3.2 – Catatonic Schizophrenia.
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Although Schizophrenia is a mental disability, we still need to show the effects psychically as well without creating anything that has nothing to do with schizophrenia. The clip I linked above is our guide line on the physical effects of a catatonic schizophrenic patient.
Chapter 4 – Schizophrenia Summary
Schizophrenia is a very wide mental illness with loads of different categories. To make it easier for myself and my group I created a ‘fact’ summary of it so we could always look back to our research.
What is Schizophrenia?
A mental illness disorder which patients have positive (+) and negative (-) symptoms. positive symptoms – represent a change in behaviour or thoughts, such as hallucinations or delusions negative symptoms – represent a withdrawal or lack of function that you would usually expect to see in a healthy person; for example, people with schizophrenia often appear emotionless, flat and apathetic
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Gesture can be quite visually powerful if used with repetition. Gesture also has a sub category, behavioural gesture and expressive gesture. Behavioural gesture is something we see every day, such as sniffing, sneezing, itching etc. On the other hand, we have expressive gesture which physically expresses an emotion such as happiness and anger rather than just a normal movement. It becomes symbolic and abstract; this too is very useful for our physical theatre production.
Shape – The outline of our bodies can create a shape, either a line or a curve, or the two combined. With shape we reacted with the architecture or to other bodies. During our workshop we learnt that the shapes we created whilst reacting to each other produced a narrative that we sometimes read differently or together.
Architecture – The environment in the space we are working in. When we have awareness of our surroundings it affects our movements, shapes and sometimes even emotion. Architecture gave us a 3D feeling of everything, even the light/darkness of the room changed the feel of the shape and gestures within the
We can never get too much research for our production project since we’re trying to teach Schizophrenia in an artistic, abstract way. So if we are trying to teach it, we must know everything there is to know about it, like the cause.
However, even now the cause of Schizophrenia is unclear. The NHS website states that ‘Most experts believe the condition is caused by combination of genetic and environmental factors’. Because of this lone reason we decided not to go into too much detail about how our protagonist (Lucy) gets Schizophrenia but rather how she lives with it, and how the ones close to her live with the fact that she is suffering.
Chapter 3.2 – Catatonic Schizophrenia.
Our play is named after …show more content…
Although Schizophrenia is a mental disability, we still need to show the effects psychically as well without creating anything that has nothing to do with schizophrenia. The clip I linked above is our guide line on the physical effects of a catatonic schizophrenic patient.
Chapter 4 – Schizophrenia Summary
Schizophrenia is a very wide mental illness with loads of different categories. To make it easier for myself and my group I created a ‘fact’ summary of it so we could always look back to our research.
What is Schizophrenia?
A mental illness disorder which patients have positive (+) and negative (-) symptoms. positive symptoms – represent a change in behaviour or thoughts, such as hallucinations or delusions negative symptoms – represent a withdrawal or lack of function that you would usually expect to see in a healthy person; for example, people with schizophrenia often appear emotionless, flat and apathetic
The illness affects 1 in 100 individually …show more content…
Gesture can be quite visually powerful if used with repetition. Gesture also has a sub category, behavioural gesture and expressive gesture. Behavioural gesture is something we see every day, such as sniffing, sneezing, itching etc. On the other hand, we have expressive gesture which physically expresses an emotion such as happiness and anger rather than just a normal movement. It becomes symbolic and abstract; this too is very useful for our physical theatre production.
Shape – The outline of our bodies can create a shape, either a line or a curve, or the two combined. With shape we reacted with the architecture or to other bodies. During our workshop we learnt that the shapes we created whilst reacting to each other produced a narrative that we sometimes read differently or together.
Architecture – The environment in the space we are working in. When we have awareness of our surroundings it affects our movements, shapes and sometimes even emotion. Architecture gave us a 3D feeling of everything, even the light/darkness of the room changed the feel of the shape and gestures within the