Unit 2 Drama in the making
Introduction After watching a performance by the Blah, Blah, Blah Theatre Company we watched their play Bag dancing. A performance about a woman from World War 2 telling her story to a man who is longer interested in life and still blames himself for his mother’s mental illness. From there we used the play’s use of objects to tell the story and contemporary outset as the stimulus of our performance. Alongside the effects of social media on people's life. Section A – Rehearsal After watching the performance we looked at what ideas from the play we wanted to use. We choses to use the objects to tell the story. Along side the effects of social media on people's life. We created a mind map to insure we stayed …show more content…
Great use of stage space left the audience on the “edge of there seat”. However still had the important connection to the stimulus of the play. If I could improve anything it would to use semiotics more effectively.
Section C- Artefact
I decided to create and artefact for Jake. Through development of the character I decide that Jake would most likely go homeless after the car accident. So I created a “homeless bag” for him. Inside this bag (which was a Sainsbury shopping bag):-
• I had an old tatty sleeping bag which the character would sleep in during his time on the streets. This shows how rough he had it during his time on the street and the lack of personal belongings
• On top of this I had a mental cup with loss change which he got from passers by giving money to him. This shows the lack of money that he had which has one of the factors why the character committed suicide as he says “I have nothing left” in the scene.
• A car accident report from the car crash going into depth of the accident and what happened. This shows him not being unable to move on from accident and still blaming himself for the death of his friends (“it’s all my
Introduction After watching a performance by the Blah, Blah, Blah Theatre Company we watched their play Bag dancing. A performance about a woman from World War 2 telling her story to a man who is longer interested in life and still blames himself for his mother’s mental illness. From there we used the play’s use of objects to tell the story and contemporary outset as the stimulus of our performance. Alongside the effects of social media on people's life. Section A – Rehearsal After watching the performance we looked at what ideas from the play we wanted to use. We choses to use the objects to tell the story. Along side the effects of social media on people's life. We created a mind map to insure we stayed …show more content…
Great use of stage space left the audience on the “edge of there seat”. However still had the important connection to the stimulus of the play. If I could improve anything it would to use semiotics more effectively.
Section C- Artefact
I decided to create and artefact for Jake. Through development of the character I decide that Jake would most likely go homeless after the car accident. So I created a “homeless bag” for him. Inside this bag (which was a Sainsbury shopping bag):-
• I had an old tatty sleeping bag which the character would sleep in during his time on the streets. This shows how rough he had it during his time on the street and the lack of personal belongings
• On top of this I had a mental cup with loss change which he got from passers by giving money to him. This shows the lack of money that he had which has one of the factors why the character committed suicide as he says “I have nothing left” in the scene.
• A car accident report from the car crash going into depth of the accident and what happened. This shows him not being unable to move on from accident and still blaming himself for the death of his friends (“it’s all my