Patchwork Quilt Analysis

The Patchwork Quilt
In ‘The Patchwork Quilt’ project, we used a variety of stimuli to create the final performance, in which we presented to friends at school. These stimuli included: a sketch of an old lady, photographs of situations including loss, happiness and war, a piece of music, a poem and an extract from the story ‘NightJohn’. In my opinion, it is good to have a range of different stimuli as starting points due to the fact that it can expand other ideas about the project that students may have, and they also help to provide the basic structure for a piece of successful drama. The two stimuli in which I found most interesting was the piece of music and the material. To me, these were the most interesting pieces of stimuli because they …show more content…
These three explorative strategies worked well in the piece. The split-screen was used throughout the punishment scene, where the young slave was punished for writing. This worked well in the piece, as it ensured that the audience was able to see both sides of the action, instead of the crowd gathering around the action, and the audience not being able to see what was going on. The voices in the head worked well throughout the performance, both at the start and the end, as it showed what the old woman was thinking, without her directly giving it away to the audience, leaving them to have their own interpretation of what was going on, especially at the beginning, in which there was no internal narration. The freeze-frames worked well as, again, in the first and last scene, the groups were all frozen, and the old woman walked up to each individual memory, making it feel more realistic, as she was ‘walking through the memories’. This made the audience feel as if they were walking through the memories as well as the old woman, due to the fact that they only started when the old woman was there, and ended when she walked