25th Thursday June - Developing our final piece

Today’s lesson consisted of getting all of our different activities that we participated in the last few lessons and putting the piece together as one.

Structure of our piece

·         Whispers from everyone repeating the line “There are places in the world where dreams don’t exist” until music from Edward scissor hand soundtrack begins

·         In a planned order, groups of 2’s perform their start and stopping movement

·         About six people from either side come out one after the other discovering the new world and explore and finish on the other side of the room

·         Connor, in the centre of the room can’t manage to get any sleep and eventually everyone sinks down to the floor

·         We then individually stand up around the room and perform our shortened version of our dream (from the dream machine) using voice and physicality

·         Connor stamps his foot and everyone instantly goes into slow motion

·         Still in slow motion, we slowly lead into our “Dinosaur Structure” and each creates a body structure of the dinosaur in movement.

So far, I believe the strongest part of our piece is the beginning; all the different movements and people analysing and exploring the world around, make the piece more engaging. I say this because I believe that it will allow the target audience (children) to have a choice of what they want to see and then will have to guess what emotions in partners are feeling from just the physicality. I believe that using a bigger range of physicality rather than words will engage the audience more as children can sometimes lose concentration when listening to dialogue and they might not understand.

Areas I believe need more improvement would be trying to add some parts where the whole class isn’t involved. Sometimes having so many pieces going on at once can confuse the audience whereas having just a piece of physical movement between two people will allow the audience to strongly focus on one piece.