Journal 3: Week 3

This week in Drama our group worked the hardest it has yet to try and script and have the lines ready to start rehearsing next week. As a result we made a lot of important decisions with ideas of our dream world. It was finalised that the nightmare will be set up like a gameshow with a demonic circus atmosphere. Our main goal is to grab the audiences' attention and not lose it, hopefully leaving them effected by fear after if executed correctly. Below is an outline of how the dream world should be so far, written up by Dodie while we discussed it OUTLINING scene 1- intro tape on the floor in shape of horse show (semi-circle) everyone is single filed out side and Kate (devil narrator) directs everyone to sit around in the half circle - nina, thea, issy, laura and I come in with audience Annabel (the girl) in the middle of the circle with eye closed kate does her introduction - scares audience and brings in game show kate puts a blind fold on annabel (shows the dreamworld etc) scene 2 - self consciousness tape measure self conscious has a shirt with outlines, words etc.. and they force it on (there is a white screen or a thin sheet and self consciousness and girl is behind it- showing the shadows etc.) mirror and whispering voices people yelling and reinforcing the self consciousness --> linking back to fear kate helping and narrating along the way scene 3- peer pressure dancing --> peer pressure. peer pressure is dancing and makes girl mirror hair emphasis on the dancing --> strong sharp moves scene 4- loneliness emphasis on being lonely this scene is more sad then scary however, this is still a mockery happening Whilst we did not finish it, we plan to fill in details whilst rehearsing next lesson so we know what works best. In our last lesson we also planned out and acted the entering of the class into the world and Kate and Annabelle's introduction. No one in the class should be able to tell that the shape under a blanket in the middle of the room is Annabelle until Kate rips the sheet off. Hopefully this will catch the audience off guard, the lighting will preferably be dark and in my head maybe smoky with some harsh spotlights on the main figures so that Kate is using the lights like in an interrogation when asking her questions. Kate plans to go full out psychopath, complete with mood swings and creepy behaviours (sniffing audience hair, intense stares, etc) which will make the audience uneasy as the person they knew has changed completely for the role and Annabelle the opposite, meek and innocent. We will try to contrast the clothing to show this difference even further. Kate in rich dark colours, annabelle in white and the rest of us, as demons, all in black with face paint to symbolise what kind of demons we are. Here is the final casting: Girl/ Victim- Annabelle Host/Devil-Kate Self consciousness demons- Nina and Thea Peer Pressure- Dodie and Laura Loneliness- Issy For our roles, this weekend we were all to do research on music for our characters and personas we think will suit our roles. As loneliness, I want sad clown music playing and I want to be a fairly emotionless demon, I barely pay attention to the girl but just being in the room puts her spirits down, like I can control emotion, even the other demons won't want to include me.