Journal One- Week one of assignment

Friday was my first lesson of Drama this week since I have been away, fortunately I only missed the individual part, so I can catch up this weekend. Mrs Burley gave the class some insight into previous girls' dream world ideas, I really like the ones that somehow involved the audiences and I would like to make that part of the performance. I was put in a group with Nina, Thea, Dodie, Annabelle and Kate. We began to brainstorm ideas and concepts, looking at the stimulus to help. Thea came up with the idea to blindfold the girl who creates the dream world, and have the fears and thoughts in her head come to life. We all agreed that we wanted to do something to do with bullying and fears that teenage girls have as we can relate to them and I had the idea that we could have bizarre creatures or characters that represent her demons (like, self consciousness, cyber bullying, self harm, etc) and everyone helped to expand the idea so that the demons will be over dramaticised and using symbolising, the dream world will be like the journey through senior school, with the demons slowly getting more power over her until she is free of them. A few girls in the group all came up with the similar idea to get in the audience and try and get them to call the main girl names, trying to grow in strength through her pain and low self esteem. I also shared another idea that stuck, we should have the girl wearing white pants and a tshirt and all the demons will write insults all over her, and outlines of what her body should like as opposed to her own. For the set we thought that the room should be dark and lit with colours that can be connected to fear. So far everyone in the group is contributing and giving their ideas and no one is just sitting around, so I think that our group will hopefully do well.