On Wednesday this week we had a workshop with Tim Crouch.
This was really interesting and gave us lots of ideas that I feel I wouldn’t have
necessarily thought of. I think his ideas where really simple but that’s what was so great
about them. One of the things he told us that stood out to me was about letting
the audience do the work themselves. Make the piece simple then the audience
members will each make up their own mind on what the piece was. I have thought about this idea before but never thought about putting it into our piece but actually after thinking and learning about it I actually think it
would work well for our piece?. An example of this would be using an object as a
character and just saying “this is (whatever)” then the audience will believe
and make their own picture of it. In the afternoon we improvised a few short piece ideas for
Beuwolf that we all individually made and brought something to it such as mine and Anna’s
individual thing was a song we wrote. We done this three times but found the
last time worked the best when we had very little time to think about it. I
think it worked well because we didn’t over complicate it and didn’t talk and
think about it too much we simply just told the story in our own way and all just went with the flow of the story (using some
of Tim Crouches ideas).
Thursday we worked on the battle scenes and ideas for these. We
came up with a lot of comedic and serious ideas for this that work so well. I think a mix of them both
would work really well and give a nice contrast. We also did an improvised thing
to help with ideas with some objects where you could do whatever you wanted.
One idea I had for this was at one point in the 'piece' two people where lying down and had
masks on symbolising they where 'dead'. I think from this it might be nice if when you 'die' in the piece you get
something like a feature drawn on the mask you are wearing and you come back to
life as that character you have been drawn as maybe?. Another idea that came out
of this that I liked was using puppetry (a small doll was used on this day) to
move us all so the army are the puppets getting trained up. We then in the afternoon
choreographed a sort of march thing with war type movements like we were
getting ready for battle. We used the puppetry idea in this, an idea where
someone is looking for worriers and a few ideas where we all moved together as
one slowly. This gave a really nice atmospheric mood which was great and I
believe this is what we are looking for?.There was so many good ideas from this week that I think will make the piece look really good and feel really atmospheric if used. My favourite ideas from this week where:
· Puppetry-There is something about watching
puppetry like watching someone be controlled that is quite captivating and eerie
in a way and I think if used it will work really nicely and look really good for the piece.
· Moving as one (as an army)/army selection (a
routine or the slow walking thing worked well when we done this)-togetherness/all
in it together which could back up the puppetry idea as they are all going
through the same thing? (if that makes sense).
· Comedic/serious-having a bit of both thrown in
so not having the piece to serious but at the same time quite serious (if that
makes sense).
· Music-Both live and backing.
· Personally I liked our improvisation pieces when
they were quite random and not thought about to much. I feel this is when our
work has worked the best at the moment.
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