Developmental Process in City Life

The stimulus we were provided with was that of city life-time. At the beginning of the process we did non have a set convocation however Conor, Ellen, Sinead and I resolute to stay in the group we were in as we every(prenominal) snarl that we were adapted to work to locomoteher well. To namek the different aspects of city life, we all came up with respective(a) suppositions which incorporated this stimulus provided for us. The psyches which each of us came up with were a fantasy situation, school life, the capital of the United Kingdom underground, capital of the United Kingdom Snow geezerhood of 2009 and everybodys late. The offset idea we tried was the capital of the United Kingdom underground.We strand that this was a radical which worked practically however we did not know how to expand on the idea so therefore obstinate to leave the idea and explore some other. The plunk for idea we tried come forward was the fantasy idea as we theory that due to the fact we had to include non-naturalistic aspects to our production, that this would be the easiest of the ideas to try this bug pop proscribed with. To head start with we listed diverse fairy tales, books, movies and television programmes and their links with different city life aspects at the time of their development.We colonised on an Alice in Wonderland story later I told the group about a situation maven of my cousins in which he was walking down the road once and didnt see an loose gayhole in front of him and ended up falling down it and pa ingestion his leg. We decided to try this situation out on with the Alice in wonderland theme in which a psyche falls down a manhole into another world and theyd go through a similar situation as Alice in which they encountered discordant representations of peck or objects in their current life.The idea we came up with we all felt that the storyline wouldve worked and couldve make an effective piece. besides when it came to tryi ng to piece it to needher we ground that it was difficult to do so with the lack of people in our group and the limitations of theatre which we were faced with. In the end we gear up this idea may have been good for a short image but in the world of A take theatre wouldnt be possible to make. The next idea we tried was capital of the United Kingdom Snow days of 2009. Rather than focusing about people in the coulomb we foc holdd on how the snow stirred their everyday activities and the ease or problems it caused for them.The first idea we tried for this unrivaled was based upon a hierarchy system, the type of people and where they would fallen at heart this system. The denotations we came up with were a person head of an office firm, a soldier returning from the war in the east, a wife of the solider and then a prostitute. Each integrity of us spoke about which characterisation would be a tenor of change for each actor and then saw which each of us could do with these c haracters set to us. Each of us were uncomfort fit with the characters at first and to everyplace come this we done a circle of focus in order to crush us relaxed and up to(p) to settle into the characters.We arrange that this idea was the most effective and one which we would be able to build upon so therefore settled on this idea. For our look we focused on military position assorted newspaper articles of people who were trapped by the snow in different per centums of the country. One particular article we located was one of a business man who had been trapped in his office create for three days before some(prenominal)one was able to help dig him out of the snow up in Scotland where the snow at the time was a lot worse than that of the snow fall in London.We decided to curb this situation to the office firm worker and then acted this stab out to see how it would work within our production. We effectuate that the situation of the worker being trapped within the compl ex did not work however we came up with another idea of everyone being in the same setting and the snow fall around them being really heavy and therefore the characters would be trapped to concentrateher in the same room. We as well did some seek into the soldiers who were returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and the impact which the wars within each location had on them.To get an idea of what the soldiers wouldve gone through we looked at a charity called divine service for Heroes which contained various in data changeion about the after effect of war for the soldiers whether it be that of physical injuries or mental change upon them. This research for Conor, who valued to hornswoggle the character, helped him a lot when it came to characterisation along with learning how much of a life change the war could be for various soldiers and their families. The next part of research we done was based around prostitution and the situations which derive from the profession.To create an understanding of prostitution we looked at the different types there were in the country. We found the most common forms of prostitution within the United Kingdom were channel prostitutes (related to the working classes) and escorts (related to the middle- upper classes). The form we focused on for the character was the passageway prostitution which, although this form is illegal within the United Kingdom, it is the form which the absolute majority of STI and STD cases within the profession seem to circulate within.We found out from our research that HIV/AIDS can be give tongue to to be found within the street prostitution community within various women due to a few women within this profession not using apology whilst having sex with their clients. We decided to cod our findings to the character to see how the storyline for this particular character would go and how we could work with the situation. Before we placed the play in concert we thought about the different music gen res we could use any through out the play or whether a single genre for each scene would work.After testing out and placing the scenes together, we found that having a different genre for each scene worked. We had one scene based around a comedic situation, then the other three drama based and I bring forward due to the fact they could be said to be detached from one another made this run work more effectively at the time. However, although the scenes fitted into together well, we found that the play was not easy to work with curiously when it came to the wintertime when various people ended up contracting various illnesses.Due to the slow pacing and lack of progress due to everyone not really being happy with the production, we decided to change the production merely to a format we were all happy with. We went back to our notes and looked at the various ideas which we had made at the time and decided to go back to the London Underground situation and then incorporated this wit h the idea of the 7/7 London turkeyings.To begin our production, Ellen and I looked into various news articles about the London Bombings and the enquiries of the London Bombings that are currently happening within the news. We found accounts of various peoples survivor stories mainly from the bomb at Kings Cross underground. The majority of accounts we found tended to be from those who were not in the carriage. However I found a piece by journalist Peter Zimonjic who was in the London bombings.In this article he wrote about what he saw, felt and heard in every detail and using this article we tried to see what we could explore using his descriptions. One particular part of his article that stood out to us was that of a man he encountered who was lying on the floor that seemed to be hurt from the waist down and he turned out to be paralysed from the waist down after the bomb. This person we thought would be a character we could use for someone within the production piece as an effe ctive character.After discussing the possible outcomes we found that compared to the other proposed storylines we decided that Conors storyline would have been the most effective out of them all and therefore settled on this character for Conor, which was due to be about a man called Rick White who was an athlete runner going off to find out his girlfriend for an anniversary dinner however he ended up having to do extra training due to being forced by his coach at the last minute.In having the account at go to use and alike the description of the spots made by the man, Conor was able to apply this to his character and he overly done research into a valet de chambre who was an athlete who although he was not involved within the London bombing, his muscles seized up on him and therefore leaving him paralysed and uneffective to compete in any other sports from that moment onwards. This helped him in connecting the emotional aspect of being unable to provide a family and also his career being ruined, this he was able to apply to his monologue and was able to effectively connect to the earreach.Another character we found through the articles was a female person who later became cognize at the 7/7 blogger on a website called blogspot. Her description of the bomb and the impact which it had upon her relationship with her fianci afterwards was a moment in which we also incorporated. There is a key moment in which she describes her desperation to be back with him and also the last moments she had with him. We explored this and the possible ways in which we could use this part of her article.We applied this situation to my character. Personally I found that this was passing helpful in building my character as I was able to connect emotionally and effectively show this portrayal in my transaction. The get alongance space which we were provided with to begin with was small and cramped which made it hard to get an idea of how to position everyone within the prod uction and the distances between each person when piecing a scene together.We also had to share this space with two other groups which arose more difficulties with get the timing of various scenes and changes timed with one another. This also made it difficult for us to vocally develop as we were in a small space in which we did not need to envision our voice however when we came to being in the drama studio again, we could see the impact upon which being in a small environment compared to the bighearted drama studio had upon our performances.When we began our production our pacing and attendance levels were really full(prenominal) particularly when compared to the other groups however when it came to December time, various people within our group started contracting illnesses which were spreading throughout the college and Sinead in our group who has reaping hook cell disease ended up having more attacks than she due to the winter weather triggering the attacks.Whilst we had various people off ill during the time of October-December we found it was difficult trying to run different scenes with the absence of different people as they had a key part within the scene whether it was for transition reasons or being an object within a scene.For example in a scene we called The Melissa Harvey scene the absence of either Sinead or Ellen acting as a phone within the scene affected the non-naturalism within the scene greatly as whilst one person was express Ms Harvey calling the other person was saying calling reception, just case we had absences on the day of the performance we decided to change our play and format to a way where we could still run it with the absence of people. Although we had just over a month, we worked quickly and used extra time after college hours to get the scenes placed together and the transitions to run smoothly.Overall with changing the storyline and the format of our production we were more comfortable with our London bombing storyl ine. For our production we kept to a artless layout of five chairs on stage and a wheelchair in order to give more focus on the performances and we also found it an easier layout to handle with just the four of us within the group. We also decided upon each person wearing black top along with either jeans or leggings of a dark colour which also added to a simplistic theme on stage.The influence behind our staging could be said to have derived from our exploration of Steven Berkoffs Metamorphosis in which we used very throttle staging props and also tried to focus on our facial nerve and body expressions, such as the moment we were doing scene 10 especially in the tube scene when we were doing the somethings not right segment in which we also incorporated influences from Frantic Assembly who are a theatre phoner that combine the essence of movement, design, music and text together within a production.This segment of the scene had a musical essence in which we made our text, some things not right, sound as if it were the train tracks of the tube. We all agreed that we wanted to aim our play at an audience who knew about the 7/7 bombings when it happened and also those who were affected y it.So this caused our audience to an age group of 14 years old and over, as from our research of those who were affected at the times of the bombing whether they were involved within it or whos parents wouldve been caught in the bombing attacks appeared to be around the age of 10-12 years old and are able to emotionally attach to the situation whereas those who were younger dont seem to have a clear memory of the bombing. For our production we knew we wanted to use a soundtrack, lighten and forms of special effects which could relate back to our production.In order to get an idea of what forms of sounds we wanted to incorporate together we all looked at various films and productions we were able to look at through the use of youtube. One film in particular we found helped w ith giving us an idea of the types of sounds we could use was the 9/11 film. We listed to the forms of sounds which they bound together especially at the moment of impact between the buildings and the plans.Conor and I decided to work on the sounds together as well as the music tracks whilst Ellen and Sinead worked on the lighting effects and also the cues for either the lighting or the sounds along with working out the seconds between each scene and special effect. Conor and I used a library of sounds which Conor had already from his media studies work, we settled upon placing a bombing noise, shattering screwball and also a screeching of train tracks together and we felt that this along with our performances helped to create the tube atmosphere at the time of the crash.We gave both Sinead and Ellen the sounds to listen to so we could get their feedback upon the combinations. We also found a song called London Bombs by Eskimo Joe which we felt went the emotion of our production. For the lighting it was decided to keep it simple and high key for the majority of the performances until certain moments mainly so the audience could still see the performances along with past practicals when weve witnessed how difficult it is for the performers to effectively perform within darker lighting.