Workshop

This session we worked on the opening drama section of our piece. We started by getting into pairs. We would then would create three shapes or movements for our partner to embody. These were meant to represent three life goals. Both partners did this for each other. We then developed on from this to make more a motif with three movements. We worked on transitions between the movements so they flowed well. We then all took a place in the room and performed the movement to the song ' I need' by Maverick Sabre.

We then worked on some choreography to go at the beginning. It began with me and Josh from turnaround walking to the centre of the stage and beginning an exercise where you focus on your partners hand and follow it with your eyes. This works really well and I have used this exercise and a trust exercise with people before in my drama lessons. My partner struggled at points to take it seriously but he really tried and hopefully by the performance it will look good. Matthew and Anya then created some short movement choreography. This looks really good and will be a nice opening to our piece.

The plan is to develop these movements to be filmed. The video will then be played in the background of our performance. So later on we re worked the movements so they were smaller and filmed them in various places around the school. This was a fun experience taking the client group all over the school and doing something a little bit different. One of the clients has been reluctant to take part in the workshops so we had him filming the movements and the entire process instead so he can  feel involved. I think this is an important part of our job in this project, keeping everyone involved and listening to peoples ideas. As time is going on the lines between the turn around people and brit people are fading which is really nice. It's starting to feel like we are all just friends who want to make some work together.

This is the song we will be performing to 'I  need'

Our teacher Matthew and Sarah spoke to the music department about using the studios and they said yes. This was great news and got everyone really excited. The man from the studio came in to speak to us and take the people involved in the songs around the studio to discuss backing tracks and what needed to be done. Next week they will go in and record the songs.