Thursday, 12 February 2015
Writing in Character- Spencer about Ruby
I can't believe that Ruby and I are dating. I just never thought she had that sort of emotion, she has such a tough exterior but last night she confided in me more than she has to even Sam and Sam is her best friend. Its tough living in the rebellion and having a relationship because there is never any privacy and if we aren't out trying to destroy the regime of Jaime we're planned our next move. We don't even get any time alone to just relax and confide in each other because we all stay in the same room for safety and if we wake anyone up Sam would go crazy. I wish things were normal again, maybe me and ruby could settle down.
Mission scene
We decided to create our mission scene as a dance because this would create a visual experience for the audience and would also provide a difference from the two date scenes and the large amount of dialogue in some of the previous scenes.
Ruby and Spencer
I felt as if the date scene between Ruby and Spencer should have elaborated more on their feelings and maybe shown a deeper connection. I felt as if the scene made the love out to be more of a temporary spark a they both are having a hard time in the rebellion. I think we should have maybe spoken more previous feeling and shown how the characters were hiding an romantic connection behind their tough exteriors.
We could have done this by having them have a deep discussion and slowly both reveal how they feel and end the scene with them deciding they want to have a relationship because I feel as though (despite Ruby's and Spencer's actions) the relationship wasn't clear enough and maybe wasn't explained enough.
Back Story of Spencer- response in character.
I was young and stupid. I joined the army at a very young age and quickly ranked high. When I was in the army my parents died in a car crash leaving my brother and I alone. I had to choose the Army or my brother but I didn't know how to live outside my military environment so I chose the army. My brother went into care and I couldn't see him. The next thing I knew the government had fallen I was let go from the army and Jaime had scouted all foster homes looking for children full of resent and recruiting them. I heard about my brothers death on the news reports that were played all over the city. He had found something he shouldn't have and decided he didn't want to fight for Jaime any more. Of course they didn't say this, they said he tried to kill Jaime but we all knew he couldn't have even gotten close. Jamie has too many bodyguards and he lives at the top of the most heavily guarded building in all of the country. From that day I swore to find what my brother had and get my revenge. "eye for an eye" they say.
Extra Stimuli
We as a group spent some time looking for extra stimuli to use and we found a few examples we used in the beginning of the process. Here are the links to what we found and some explanations:
Insidious Violin Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOZROoCG6_4
At first we wanted to create a horror performance with the idea of chasing dreams (similar to the Adele song) but having to play a horrific game held by a psychotic host. This music was our inspiration as it was scary and adds tension to any situation
Enter Shikari- Constellations: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/entershikari/constellations.html
This song is about chasing dreams much like chasing pavements by Adele and was a good inspiration because it talks about how time is short and the only way dreams are to walk away from the ways of life that prevent us from getting to our dreams and relying on nobody but ourselves to get to our dreams. This was a good idea I felt as a completely different style of piece as maybe a feel good drama rather than a horror.
We also researched two other songs by Adele for inspiration:
Rolling in the deep:http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/adele/rollinginthedeep.html
Someone like you: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/adele/someonelikeyou.html
Someone like you: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/adele/someonelikeyou.html
Both of these songs are about previous lovers who she has resent but also a deep regret for the loss of their love. This too could have been as very interesting area to focus on as a piece of drama.
Research
I was researching into inspiration for our piece and I remembered a book that someone suggested I read a long time ago. This book was 1984 by George Orwell. I decided to research this as a stimuli for the group and I found some common themes.
A major theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four is censorship, especially in the Ministry of Truth, where photographs are doctored and public archives rewritten to rid them of "unpersons" (i.e., persons who have been arrested, whom the Party has decided to erase from history). On the telescreens figures for all types of production are grossly exaggerated (or simply invented) to indicate an ever-growing economy, when the reality is the opposite. One small example of the endless censorship is when Winston is charged with the task of eliminating reference to an un-person in a newspaper article. He proceeds to write an article about Comrade Ogilvy, a fictional party member, who displayed great heroism by leaping into the sea from a helicopter so that the dispatches he was carrying would not fall into enemy hands.
Surveillance
The inhabitants of Oceania, particularly the Outer Party members, have no real privacy. Many of them live in apartments equipped with two-way telescreens, so that they may be watched or listened to at any time. Similar telescreens are found at workstations and in public places, along with hidden microphones. Written correspondence is routinely opened and read by the government before it is delivered. The Thought Police employ undercover agents, who pose as normal citizens and report any person with subversive tendencies. Children are encouraged to report suspicious persons to the government, and some even denounce their parents. Surveillance controls the citizenry and the smallest sign of rebellion, even something so small as a facial expression, can result in immediate arrest and imprisonment. Thus, citizens (and particularly party members) are compelled to obedience.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Themes
These themes are both common in are performance so I decided to use these as my main inspiration in suggestions. Such as the idea of complete censorship of the war that is described in the first news report. The war is described as being ended and all civilians saved by 'Jamie' when the truth behind the story is that 'Jaime' started the war to gain control.
The other theme of surveillance we used as well; 'Jaime' had set up cameras everywhere and this is the main method of surveillance but the other method is that Jaime is the leader of the rebel group disguised as Sam. This is the next level of surveillance because she is the leader of the only group of people who are trying to regain the old way of life.
A major theme of Nineteen Eighty-Four is censorship, especially in the Ministry of Truth, where photographs are doctored and public archives rewritten to rid them of "unpersons" (i.e., persons who have been arrested, whom the Party has decided to erase from history). On the telescreens figures for all types of production are grossly exaggerated (or simply invented) to indicate an ever-growing economy, when the reality is the opposite. One small example of the endless censorship is when Winston is charged with the task of eliminating reference to an un-person in a newspaper article. He proceeds to write an article about Comrade Ogilvy, a fictional party member, who displayed great heroism by leaping into the sea from a helicopter so that the dispatches he was carrying would not fall into enemy hands.
Surveillance
The inhabitants of Oceania, particularly the Outer Party members, have no real privacy. Many of them live in apartments equipped with two-way telescreens, so that they may be watched or listened to at any time. Similar telescreens are found at workstations and in public places, along with hidden microphones. Written correspondence is routinely opened and read by the government before it is delivered. The Thought Police employ undercover agents, who pose as normal citizens and report any person with subversive tendencies. Children are encouraged to report suspicious persons to the government, and some even denounce their parents. Surveillance controls the citizenry and the smallest sign of rebellion, even something so small as a facial expression, can result in immediate arrest and imprisonment. Thus, citizens (and particularly party members) are compelled to obedience.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Themes
These themes are both common in are performance so I decided to use these as my main inspiration in suggestions. Such as the idea of complete censorship of the war that is described in the first news report. The war is described as being ended and all civilians saved by 'Jamie' when the truth behind the story is that 'Jaime' started the war to gain control.
The other theme of surveillance we used as well; 'Jaime' had set up cameras everywhere and this is the main method of surveillance but the other method is that Jaime is the leader of the rebel group disguised as Sam. This is the next level of surveillance because she is the leader of the only group of people who are trying to regain the old way of life.
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