Devising: Day 15

Today we carried in trying to block the rest of our performance. We began with the split scene of the gang and tess with the boss. We cut each other's scenes up in order to jump from place to place to emphasise the fact that the safe is split and these two events are happening at the same time. I also suggested that myself and Ellie mimed the door between ourselves to show how close that Finn and tess come to each other without knowing that they are there. We hoped that this would pull at the audiences heart strings even more as they were so close to seeing each other but the gang is pulling them apart. We then quickly blocked a scene where Finn goes to see Tess at the bar they have a little spat about not wanting to see each other effort realsing that the gang was trying to break them up. Finn gets angry and storms out to find the gang members to seek revenge.

Now, we knew that this was the scene in which the gang members are killed by Finn but wanted to make the acne more significant, instead of just running in with a gun. But at the same time didn't want to use stage combat again as we had used it already. So we opts for another technique of more stylised movement. We watched examples such as the movement pieces in year 13's performance of Let The Right One In that was performed only a few weeks ago and thought that they were incredibly effective and that we could certainly use some aspects. We picked a piece of music and made a small sequence of movements and repeated four times. We tried to add a lift where I was spun around off my feet vertically but it didn't look smooth at the time, not did the lifters look very comfortable. So we cut it out and devised other pieces.

The performance is beginning to take shape now and soon we will e able to video more pieces that we have worked on to show how we have progresse as the weeks have gone on. For the next couple of lessons we need to make sure that all of our alternative endings are completed and that everything is in place and blocked for us to perfect and run through