Devising

FINISHED!! Today we finally performed our piece after many weeks of hard work. We kept everything in that we planned but did have to make a change to our ending at the last minute. All our sound cues and lighting cues were ready and having gone through the extreme hassle of attaching fish wire to the poles on the ceiling, which was incredibly painful and hard to get the line tight enough, we found out that the dust sheets we had were not long enough. So we had to look fo another dust sheet to cover the gaps. We managed to do this but a few hours before the performance, we realised that the silhouette didn't work. The shadow didn't fit on the dust sheet and we were able to see through. So we scrapped it and edited in a fade and a gun shot death in blackout. It wasn't ideal, as we thought the silhouette was a very valuable technique, but it simply did not work and for the sake of the performance we had to scrap it. The performance itself went really well, everybody knew exactly what was happening and pulled it off amazingly. The last week has been hard with a lot of rehearsing and repeating scenes over and over, but it was worth it in the end, as we gave a performance that we can all be proud of.