18th October

In this lesson we started working on movement pieces. We started on my characters story and came up with our first piece which helped as our starting point really. It helped to establish the sort of tone we wanted and the kind of movents we would use later on. My contribution in that lesson was to make it more Frantic-esque and to make it less predictable and we should individually do a little work out warm up. At this stage it meant that we could continue with movement in the following weeks and add and tweak things in this piece.
We first started by using the wheely chair and did some movement based around that. We were aiming to make it look quite like a routine but also as random and sporadic as possible. I'm not really sure what tone we want at this point but it certainly isn't something too dark or comical it sits somewhere in between for now. I don't think we know the tone yet because we are still working on the story and I think once we've figured out where it is going then we'll be able to find the tone. The movements we are using are quite routine-like and strict almost, but with more frantic elements thrown in. We are using routine movements to show the strict environment the characters are in in Paradise. From Frantic I would expect random and unpredictable movements and minimal dialogue throughout most of the performance. We are using some random movements however I do think we need to make it more unpredictable and that was part of the feedback we got from our teacher. I think so far the movements we've got are working for our piece because of some of the repitition reflecting on the routines of Paradise. I think the feedback we've had so far has been fair and I agree with it, I also don't think it'll be too much of a problem to adapt our pieces to fit it.