Devising: day 21

Today, we continued working on our movement based piece. Unfortunately, two of our group members will be injured for our performance date.  One with a broken collar bone and the other two weeks having recovery from a nose job, we were limited in the intensity  of the movement we could do. This led us to rethinking our piece. Which worked nicely as our previous creation was terrible. We wanted to stick with the puppetry idea, but wanted to add more to our piece. To really show that the pupils are in control and become increasingly powerful. Each one of us would go up to the teacher and we would act out a contact improvisation piece. However, with each person, we wanted there to be less and less contact to reflect that the children become more dominant. At first we had very physical contact, before toning it down to mirroring actions and then a puppeteering act. At first, it seemed slow and laboured, however with music and guidance from our teacher, we were able to modify what we had to improve it. Personally, I think it is a much better piece than what we had, it feels more sophisticated and sends out our message much more effectively, which we were very pleased with.

I found an advert for Educating Essex on channel 4, I found this relevant to our own piece as it gives a small insight into how a modern day school is run, how pupils behave and how teachers deal with such issues. This could potentially be useful in our future scene as we could exaggerate parts from the advert and incorporate it into our own piece.