Devising: Day 22

Today was a bit of a stop , start lesson as we had a photographer in taking pictures of us for a new prospectus. However, we did manage to get some stuff done. To begin with, we ran through the new movement piece we created the lesson before. Our teacher watched this but suggested that our original piece was much more interesting than the other. She added that our new piece was very samey in the way we had the theme of puppetry going on throughout and was pretty one dimensional. This disappointed us at first and kind of left us a little dumbstruck as we thought that it was better than the last. However, we understood what she had said and respected that someone with her experience and knowledge was probably correct. We decided to run back through our older piece to make sure we knew what we were doing. I think our older piece needed to be a little more violent in our actions, which is what we worked on doing, trying to make everything sharper and more defined to show how we, as pupils, are in control of the teacher. We filmed both of our scenes to what we had, the purpose, to watch it back and pick out elements of both pieces that we liked to create another piece, drawing on the strengths of our others and hopefully conveying our message of control much clearer. Unfortunately, in one of the videos Carl is kneed in the face hence why we burst out laughing.