Devising: The
process so far.
To start, we read our stimulus text and analysed it. Doing
so, we were able to pick out some key themes and ideas to research (e.g
isolation and finding out the origins of Estaban).
In our group we originally thought of the idea of a man
washing up on the shore and the people who live their all feel some sort of
guilt towards his death. This brings the town together in a sort of trial
scenario where each person tells the story of how they knew the dead man and
why they feel they are responsible for his death. However, this started to
wonder away from the stimulus and we found that it didn’t work as the coming
together wasn’t a positive thing like it is in the story. We then decided to
scrap that idea and focus on how people could come together in a positive way
and celebrate the death of the drowned man like they do in the story.
From this, we decided to have a sort of “story time”
scenario of who Esteban was and how he came to die. We have different stories
to suit different age groups and levels of imagination. For example, the
youngest character talks about adventures on a pirate ship, and the oldest talks
about a long lost relative. Other stories include references to the titanic and
native Indians.
So far in devising we have started to develop a movement
sequence that shows the “handsome drowned man” drowning. At first we wanted to
create the movement and have an audio backing of ocean sounds. We were going to
start with a lift and slowly bring the drowned man down to the floor. However,
this didn’t work as we could not control the weight of the person we were
lifting. We also figured out that it was hard to use the sound of the ocean for
the movement sequence as this was very monotonous and gave a weak start to our
piece. From this, we decided to do more of a dance movement sequence to give us
more options on variety and the speed/ energy content of the movement. The
music also builds to a climax so that we can create suspense and have impact in
our final movements.
What works for our group…
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Generating material out of practical work i.e briefly
discussing an idea and then trying it rather than discussing it for a long
period of time.
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Everyone doing research individually at home and
then doing feedback as a group.
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