Today we discussed the date of our shows including the week beginning and the matinee performance. Mostly we discussed the opening play of The Tempest, specifically the dance we have decided to create ourselves. As the play begins with a storm created by Prospero, we decided to express the scene of a storm a physical theatre piece would work really well, so we decided we would have a group of dancers and a group of actors for the opening scene and we would work together to make a perfect opening sequence. We found a piece of music with elements of Japanese drums and shouting and we thought resembled the life of shipmen, so we played the music and just had a quick unpolished go through the scene and it went really well; as I was one of the ones just acting, we started the scene and i entered the stage first acting as one of the shipmen looking up and around at the sky as if he had just spotted the storm and Daniel added in some LFX of lighting along with thunder, wind, rain, and sea SFX which we thought looked and sounded amazing, then I ran off then all the other shipmen came on and we began 'pulling the ropes' and 'fixing the ship' then we would run of then the dancers came on and they began their sequence. We found a video on youtube of different movements that represented storms and also involved a smoke machine, which Daniel said we are able to get hold of. ~We also discussed the use of ribbons to represent the wind and interesting physical movement we could incorporate and thought it wuld work really well.
We also wanted to make the set design significant for the play; we wanted to sort out the staging blocks so that we could build a high level to represent the cliff Prospero is standing on, and we wanted Prospero to be in the opening scene stood at the higher end of the stage to represent his power and authority over everyone else.Today was really exciting as finally all our ideas were evidently coming together and working really well.
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