New Idea for Masterpiece

After careful consideration, It has been decided by our group that we are to change our idea. It was proving too complicated for us to try and create movement that has a story and meaning to every move. So we backtracked our steps and had a second look over our stimulus, we also had an in depth conversation with our director about issues within society, such as the gun crime poster:

As you can see in the picture above, the statistics are very interesting. Even though Switzerland is a 'neutral' country, It still has a high gun crime rate considering it has no national army as well. Also comparing the United States to Canada, the relativity in size yet Canada's gun crime is significantly lower than the USA. Perhaps this is telling us something about gun laws etc. We also then went on to debate about the justice system and if types of capital punishments are justifiable or not i.e death penalty, hanging etc.This is where we drew one of our new ideas, we take the political route and portray how governments/justice system are in some situations corrupt and accuse the wrongfully accuse. I think this would be easier for us as we have generalised our idea, meaning we are more free in terms of creativity.

We then also then looked at the mental health picture which lead us onto talk about social media's negatives and positives. Mainly focusing on how social media has affected people's mental health i.e body dismorphia (I think this would make a really interesting movement using aspects of relationships like Unison, Mirroring to show how the mind can alter the shape of the body and how they are linked etc). Again linking to this idea of injustice as police have reduced the times they attend calls of mental health crisis- highlighting that mental illness is almost shadowed nowadays and is kind of a taboo. Personally I would like to go forth with this idea as I feel it offers a lot more diversity in terms of movement, we can fully cover the R.A.D.S spectrum with this idea.

We created this spider diagram to help us link ideas together and come up with relevant ideas from our stimuli:

I think it is beneficial for us that we have decided to change our idea at this moment in time, we are not 4 weeks into development and haven't really lost much in terms of our movement so far.

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