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Stimuli for Devising

This lesson we began work on our masterpiece. We was split up into two groups:

Team 1

Owen
Will
Cameron
Alice
Chloe

Team 2

Henri
Taylor
Tyler
Warren
Joe

We was also given a stimulus pack which held a range of pictures from landscapes to posters to facts etc, Here they are:











Here are some of the ideas we have started to draw from these stimuli:





We have decided to go with a story line to our movement piece, it is set in a dystopian future where reproduction has been abolished by a virus created by the government and Alice is immune to this virus. (We was heavily influenced by the film 'Divergent'). Me and Alice are twins so people think she is going to have twins, kind of like a maidens tale etc. Chloe is infertile- she wants Alice's baby and Will and Cameron are the crazy scientists who created this virus.However to top it all we are all friends.


We started to create the very first scene in the movement to this piece of music:


As you can tell after listening to it, it is very up beat and energetic. We specifically wanted to start of with lots of energy to symbolize the chaos in this dystopian world and set the scene. 

So the first half of the song has been blocked, we highlighted Alice giving birth and showing that we are all friends and just slowly but surely setting the mood of this world we'e living in. We did become stuck as we are not sure how tomove forward in the song yet however we have been set the task each of coming up with 16 beats in order to tackle this for next lesson. Also we have to keep in mind that we must include a range of aspects of R.A.D.S  in our performance in order to convey our understanding.

So far we have focused on:
  • Answer and reaction (relationships, shows that we are all friends)
  • Canon (Relationships)
  • Round-by-through
  • Waiting (Relationships)
  • Elevation (Actions)
  • Free flow (Dynamics)
  • Travel (Actions)

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  1. The Howard School12 October 2017 at 05:43

    Owen, your group has changed this idea as it was proving difficult to tell the story - you need to write about the current idea...

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