We then got put into our groups which were selected by drawing names out of a hat. My group then consisted of Tom, Freya, Dan.s, Kai, Theo, Dom and myself. After we began brain storming ideas what we could base our performance on.
We came up with lots of ideas including human trafficking, slaves, war, human rights/womens rights and mental hospital and many of the ideas we were able to look at different angles to work off to make our piece individual.
Once we had brain stormed ideas we picked one idea and had to create a small performance on it. We decided to pick the idea of war and look at it from the angle of post traumatic stress disorder. We all became members of a family and were all having a peaceful afternoon then there's a knock at the door where Tom instantly reacts and stands up as he turns his back to us we all form a pose which symbolises something he remembers about the war for example I stretched my arm out like I was reaching for him to help me. He walked through the freeze frame getting worked up about what he had done until he got to the end where I stood and bought him back to reality by placing my hand on his shoulder. I really liked how we used the freeze frame to show and memory then returning to normal life as it gave quick bits of information to the audience and helped them to understand some more about whats going on in someones head. I think we could have improved it more by adding something more the the scene like a sound scape to show how what the character could hear in the war and not just see.
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