Pulling it all together

The last thing that we needed to finish was the electric chair scene with Kyle we added movement to this during the time when he is being electrocuted to show the crazy thoughts that would have been going through his brain. Once we finished this we were able to run the performance through and continue to find things that need improving such sharp arm movements in seven devils and some off the speech for some off the scenes. Doing this also enabled us to work out what we needed for props and how we could light the performance in order to give the effect that we want and make the audience more creeped out. However at this point we felt ready and all we needed to do was set it in the tunnels which we did on the day. This was hard due to making sure everything fit in the space we had and that it still looked effective. If the space was to small we had to make sure we fit and if it was too big we made sure that we filled it with the presence of the people acting within it.

Developing Ideas- Day 16

In todays lesson we stared off by looking at the ending of the gate scene while Ashley's scene which we had now decided didn't have Dom in. While everyone else was doing this I worked on what was going to be said on the video to 'relax' us before the 7 devils piece.

Once we had worked on these 2 scenes we went on to running from the beginning off what we had so far to see if we could change anything and make it better. When doing this we realised that how Dan and Freya were acting as Doctor and Nurse was making it comical and this was taking away from the eere affect that we wanted so we needed to make are that they took it more serious and tried not to bounce off of each other to much. We also had comments on Carl's movement scene making sure that we are all in the right places and we had to changed the beginning slightly because we didn't have a TV and we needed him to be introduced in order for Dom and the audience to know what was wrong with him. 

Developing Ideas- Day 14 and 15

On day 14's lesson I wasn't in due to exams so scene which didn't involve me such as dom and Dan's scene and Ashley scene was worked on in order to keep the process going while people were off for exams.

On day 15's lesson we worked on all the little scenes that needed to be finished like the Jesus scene, Dom and Dans scene. While other people worked on that Toby, Meg and I looked at Toby's character and started to discuss the moveologue and how Toby's character could act. Earlier that lesson Kyle had looked up something that could be wrong with Toby as he seemed normal. So we thought that he could be okay then have random out bursts of anger. However Toby wasn't to sure on this character to begin with as he has played many characters like this before. So he wanted to make his character have meaning to it in his moveologue by showing his true deep means for his problems and wanted to express this in what he says and the way meg moves.

Developing Idea- Day 13

During todays lesson we worked on finishing the 7 devils movement piece and carls movement piece due to Dan being missing we could only do scenes without him and these were the movement scenes. When we were adding to the 7 devils piece we wanted to make it as creepy as possible due to it being the last scene and the music really allowed us to do this. We made every movement jumpy so that it added to the effect to the music and one thing we needed to do was make sure everything was sharp and in time for example when we bang on the chairs if this isn't on time then it will not have the same effect. When moving on to carls movement piece we also wanted everything to be timed right so that it had the effect that we were in carls brain. We also needed to make sure with each movement we were using the right hand and moving our body in the same way in order to show that we are the same person in carl mind. 

Developing idea- Day 12

In todays lesson we worked on Kyles electric chair scene and while others did this the rest off us worked on developing other scene in order to incorporate hints that Dan and Freya aren't really the doctor and nurse. I helped Tom with developing his scene so that he towards the end of the scene he added quotes from the bible about lying in order to show the audience that there isn't something right and there are liar within our performance however the audience will need to work out who is lying. Once we had done this we worked on scripting this scene again in order to make the language right for someone who is a follower of Jesus Christ to the terminology had to be right. We then viewed the electric chair seen and spoke about how we thought more needed to be added to it and possible movement would work well when he was being electrocuted.

Risk Assessment

Hazard	involved	Likelihood	Severity	Control measure
Falls during the lift in performance	Cast (5)	Unlikely	medium	·    Cast well-rehearsed in space ·    Sturdy chair ·    On even flat ground
Trips and falls	Cast (12) and audience (20)	Even	mild	·    Cast well-rehearsed in space ·    Safety brief given ·    Pathways clear ·    Pathways well lit ·    Any hazards are marked ·    Audience accompanied by cast at all times ·    Cast and audience where suitable footwear
fire	Cast(12) and audience (20)	unlikely	severe	·    No fire is used in performance ·    Fire exit signs in place
Items falling from the tunnel	Cast (12) and audience (20)	Unlikely	medium	·    No items are hung from a height ·    The tunnels have been checked for any lose debris.
Claustrophobia or difficulty to breath due to dust air	Audience (20)	Possible	mild	·    Warn audience of the space ·    Warn audience of conditions

Developing Ideas- Day 10 and 11

In todays lesson we worked on carls movement piece developing it and adding everyone into it while trying to extend the piece in order to develop carls character more this lesson was mostly there to discuss and talk about how we include different people into it and how while developing carls character. 

In the next lesson I wasn't there due to an exam so everyone began to put stuff into order so we know where everything would go and what position things would go in and what we needed to do. In this lesson they also decided on what we were going to do for the ending and decided that it would involve Freya and Dan not being actual doctors and really being mental patients to an the doctor went missing ages ago. This helped to give the ending that we originally wanted as it made the audience question the whole performance.

Developing Ideas- Day 9

In todays lesson we worked on my scene and for this I wanted Dan, Freya, Dom and myself. I wanted this to be a scripted piece in which developed my character and i wanted them to get to know me by the conversation in which we were having. We wrote our script and added stage combat in which helped to show how being in the asylum frustrated me even though I wasn't insane I was just said to be  that because I did something that society deemed unfit. My character interests me because it makes the audience question if i am insane or if i am normal and because of the anger my character explains this helps to show this. While we did this scene the other group worked on a movement piece for Carl to show his schizophrenia and how his multiply personalities are all him.

Developing Ideas- Day 8

In todays lesson we finished deciding characters then we got into groups and started developing scenes. I got into a group with Kyle, Tom, Dan s, Dom and Freya so we decided that we would work on the scene that works on Toms character as he is the second coming of Jesus. which we said would be in the long corridor that looks like a church. We started off with him saying the lords prayer and then continue on to him interacting with the psychiatrist. This interaction showed how his fantasies should not be accommodated and how they should not let him run a church. Once we did this we then shared our ideas with the other group and they had created the scene for meg which was near the gate. 

Developing Ideas- Day 7

In todays lesson we started to talk about how we could develop the mental asylum idea and how we could include each off our characters and deciding what was wrong with each off our characters. We spoke about how as we go through the tunnel we meet each different character and the way that the audience would be led through is by the psychiatrist who is there finding a patient to look at for his research. We researched what kind of characters that each off us can be. We had more unusual characters due to us deciding to set in 1960s so we had characters like mine who gave birth out of marriage and Dan's character who claimed criminal insanity. This was a long process to develop this with discussing different ideas and making sure we know what we wanted to happen. We also decided that the audience was not going to be directly involved with us and they would be looking through the eyes of the psychiatrist. 

Developing Ideas- Day 6

We went to fort Amherst and looked around the place and get lots of picture to be able to create the performance off of and why we were looking round we were told about the history of fort Amherst and the tunnels. The guy who showed us around told us about how one of the tunnels that went of fort Amherst was a mental asylum. This got us thinking about how we could go back to one off our original ideas about crazy people being drawn to the asylum however it can now be a mental asylum as it is site specific.

Developing Ideas- Day 5

In todays lesson we started looking in depth at how we could develop our ideas further by discussing it in a group and creating a spider diagram off all our ideas and what they could create. We first decided that it would be set in the near future but when we began to discuss more we decided that it would be set in the presence and there will be a sense of lost electricity/fossil fuel. We then decided that batteries are scares and this has happened due to something happened. We spoke about how through out the story we would have previews off everyone's life involved. We went on to discuss how there needs to be a purpose to the story for example them being evacuated to somewhere which may be better for them or may be worst but you have to be selected in order to go there. We then drew a picture of the tunnel off what our teacher remembered from the previous time she went in there and we decided on different points in which things could happen and what could happen at these point. Such as a religion aspect, a relationship and a family. We then finished by trying to create  ideas to see if this worked for our performance.

Developing Ideas- day 4

In today’s lesson we split into groups and started to look at how we could put the 3 ideas that we had decided are our favourite together with altering them to make them fit. Our ideas included having a dinner party and playing ourselves making the audience believe that everything that is occurring is real. Our next ideas was a tour guide being drawn away from the group and then another taking over by they are no longer able to leave the tunnels. The last idea was on about a distant future where there is no source of power and someone has invited us to fort Amherst to get some power or batteries and now the currency that we have. Our groups idea was to have them touring the fort but this underlying story is occurring where these people are trying to gain this source of power on the outside but when they get into the tunnels they are involved in this story and part of it trying to find what they need. When we did this some off us moved round and then we started to discuss the ideas. We then got into one big group and started to talk about what we liked what we didn’t and what we could do to stop it being cheesy so in order to do this we said that most off our piece needed to be things we are good at like movement, monologues and scripted.