Single Performing Arts Lesson (5th January 2016)

Today's lesson was the first one back after Christmas and we were starting our new topic 'devising'. 

We started off our lesson by discussing the assignment brief and familiarising ourselves with the required criteria. Once we were all explained the work we were then assigned our groups. We were split into 3. 

Group 1- Lorna 

               Ollie M

               Katya 

               Rob 

Group 2- Olly K 

               Rhiannon    

               Cerys 

               James

 

Group 3- Charlie 

                Hope

                Lewis

After this we decided to watch the music video for chasing pavements.(our chosen stimulus)

As I had never seen this video before it was intriguing for me to see other peoples interpretations of the video and what they believed it meant. For me the lyrics "should I give up? Or should I just keep chasing pavements? Even if it even if it leads nowhere" was the most understandable for me as I believe Adele was singing about her recent break up giving the song a more depressing feel. This helps because it makes it easier for us to identify the topic for our piece and the emotion. 

We began (in groups) brain storming ideas for our pieces.

The 3 best ideas my group discussed were: 'Abortion, Domestic Violence and Technology.' 

After we brainstormed we presented our ideas to the rest of the class. Our last activity was to choose one of the ideas and begin to devise a piece for it. 

We decided to go for the idea of Abortion our piece included: Ollie M having a party so Kat and I were on one side of the stage dancing and Ollie and Lorna were reflecting on the other. We planned for Kat and I to show having sex and making Kat pregnant whilst Ollie and Lorna were reading statistics about young pregnancies and the effects. We would then show the change as the lights go off. It would then show Ollie and Lorna in the hospital having an abortion whilst Kat and I would be reading out statistics about abortions and the risks, all with chasing pavements playing softly in the background. 

However we did not have sufficient time to create the entire piece so when it came to performing in front of the class at the end, the only part we had completed was the introduction of the piece. 

For the next lesson we will have to come up with a new idea and see what we can create from that.