Our groups costume for slaves was ripped black shirts or topless and ripped/tattered shorts. We did this to show how the slaves were treated during there trip across the Atlantic and the auction

Costume

Our groups costume for slaves was ripped black shirts or topless and ripped/tattered shorts. We did this to show how the slaves were treated during there trip across the Atlantic and the auction. We did this to show the audience how the slave would typically dress on a day to day basis before being captured and taken to America or the other places. The costume we had chosen for the Europeans was a red band we did this to show the audience the difference between the two. The reason for the red band was that it would show blood of the slaves they had captured and tortured. We also chose the red band for the traitors in our piece for exactly the same reason.

Roleplay

In our group we did two roleplay’s to show two sides of African lie. We did both of them as a “flash back” at the auction. The first one was life in the village. This was to show the audience what the normal life in the village was, toward the end it went to show life as the traitors came into our village. We showed trust and link between villagers by trying to protect one from being captured but got overwhelmed by the traitors. Our second roleplay was after the auction scene, where we used our red ribbon for Europeans, this time we played out why the African has became a traitor, otherwise his family would be killed and raped. We did this to show the Audience why the African became a traitor; we hoped the audience would feel sympathy for the African and show them an understanding why they did it.

Lighting

There were four different states of lighting. Each of them giving a different feel to our piece. The first one being state 1- This brightens the whole space, so the audience can openly focus on everyone and thing. State 2 – This was a hint of blue and a bit dimmer from state 1, this would give the feeling for the audience coldness, death and decay, we used this one for the ships still image, as this was were most slaves died. State 3 was red. This would add the effect of blood shed or traitors, we used this in our rumour part as it was the time we were hearing rumours of Europeans and traitors. State 4 was very dim, we used this to focus on our roleplay, so we can put the audiences mind to focus on the two who told the story

Music

In our piece of drama we used different pieces of music to enhance it and turn our montage into total theatre. There were three types of music we only decided to use one because we decided the others didn’t fit in with our performance.

We decide to use Track two, this involved a mellow warm sound which represented a community so we used it in our first still image, it should that at this time the Africans did have a voice of there own, before it was “taken away” from them by the Europeans. We wanted the audience to know and hear that it was a community by adding music, we thought we could achieve them thinking that and showing how life was before the traitors and Europeans came and destroyed or took away their life in Africa