We used many different Explorative strategies through out the two days and each of them worked very well in addition to all had importance in their own rights. The most common drama convention we used was proberly still images or freeze frames. These worked fine because its like a photo this marks the moment therefore the audience can view everything that’s going off. We used still images in our first task of the two days, we also attached to this to a little bit of thought tracking and narration with this piece. These both worked extremely well because it shows the audience what is happening and as well what the character is thinking or feeling. We used narration it is but from one perspective and it told the story.
Trough out the two days we used two days we used w used two different types of narration. The first types we had one narrator that interacted with the drama, and in another piece we had an actor step out of character to narrate, both were very affective.
Before we begun to develop our drama we also used hot seating the reason behind this was to increase the knowledge of our characters for us so me and my group have a better image in our heads about these characters. We also used cross cutting because it looks more professional to move from one side of the stage to the other.
When we finished one of our tasks, we thought it was satisfactory but we knew it wasn’t good enough, and we didn’t know how to improve it, so we used a drama technique call forum theatre, by this I mean we acted out our piece and the audience commented on how to improve it. Marking the moment was used to sow the audience an important part they might miss. If the part of the drama is going at a fast pace so we can emphasis it.
Task 2
This script is based on one of our final tasks, which is non naturalistic. The drama conventions we used were Flash backs, flash forwards, freeze frames and physical theatre Plus more.
The play is titled ‘the Two of Conscience’
‘The Two of conscience’
Abigail is sleeping and she’s looking distressed
Abigail: Um! No No (she softly murmurs)
Ghosts: Abigail, Abigail (Walk Towards her)
Abigail: (raises up and opens hers eyes) What! What! Do you want!
Ghosts: you! (Really emphasis this)
Abigail: No leave me alone (Abigail throws a person of her which are symbolic for covers) (crawls backwards towards wall)
Ghosts: Abigail come here child (Abigail stands up an turns past the ghosts as she rushes by them. They both violently strike out there hands and stop her dead.)
Ghosts: Come come here child (in a ghoulish voice)(they use their hands to pull her towards them.)
Abigail Kneel In front of them
Ghosts: Looks Abigail, look. (Pause) who is this small boy and girl? Abigail.
They all look into the centre of the stage and see two small children, who are john and Abigail playing.
Ghosts: Whose this Abigail, who is this………remember Abigail
Abigail: yes (starts to get emotional)
Freeze boy and girl cuddling Abigail closes her eyes
Ghosts: look! Abigail look………what do you see.
(She see them when they are teenagers still cuddling. Freeze once more.)
Ghosts: now look Abigail (Abigail sees them kissing)
Ghosts: This is when your love turned into ………..evil.
Freeze
Abigail: Argh John!
Ghosts: What’s up Abigail you wanted this to ha
(The sees him about to be hanged)
Abigail: No john No!
Freeze
Ghosts: Take a final look Abigail (at Johns grave)
Ghosts: Look! Look!..Look!
Abigail: (kneels at grave) I’m so sorry
The End
Through out the play we thought about many things to improve our drama. We included sound effects and music. The sound affect that worked the best for me was the chiming noise, which we used when the ghosts appeared; this was created by simply rattling some keys. We played the same music through out the whole of the play this had a very positive affect it was at a pace that was just right, and the music had a really peculiar and mystic feeling to it.
Lightening was used to show peoples mood and the atmosphere e.g. red for anger or green for envy. When we changed scenes the lights would go down this looked smart and also the scenes looked clean cut plus space and levels were used below are examples of how we moved from scene to scene and from one side of the stage to the other.
