Week 6 Devising

This week was the last week of rehearsing before half term. This was the time to show back and for the other groups improvements and good parts of the piece. The feedback was mostly about pace. Pace is a key moment for the piece because the audience may loose concentration. The relationship between the two hosts Theodore and cricket. Theodore is a lower status compared to cricket as Theodore  explains the games and introduces the opening of the show. However Theodore has a hunched back and obeys crickets instructions on the contestants. I like how Theodore has lowered his stance to fit the character more which makes him use his physicality more through his body language. Also having a little sound from Theodore adds more to his character because when he grunts it communicates to cricket about him saying yes or no.

It came to our attention that the contestants character so scared as the first game. Too scared that the contestants had no where to go regarding to emotions. There wasn't anything to communicate to the audience the reason the contestants are frightened. So we have changed the beginning because it will make it more clearer instead of going with the original idea as the reason why they have come onto this show. Personally I like the new version because it is more of a clear structure plus we have added some physical theatre in the beginning bit instead of skipping to the contestants being tied up. Berkoff has been added into this piece and makes the piece more weird and mysterious because it looks as though the contestants are connected to the letter that was handed out. The letter is written to all the contestants saying that they have all been contestants. Before this we have a application video being played saying the reason why the contestants want to be in the show. This shows the audience something to feel and be apart of. It also links to our stimulus because the start of the song there is a normal everyday lifestyle as this relates to
 'It was the third another sleepy dusty Delta Day' ' I was choppin' cotton and my brother was balin hay'

These lyrics explain that it is another day doing there jobs that needed to be done. This links to our piece as people are happy and just doing there everyday routines which shows in the application videos that are being showed. All of the contestants are excited to be on the show.

The game show format is spilt in to different parts. The introduction to the game show which requires explaining the game show, the rules of the game and introducing the contestants.

The host from pointless is standing in his place introducing the show on a slight angle when he does this as he trying to look at the camera however looking at the audience and the other host which is Richard on the computer. 

The is another game show that is a similar introduction to pointless but it is a lot more energetic such as this photo of Ant and Dec shows that they are having a good time hosting this which makes the audience along to this. There facial expression show that they enjoy this show. This links to the stimulus 

Overall our piece is a mixture of both of these host because they are intorducing the show but in a tensed way. I think that this links to the song and the audience will think that it is a game show where it is a reality show about winning money but they will be shocked when they come to see that it isn't as great as they hoped.

We then moved on to meeting in the same location to see what would happen next after been accepted. We thought about kidnapping and keep with the Berkoff theme as Berkoff relates to the grotesque feel that we all agreed with in this piece. We thought that we needed to add more fear to this piece as the contestants can react realistic. So we put four movements for kidnapping that makes it look like the contestants are processing to be scared about this show and the mystery behind it all. We then add some sound scape to bring more tension to the scene. Also the speed will grow more as the movements pass on to each one of the contestants. Having naturalistic sounds and grotesque movements blend together to build up more suspense. 

On the last game I thought of an idea about giving a physical style for the hosts to come up with that would be interesting to watch. 

Then when we had those first bits we then repeated phrases to polish them ready for the transitions and make the piece more professional to see. It took a few attempts as we needed to keep in time with each other. 

Going to back to fear I wanted to focus of the aspect of fear so we all played the game wink murder. The reason I did was to make the actor feel uncomfortable in a quiet atmosphere. When someone dies everyone jumps more naturally. This exercise helped my group get to know a little bit about what makes them scared. We then moved on to putting it into practice. 

Our targets for next week are to focus on transitions so we can make it quick and professional and to remember the cue lines.