Ghost Stories Devising

Today was more researching looking into the Lee Rigby a man who was slaughtered in the streets by the Islamic State supporters which they filmed this and had people watching in the streets. Rob is going to be doing a monologue as one of the people who saw this all happen Danny Cornelius this is some research about it: 

"A man haunted by seeing Lee Rigby hacked to death in the street was found hanged, an inquest heard. Danny Cornelius, 38, was described as an isolated man during the hearing. Unemployed, single and childless, he would often stay at his grandparents' home in Elwill Way, Istead Rise, Gravesend. The court heard that he was a victim of two armed robberies as a young man. Firstly as a teenager, his gold chain was stolen at knifepoint, and on another occasion just a couple of years later he was forced to withdraw money from a cashpoint and hand it over, on both occasions by young black men. After that he began to suffer with paranoid schizophrenia, and when his friends started to get married and have children he became disconnected from them."

We also looked at doing abortion having a couple that can't have a baby so their friends is going to have their baby but she finds out that could die if she has the baby so if she could get an abortion. But we thought that it may be difficult to portray and don't want the audience to get confused or feel offence to it. 

Then we did begin talking and trying to come up with a physical theatre scene for domestic violence scene having a couple having arguments but making it different and trying to link this in that it can haunt you forever so we discussed that they don't have a good relationship behind closed doors but in front of friends are act like they are fine. I am still finding it difficult coming up with ideas that are different from that has been done in a lot devised pieces trying to come up with original ideas but they are based around something. Next lesson we all need to focus on how we might carry on with this or try and come up with a piece on the Lee Rigby story. 

Ghost Stories Devising

Today we discussed more about what we were going to do next with our piece we all liked the story we came up with but we found it difficult coming up with scripts or movement that would work well with this not making it cheesy we thought that 1 story maybe was not working for us. As a group we said about the idea of hauntings with our stimulus Ghost Stories that this may link better and we could all have a story each of how these different experiences our going to affect us all in some way for the rest of our life so we said this could work well as a showcase showing different characters and what has happened in their life who them to be haunted forever.

We have kept my motif in the piece within the mental health idea having me walk across each time we start a new story but each time something different will happen. Each time I came on for the motif different tests would be happening to me this looks effective and shows I could have something mentally wrong with me.

We needed to come up with ideas that we could use for each showcase to show how each person has been haunted in different ways. We all liked the idea of using some bombings in our piece and having a story how it has affect someones live how much it could change a person. We were going to have this around the monologue from Eight which a man give someone 10p so they can purchase a Mars bar and the man who they gave that money to they find out that he was involved with the 7/7 bombings. Also looking at 9/11 but trying to be different from a lot of other pieces thinking has something been done like this before. Looking at things like abortion to do for another piece within our showcase.

Ghost Stories Devising

We all decided as a group we liked the social media idea and carried on to make some storyline to go along with it we came up with the idea that when he opens an app up on social media then different things will happen like someone gets hurt. The story is about a boy who had health issues and can't think right that's what everyone thinks but he is just very smart and intelligent. This means he has to go into a mental hospital to be treated but he is very healthy I mentioned that it would be different if we started with the end of the story at the beginning so the audience we get a understanding what its going to be all about. This is something we tried out to start with me going into the mental health place.



We talked about different scenes we wanted to put so we had an idea of what we wanted to create throughout the piece these were some one the scenes we wanted to put in:

• Walking into the mental health place 
• Classroom scene 
• Common Room scene using physical theatre 
• Parent scene 
• Parent consultation scene 
• Closing with the mental health scene walking into it 

We looked at all of these doing these for scenes but trying not to make it the typical scenes that you would see we wanted it to be different so I found it difficult coming up with scenes that were not your typical classroom scene with all of them messing around. We looked at doing a physical theatre piece for the common room we came up with some music and are planning on coming up with a piece that will work for this. 

Ghost Stories Devising

We were given our stimulus today which was Ghost Stories our group is Rob, Lewis and Lorna we all decided to come up with ideas on a mind map and see what would come to mind. We came up with the ideas of story telling, Woman in black, A Christmas carol, The Hex story, The three brothers, missing people, war and soldiers, mirrors and reflections, objects or an item that it being haunted and social media snapchat stories.

We all really liked the idea of using social media and Snapchat but we found it difficult coming up with a story and something to base our whole piece around. We were thinking of using by filming the snaps and having them projected on the screen and having me doing the same sort of movement but we had to think of a way that this would work within a story but we all wanted to go with the style of modern. We then thought we could have a ghost in the back of the snapchat and then I am doing the same on but you can't see anything we wanted to come up with alternative ideas that may work better because its a lot of filming and we don't want to take that away from the performance we want the audience to get that it's ghost stories and this idea may not show that if we don't have an understanding story line.



We were given these images and came up with words that we thought off we we saw these pictures because I think we were all finding it difficult to start off I feel like we got more of an idea of what we were going to do when we given these pictures.