Ghost Stories Devising

Today we have been coming up with some dialogue for our paparazzi scene we thought about having a group of teens talking about this big celeb coming out of rehab but we wanted something that was believable so we decided of having a TV crew having a chat about their show who should be on the next and they want to have an interview with them we wanted to show how the media can show views about people that are not true saying that it was reported that the person did that which it's not true because it did not come from that person's mouth. They just want him on the show because he is being talked about in the news at the moment so they want their ratings to go higher so they can become more popular from him.

This is the script that we came up with we are planning on added more interruptions in so it looks like we are in a meeting we want to make this as natural as possible like we are having a normal conversation. I find this difficult when acting because I always feel like I over think everything so I don't want it to sounds like I am staying facts it needs to be relaxed like I am just talking to a couple of work friends. This is something I need to improve on and am planning on watching some TV shows like the office to get an idea of how they do comedy and then move on to be serious in a normal situation. 

Ghost Stories Devising

We have been working on the physical theatre for the paparazzi we had a workshop which we have used some techniques from to show in our piece. This is what our piece is looking like and we have included different styles to make it different and original.

We are planing on having some dialogue at the end in a news story explaining he has just come out of rehab we are going to be looking into something we can create so we can come up with a script that sounds natural like we are having a normal conversation.

Ghost Stories Devising

We wanted to come up with a new story for our showcase so we looked at doing something to do around drug abuse I mentioned that could hit the audience so they don't know what we are talking about and then just one line they realise that the was around that topic I really liked the idea of us being in different places of the room and saying things like what it made us feel, the smell just wants you having more and once you tried it you never stop this get the audience more interested to see what we are talking about. Again we wanted to mix things up and have it so it was not just about drug taking that their was a meaning behind it going back to the haunting of it. We discussed together about celebrities and how they have gotten involved in having drugs and how this could after their career and what the public and news reporters think about them. We then went on the idea of them coming on out rehab I mentioned the paparazzi could be trying to talk to this person who has just come out asking them lots of questions to see what they are like now and how have they changed we all discussed questions we could ask the celebrity as the paparazzi. This would work really well because the drugs could be haunting the celebrity for the rest of their life and all the chat shows, new reports and paparazzi all the questions they were asked could be making them feel haunted the fact that it will never be forgotten. These are the questions we were going to record for the beginning part when the celeb is just coming out of rehab: 

• What will you do now? 
• Is it true your parents won't talk to you?

• How has your use of pills impacted your career?

• How will you recover from this financially?

• How do you feel about the studio cancelling your contract?

• Did you know your girlfriend is seeing someone else?

• Do you regret that Instagram picture?

• When will you return to twitter?

• Why was your rehab extended? 

We are going to be carrying on with this next lesson coming up with different movenments to make this physical theatre piece like the celeb it being stalked with lots of cameras and putting some diagloue in at the end. 

Ghost Stories Devising

As a group we decided that we were going to carry on working with the terrorist attack piece with the suicide scene we wanted to show this in a physical theatre way but not making into a dance trying to follow the story with Lee Rigby that it did haunt Danny Cornelius with what happened in his life before that as well.

We have come up with different parts in his life were he had some horrible things happen to him I said to start about having a shoelace that we could all be doing the same action to portray that he is not happy the way his life is and he is thinking of killing himself. We agreed to be in different stages of his hanging himself so we are all doing different movements to show how we feel at this point while Rob who is writing what you write in a suicide note thinking about what he wants to say as his last words.

The next part to the piece is the necklace scene Lewis and I are shopping in a robot way to make it unnaturally because we did not want to just show this happening in a natural way and then I get the necklace stolen from me a knife point.

Following another section of Danny's life the cashpoint scene where he is put at gun point and has to give them all his money we showed this by making a cashpoint out of a table and doing different movement's and me handing Lewis the money like he was getting cash out and him giving it to Lorna.

The next part was the Lee Rigby when he saw this all happening we are showing this in a puppet way like this person is being tortured and is being stabbed to death and Rob is going to be doing narration throughout all of these pieces to show what was happening.

The last section is the suicide where Danny decides he wants to end his life we are having all of the shoelaces put together and showing how he decided he just wanted to end his life like that.

Overall this shows that it can haunt someone for the rest of their life and it could mean they don't want to live anymore I am really liking the way this has been put together it looks really affective. We just need the audience to understand that we are showing in different parts we are planning the character Danny hopefully with Rob's narrations the audience should understand the whole story line.

All of these sections of Danny's life are true and we wanted to shows these in different ways so the audience understands that one of us is Danny the victim and the other is the person doing the crime.