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.

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.