Site Specific

In the past week we have worked on more scenes for our site specific piece. We decided a name for the piece and as on now it stands at 13. We came up with this name because its an odd number which is unlucky and there used to be 13 of us in the class, however there aren't 13 of us in the performance.

Other than naming our piece we created a plan on what scenes we wanted to create and what order we are going to put them in, this took a whole lesson and even though we haven't developed a lot of these ideas it was helpful to have all these concepts on paper so we can quickly and easily create scenes without spending too long on getting a concept and then developing it.

As you can see some of the scenes don't require every performer to participate this means we can create more than one scene per lesson, this helps us getting closer to finishing our piece before our deadline, it also helps to speed up our creation time by having fewer people work on a scene means less people to argue or disagree with ideas. 

One of the main concepts we came up with was the ending. The whole piece is based around me and Freya, the Doctor and Nurse showing around a psychiatrist, we had the idea that at the end Meg (who is playing a girl who thinks she's six years old) manages to slip in front of the audience on the walk back to the entrance of the tunnel. Meg will be behind the double doors that let the audience out of the main tunnel, hopefully this will scare the audience and creep them out.
To finish the piece Meg will say "We're not playing doctors and nurses anymore" after this Freya and I will change into more patient like forms and hopefully scare the audience and make them realise we weren't what we said we were.

Another thing we have put into this piece is a running theme, this sort of theme is almost in every scene with a new patient they will say something that suggests to the audience that we aren't doctors, hopefully it will be subtle enough for the audience not to work it out straight away but towards the end we hope they have grasped the concept. One way we will carry this out is with Ashley's character, Ashley is playing someone with special needs and he might mention something to Freya and I about what his doctor has said, interrupting him I would say I am his doctor. This should make alarm bells ring for the audience and this is one of the less subtle suggestions that we aren't medical professionals, however some of the audience may not realise and just think the charatcers are saying this because theyre mental patients.