lesson 2

in todays lesson we continued work on our world war 1 ration line piece. we developed the piece by including other groups which added to the scale of the line. we also changed the piece of music we were performing it to and instead chose one which had sharp sounds that didn't keep in time exactly with what we were performing. this was effective as it contrasted the movements we were performing and reinforced the idea of fighting, in future I think our classes need to continue working on getting into the line efficiently and the spacing within the line as when new groups were added it became a lot more cramped to perform in.

my group worked on our piece on our own and tried to make it more clean cut and pedestrian so it appeared effortless. we also had to change our spacing in a section of it to allow for the amount of space we had once in the line as this  was a problem we had observed when performing it all together. As a group we all agreed that our piece was very minimal and simple so we added more switching between positions and changing levels within the piece for example when I go to the floor to tie my shoe lace this improved the quality and impact of our section as it showed peoples desperation to get to the front of the line but we also included very pedestrian movements to show that this was just everyday life for them,

in the lesson we also had groups feed back to us from their research surrounding certain areas of the war. this was useful as it allowed us to broaden our knowledge of the first world war which enables us to come up with more ideas on how we can devise a piece of theater from it. it also gives us contextual knowledge as to how the people of the time would have been living and what they would have been experiencing as well as this finding out about areas such as fashion means we can work on picturing characters in our heads which is something I find very useful and imagining and creating what their life is like.