05/03/14 

my idea for the wolves of Willoughby Chase

Today we was talking about how we was going to block the show in a different way then we normally do at the performance date. The ideas which was given were:

• have the stage bare (not a lot of blocks on the stage) and use the actors as the staging
• have white cloth hanging down from the stage to project 3D backgrounds and include A1 cardboard to bring the shapes/objects out.

All of us have agreed to do the white clothe and cardboard idea as it is a new experience for us and will make the performance stronger and will draw the audience into our performance.

We also have been working on Bertolt Brecht's work to get an idea to put in the show which will also boost the performance level higher and make the show grow and be better by the performance night. One lesson we had not done rehearsals but instead we had learnt about his verfremdungseffekt or Alienation as some people call it and had done some of his work using Ipads using two apps which were called:

• gf
• hj

By doing this we was put into groups of three and had to make a little improvisation using a skill which Brecht had mad called Placards. Adam, Lofty and me was one group and we had mad a small story of a boy who didn't fit in because he didn't believe in himself and blamed himself for everything and he had to fight his mind to make him feel like nothing was keeping behind and then became more happy with himself and was able to move on. the Placards we had used gave it more effect to the performance we improvised.

Since we had done that lesson on Brecht we all have had many ideas using the Placards in our show as well as having the three projectors and white cloth over the set as well as our training and ideas.