Materials and Creative Techniques

Exploring and documenting the use of different creative techniques in the space:

Stillness: We both did not move throughout our whole piece. This was a different way to set our living gallery as many of the other pairs and solos. Many other of the galleries spoke to the audience and acted out a piece of experimental theatre or physical theatre. Whereas ours simply had us sitting down on a window ledge with writing above us.

Speaking to audience: We won’t act to the audience but we will speak to them and inform them of what we want to convey with our piece of theatre. We want them to tell us first what they thought of our piece and what message they got from our image we had created. From studying experimental theatre we have been learning new techniques and learned that breaking the fourth wall is okay when we do experimental theatre. We want to connect with our audience in our living gallery and help them to understand where we are coming from with our ideas.

Silence: Other than when we will talk to the audience, we are not going to talk to each other or perform a monologue or duologue, we will simply be sitting there and looking at our similarities and differences. The simplicity of our piece hopefully will be quite a nice change for the audience as the other groups surrounding us are shouting, talking, and playing music, whereas when we perform, hopefully the audience will be attracted to our piece as it will be different from the others.

Levels: We will use the architecture- to our advantage- that is already in our area. Instead of standing, sitting on the floor or on a chair or perhaps lying down, we will sit on the window ledges that had been built. This will give a different feel to our piece as it was mainstream and the obvious thing to be doing.

Costume: We decided to stay in black clothes so we would blend in with the similarities which we would write in black so our differences were highlighted even more, meaning our message we were trying to convey was shown  boldly.

Image: The image we want to create will be close to a still image of us on the window ledge writing down our similarities and differences. The stillness of us means the audience will be more focused on the words we are writing than us.

Recording use of different materials:

Paper

Pens

Sellotape

Two chairs.

We will stick up sheets of paper on the wall above the window cells with sellotape and write our differences and similarities. Black pen will show our similarities and the coloured pens will sow our differences. The reason why we will use coloured pens to write our differences is because we believe that naturally humans notice people differences first, before they discover their similarities. In our performance we want to talk about the way people don’t notice the similarities they have with others, we want to put up paper on the opposite side of the wall from us and give the audience the opportunity to write their similarities and differences they have with the people they are with.