6th October 2015

In last weeks lesson (1st October) the group and I sat down and came up with ideas in which we could build up our idea. My contribution to this lesson were mostly to do with staging. The ideas of staging I came up with was to have the performance in traverse, a round, or on 3 sides. So in this lesson we work shopped the performance in a round. The problem we faced with this was that when we tried to incorporate our movement/stage combat into the scene an audience member would always be able to see that it wasn't real and then they wouldn't feel immersed in the show. The idea would've worked if we weren't going to use my idea of the split stage to show the differences between how a man and a woman would act in a situation.

So, the next lesson (5th October) was spent work shopping the show in traverse. One comment I made on having the staging like this was that we could have the stage so that they're sat behind Michael and Judith. The reason this would've worked is because it would've then seemed like the audience behind each character was backing up the characters opinions and how they wanted men and women to fight on the front line.

Finally, todays lesson was spent with the group and I trying to find a good piece of music to undergo the monologue by Judith. The lesson was also spent trying to block the monologue scene, this was done well and we filmed it and showed it to the other group.