How the stimulus material was developed through the drama process

To begin our performances, and even before the groups had been finalised the class original twain numbers from the t apieceer. The first was the general notion of Time passing and the second was parting of a poemGather ye rosebuds while ye mayOld era is still a-flyingAnd the same flower that smiles todayTomorrow will be dying. Robert HerrickWe began a short movie based on the stimuli of the poem. We solidifying up mirror image scenes. On each side of the scene in that location was a female, a male (who began off stage) along with an additional character that would try on and approach the woman. In one scene the man inflexible to get wind the woman and they went off happily just the man on the different side waited too long and the additional character went on with the female. He did not take the opportunity and lost the woman.The second half of the lesson was pass discussing ideas for a Devised Drama piece. We, as a smaller group, were given the stimulus of an article e ntitled How to build a time machine. This evoked stark discussion and developed onto ideas similar to films such as The Butterfly Effect and groundhog Day along with films such as Final Destination from which we could take similar ideas. However, in later sessions we soured on ideas taken from this, but did decided to include reliving situations or death.A group member provided the next piece of stimulus. It was a song by The Streets called The Irony of it All, in which thither are two characters a young alcohol drinker and a cannabis smoker. The song portrays the alcohol drinker as yobbish and destructive slurring his address and not being able to come up with a satisfactory argument besides repeating himself several times. The cannabis smoker was shown as being calm, level headed and smarter than the alcohol drinker. This brought up the argument Are drugs give than alcohol? It must be realised that there are sound and bad points to everything and the group was eager that w e show both sides of the argument with peradventure a middle ground of Either being good in moderation.The first scene created was based on this song. It was the after-effects of the shadow before. Set on a communal living space on a University campus, there was a couch, two chairs with a table and space to work on the floor. A drunken character, contend by Jack, was crashed out on the couch and two other characters, played by Saimon and Luke, were at the table smoking cannabis. cardinal other characters entered together from one side of the stage and began teasing Jack for what had happened the night before. Another character, a class A drug addict, played by Kate entered and sat at the floor beginning to work. She complained to the others about the noisehowever they ignored her and she stormed out.The scene ended when Alice and I headed out to the lectures leaving the others to recuperate from their actions. The drive of the scene was to compare the effects of each drug, and began the idea of separate groups for each drug. The second part of the scene was layered over the action of Jack, Saimon and Luke. In this scene Katie began an internal monologue. In which she detailed the shortcomings of each person and the shortcomings of herself.As the play developed these scenes, these scenes were cut. However they were not cut completely, only change into similar scenes. The first scene was changed to the Saturday Night scene, with the comparison of Cannabis and Alcohol exhibit two groups of people separately doing stereotypical Saturday Night things, and confronting each other. The scene was intend to show the positives of marijuana as opposed to the negatives of alcohol. The second part of the scene formed the basis of what is now the Green Acres scene, revealing the short fall of each character, as they stand to their feet and admit to the group (i.e. The audience) what they have done, why, and what they are spillage to do about it.The final piece of s timulus was the photo of Rachel Whitear, a heroin addict who was found kneeling in her room, clutching the needle in one hand. A photograph was taken of her in this position, and her parents decided to hear children about the effects of drugs by offering to show this picture and videos about Rachel to school children throughout the country. The image is very haunting and powerful, and we decided that we would unwrap the picture in our heroin overdose scene. Originally the plan was for the character, played by Kate, to emulate the pose on the stage, whilst the picture of Rachel was projected on the livid wall of the drama studio. However we felt that the use of a projector would take care out of place in a play that purposefully lacks props, set design and only uses a small amount of lighting. We also decided that this would require us to use the projector throughout the performance and we would run the risk of infection of the technology failing.