Final Rehearsals

Final Rehearsals

Adding onto the idea of a film of life, and a montage of memories that we had organised, I decided to put forth an idea of a Film credits in the end and a clapper moment after the dramatic section wherein he fell through the portal into a cabin of limbo and memories.

I found several film credits from a member of publics favourite film, so as to piece together another section of someones memories that may occur within there 7 seconds. One of the films being the film Contact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrL-lNtN140 These credits where chosen out of many because of the fact that it is within seven minutes and so reflects our 7 second theme idea, and also it runs as long as our performance. It also runs parallel with the character as it was released around about when our "protagonist" would've been able to watch it and enjoy it in 1997.

 All of the memories that we would use during the film credits and using the light from the green lamp on the side would allow us to puppet our own dreams, so as to use the site and create an even more stunning and effective piece of surrealism within our montage and highlight what was used in other cultures to tell stories.

Using chalk for Daniel to use the floor would allow him to use another section of the space that is important and interesting as the grey floor can display the writing amongst it. Another prominent memory that we found from asking around in the school was that Birthday memories were quite prominent, so Daniel would write his own birthday message and then as people would walk by they would see and be reminded that it was his birthday, as it is an event that we are all familiar with.

The selection of items that would be hung around would resemble underneath someones bed, as if it was a pit of several memories. The meaning of our site was the use of it as a storage space and a hidden cove that was hardly remembered. As a group we decided to bring in several items that hold significance to us, not necessarily being profound.

My list was:

The brochure I was given on Blue Skies day
My handbag brush
Cinema Chocolate wrapper
Metro
3 items I haven't taken out of my bag
Favourite food-Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie

Costume:

Wearing all black so as to allow us all to use the props found in the space and what we have brought so that it can enable us to change in and out quickly and so that we become people within Daniel/Felix' memories that can be anyone from any point in his life.

We ran the performance multiple times so as to enable us to perform it without stopping and enabling us to go through it smoothly.