You gotta IP before you can IPP

This week (15th - 19th October) was another one of those shorter wired weeks, getting used it it now really!

What we want to kind of achive with the set

Well, in a sense it was shorter. This week we devoted a large majority of the time to working on our Artaud piece. Monday however we began to talk about the upcoming aspect of the Independent Project Portfolio which we were introduced to. So this hour was all about the wonders of the IPP, I instantly thought about wanting to be able to a performance rather than an exploration hence why at the moment I am very swayed towards Option A. Also after going back through my notes I came across something I did at ISTA which seemed to have respraked my interest in it: The theatre in question is Verbatim Theatre. I thought it would be really interesting (due to its nature) to actually write a script for this but also I had the idea of a monologue which I'm current torn between. I mean monologues are great and all but it seems like something everyone does. But whatever I'll decide later

Tuesday (16th) the first hour and a half was pretty much splitting all the lines up within the script for each character and then we began a preliminary blocking of the script with a mock up stage set which I'm sure will change. For the final half hour Mr. F came into the lesson and give us some tips to how to make the script more hard hitting and giving it meaning which is pretty much summed up by the picture in my last post. What was useful about this lesson is that due to the fact that it is 2 hours it gives us a large stab at what we want to get done, and by starting to block the script really set the ball rolling with this project.

Friday (19th) was another one of those lessons where we were missing one of the two girls which rendered the lesson to a pretty much to a halt. What me and Georgia managed to get done was get many ideas down about make-up, projection and costume so we have a starting point for all the technical stuff when we begin to properly think about it, also since Mr. F had to leave the lesson early we began to look at each others RI's instead and giving feed back on them as it seems a useful tool for other peers to look and critique your work.

Pretty much it for this week, I hope that next week I have more to talk about!!

Richard #1