We didn't get the opportunity to work in our performance space today so we spent time refining our work. First of all we decided what games were going to be played in the reception area of our show. My group chose to be in charge of the game 'concentration' but moulded it around the mystery of the lost memory by having things such as neurons and brain cells as the cards that need to be matched. Once a match has been found, it is then passed around to a group of scientists that examine the cards as though it's evidence and make some notes. This worked well because it meant that we would be playing games that make the audience use their brains and so our main theme is introduced gradually and implicitly, leading up to the climax of the show.
Once we were all confident with the presentation and layout of our games we allowed the rest of the class to come and test them out. The tour began down stairs and we worked our way upstairs, first by writing a memory we'd never want to forget onto a post it note and then by working our way into the games room. There were also other games such as Kim's game and the magic cup game. After this, we continued and ran the whole performance. The performance ran smoothly apart from the individual group moments in which certain things seemed to be amiss. This included things such as the fact that different people's music choices didn't quite match the movement of the piece or that sections just needed tightening up.
We then had the rest of the lesson to work in those groups and reflect on our feedback. My group decided to not only change our music choice but also the entire piece. It's now a much more meaningful and simple piece which I think will be more effective and make it easier to be understood. This is an improvement to the one it replaces because everyone is able to perform it better and it's not just one persons ideas.
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