Friday 24th October

For each of the Greek myths we discussed what was good and bad about them after seeing each others performances, keeping our target audience in mind.

Everyone agreed that the music used in their short performance was extremely effective and the idea of a physical piece was interesting as it would be very different to any stories that they would usually be told. The actual content of Jason and the Golden fleece is very varied so it would give us a lot of choice as to what parts of the story we did, but this could also be a problem as there is so much we could do it may be too long and the audience would therefore loose interest. 

The group that had the story of Medusa also modernized the story, although we decided it was not appropriate as it involved Medusa being a prostitute. The actual story of Medusa is interesting so there is a good story to work with in the first place which is important, although there aren't many parts so it is not great to make use of all of us. Most people know the story of Medusa, but not why she became what she did so it would also be nice to tell her story properly and the year 7's would know who we were talking about. 

I voted for us to do Jason and the Golden Fleece. This is mainly because it has so many stories within it it will be easy to devise an interesting performance. We can also easily tailor it to our audience by choosing the parts of the story with violence and such involved to keep them interested. Although I do like the story of Medusa, I think this is more appropriate for year 7's to watch and I think they will be more interested in this rather than Aries which does not have much of a story. 

Friday 17th October

We started the lesson with a work out as we always to do to work on our fitness and get us ready for the lesson. The unit that we are currently doing, Story Telling, in my opinion requires us to be fit as it can become quite physical, for example using lifts and physical theatre to make a piece more interesting. 

This is what we came up with as the things that our target audience, year 7 boys, like and are interested in so we could tailor our performance to keep them entertained.

We then split into three groups and with the remaining three Myths, each created a part of the story. Toby, Dom and I decided that we would modernize the story of Aries. Using the original idea of adultery and public humiliation we created a story where a girl cheats on her boyfriend, at a party, with Aries. Pictures of Aries and the girl are then posted on 'snapchat' and all of the other social networking sites, and all of the blame is pinned on Aries; therefore he is publicly humiliated but in a way the audience can relate to. This will in turn make the story more interesting as the audience will understand and not get bored watching an old-fashioned story. We also included a dance to show the girls choice to betray her boyfriend, using this different medium to tell the story I think will again help to keep the audience interested and also show a wider variety of our skills as a class. Including a dance in our performance is a good idea as I can use my specialised skills to choreograph it and show one of my strengths.