Friday 28th November

We started creating our piece which is based on the story of the sirens. We decided to make it a bit different from Jason and the Argonauts and instead are doing the story of how the sirens became sirens and why they kill sailors. I had the idea of the sirens being changed into mermaids because they had drowned their husbands, for valid reasons, but Poseidon thought they needed to be punished anyway. The woman have been mistreated by their husbands which drives them to murder, and once they are sirens to drown passing sailors. 

For the main part of our piece we have decided to have a movement/dance to El Tango de Roxanne from Moulin Rouge which is all about desire, lust and betrayl which fit the theme. I really enjoyed helping to create this and everyone in our group was enthusiastic and tried to help where they could which made it quick and easy to create. Also as dance is what I'm good at I think this works to show my strengths and brings variety to our performance which will keep the year 7's attention. Within the dance we show the abuse that the women endure and the story behind their motivation which ends in the husbands' deaths. The song also helps us to portray our story which could be quite graphic, as it includes rape, in an appropriate way for the year 7's. 

Within our piece we have now included lots of different techniques and will add some dialogue at the beginning, as well as Carl doing a monologue to set the play and explain the transformation at the end.