Research notes about the Presentation (Mr Crowther)

Today's lesson was very informative and having Mr Moir come in and talk through the subject in detail was very useful, I managed to take a few notes; 

Room 101 was origninaly a room in a university where students would find out their results.

George Orwell lived through a period of empire, two world wars, Great Depression and decolonisation. 

Orwell was a socialist. 

Orwell died when he was 46. 

Rehearsals

Today we rehearsed our lecture/scene. We finalised most things and discussed further how the structure will work. We have had an addition to our group so we worked around adding Anna to the lecture. We tried on our costumes an decided how our hair would be. (In the real performance we will all have ponytails with red lipsticks)

We also managed to film our advert today! We started with a scene of Anna (pretending not to be a member of the Anti-Sex league) and a theatre student in a intimate situation then we filmed what would be the 'consequences' - we used a old changing room that was quite creepy and gloomy to film Anna getting tortured! 

http://www.magisto.com/video/NFhEYl8QRzouAhZpYw

1984 Notes That I Took In The 1st Lesson

1984 NOTES:

.Lecture theatre

.Space 

.418 

.411 

.413 

.415

.Hallways

.Green space

PERFORMANCE: Thursday the 1st of May. 

We will be creating an immersive theatre experience. It was be audience led, they are free to go where they want.  All audience will be wearing surgical masks. The set must be really detailed; touch, smell, sound and sight.

Each of the spaces will have multimedia in them; video, projection, sound, lighting etc.

The audience is the story teller; some rooms might be empty.

The performance will last an hour. We will create 3 or 4 hours of performance material. Every audience member will have a different experience.  

A rebellion will signify the end of the show. O' Brian will die at the end of the show. 

Think about: 

1. Set and props

2. Multimedia 

3. Assets of the room 

Our play is called 2050. 

NEED TO DO: Research other theatre companies ( Punch Drunk), Doug Foster. 

                      ROOMS:

411: will be room 101 (torture room; worst fear comes true) We could get torture weapons etc. Recreation of Doug Fosters idea (box, with peep hole) 

LECTURE THEATRE: registration, where they start. Get information off them (worst fear). cold business like feeling. Masks will be issued. Protection of perfect society. Digital double website. 

418: Winston's home ( evolved character) might have his diary, clothes, half eaten food etc.

413: Food hall: actual food, cooks etc. (gruel - oats and water) 

 

415: o' Brian's office / monitoring station. (Video of audience as they move around) we will walk around with video cameras. 

SPACE: group hate room, footage showing rebels and we will be forced to have aggressive hate. Anti sex league

HALLWAYS: computer screens, soundscapes, announcements, posters. 

COURTYARD in between the main block and blue building: exercise area. Glimpse of what goes on in a Joy Camp. Synchronised exercises. 

GRASS AREAS: Audience might be enlisted to become part of the revolution. 

Audience are visitors to the world of 2050. Treat with respect. They will be briefed of what to expect. 

There will be a really strong security presence (weapons and costume needed.) When audience go from lecture theatre to 415, they will see other events. They are told to not look. 

There may be small group performances for individual audience members. 

Costume for Anti-Sex League

My group have decided that we will all wear exactly the same uniform to project a very strict image to the audience. We are going for the 'air hostess' look;

• Hair pinned back neatly

•   Black body con midi skirt 

• White shirt

• Red Neckerchief

• Black Kitten Heels

• Red Lipstick

 

• Black Tights
• Clipboard

 

 
 

Script & Staging For Anti-Sex League

Script & Staging for Anti-Sex League

For our mini performance, we have been given the Space to use. The space is a rectangle room and we have decided to put seats along both the longer walls, facing the middle of the room. We are only letting women into our performance; this is because of the nature of the subject, we are lecturing to women. We start by letting the audience into the Space. We are kind and all smiles when greeting them into the room, until the door closes and then we turn serious and intense. 

We then proceed to 'correcting' the audience, by telling them to "Sit Straight", "Chin Up" etc. 

After this, we shall show our advert. We will then continue to tell them about the following things; 

This is the script we have written; (the individuals lectures, we are writing separately.) 

Here is my individual monologue/lecture about adultery; 

This is the finished script as we decided not to do the monologues: 

Anti-Sex League

Anti-Sex League.

I have been cast to perform, script and create the Anti-Sex league along with Amber, Amber, Yasmin and Hannah. 

We have already come up with many ideas, we have decided to make an advert that will be shown in the performance. Here is the storyboard for the advert. We haven't yet filmed the advert;

The Storyboard was created by Hannah.

We have our props list and list of significant moments; 

We did a spider diagram to plot our initial ideas on paper and we also came up with a logo and slogan;

This are the leaflets we will be handing out on the performance night: