Devising - Week 3

We started off by doing a warm up game called Grandma's footsteps to allow ourselves to key in to our lesson, in other words to get us focused. To help us with our devising we had done multiple exercises to practice creating ideas by slightly improvising with brief planning. For example, we were put in to random groups and were set to put together multiple freeze frames of the stimulus given like the letter 'G' and 'N'. We were then set the task to get in to pairs and commit the task 'Yes Let's' where whatever our partner said we should always say yes to. This implies that whatever idea is shared to the group, it should at least be tried out before it can be reviewed, improved or expanded. Personally, this is very benefitial for myself as I am not very confident at devising as now I have the mentality of trying out ideas rather than dismissing it.

The next task we were set was to create a piece off of the quote 'the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is if good men do nothing' which is stated by the Amnesty international. In groups of 4/5, we performed and got feedback on our initial interpretations of the quote itself. In my group, we had discussed what we thought about the quote and what could it mean to multiple different people. We then decided to do a performance off a double good 'karma' portrayal of the quote where the scenario was that where obvious trouble can be caused is put on to one where in someone elses perspective the idea may be good. In this case, the objective was given to Stephanie but Isaiah decided to do it (this may be a good intention for Isaiah). After the objective has gone ahead, disaster strikes and the owner of the car that Isaiah broke in to arrives. However, in Stephanie's persepective, leaving the situation would may have caused trouble (evil) if she did not do anything to help whereas Sally and I had ran away to avoid guilt.