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Single performing arts- attack scene. 15th jan

Today in class, I watched tom and Ellie perform the murder/attack scene. After watching this. I transferred the video of it onto a laptop and headed up to the music department to write some drums for the piece, after about ten minutes I had come up with a tension built. Violent piece of drumming. Unfortunately I only had around 30 minutes practice on it because I had to give the room up to a guitar instructor, luckily before he kicked me out. Ellie and Kyle came in and watched me perform it once, and they were very impressed by the dynamics of my drumming and told me how violent and creative it was, I showed tom a rough recording of it and he was very impressed, when the scene starts tom is sat in the corner of the room. And then Ellie walks in. At this point I'm doin some fills on the toms to begin building tension.

Then as tom becomes more violent and aggressive towards Ellie, I make the drums sound more aggressive. And slightly louder, then as tom and theo start to push Ellie around and abuse her. I hit the crash cymbals hard and the drums build up and up. When theo leaves I stop drumming. And after Ellie hits tom I start to play a fast up tempo beat with double bass pedals to show something bad is going to happen, during this drumming tom drags Ellie round the back of the chairs, when he starts laying some punches. I play a complex drum fill loudly and in time with toms punches. This creates an affect on the audience. Showing them that Ellie is being beaten to death. On toms last punch I end on a cymbal. This perhaps signifies Ellie's death. And that's the effect I want to have on the audience. Now the audience are shocked. The drums stop. Tom walks away and wiped his hands then walks back to Ellie. At this point he drags her body from the chairs and her eyes are still open. Whilst he does this I perform a dynamic roll on the floor tom from quiet to loud, then silence, tom closes Ellie's eyes and walks away, this leaves the audience feeling uncomfortable and perhaps feeling a lot of hatred towards tom. This is the effect we want! 

Hopefully next lesson I can record it properly and show the whole group. And then we can start working on others scenes more!  

The gang performing arts- Tuesday 13th jan

In yesterday's lesson we had to sit in a discussion with our groups to talk about the styles of our performances, we wrote ours down, we are doing a typical 1930's gang, where women didn't have rights and a lot of different violent gangs existed. So we wrote down the list of styles in our performance (2nd picture), from below we can see that our performance consists of a slick American violent gang in the 1930's that lives and works for money ( like bank jobs for instance) in a very old fashioned time with smart clothes, a time period of jazz music. Which we use a lot of in our scenes. Especially fight scenes. Yesterday we also had the idea that when tom (the boss) gets back at find girlfriend. I will be at the back of the room in the dark with drums. And will be hitting cymbals and drums when he hits her, to show my musical capability. I will also have to come up with a drum piece for it to build up the tension that the scene specifically needs. The ( first picture) shows what our devised piece would be like if it was a person, he would be very smart and refined. But not in a good way, he has a bad and dangerous side and a sick minded person that could never be trusted. Someone who has power over everything and won't hesitate to kill at a moments notice. At The end of the lesson we showed one of our scenes to the other group, we did the fight scene between the gang members and Kyle. Because it's a very intense scene with a lot of amazing stage combat which looked Really effective. And I think the audience enjoyed it because they were engaged throughout,we tried to show the audience how violent the gangs in the 1930's were.