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!