Carls Movement Piece

So far i feel that this piece is one of the most powerful pieces, Carls character is a schizophrenic, and the whole piece is showing the horrors that go on in a schizophrenics head, i had the opportunity to pick the music, i wanted to aim towards a mysterious progressive piece that backs the piece with eerie and haunting music, i picked Save Me by avenged sevenfold, which is a progressive metal song about how life is cruel one of the lyrics, ' Where the endings are the same as every other, we are only here to die', this lyric is one of the main reasons as to why i picked the song, it brings around and empowers how Carl is really feeling inside, 'Trapped in a vile world', he can't escape, the voices in his head keep him under control.

Now i have explained the music i will explain the piece, before anything happens, we see Carl sitting on a chair in the middle of the room, shortly after a a projected video is played on the wall, it shows (Theo), a doctor, explaining schizophrenia, the cause, and how to deal with a schiztophrenic. He ends with saying 'Never look a schizophrenic in the eye.".  carl is initially sat on a chair, he is then lifted and spun around, the people involved in the movement piece whisper at Carl, these are the voices of the other patients in the asylum (showing the voices in his head), we can see he gets aggravated by this, by now he is standing, hew tries to escape but people are surrounding him, engulfing him, he feels trapped, tries his best to get out, but is thrown back to the middle, we are doing this to display that carl isn't in control of his actions or his emotions, his head is a massive whirlpool of confusion, which has lead to his intense insanity. We then had a really good idea, which goes along perfectly with the drums in the eerie music where we all get into a sort of production line on our knees, and do a puppeteer like movement, doing various movements like holding our heads and throwing our arms around.

Carl essentially is one of the patients, because he has been in the hospital for years, all the voices in his head, are of the voices of the other patients in the asylum, he has spent the most time being a patient and has become influenced and controlled by other personalities, we show this in the piece during the puppeteer piece, we all end up individually taking control of carls movements, like a puppet, and making him do actions and movements that display all of the different characters personalities in the hospital.

We really like this piece alot because the musical and movement power really go together well, it will also help the audience to understand what it really feels like,to be trapped and controlled by voices and things that don't even exist.