Death Response - CKR Lesson 2 (PMD2)

Within this lesson we were focusing on developing material based from the 'death' aspect in 'The Mask Of The Red Death'.

We listened the music 'The Funeral March' and while we were listening to this track, we made notes and linked each idea back to death. After this, we created a group mind map combining all of our ideas.

Here are all of the ideas that we came up with as a group. You can see that we link everything back to death and we also link our ideas back to practitioners. We came up with ideas such as 'swansong', meaning the last thing you do before you die and we also looked at different elements of being at a funeral to the feelings of a person when dealing with the death of someone.

Here is our groups video response. For this we decided to focus on the decay of a family after a family member, the person that 'held the group together' has passed. We have demonstrated this by starting off with the whole group representing a pyramid to show the whole family being as one. We then show Charlotte, in the middle, ,moving away and the pyramid collapsing. This represents someone dying and how the family members can't cope. The final part of the video response looks at how the family can't cope and all of the coughing and collapsing is used to represent when someone cry's so much, they cough and almost choack. You can also see that we are trying to reach out to each other but can't which shows that the family is no longer together or as strong as it used to be. We then have Charlotte that is creating movement to represent the person that has died moving on and going off to heaven.

The image above shows a mask that I created in response to the 'red death'. I created this mask because the 'blood like' drops and the red on one half of the mask represents the contagion and how it has spread, and the other half is left mainly blank with small areas of 'blood like' drops which shows how the plague hasn't spread too much yet and it's trying to be avoided. This links to hidden identity because it shows how a person has a façade within society.