Responding To Stimulus - The Mask Of The Red Death - CKR Lesson 1 (PMD1&2)

Above is an example of the ideas that our group came up with when responding to 'Contagion'. This was taken from the story 'The Mask Of The Red Death' and the above image shows the different performance possibilities that we came up with.

This video shows the response that our group came up with from the ideas collated in the mind map. In this video you can see that we have taken on the style of both Beckett and Stanislavski. Iyla and Megan are responding using Beckett's technique - using a monologue to communicate their thoughts. Not only this they have taken on the technique of speaking really quickly so it almost sounds disjointed. This compliments the work of Beckett because the actors also use this technique within his productions such as Not I and Play. Courtney and myself are responding in the style of Stanislavski as we are using naturalism to communicate our ideas. We also used emotional recall to help generate movement. For example when we were coming up with the movement (a different piece of movement to represent each age) we would think about what we did when we were that age and use this to generate movement.

To come up with our final response we focused on the obsession of love and we decided to focus on social media influences. From the video you can see that Iyla and Megan are responding in a way that you would see on an Instagram post by putting hashtag at the beginning of each word. They are representing that what you see on social media is different to what actually goes on 'behind the frame'. Courtney and I are representing the actual image itself and the reason behind why we pretend to be on our phones and why we take a selfie towards the end of the video, is because we are further emphasising the use of social media to 'display' the greatness that is in any type of relationship (in this case, the love between two best friends).



This video is the same response but filmed at a different angle.