Workshops

The group over four weeks were split up and sent to different workshops. As a whole we thought that this was very useful, we could all learn about different techniques of devising, devising through movement, video, text, picture and games. After the workshops we talked about what they involved and some of this information helped aid our ideas, others did not. We found playback incredibly useful as it's something that can be employed when the group begins to flag and run out of ideas, its a good thing to use to bring inspiration back. We also employed some work we did with Glyn in the dramaturgy workshop where we used hotseating to find characters and stories, this medium also helped us decide to go down the documemtory style interviews that will be a big aspect of our piece.

I thought that these workshops also helped us to have some interdependancy, we could go off on our own or as a two and then having some responsibility to sharing with the other members of the group.

I think that most of the groups found this useful as it was said that if all of the groups did the same workshops then you would create work that was one dimensional, by going to the different workshops and learning about the different aspects of devising it meant that we could create a piece of work that was rich, diverse and exiting.

It also helped us to think about the technical aspects of our piece alongside the practicle nature of it which I believe is a good thing. I think that if technical information was given to us towards the end of the module then we wouln't be thinking about it as something that works with the action on stage as opposed to sticking it all in at the last minuete. I feel that it's important that the group establishes a relationship with the technology now, rather than discovering it in the last instance. I believe it will allow and help develop ideas, enhance action and speech and by working with it now we can establish what intentions we have in affecting the audience.