Using Stimuluses to Make a Final Performance :: Acting Education Drama Theatre Essays

Using Stimuluses to Make a Final PerformanceFor our drama portfolio we were given many different stimuli to workwith that every gave us different ideas for our final movement. Ichoose two stimuli and apply them to develop ideas. My first stimulus Iwould like to talk about is a sentence about poppies that was given tous. We took our stimulus and brainstormed ideas. We looked atdifferent drama strategies to employ that would help us understand thetext. The sentence, which was about poppies made us endure on theaspect of war. Therefore death was the primary(prenominal) idea but not necessarilydue to war but to other reasons. Poppies are personnel casualty and red symbolisesblood, death, danger, wrong and love. As well as the performanceconsisting of pain an idea would be to also portray love. So we werethinking of a performance with a contrast of love and death. Loss willconvey the blood death and danger so we should use loss as a main part deep down the piece. However, we were f orgetting what poppiesactually are flowers. This obvious aspect should be included, as apoppy is obviously a flower and death is an obvious element withinwar. They are both stating the obvious and therefore some strategiesshould be used to gain ideas from this aspect of poppies. We used hotseating on soulfulness who is a presenter at a garden show. We selectedsome sentences about flowers and thought of using narrating to saythem. At the same we created some still images that were connect tothe text to investigate the link between the poppies and the idea ofdying in war. We now had a few initial ideas that could be developedfurther and used within our final piece.My second stimulus was to be put in the position of a mother. I wastold that my son had been missing in action and I receive a letterfrom him which is back dated two months ago. We took our stimulus andstarted to create ideas again. We took into account the time periodand how life would be different then. We grueling on t he parentsand sons relationship and the parents priorities. What would be themost important thing in their life at that moment in time? There weremany aspects to estimate so we decided to use hot seating as our firststrategy. We also had to consider the conditions the son was living inas it was set in the war. It was important for the audience tounderstand the atmosphere not only with the setting but within the