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You and YouTube
Tuesday 24th March 2009
Blog Category: Acting Company Blog
As your trusted blogger, i thought i would give you a bit of an update about what we have been up to since the Boo performances here at MTG.
You and YouTube involved me and Zara from Acting Company and, Liam and Alison from Making Theatre. We were working for a full week with students from Parkside School and Braithwaite School and Greg from C & T, or as we liked to call him 'funny hat man'... because of his taste in headgear!
At the start we didn't have a theme for the project, we just got into groups and based on the ideas our groups came up with, decided to look at identity and what makes us who we are.
In the first half of the week we worked in groups again and were given a video camera and just played about filming anything to do with identity and trying out camera tricks. So, we had one student at one end of a long curtain waving their arm behind it and then another student behind the curtain waving their arm out if it so it looked like just one person with a really long arm.
Towards the end of the week we looked at what everyone else had recorded and decided what we wanted to use then Dave put it together.
There was also a performance element that we did at the same time as the film being shown on the Big Screen in Centenary Square that Emma directed us on. All of us were told that we could have one thing from wardrobe or prop store to use in the performance, we chose things like masks, costume and hats that hid who we were.
The final performance went well, i think we shocked a lot of people in Centenary Square. I went up to one woman and asked her who she was, as part of the performance, and she didn't know what was happening. But by the end most people realised it was some kind of performance.
It was good to work with the kids from the schools, i knew quite a lot of the Braithwaite students from previous projects so spent time getting to know the Parkside lot.
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