Day: April 8, 2015

Laces.

As laces are used to hold things together they can be seen as a metaphor for keeping oneself together when the world around them seems to be falling apart. The speaker in the piece has a collection of laces so I researched into what colours represented so to use appropriate colours for our story. I found also there was a colour to symbolise a recovering alcoholic. I passed this onto the writers.

Using these would be useful as this allows two research results to be combined together to create these scenes as symbolism is something brought up in Edward Gordon Craig’s works so to use these colours would enable us to represent these messages.

 

I am soon to collect verbatim material from to possibly use within the piece or inspire its final routes as the last draft of the script takes shape and am continuing to look into images to use for the opening piece in the song titled I want.

I am looking forward to soon learning about production skills as my research into the piece will soon take this role when the writing is complete to enable the piece to use other tools to effectively create Shoes To Fill.

 

Rachael

Bat Mitzvah

Answers have been retrieved from an American lady whom I owe many thanks to for her time. Her daughter has answered about her bat mitzvah and whether taking part in this tradition provided her with aspirations of her own or pressure to conform. The results were of interest and provided insight into the tradition from a real perspective.

Alcoholism

The company also wants to show an example of someone not wanting to fill shoes so have taken information from my findings on alcoholics to create a narrative which will run through Shoes To Fill involving a story of an alcoholic mother. To do this in a realistic and unbiased way I took information from a variety of sources I found on alcoholism. I looked into Alcoholics Anonymous studying their 12 steps to recovery programme. I also looked into the organs that are affected the most when someone is an alcoholic to see the journey their body undertakes in becoming reliant on this substance and which bod parts shut down and begin to become unreliable like the mother herself in caring for her child.

Through my research I also found the national association for children of alcoholics – a person with a parent of any age can contact them for help. By doing this I aimed to provide the writers with a thorough background knowledge of the issue as well as looking more in depth into the service available for such people and looking at the reason why this would not be a good shoe to fill and how this may create alternative role models for children other than parents.

This provides us with a darker tale to ensure our performance has moments of darkness to show how filling someone’s shoes can be difficult or not an aspiration at all.