Double (Joe)- 7th

This week we created bits for Jason, my group created the part in Colchis and when Jason finally gets the fleece. My group and I created a rough scene to set the Kings tasks and have Medea fall in love with Jason but we then had the idea that the tasks to happen in shadow. I feel that if we stage it this way, while Jason is doing the tasks we could freeze the action and have Medea give Jason the advice he needs while standing in front of the screen, lit up for the audience to see her. I think this will look good for the audience and keep them engaged because the year sevens will switch off quickly if they are not constantly engaged. We then had the idea that after Jason has knocked out the dragon he comes out from the shadow and claims the fleece that is centre stage while everyone else sets the scene behind the curtain that the shadow was performed on so the curtain can drop and we are in the bedroom of Apsyrtus, where Medea kills him and we leave his body for the king to be distracted while we run away. I like the transition as with Jason in front logistically leave time and room for the scene to be set behind him and if we make the murder dramatic with a lot of blood the year sevens will be engaged and hooked for the scene.

The way my group taught our scene was we talked through our idea so everyone understood which part of the story we are talking about and what happens in it, we then started to block out the scene so everyone can visually see what we planned to do. We didn't get to finish the whole idea because we ran out of time and the whole shadow needs the sheet and lights to rehearse it but I think we got our ideas across to the class. 

Toby's group used the part in Cyzicus, his group explained the story and what they planned to do with it, then we very roughly blocked out the idea. I liked the idea of using three people to create the Giants and there six arms, however I don't feel like we have enough actors to have the Argonauts and the town people scared of them, so I think a better way of telling the story would be a narrator explaining what is happening and that the towns people are cautious but the king is friendly and inviting to party with them.

Tom's group used the prologue, and his group created it as a scene, that we act out while someone narrates what is happening. However I think that we don't need to act out the whole thing, we could keep it simple and have a narrator say the whole prologue in a way that is engaging and funny, we could have someone in a suit come on and start the story badly (they can't hear him and looking down, not engaging at all) then the actual narrator comes on doves him off and starts talking to them about Jasonand his life, using the reading the story skills we practiced and as it is funny we will have the year sevens engaged from the start.