HIC Day 10 - Opening Soundscape

We spent today adjusting our opening because people in the group felt the opening wasn't of a good standard, we also needed to change it because the way we were going to seat the audience has changed. We created it to have more of a structure s it is more like a soundscape rather than a lot of noise we also made it a lot simpler, we started the piece with noises like a phone going off, someone chewing gum or someone filing their nails. and we want that to build in volume so we decided to prerecord the noises then play it and just raise the volume. This happens and builds until Dan enters as the teacher then it goes silent which is when we build the verbal noise, Our teacher (Dan) asks "Do we all have our English books?", in which Ashley replies "Yes sir", Meg then will say "No Sir he left it at home with his balls" to which Kyle will defend "oi leave Ashley alone" to which I say "Bender crawl out his ass" and finally Toby is going to say "shut up Meg, you little skank". We then repeat this until Dan slams a ruler on the desk silencing us all and we are back in Victorian times.

I like how we staged it and developed it to be more structured, however I think it could go further. I don't like the way were just sitting, I wanna add some movement to it. I think that we should start the piece in our chairs in a tableau of all five of use doing our noise (Meg filing her nails, Toby on his phone, me chewing) and as each noise starts the person making the noise moves. So the nail file noise starts, Meg starts filing her nails, the phone goes of, Toby starts answering his phone and texting but meg stops and freezes again. This happens until all five noises have started and the last person just freezes after a short period of time. The noise then builds until Dan enters, we then all stand up and we start walking in a circle and I want us to throw a ball around while Dan tries to gain control. This is during the vocal soundscape and eventually we pass the ball to Dan still with the vocals happening and we get back to our places for Dan to slap th e ruler on the desk and us to sit immediately and in silence.