Monday, 28 September 2015

Voice

Today we were working on using just voice, so no movement at all. Again, using one of the ideas from  our initial brainstorm, we were to create a short piece using this technique. We chose to do the Hillsborough disaster as we didn't think we would use it for our actual piece as there is not much you can do with it, but thought it would be a nice one to workshop. 
Someone suggested using our own footsteps, building up to imitate the stampede and using repeating phrases that may have come from the crowd as it was happening. After building up this repetition, letting it escalate and get louder, I thought of having just a single scream as a climax. Using the scream to silence all of the other noises worked well and then I had the idea of saying facts like the number of deaths and about the game etc. These facts were to represent the after effects and all of the news reports that would have gone on after the disaster. I think this all worked really well just using voice and was an effective way to create the atmosphere without acting it out which would not have been very realistic. 

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