Early on in this process the group discovered a common interest in music, we had various people who could sing and various people who could also play instruments. We used these talents to our advantage.
“Knowing, using and reflecting the strengths of people in the company are vital resources for the devising process and product” (Oddey, 1994, 25)
As we are exploring photography, an area we thought would be interesting to cover is ‘selfies’. They are very current ‘craze’ and something we thought could add humour to the performance. It was decided that we would do this in the form of a song.
The first difficulty in doing this was the lyrical process. The song has to translate to an audience so we knew we wanted something simplistic but comical. We started by choosing certain topics within the ‘selfie’ domain that we could cover.
- What to do? “The first thing to consider”
- What not to do? “Never take from down below”
- The different faces. “Duck face, bite the lip”
- The time and place for selfies. “You know the time is right”
- Displaying selfies. “Twitter gets you trending”
So, that part was easy enough, the most difficult part was finding the first lyric, but once we had found that, we had a pattern to follow which meant the process began to flow and with everyone contributing, we soon found ourselves with the beginnings of a song. It was not easy to create and sometimes the most random suggestions were thought of but it made the process a lot of fun and I think it’ll add a lot of light into the performance.
To make music a theme throughout we have additionally created some instrumental pieces that will accompany specific scenes, we have included vocals to this music but no lyrics. Below is the accompaniment we created for a scene that involves Billy and Dolly’s wedding.
We also decided that it might be nice to use the talents of the group to do some fundraising for the company. We decided we could promote ourselves singing in the street and set up in town to participate in some busking. Not all members of the group sang but those who didn’t used the time to flyer and spread the word of our upcoming performance
Works Cited.
Oddey, A. (1994). Devising theatre. London: Routledge.