Thursday Evaluation

Today was the day we were preforming our living gallery pieces, alongside our big performance. as we were rehearsing all day for our main performance we were given half an hour at the end to work on our living galleries. unfortunately my partner and I were unable to print off optical illusions to be put around the room, so we decided that we would focus more on our physical movement and how we connect to portray our message across. when rehearsing we started off facing each other and because the light were off and there was light shining on us we clocked our shadows and we brought in an idea of using our shadows as well as physical movement to connect with the audience. we eventually created a 2 minute motif that we would repeat as our whole piece.

what went well...

I felt that our piece was a success and we were confident with our movements and the message we were giving off, surprisingly the times we were not facing each other we were in time with our movements. there were no mistakes that were made and I felt that my partner and I were completely focussed throughout, even when performing my partner and I felt a connection between us which echoed through the room and made our living gallery more stronger.

Even better if...

It would of been better if there were optical illusions all around so the audience members would have more to look at,I felt like it would  of been more intriguing to watch and the audience would of clasped the idea of what we were showing quicker. I would of also made our physical motif longer but because we didn't have a lot of time to have make it, it was quite short. The voice recording wasn't that loud because we weren't able to get a speaker so we played it through a laptop, but then again it came to our advantage because it was more engrossing because you could hear the sound of the water when we were putting it on our faces and the gentle drips of it when it left our faces.

Audience comments/ reactions
My partner and I were given back a lot of positive comments, commenting on our shadow use and how it pulled them in to want to know more about what we were portraying, there were more comments on physical movement saying how they saw our commitment and saw how focussed we were and they were able to understand our message and there was one comment about our recording saying that the poem we were reading was beautiful and it really connected with what we were doing and emphasised/ strengthened our performance.

Thursday lesson 2

This lesson we were discussing all of our living galleries and then went around the school and had to note down three rooms or spaces we would like to use for them, we took pictures. my partner and i found a small musical theatre practice room that would be a perfect size to use, the next room we found was a peri room that was smaller than the musical theatre practice and the last was the theatre storage room where the audience would watch from outside the door we chose these spaces because we don't feel like we had to use a big room for our living gallery and the smaller the room the more impact will have on the audience. when coming back to the lesson we discussed the name we were going to call our pieces and my partner and i agreed on the name ' Colour blind' its a play on words as we are both communicating to our viewers that they do not appreciate colour while using a phrase that is used to describe people that cannot see certain colours. we went over the props list we would need for this; UV paint, water, two bowls, towel, optical illusions, small lights and a speaker to play the voice recording.


What is colour blindness?
Colour (color) blindness (colour vision deficiency, or CVD) affects approximately 1 in 12 men (8%) and 1 in 200 women in the world. In Britain this means that there are approximately 2.7 million colour blind people (about 4.5% of the entire population), most of whom are male.
There are different causes of colour blindness. For the vast majority of people with deficient colour vision the condition is genetic and has been inherited from their mother, although some people become colour blind as a result of other diseases such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis or they acquire the condition over time due to the aging process, medication etc.

Normal Vision

Tritanopia

Most colour blind people are able to see things as clearly as other people but they unable to fully ‘see’ red, green or blue light. There are different types of colour blindness and there are extremely rare cases where people are unable to see any colour at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKSOe5NK_qQ

Thursday lesson 3

Within this lesson we were able to go to our allocated spaces we were given to perform our living gallery, my partner and I came up with the idea that, in the room it will be dark, there will be optical illusions all around the room with lights around it and in the middle will be one of us with uv paint and the other with water in front of us and facing either side of each other, for this we have arranged to do physical movement where we connect with each other and we end up on the opposite side of where we end up putting uv paint/water on us, as this is  going on there will be a repetitive recording of us reading a poem about all the different colours. our living gallery is trying to emphasise on the point that we don't always see everything such as when you see light you would just see white but making up that white light are many different colours. this session was productive and we were very confident with what we were doing.

An optical illusion is an illusion caused by the visual system and characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological illusions that are the effects of excessive stimulation of a specific type, and cognitive illusions, the result of unconscious inferences. Pathological visual illusions arise from a pathological exaggeration in physiological visual perception mechanisms causing the aforementioned types of illusions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8O8Em_RPNg