Journal entry ONE

First Journal entry

who you are

context interests and skills for collaboration

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1) Strengths Bianca: Creativity, Design*, Art, Initiation. Aidan: Lighting, Visualising*, Erin: Lighting, Any Technical Aspects*, Building, Design Haejoo: set, building, music, open-minded* Sarah: Visionary*, music, directing, artistic planning Hayeon: Music*, connecting thoughts themes and resources, idealistic Hana: Planning, creativity*, forming cohesive themes out of many ideas, incorporating styles, risk-taking David: Working as a team, idealistic*, abstract mindedness, comedy, film, music Daniel: Visual symbolism*, working under pressure (!!!), design, connecting ideas to form a whole, non-linear thought processes

2) Interest in production Bianca: Set, Costume/Makeup*, Director. Aidan: Lighting*, designing, (flexible) Erin: Lighting*, Set, Costume/Makeup, designing (flexible) Haejoo: Music* Sarah: Set*, Costume/Makeup, Music (I’m really, really flexible) Hayeon: Lighting, film*, music Hana: Set/Creative design*, Makeup, Music, Stage design David:Film, Lighting*, Set design, music Daniel: Set/Scenic Design*, Film/Projection, Music

3) Company + Style Bianca: Realism, Symbolism*, Surrealism Aidan: Physical Theatre, Verbatim Theatre, Puppet theatre. (flexible) Erin: Single word, Pantomime/satire*, physical Haejoo: satire, symbolism*, absurdism*- Sarah: dance theatre (set to music), satire*, surrealism Hayeon: Ex Machina, Absurd, Vertical, Vignette* Hana: DV8, Absurd, Improv, Berkoff, Poor theatre*, Laban (movement-based, physical), ensemble devising, text out of context David: Comedy*, Slapstick/Pantomime, realism in context, Ex Machina, absurd Daniel: Surrealism, Absurdism, Theatre-in-the-round, Artaudian* (Cruelty, Sensory Assault*), Unconventional use of oral language (not conversational), Non-linear storytelling

4) Interests in theme/starting point Bianca: Drug/Substance use, Immigration, Poverty* amongst children, Aidan: Abusive households, Exclusion, grief*, Addiction, Nature, Beauty in the world (not just human) Erin: Opinion of self, identity, awareness, cause & effect* Haejoo: Syria immigration, *poverty, child abuse, drug abuse Hayeon: Addictions* struggle to find purpose life, the nature of time Hana: Homelessness, synchronicity, a good song, outcasts/underdogs and how they portray themselves, satire (to an extent), portrayal of the Middle East, communication issues David: how one’s actions affects many others, opportunity cost, the deeper meaning of good and bad, measurements, how society has changed but really hasn’t, racism, unobtainable love, relationship between physical state & imaginary state, immigration*, the life of the unseen. Sarah: political/social unrest, being an immigrant, refugee crisis, unwanted children, people without a voice, themes based on graffiti work (stigma) Daniel: Idiosyncrasies, Found poetry or texts, Synchronized and chaotic movement, Autumn, The millennials and generation Z (generation snowflake)

design tech physical absurd satire

Daniel Aidan   Hana Bianca Haejoo

Bianca Erin    Sarah Daniel David

Hana David   Erin David Sarah

Sarah Hayeon  Aidan Hayeon Erin

HaeJoo Haejoo

Potential Groups

1	2 (The hottest group)	3
David	Erin	Aidan
Sarah	Hana	Bianca
Haejoo	Daniel	Hayeon

The Start

Honestly I approached this entire beginning process with a very open mindset. It's not necessarily because I didn't care about what I was doing but more so that I had faith in myself and my classmates to be able to work efficiently and well with everyone. Hence, I was not so concerned with the team selecting process.

Though, if I'm to highlight a few strengths of mine and interests that could potentially be big help to my group I would mention my passion for film and ability to connect themes, context, environment and for coming up quite quickly with inspiration and ideas. 

I am really looking forward the creative process with Bianca and Aidan because firstly, I know that Aidan has worked with light's last year and I am interested in how lighting will be a crucial part of creating the mood of our performance. Secondly, all three of us noted that we were interested in doing a theme related to addiction/drugs. Also, after working together on the short "box" activity I realized how quickly and efficiently the three of us work together when forming together ideas.

Personal Interests/Ideas for Creation
Ever since the Needles and Opium performance I've been fascinated with Ex Machina/Lepage's style. So I've inevitably been influenced when thinking about what I could incorporate for our collab proj. I personally want to adapt vertical theatre, focus on lighting, sound, movement, the over all vibe resulting from the theatricality rather than a traditional script reading performance. I'm not sure how this will work out though because I know that not all my team members are in favor of doing vertical theatre. However, she has proposed an interesting story about a boy and his addiction to drugs which is something we could develop theatrically but still no too much in an absurd and vignette fashion.

I want film to be a part of this creation process. I think that film can either be as simple as an aid for the audience to see the details of the stage or be a whole new and big creation element on its own. Either way, I am completely willing to experiment with this aspect in theatre. I personally envision our play to not have that many words. This is probably because all of us want to do something with symbolism and thus we won't have to explain as much as we can just show.

Some Ideas To Further Our Starting Points 
- Improv games
- Collect images, sounds, vibes that resonate with themes of addiction
^This will let us explore the kind of textures, set design, lighting, and color schemes we want to adapt.
- Research both the biological and psychological impacts of narcotics
- Look more into theatre companies that have dealt with these kinds of topics or are known to use theatrical elements in a way that presents these "feels"  (Ex Machina)