Brittany Measor Individual Post

Today within our lesson we worked on the creation of a scene between Horatio/Brittany with a psychiatrist to show her mental stability lowering. The aim of this scene is to establish the fact that Brittany has become so worked up with Horatio stealing her identity that she now imagines him where ever she goes and that its seriously affecting her mental health. To ensure this is successfully established we wanted to show the audience through the psychiatrist simply asking questions and Brittany attempting to answer them. This slowly builds up and results her in getting very angry and losing her temper. We used physical theatre and use in varied voice tones to show Brittany's slow break down. I feel as though worked well as we used improvisation to create the scene we have now created. We had Lauren play the psychiatrist and Rochelle and Jack wrote down the lines that we had improvised to ensure we didn't forget what we had created as that was a previous problem we had. For this I'm going to research the idea of happenings create mental disorders and that can help on the build of my character and ensure I can take anything into consideration when performing.

Drama Script

 The Drama script so far
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cvxr6PrMKVoaJQ66W3gHvsRBdSw_cLtvHzMz1_PQQS4/edit

NEW SCENEEE - created and posted by Lauren

When thinking about the gap we needed to fill between our MIC scene and our Final ending, I didn't think that the trial scene would work. The first time we created the trial scene it was great. We had absurdity and non nonsensical dialogue, however the second time we tried to create the scene, it was very unsuccessful. I think this was due to lack of motivation and determination, The scene its-self didn't seem to fit in with our piece anymore. Although our piece does still have some absurdity included it has definitely become more naturalistic. My new idea: I thought that in the MIC scene rather than sending cases to court why don't we look at cases and help people find HELP and if serious enough we send the cases to a psychiatrist who makes their final prediction on what to do. The idea was ....... After the MIC scene, we have a small scene of  Brittany talking to a psychiatrist (Lauren). Brittany explains everything that has happened so far to the psychiatrist including the swapping of identities. This is where everything starts to unravel and reveals itself. Danny will be walking around the scene at this time however the psychiatrist cannot see him, only Brittany(Hiratio) can. This is to show that he is all in her head. The psychiatrist see's that Brittany clearly isn't well and argues with her about the fact that it's all in her head. Brittany loses the battle and the psychiatrist sends her to be sectioned in a special home.
The next part is after the psychiatrist scene we all somehow show that were in the future in hospital beds. Brittany will be asleep in a 'hospital bed' with other patients (the rest of the cast) around her. This section of the scene will be done in silence to add tension and eeriness, perhaps like the very first scene (Nursery rhyme). Brittany will slowly awake from this bed and will sit up as if she doesn't know where she is. The rest of the patients will also start to wake up and move around in a creepy way again taken from the very first scene. This also add some absurdity. The patients will slowly move towards Brittany who will then try to escape leading her to the corridor in the final ending scene.

Not only does this idea relate to our piece it also allows the audience to question the play. Much like Brecht leaves the audience questioning themselves in 'The Good Person of Szechwan'.
Is our play just a dream?
Is Brittany mentally ill and making everything up in her head?

I hope this scene works as when i picture it in my head it looks really fab. :D

Here is our lighting and sound list - posted by Lauren , Created by Lauren and Jack, Britt and Danny

My Props - Danny

I will need:

Shaver

Bowl and Cereal, spoon

ID card

Waiting room ticket



I think that is all I need for props

My own prop and costume list - Individual post by Lauren

My own character development and research.- individual post by Lauren

Scene order

1. Nursery rhyme

2. D & B part 1

3. Land lord scene

4. Predrinks

5. Club que

6. Office

7. Calling bed bar

8. Waiting room scene

9. D & B part 1 

10. Montage scene

11. Family scene

12. D & B part 3

13.Psychiatrist scene
14.Game show scene

15.Final scene 

Brittany Measor Individual Post

Over the past week we have been putting in more rehearsals to ensure that all our devising is completed within the next week and we can just rehearse and ensure everything is on point. We discussed the characters name of Sophie Smith and decided to change it back to Brittany Measor as it then sounds similar to Horatio Freezer and will make more sense within our piece. After making this decision yesterday, we went back to scene that we have previously made and developed it further.

Unfortunately Danny and Rochelle wasn't in so we focused on a scene that Danny wasn't in and that we could teach Rochelle easily and efficiently. The purpose of the scene is to establish Brittany's life before the transformation. We called it the Family Scene. We had Brittany's family catching a train to go out for dinner and Brittany comes also, the family see her as Horatio and are wary of her presence it then continues on to a flash back of her and her family in the garden. We then use freeze frames and thought tracks to show how much Brittany means to her family and how much of an inspiration she is to them.

At the start of the lesson we were given Tim godson's devising table. We then chose two from the table and decided to focus on those elements within our scene. The two elements of devising we chose were sound and space. Within entering the train we created a small sound scape of the train approaching and getting on the train. We then used spacing to show the different between the flash back and the train. Within the flash back we used though tracking and freeze frames so each character was able to speak about Brittany and how much she means to the family as a whole to ensure the audience sympathise for her. Next lesson we will also be focusing on this scene to ensure Rochelle knows the scene and to create sympathy for the character overall.