Proposal on love and information

Section 1 – Rationale (approx. 100 words)

This section provides an opportunity to reflect on, review and summarise your progress and achievements through the first seven units. It also offers a chance for you to take stock of the knowledge, skills and understanding you have acquired, what you know now, compared with what you knew and could do before you started the course, and how this has influenced your choice of pathway and your project proposal.

I feel that at the beginning of the term I was very rusty and new, as we all were. I wasn’t used to the in-depth approach to drama compared to what I was taught at GCSE. It was massive jump to the level we are taught at Westminster Kingsway. We were taught Stanislavsky in small detail during GCSE level but it was interesting to know his motives and approach on drama at College level. I think that from my first performance I have grown in state of mind toward drama; We have been taught to keep the naturalistic aspect to drama, because, “acting is behaving truthfully in given circumstances” a provided phrase from Meisner. I feel that from the first day to where we are now, having done Macbeth I have improved a lot because I can now, if something goes wrong I can bring the same level of energy to the stage without freezing and letting my partner try and improvise. I have also learnt that it’s better to learn your lines early in order to fully focus on your fellow actors and be in the moment. This now allows you to bounce off each other and adds to the truth of the piece. This naturalistic approach was an appropriate technique for Love and Information as Caryl Churchill’s work is naturalistic and contemporary in its style.

Section 2 – Project concept (approx. 200 words)

This section provides an opportunity for you to clearly explain the concept and aims of your project. This should include what you anticipate producing, the research and ideas that will support its development and the levels and types of resources that you will need to complete and present your project realisation within the allocated timescale. You should include the names of anyone you will be collaborating with and/or those who will perform in your piece.

In the future I would like to work with many new people within my group. In Macbeth we had become used to working with each other.  So, therefore working with new people will bring fresh new ideas to the table. The themes of the piece we are about to cover are topics we haven’t explored in the past; I will have to research ideas and theories of performance in these circumstances. There is a scene called Terminal and I gather it is about an illness. I will have to research other actors performing in the given circumstances, so I can take notes and see other’s approaches to it as other people have different interpretation and different reactions within the same field of emotion.  I will look into how people deal with terminal illnesses in order to give me a starting point for my performance. I am going to perform with Phil in the scene Grass. I want there to be a brotherly bond but influenced in gangster culture an example being the Kray twins. We have this view on the piece because it will give us a chance to play bad boys and experiment with levels of status and levels of reactions but sticking to naturalism. But what I really want for my piece is to come across natural but try something new that I haven’t done before. The topics that we are challenging are quite controversial but I want it to come across with finesse and performed smoothly, because we are performing for our audience and need to keep them entertained.

Section 3 -­ Evaluation (approx. 50 words)

This section provides an opportunity for you to explain how you will reflect on and self-­ evaluate your work, as both an on-going activity and at the conclusion of the project.

You should describe how you intend to record your decision-­making and how you will document developments as the project progresses. This evaluation should reference your stated aims and be reflective and analytical rather than a description of actions completed.

For love and information, I really want to be able to be believed. I don’t want to seem like I am just acting on the stage. I want to look at others performances and be able to see how they react to then influence my approach because you learn better from others. The whole point of naturalism is to be able to perform naturally rather than make it looked strained and forced which I may have performed previously when first starting out at college.

Proposed research sources and bibliography (Harvard format)

Record your intended research sources, both primary (from your own first-hand experience e.g practical studio research) and secondary (from other sources), in this section. Sources of research should be as wide as possible and may include: libraries, museums and galleries, books, film, magazines, TV, radio programmes, websites etc.

Where appropriate you should use the Harvard system of referencing. The bibliography should be continuously updated as the project progresses.

·         I want to research the themes and look at other actor’s performances. ·         I want to research Churchill by looking at her biography. ·         By looking at her early works can see how she may have inspiration for writing Love and Information. ·         She keeps with the times and topics that relate to modern circumstances; so I want to see how far she has changed and how the period of time actually works in Love and Information.

Project action plan and timetable:
Outline your planning and organisation over a period of weeks and the activities you will need to carry out in order to successful complete your project within the agreed timeframe. It is important that your proposed output is realistic so ensure you consider ambition and time when completing this section. Make sure you include what you are going to do, how you will do it and by when. The more time and thought you give to planning your project the more successful it is likely to be. Remember to include time taken to visit sources,  sourcing materials, questionnaires, access to workshops, tutorial and peer group feedback opportunities, as well as when you will incorporate independent study.
Week no	Tasks	Notes
1 22/04/19	Read through with my partners to get a concept of where we can go with it.	Initial thoughts, put forward our ambitions for the piece.
2 29/04/19	Block out the stage, choose a location, a rough idea of what we want to happen	What do we want to convey? What are we trying to say?
3 6/05/19	Work on characterisation and show how our characters are different within each piece.	Perhaps different accents or different backgrounds to the characters to add to their different motives.
4 13/05/19	I want to think about lighting and set.	Are they appropriate does it take it away from the moment or does it enhance it?
5 20/05/19	Keep adding to the character. I need to fully think where I want to go with it and keep it natural at the same time. If that doesn’t work then I have the original idea to fall on. .
6 27/05	Performance week. Don’t add anything new, just stick to what we have rehearsed and try and perhaps add naturalism and keep it for the moment on stage.
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