Girl X – Black and Red

For our colour unit in drama, one of the colour combinations we studied was colour and trigger-happy. For this task, our teacher was in a role of a physiatrist, was telling us the case of a 7 year old miss found on the streets that refused to speak. To ride the girl communicating, the girl was told to draw a picture. She drew a red circle in the condense of the page, engulfed in a sea of black scribbles. Our task was to analyse the image, and stream our thoughts and ideas about the picture into an abstract found of drama. In my group, we decided that the red circle was the girl, and that the blackness almost her was the girl being trapped.We also asserted that the blackness is an older male cogitate to the girl in someway, that has abused her and she is trapped because of the events. We used an array of techniques the initiatory being characterisation. The girl was named Emily, which to me seems like an innocent name, which would help build the agreement the audience has towards her and also create anxiety in her situation. We performed with the audience being scattered and with no lights. This is very effective as it makes the audience feel as if they are there alongside the girl.We would have members of our group stationed around different positions in the stage, and in turn they would each be path on the spot. This is to create the impression that there is someone running, and it would be chancy for one person to be running around the stage as it is in thee dark. Suddenly the running would stop and a voice starts to pant. This is because where we incorporate another technique, the dummy up. The silence would be for 10 seconds. This is heavily effective, as its in the dark and the audience do not know what is passing play on after the fact they heard someone running.Suddenly a scream would come out form nowhere, which breaks the silence. Then another silence is used, for around 7 seconds. During the whole scene I was in the center of the sta ge. After the silence, I turn on a lighter and say, I am watching you. This is striking, as someone appearing from nowhere in the middle of a dark stage was not anticipated by the audience. This task helped me understand a lot of things. It made me understand umteen positions that people can be in, and how colour can express emotions such as anger, fear, helplessness.