Hometown Glory
To inspire our devised piece we have been given a piece of Music: Hometown Glory by Adele. The Lyrics reminded me of a completely different song, Homecoming by Kayne West, which is about a man who falls in love, follows his dream but when he trys to come back to his partner and his Family, his partner turns him away and he "Can't go back home". It also inspired ideas of Amnesia and one similar to The lonely bones book.
The lyrics, "the people I've met", inspired me to think of a story were all the characters were all linked by an event or a crime, which was quickly developed as a group.
The Idea is an '7/11' event where by a terrorist/suicide bomber walks into London underground, but bag is switched and so he's now out of control of what's happening; I assume his motive would be to become a 'Marta'. The rest of the characters all have their motives for being on the tube and so I hope these reasons followed by the characters deaths will make this piece a powerful performance. Furthermore some characters will live, one gentleman lets another person on the busy train (who is therefore effectively sending them to their deaths) and another who is pushed out the train by a mate as a joke (so his live was saved by his friend who is going to die), and so their aftermath could help support make the performance powerful.
We also hope to use music throughout the performance, as the main focus and underscore, to define atmospheres and characters emotions. I think all emotional songs should be played as cover versions to make our piece more unique, I also find that cover songs are alot more about the singers vocals and so show more emotion than popular artist tracks.
For Friday's lesson we started developing an opening to the song Animals by Martin Garrix to try and create a busy atmosphere however we didn't really get very far as we didn't have a great amount of time or space but the idea was there and that's what really mattered.
Character work
My Character is the person who picks up the wrong bag and so ends up with the terrorist's bag and a bomb; I'm thinking a really chilled back, casual 18-21 year old who's just come into some big money or been given a great job at a prestigious company. He always has over ear headphones on and so isn't too focused when picking up his bag. As all of our characters should have songs to match I was thinking Lowrider by War:
Allmusic Review "the lyric takes the cool image of the lowrider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle"
Lowrider is a chilled out, fun song and I hope if we use it to introduce my character, I could also take "the cool image of the lowrider".
My Character's motive for being on the tube is to go to his new, awesome job, or possibly he's heading home from a concert, or somewhere (depending on when the time of the event is), and buys, or finds in his pocket, and wins the jackpot and so excited to cash it in, or this motive could even be that he's going to propose and his going to one of London's parks to meet his girlfriend. The song I thought would be most appropriate to represent these motives, more so the first two, was When I was Youngster by Rizzle Kicks:
This song shows that their biggest dreams as kids have come true and, to an extent, that's how I think my character would be feeling. It is also fast and upbeat creating a happy atmosphere.
Finally I thought of a scene when the train's music and the terrorist, who's been looking for my character, chases my character but can't get through the crowd and so dials the number to activate the bomb. For this scene I was thinking drum and bass to show panic.
General Notes
- I think the piece should be split up, going back to the start of the day, to show everyone's individual story's effectively and explore their emotions through the songs
- I think there should be a projection throughout counting down to the explosion, possibly a bomb timer instead of the bomb being dialled, and this could be used to show more clearly when we've moved back to the start of the day
- There should be a final scene set a year after the event at a '7/11' memorial, for the characters who survive, they could possibly each thought track or have monologues
- I thought Amanda could use a Dear Darlin' cover to show her character's motive, she is going home to see her loved ones as she has months to live and is suffering from a terminal illness, at the start of the song she could be reading a letter from a loved one:
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