First look at devising

For the new topic, Devising, I have been put into a group with Jake Kavanagh, Liam McMorrow, Amanda Lacey, Ali Heathfield and Connor Clark.

For preparation for the lesson, we were all meant to bring in some music that inspires us or could inspire a piece; I thought about IFHY by Tyler the Creator or Good Morning by Kayne West.

IFHY

I thought this song would inspire a story line; I thought about a woman who's cheated on her boyfriend and so he gets angry and hits her, but he still loves her and completely regrets it, he wants the best for her but every time he goes to let her leave he gets angry and close to violence but remembers hitting her. The stress could make him take up smoking and possibly lead to not paying the bills leading to a complete downfall in his life and create sympathy from the audience leading to a powerful performance.
The end of the music video also leads into the song Answer which also inspires me and made me think about a story line where: a child is adopted and finally finds out on his 18th birthday, he searches for his biological parents and when he finds them, he's angry at them for giving him up, but is glad for the life he's lived and has a good job. The adoption parents feel betrayed when their child goes to look for their biological parents but in the end the child chooses them and that is what I would have hoped to make that piece a powerful piece.

Good Morning

This song just generally inspires me, it talks about life through education and from a young age and inspires me because on my GSCE results day, the song made me cry because I felt all my hard work was to be put down to a single moment on that morning. I thought explaining this to the group might help to develop some ideas.

Today we built a piece around the song Young by the Foxes about a dancer with high hopes and ambitions but can never find the right partner by when she does, she becomes too old to be a dancer or possibly suffers from a disease and so her career collapses which would make the piece a powerful performance.