The stimulus we were given was madness. Some of our initial ideas to this stimulus were:
Out of body experience – the protagonist is in a coma after a tragic accident – they can see and hear what is going on whilst they are in a coma.
Bedtime stories – the protagonist reads a story each night before bed – they wake up the next day to find out what happened in the story the night before becomes true.
Dolls – the protagonist lives in a broken home and uses dolls as friends – however they cannot see that they are not real in their eyes.
After discussing these ideas, we finally chose “Dolls” as our idea. However, we found that using dolls seemed unrealistic and cinematic and therefore changed this to using imaginary friends. We thought that our …show more content…
They are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than external physical reality. (Wikipedia – 28th February 2017.)
How common is it for children to have imaginary friends?
Most small children like to play pretend games and interact with toys. However, about 37% of children take this a step further and create an imaginary friend. (Psychology Today – 28th February 2017.)
How do children behave when having imaginary friends?
It’s common for children to blame their imaginary friends when they’ve done something wrong to separate them from the bad behaviour.
Often children will talk/play with their imaginary friend/s or request that a parent asks questions to the imaginary friend/s. (Family Education – 28th February 2017.)
Why do children make imaginary friends?
Imaginary friends can be a source of comfort when a child is experiencing difficulties. There are many case studies of children inventing imaginary friends to help them cope with traumatic experiences. (Psychology Today - 28th February 2017.)
How did we use this …show more content…
Therefore we planned to have our protagonist put blame on her imaginary friends and show that she has a deep bond with them like you would with a physical friend. As our research told us that children create imaginary friends after traumatic events we decided that the protagonist’s parents had separated and got a divorce. About 40% of marriages end in a divorce and divorce can be a stressful time for children involved. It can include neglect to the child, the child feeling unloved or unwanted and can negatively affect their relationship with their parents. We therefore made these the reasons for our protagonist having imaginary friends and our aim was to show the audience how our protagonist was being negatively affected by her parents divorce.
Dramatic techniques:
In the process of responding to our stimulus we came up with some dramatic techniques that we thought would be effective in our piece.
Tableaux – We wanted to use this in our piece to show what a character is thinking in a scene whilst the other characters are still.
Choral speaking – We wanted to use this in our piece as a story telling device and to show the emotions of the protagonist.
We also wanted to use rostra blocks as a way of staging our piece. We thought that we could link this with choral speaking to present it to the audience. Rostra blocks also keep the audience interested due to the different levels
Out of body experience – the protagonist is in a coma after a tragic accident – they can see and hear what is going on whilst they are in a coma.
Bedtime stories – the protagonist reads a story each night before bed – they wake up the next day to find out what happened in the story the night before becomes true.
Dolls – the protagonist lives in a broken home and uses dolls as friends – however they cannot see that they are not real in their eyes.
After discussing these ideas, we finally chose “Dolls” as our idea. However, we found that using dolls seemed unrealistic and cinematic and therefore changed this to using imaginary friends. We thought that our …show more content…
They are a psychological and social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than external physical reality. (Wikipedia – 28th February 2017.)
How common is it for children to have imaginary friends?
Most small children like to play pretend games and interact with toys. However, about 37% of children take this a step further and create an imaginary friend. (Psychology Today – 28th February 2017.)
How do children behave when having imaginary friends?
It’s common for children to blame their imaginary friends when they’ve done something wrong to separate them from the bad behaviour.
Often children will talk/play with their imaginary friend/s or request that a parent asks questions to the imaginary friend/s. (Family Education – 28th February 2017.)
Why do children make imaginary friends?
Imaginary friends can be a source of comfort when a child is experiencing difficulties. There are many case studies of children inventing imaginary friends to help them cope with traumatic experiences. (Psychology Today - 28th February 2017.)
How did we use this …show more content…
Therefore we planned to have our protagonist put blame on her imaginary friends and show that she has a deep bond with them like you would with a physical friend. As our research told us that children create imaginary friends after traumatic events we decided that the protagonist’s parents had separated and got a divorce. About 40% of marriages end in a divorce and divorce can be a stressful time for children involved. It can include neglect to the child, the child feeling unloved or unwanted and can negatively affect their relationship with their parents. We therefore made these the reasons for our protagonist having imaginary friends and our aim was to show the audience how our protagonist was being negatively affected by her parents divorce.
Dramatic techniques:
In the process of responding to our stimulus we came up with some dramatic techniques that we thought would be effective in our piece.
Tableaux – We wanted to use this in our piece to show what a character is thinking in a scene whilst the other characters are still.
Choral speaking – We wanted to use this in our piece as a story telling device and to show the emotions of the protagonist.
We also wanted to use rostra blocks as a way of staging our piece. We thought that we could link this with choral speaking to present it to the audience. Rostra blocks also keep the audience interested due to the different levels