Community - Episode 8

3 weeks left and we were able to see what the beginning video would look like in our performance (upload it shortly) and it was one full of positivity.

We started the day first of all with helping the young offenders get their Bronze Arts Award and what this consisted of was something to put on their CV, showing their actual worth, something that some people are blind to see and I felt that this was a great way to show the doubters everyone is human and we all make mistakes. For this to happen, they had to run their own game of some sort so that they had a chance to be in control of the whole class and this was really fascinating, being able to see different people leading different games and how they communicated and approached everyone else. Another thing they had to do was watch a piece of theatre (Peacock Theatre) and write a review about what they thought about it and if it sent a positive message.

Along with this we had a chance to create our own pieces of music which I previously spoke about but today was a day where we would go off in our separate groups into the studio and be able to film and record the songs. Only God could calculate the excitement in their hearts about going to the studio to record songs they've always wanted to be heard before and to have it on a CD would be a huge positive factor for them.

In the end we decided that we would make a start on Josh's story and made sure it was really detailed; this would only help the audience realise the dangers us as human beings are under living in this world and we have to be cautious of the things we do. We all represented characters in the story. We had the boy, his girlfriend, his brother, his brothers girlfriend, his mum and the individual who shot him. I believed that this was a good idea because the story was powerful and I wanted it to stay that way without the cheesy acting. i felt it could take away from the story if we were to act it out. We created movement and sounds to enhance the stories and re create the conversations he had with people that day. One vital decision that we as a group made was to have a conversation between to people spoken out to the audience instead of themselves.