Brainstorming of Ideas: Our group worked particularly well together in this project. it was really interesting to work with people that I have rarely worked with in a project and seeing everybody coming up with creative and innovative ideas as well as jumping out of their comfort zones to achieve the desired outcomes. I felt that our ideas were very intertwined and we worked hard to compromise with decisions in the staging and overall plot of our piece. We began the process by brainstorming a list of issues that we were all passionate about. These included: the romanticism of mental illness (especially on social media), fake news or statistics, extreme culture shock or differences in cultural values, racism, women's rights, false accusations …show more content…
In that scene, Sienna and I make no eye contact whatsoever even though she is touching me. This creates a disconcerted effect on the audience and eliminates the emotional tension in the scene by breaking eyecontact between the two characters. Our group employed the use of placards in our piece in the form of scene change notifiers, Instagram captions, hashtags, as well as comments revealing what were true and what was false. Another Brecht technique we used was the random insertion of music to break up tension and suspense. In Scene 7 and 8, we chose to include tension breaking music in the form of the Georgie Peorgie nursery rhyme to drive home the situation that just occurred and the Mii theme song to break up the high emotional charge in scene 8 (the domestic violence scene). Throughout our whole play we never go offstage unless using the behind the screen projector. This again was one of Brecht’s Alienation techniques that we employed. We also chose to start the play off with one of our most confronting scenes to eliminate the emotional connection the audience might’ve forged if we placed it later in the play when the audience actually had some context and knowledge of the