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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Yatta! I'm finally up to date with my journals! (congratulates myself)
This is the most current post.

The past two days we stayed back after school and after lessons to polish and refine the family scenes. The group of us made great progress and roughly forged out the skeleton of the performance! Now all that's left is to put the muscles and flesh into the skeleton to form one wholesome performance!

Firstly, Yesterday.
We played a "game", as i would call it. We acted as our characters and did a SIMS computer game style of devising. We just acted as a family and interracted with each other on a day to day basis, forging stronger characters and at the same time, developing the storyline. After some time, we got clearer and clearer stories and eventually stopped the "game" to craft out the performance properly.

The introduction would be done by Mars. She will be reading a script to the screen(television) which requires her to introduce her family. When she comes to the point about her father, Diavolo enters the stage as the president and makes the announcement that war will soon be declared to the country. This is the scene which needs working on the most. That interview must be done as soon as possible.

It will then move on to the family scene. This was the section that was crafted today. Pluto would go around and, being very inquisitive, ask many questions about life and war to show her ignorance to the matter and hence, give the sense that there is hope for mankind, however, her siblings and even ber mother would shun her. That would represent society blatantly rejecting the hope that they have, to be once again, thinking individuals.

Diavolo will come home and immediately spends time with Pluto, loving her as a father would. He then gives Suzy numerical value which sparks off questions by Suzy. The couple reminisce about how they met and what happened and Diavolo realizes that Suzy doesnt remember. Venus then comes and provokes Diavolo who leaves the home. This then sparks the President's response to order that every household sends one member to participate in the war.

Back to yesterday's crafting, the family, without Diavolo, will vote for someone to go for war. They will do it in a Survivor Tribal Council style which evidently shows the back to basics with modernization theme. Hence, Pluto is sent for war. this shows that the hope for mankind is condamned by the family. Suzy is unable to vote as she feels for her children. She, under the influence of Diavolo, shows some form of thinking. This is queer as the people of their society doesnt think. This increases the audience's suspicion to Diavolo.

When Diavolo announces that Pluto is to be sent for war, He rushes back home. The president is heard running in the dark and Diavolo comes home. This further creates suspicion in Diavolo. The family then reacts to Pluto's being sent for war. Diavolo is devastated. Pluto asks her father to send her to the teleportation pod to the warfront. That would be her last time seeing her father.

Tomorrow, more crafting and ideas will surface!

The actor froze at 4:17 AM