Piece With JJ

Using this FOX News article as stimulus, JJ and I wanted to explore the idea of welcoming something only to turn your back on it. This was boiling down the main idea the article was presenting into it's simplest forms. We decided to do this through using a scrunched up piece of paper - representing the war torn migrants who had fled from their home country. This was our way of attempting to get our story across without being too literal. We then unfolded the paper carefully to represent the surge in volunteers and countries beginning to welcome refugees across their borders. This was our attempt to show 'protection'. However, as the last few months have gone on - a surge of anti-migrant protests and right wing groups have gained popularity, especially after the attacks in Paris and Brussels. We then scrunched the paper back up and tried to get the other to take it - this was our way of showing the idea of 'it's not our problem' - an ideology that many people seem to possess.

In 17/03/16's lesson we decided to try and develop the piece without using the paper or words - making it purely physical. This meant that we really had to tap into what we were trying to explore and the very basics of what 'welcome' and 'enough' means and how to portray that. I feel we did this quite successfully as we did not have a lot of time but we were able to have a piece that was ready to perform (despite not performing it). I would like to expand and develop that piece further as it has a lot of potential, I believe, as a piece on a whole.