videos

 

This is the public announcement.

 

 

This is what we got up too / highlights and sneak peaks!

http://www.hitchintv.co.uk/zombie-quest-the-game/

Task 3

Evaluation of the process:

I personally think it was a very interesting process. Site specific is a lot harder than it looks, so it has been very challenging for me. Also having taking on a more dominant role of directing with Nathan is also new for me which was also more difficult than it looks. I think with my scene we came a long way to get to where we are now because it was solid for a while, the idea changed a few times compared to how it started. I think directing on your own is completely different than directing with a partner as you both have different opinions and outlooks on what works in the piece and what doesn't, what we like and dislike, and everything in the scene itself. Working with first years was great because it was a chance to see what they can do and how well they take direction/criticism. It was a little difficult sometimes to get them to do what we want them to do. Also having a member leave was a lot harder because at first, our scene only needed around six people. But we were having actors come in and fill in for parts to help us in the scene, but because we wouldn't see them until the night, it was really hard to rehearse because it involved us having to get Amber and Nathan to say everything when we thought about some of the other actors saying a few small parts as well/nothing too much. We have had a feeling that when it gets to the night of the performance, our scene will change slightly due to having more actors/adrenaline and an audience. For research with our first idea including the baby, we looked at Ebola (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-34728583 ) & http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/07/baby-and-maternal-deaths-soar-in-sierra-leone-amid-ebola-fears-researchers . I watched the film 'World War Z' as well. To help with the idea of when we had a baby in the scene I watched this part of "Sophie's choice".

 

Show Day prep:

We had a lot to get through as we needed to make the set the way we wanted it and brief our new actors. Ella also took us to our site so we could brief the camera men about our scene so they know where to do the camera angles. She also told us that our scene has got bigger and we have way more props and costumes. We was given two bats and we wasn't sure why, but when we got to the site Ella explained what would happen and instead of me getting shot, I would be getting whacked round the head with a bat. 

So now the scene goes like this: 

- People are called in and too stop for their own safety

- Nathan explains who they are and what is going to happen

- I will be coughing in the audience

- Eventually Nathan will notice and bring me out

- Other CDC members will be checking other audience members

- Army officers will be standing around with torches

- Nathan will call for assistance and I will be taken behind the plastic sheeting and whacked with the bat 

- Blood will splatter on the sheet

- I will be dragged to where the other body bags will be placed

- That is then the cue for the audience to leave when the other CDC members and army officers shout that there is nothing too see here.

So then we went down to our set and started to build our set and we had some help of a man who was acting in the project. So our site went from this:

                                                              (This is where I will be taken)

(This is where the body bags will be)

(This is where the military truck will be)

(This is the inside)

(This is a pathway where audience can come from)

TOO THIS:

We also had to brief our actors, it was quite hard to brief them and took a while, we had to do it a few times. One of the actors mentioned me being bitten by a zombie instead because zombie's got bought into our scene, but I said that changes our whole story line and were not sure if the zombie's are allowed to touch us. Eventually it came onto the first group of people, the first time we performed the scene it was so rushed and our actors didn't do anything that we wanted them to do so afterwards we briefed them again just to make sure everyone was completely sure. At some points the scene went messy and other times it went so well. It really depended on the audience we had. I felt as the night went on, the scene got so much better but we also got so tired. There wasn't many connections from the company on what time to finish, whether we could take a break or anything to be honest. It was a really tiring night and I didn't realise site specific would be so tiring, but I guess repeating the exact same scene the whole night can really wear you out. There was many drunk players this made it more difficult to act because they would realise that I wasn't with them before and that would give away the entire scene before we had even started, some of the audience members made comments on how the storyline is so obvious and all that but I just had to ignore it, as did everyone else and just carry on with the scene anyway.

 

I would do it again, but I would have the scene nailed down way sooner than we had. To be honest, I loved our scene now that I look back but it took a long way to get like that in the short time we had to change it from our original idea. I have learnt a lot from this unit such as how to get an audience's attention, how to go really far in a performance and not hold back and just to be more serious and natural as I haven't always been casted in such serious roles and plays.

 

I used skills of naturalism and being serious in my role. I usually have a problem with laughing when I am nervous or uncomfortable but I managed to sustain that. I think this role was hard for me to take on because it is so different to anything I have ever done before but I think I did well to produce the character.

Evaluation of performance:

my self evaluation:

our group evaluation: 

 

 

 

I think for our scene the overall effect was that, even though I wasn't causing any harm I was still an issue and they handled me with no sympathy. It shows how real it can be with society that it's what has to be done sometimes no matter how innocent somebody thinks they are.

 

I understand that performing in a site specific performance you need to constantly be on the ball and you always need to have 100% energy. You have to perform the same scene so many times, which means you have so many times to get it right or improve it but you still need to give it your all the entire time. You cannot come out of character for one second because you will most likely have to do the scene straight after you finished it. The scene and acting needs to be delivered better every time. By having the chance to do the scene so many times, you have the chance to change it up a bit and try new things to see what does and doesn't work.

Learning outcomes:

 

1. Know the nature of site specific performance as an art form:

 

Site specific is specific to the site of the performance. Style of performance and the audience participation. The nature of the audience engagement.

 

2. know the legislative requirements related to a site-specific performance:

 

The legal requirements are risk assessments, site restrictions, site inventory, health and safety requirements, first aid requirements, security, regulations re use of value/insurance, legal issues re use of space.

 

3 Be able to research and contribute ideas in the development process of a site-specific performance :

Rehearsal process', and development (R+D) / research and development.

 

 

4. Be able to undertake a role in a site-specific performance 



Baby doll

When we still had the baby idea, Michael managed to get hold of this baby doll that he said we could borrow:

We were originally going to use this, we never got to rehearse with it but then the baby doll got removed from our piece. 

Extra rehearsal day

We worked on the new idea:

We didn't know who would shoot me and how we would actually get to that solution. We thought Amber's character was too nice & Nathan wasn't aggressive enough. So we thought we would make it as if it was Nathan now & possibly one of our extra actors when we actually do it. 

My costume is: 

- blue jeans

- pink jumper

- coat

- boots

Nathan & Ambers / CDC people: 

- white all in one suits

- mouth masks

- gloves

- head torches

When we was about to show it too Ella she told us that part of it had changed, in the fact that now that our scene is not next to the churchyard and it is a little further away from there in the cloysters in Hitchin (not far from the church yard) and that is because the church wouldn't allow us to do it there, we now have a military van with the three extra actors who are going to be Becky, Josh, & Aaron. And they will be holding guns and military equipment. And they will be the people who shoot me.

But Ella did want too see what we had done just before I would be taken away, she watched it and stopped Nathan a few times to just make him understand that he needed to be more sure of what he is going to say & that the scene is fine. Nathan needed to script what he needed to say because he was struggling but it was purely because the scene changed so he had to tweak his lines slightly.

Second day of performance / changes to our scene

We performed this piece to the class, it did not go as smoothly as planned which is the last thing we wanted but we didn't get much rehearsal time with our extra volunteers. Also the video got cut off at the end. Our feedback was: 

The main feedback was about Nathan being more angry and our relationship needed to be stronger between us and Nathan kept relating the baby to a 'the' and 'her baby' so it looked like a detachment already. Also that I needed to be more argumentative about passing the baby to the officers because I really do not want them too. At the minute our piece is just very weak so we needed more of a fixture of how it will work as of right now its not flowing very well. 

Ella had an idea of that me & the baby will be taken round the back and the baby will be shot and you would just see me on the floor with a blanket covered in blood and Nathan being held back by officers. Also that we don't go through the effort of scanning people, that we just look at the arms and that's it.

So me, Nathan and Amber sat and tried to work out a better way to do it. We decided that the 'CDC' people will get the audience to line up and explain what's going on and why it has to be done (checking for the virus). Then me and Nathan would actually be in the line getting a little nervous about being scanned and Amber would then notice and come over and ask if everything is alright, then me and Nathan would say something a long the lines of 'we just want to get home, we have a baby who's only 12 weeks old' and Amber would mention us being tested for the virus by her so we can move on a lot quicker, then there would be a little conversation of that we do not think it is necessary, but eventually she will check out arms and ask to take the baby to check, but we do not want her too, when Amber would then eventually look at the baby she gives a look to another CDC officer and is asked if there is a problem and she mentions taking the baby further back to do more tests and needing assistance and we question it, she then would ask me (the mother) to go with her and ask Nathan  (father) to wait there with another CDC officer. When the baby is taken round the back, Amber would mention the baby contracting the virus and taking it away and she would shoot the baby and have a spat of blood be thrown at plastic sheeting and I am just left with a blanket covered in blood and Nathan gets released and comforts me and one of the CDC officers get the audience out by telling them that there is nothing to see here. 

When we actually performed this piece, I didn't manage to get it on film. But it didn't go well at all, it went so quick and was very repetitive and it confused the audience a bit, also you couldn't hear the sound effect of the gun so the ending made no sense. Our feedback wasn't what we wanted to hear because we knew deep down we would probably get told the things we did, feedback included things like : ' if I got checked and I was a player I would have just moved on and not stayed there' , 'maybe you and Nathan could have more of a conversation in the line a little bit longer' , ' Amber you was repeating the same things such as needing to check the baby' , 'why would they give you back the dead baby at the end' , ' it went from going to the back to check the baby and then going further back to check the baby again '. 

Me and Nathan was speaking in the line, but we wasn't speaking loud enough and didn't say that much. We only had one blanket and we need two so that we could have covered one in the blood, they wouldn't give back the baby, it would just be a blanket covered in the blood but I can understand if the audience got confused about it. And it was hard to do the performance the way we want too because we're not able to practice it in our actual scene so it did involve Amber having to move further away to 'shoot the baby'. 

So then I said "were struggling with the whole sadness part and 'tugging at the heart strings', because we have never been in this situation and just don't know how to handle it'. And we was just told we need to do some more research. 

So now with the help of Ella, the idea has changed and it is now no parents, no baby, just one person infected which we haven't decided who get but it may just be me and Natahn would then be a CDC officer with Amber and possibly more actors/actresses. Amber would be more kind, and Nathan would be more aggressive. I would be infected but it would be made to look like I have been playing the game but on my own, with possibly some tissue in my hand with blood and I am continually coughing in the line and Nathan and Amber exchange looks a few times because they know I have got it so eventually I will be taken away with Amber but with a friendly gesture and I will possibly be shot and the other CDC officer will get the audience to leave because there is "nothing too see here".

Task 1

Understanding Site Specific Work:

A few times in classes we have watched clips about site specific work but it's been from American Practitioners. 

I have also already seen a site specific work, I went to watch 'absent' in Shoreditch town hall. It mentioned on a website that the duchess is 18 or could she be 80? This makes a big impact on the piece as well. There isn't actually any talking or acting apart from in the first part but it's involving no talking, you pretty much had to work out the story line yourself. I had to go round twice because the first time I rushed through and didn't really understand it to be honest but then the second time I got more of an idea of what it was about. I am glad I went round twice, because even though it wasn't my 'first' impression, I had a completely different outlook of it when I came out and completely understood the story where as I didn't before, and that can be the main difficulty with site specific, which is the fact that you mainly have to work out the story line yourself, it could be completely different to what someone else may think.

Even though there was NO talking at all in the scenes, the set up and some of the props made the whole story make sense. You started off in a newly modern hotel and are standing in a room where there are three screens and they have all the same girl on her, and then in front of us behind the window was a much older women acting and I got the impression that it is all the same girl. They all looked straight at you at the same time, then it would show her walking around drunk and when she was first in the room and then what she and the room looked like when she left, with bits of paper which was a letter telling the lady she needs to move out. Then you go through these modern rooms with screens of a little girl in with a swing that was shown in one of the other clips of her which meant this was a younger version of her. There was a massive grid of tiny model rooms of the new hotel as a whole and as you make your way through you see a room that looks like its being made up which has clues on the floor such as bottle of alcohol, pearl necklace, a article about the duchess having an affair with the manager of the hotel and so on, as you carry on you see undergrounds of nothing, just pure empty space and that is when the rooms haven't been made yet and are currently being re done. You make your way up and see a tiny model of a ballroom all trashed up and a screen showing the duchess when she was a younger lady, starting with the room all perfect and going up to all these women, then she comes in contact with a man at the end and it shows that the whole room is smashed up, the next room is then the smashed up ballroom. Right at the end there is a perfect room with all the objects saying 'sold' on it with a bottle of perfume that comes up in a lot of rooms through the site and that was the end.

So my take on the story is that were starting from the future and making our way back to the past as we started at the new modern rooms and ended up in trashed rooms and a room with everything sold. So the duchess was seeing the man who owns the hotel, and he gave her the best rooms for cheap rates and all that but to make it look like nothing was going on, he kicked her out and sold all the items and put her in another room away from the hotel so she was nowhere near anybody, then she had to be moved out of there because of the renovations, then she was told she needed to leave and the manager was seeing loads of other women behind her back and she finds out at the ballroom so she goes up to all the women and finds out at the end at trashes the ballroom. When you see that room that is half done, it is the transition from her old room to the completely new modern rooms that you see at the beginning of the whole play.

I really did like the piece. At first I didn't like it because I didn't understand it, it was free roaming so I didn't really know what to do because we could go whatever speed we wanted but because there was no acting, I was a little confused which is why I asked to go in again, and going in with Molly and Janay who also didn't understand it, was good because we all came out with the same outlook on the same piece.

http://shoreditchtownhall.com/theatre-performance/whats-on/event/absent

'A young woman enters a hotel. She is magnetic and compelling, yet strangely detached, as if in a dream; she knows everyone, yet is utterly alone; she has many lovers, but loves no one; she is 18 years old - or is she 80?'

ABSENT is partly inspired by The Duchess of Argyll's residence at a central London hotel from the 1970's until the 80's, when she was finally evicted, having run out of friends and credit

I also saw one at the 'national student drama festival 2015' in Scarborough which was more of an element of children's theatre which was called 'The Nutcracker' this was really enjoyable and funny because there was acting all the time but you still had to work out the story and help fix the puzzle which I thought was really clever and by fixing the puzzle, it made the story make sense. The storyline was about a family having a Christmas party and the little brother 'Billy' was a little shy and was always left out. He didn't talk, but he spoke by writing on a board and connecting with the audience which meant different groups had a different one to one experience with Billy. He made it clear that his dad doesn't like Billy drawing and being himself and his family take the mick out of him all the time and always has nightmares, so a family member came round to give presents and gave Billy a nutcracker who the rest of his family took the mick out of and the mother went crazy at the family member because she said he wasn't welcome. So we all went into Billy's room and the family member sung him to sleep and got us all to close his eyes and gave us all hand warmers, then a UV light showed writing on the wall telling us the direction to go to Billy's brain to find out why he keeps having nightmares and we soon found out that his family were evil rats and there was a fairy, the evil rats locked Billy and the family member away and left us as two groups too fix the puzzle to find the pieces of the nutcrackers because it was torn up. We had to make a track for the cowboy to come across and help, give the penguin our hand warmers to warm her up and as we helped complete more tasks we pieced together the nutcrackers and the evil rats came and ripped up the nutcracker and threw it into the wardrobe, then we heard a knock and Billy came out and was dressed as the nutcracker. Once we came out of Billy's mind, there was note from the family saying sorry to Billy and fixed the nutcracker.

I actually loved this show, it was so fun and interesting it was one of the first site specific works I had seen so I was really happy and excited to have the opportunity to see it because I enjoyed it so much, definitely one of my favourites from the whole festival.

Punch Drunk :

'The Masque Of The Red Death' :

Battersea Old-Town, London, UK 2007 - 2008

&

'The Drowned Man'

Presented by punch drunk and the National Theatre.

'Have you ever seen nature inside out? When the sun stands at midday and it's as if the world was going up in flames?'

'Step into the world of Temple Pictures where the Hollywood Studio system meets a forgotten hinterland filled with dreamers who exist at the fringes of the movie industry. Here, celluloid fantasy clings to desperate realism and certainty dissolves into a hallucinatory world'.

'Inspired by Buchner's fractured masterpiece Woyzeck, this theatrical journey follows it's protagonists along the precipice between illusion and reality'. 

 

This trailer of 'the drowned man' almost makes it look like a movie, the set is incredible. Personally I would go and watch it purely because of the trailer. It makes it look so amazing. I like how they have done the camera angles as well. I think the set is very clever especially the wood/forest area and how they have done a miniature version of the caravans as well as the original life size ones, which is kind of like what I saw in 'Absent' In Shoreditch town hall.

Trisha Brown:

First performed in 1970, performed at the walking art centre Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2008. 

I personally think that this piece of work is really clever and interesting, even though there is no talking, I think it is still really powerful and looks very weird. It confusing how it works. But you can see that it would take a lot of strength to do it and it would be difficult to create the illusion if you do not move correctly. Although it is clever and a weird illusion, I do find it a little boring...I know it is not the type of thing you can stop half way but it did drag for a really long time.

Floor of the forest:

 

 

To be completely honest, I didn't really understand this one. I'm just seeing two people climb round rope and hang in two tops facing each other. There is no talking again, I think the set is definitely very clever but it's very short, but I cannot imagine it being much longer. But it's just pointless to me, though it is clever. 

 

Her works include:

• Homemade (1966)
• Man Walking Down the Side of a Building (1970)
• Floor of the Forest (1970)
• Leaning Duets (1970)
• Accumulation (1971)
• Walking on the Wall (1971)
• Roof Piece (1971)
• Primary Accumulation (1972)
• Group Primary Accumulation (1973)
• Structured Pieces II (1974)
• Spiral (1974)
• Locus (1975)
• Structured Pieces III (1975)
• Solo Olos (1976)
• Line Up (1976)
• Spanish Dance' (1976)
• Watermotor (1978)
• Accumulation with Talking plus Watermotor (1978)
• Glacial Decoy (1979)
• Opal Loop (1980)
• Son of Gone Fishin' (1981)
• Set and Reset (1983)
• Lateral Pass (1985)
• Newark (1987)
• Astral Convertible (1989)
• Foray Forêt (1990)
• For M.G.: The Movie (1991)
• One Story as in falling (1992)
• Another Story as in falling (1993)
• If you couldn't see me (1994)
• M.O. (1995)
• Twelve Ton Rose (1996)
• L'Orfeo (1998)
• Winterreise (2002)
• PRESENT TENSE (2003)
• O Zlozony/O Composite (2004)
• How long does the subject linger on the edge of the volume... (2005)
• I love my robots (2007)
• L'Amour au Theatre (2009)
• Pygmalion (2010)

 

There is also 'site specific dance'

 

 

 

This one is a girl dancing in an empty bus. It is clever because it is repetitive movement, and over exaggerated movement of what people actually do when they are on the bus. I did find it kind of awkward because I didn't completely understand what she was doing, but after a while it made more sense, even though it was short...it didn't need to be any longer in my opinion.

WHAT IS SITE SPECIFIC?

Site specific theatre is a performance which overtly uses the properties, qualities, and meanings found at/on a given site, be it a landscape, a city, a building or a room. This form of theatre emphasizes particular images, stories, and events that reveal the complex relationship between ourselves and our physical environment.

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. The actual term was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin, but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites (see Peter Frank, “Site Sculpture”, Art News, Oct. 1975). Site specific environmental art was first described as a movement by architectural critic Catherine Howett (“New Directions in Environmental Art,” Landscape Architecture, Jan. 1977) and art critic Lucy Lippard (“Art Outdoors, In and Out of the Public Domain,” Studio International, March–April 1977).

HISTORY:

Site-specific art emerged after the modernist objects as a reaction of artists to the situation in the world. Modernist art objects were transportable, nomadic, could only exist in the museum space and were the objects of the market and co modification. Since 1960 the artists were trying to find a way out of this situation, and thus drew attention to the site and the context around this site . The work of art was created in the site and could only exist and in such circumstances - it can not be moved or changed. Site is a current location, which comprises a unique combination of physical elements: depth, length, weight, height, shape, walls, temperature. Works of art began to emerge from the walls of the museum and galleries (Daniel Buren, Within and Beyond the Frame, John Weber Gallery, New York, 1973), were created specifically for the museum and galleries (Michael Asher, untitled installation at Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, 1974, Hans Haacke, Condensation Cube, 1963–65, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Hartford Wash: Washing Tracks, Maintenance Outside, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1973), thus criticizing the museum as an institution that sets the rules for artists and viewers.

EXAMPLES:

Outdoor site-specific artworks often include landscaping combined with permanently sited sculptural elements (Site-specific art can be linked with Environmental art). Outdoor site-specific artworks can also include dance performances created especially for the site. More broadly, the term is sometimes used for any work that is (more or less) permanently attached to a particular location. In this sense, a building with interesting architecture could also be considered a piece of site-specific art.

Artists producing site-specific works include Michele Oka Doner, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, David Smith, Isaac Witkin, Anthony Caro, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Richard Haas, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, David Booker, Louise Nevelson, Leonard Baskin, George Segal, Tom Otterness, Roy Lichtenstein, Olafur Eliasson, PINK de Thierry, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Max Neuhaus, Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Dan Flavin, Archie Rand, Richard Serra, Olga Kisseleva, Michael Heizer, Patricia Johanson, James Turrell, Paul Kuniholm Pauper, Ana Mendieta, Athena Tacha, Alice Adams, Nancy Holt, Rowan Gillespie, Scott Burton, Robert Irwin, Marian Zazeela, Guillaume Bijl, Betty Beaumont, Albert Vrana, Sally Jacques, and younger artists like Eberhard Bosslet, Mark Divo, Leonard van Munster, Luna Nera,^[2] Simparch, Sarah Sze, Stefano Cagol, NatHalie Braun Barends, and Seth Wulsin. In Geneva, Switzerland, the two Contemporary Art Funds of the City and the Canton (FMAC and FCAC) are looking forward to integrate art into the architecture and in the public space since 1980 . The Neons Parrallax was conceived specifically for the Plaine de Plainpalais whose perimeter, located at the heart of the City, the challenge of the artists invited was to transpose the advertising stakes of the commercial signs of the harbour in artistic messages.

Site-specific performance art, site-specific visual art and interventions are commissioned for the annual Infecting the City Festival in Cape Town, South Africa. The site-specific nature of the works allows artists to interrogate the contemporary and historic reality of the Central Business District and create work that allows the city's users to engage and interact with public spaces in new and memorable ways.

Site-specific performance emerged out of the radical artistic milieu of the late 1960's and early 1970's that also gave birth to site-specific work generally. It represents perhaps the most ambitious and revolutionary re-interpretation of theatre and performance devised in the twenty-first century. Site-specific performance has influenced site-specific work in Britain in the past ten years in many ways.

Planning the second half of the scene:

We still needed to do our scene with me and Nathan coming in with our baby. We thought it would be best to script it and then if we found better ideas, to then put them in.

I wrote this script and sent it to Nathan: 

After looking at it, Nathan mentioned a few things such as: 

'I think it might go a bit quick though, but I think if we make the bit where the dad finds his baby is bitten a tiny bit longer'

'The bit where it the scanner says you two are clean, but the baby is infected, I think the mother should then say, (I told you, we should of just gone without being checked). Then the dad could say (wait you knew, this whole time you knew our baby was infected and you didn't tell me)'

I liked his ideas, it would also make the scene a little bit longer and not rushed as much. 

We went through it a few times with Amber and was struggling on how to end it, Ella also said we would have two extra actors to help out for our scene as we need more CDC characters. The main reason why we read through the scene a couple times was to make us all comfortable on how it should work and give us an idea on everything going on. 

Task 2

Risk Assessment:

Our area has slightly moved from when we first started working on 'Zombie Quest' but it's only a little change.

• There is a river where our piece is so there is a danger of falling in
• Ducks / Swans / Geese could be near our area
• There are public toilets nearby, anyone could use them in our piece
• We are on a pathway, there is a chance of cracks in the pathway or slightly raised tiles
• We are outside, anyone could walk into our scene
• People could be afraid of ducks/swans/geese
• The birds can bite

   Company name:  The Infected – Corrina, Nathan, & Amber                                 Date of risk assessment:  15/10/15



What are the hazards?	Who might be harmed and how?	What are you already doing?	Do you need to do anything else to control this risk?	Action by who?	Action by when?	Done
Slips and trips	Staff and visitors may be injured if they trip over objects or slip on spillages.	General good housekeeping is carried out. All areas as well lit as possible. No trailing leads or cables. Staff keep work areas clear, eg no boxes left in walkways, deliveries stored immediately.	Making sure that there are signs to point out if there are any spills, never leave it without having someone there to warn other people.   Keep the area tidy always.	All staff, supervisor to monitor Manager	From now on     15/10/15	15.10.15
River nearby	Staff and visitors could fall in to the river, as it only has small gates to cover it, it is quite deep.	Keeping away from the area, making sure it is guarded so that no harm comes to anybody.	Making sure it is guarded and nobody is hanging around the river.	All staff.	from now on	15.10.15
Ducks/Swans/Geese	Staff and visitors may be injured by these animals as they can bite, follow you and so on.	Trying to keep away from them, luckily where we are there are not many at all but can still be seen and around.	Have someone near by the shun the ducks/swans/geese away if they get too close. Some people may have fears of them.	Security and all staff.	From now on   15/10/15	15.10.15
Raised pavement tiles	Staff and visitors may be harmed as they can be quite easy to trip over.	Keeping an eye on them to make sure the public don’t go too close to them, and keeping more worse ones out of use.	Making sure nobody trips and really badly hurts themselves.	All staff	from now on   15.10.15	15.10.15



 

General Use Of The Site:

Where our scene is, it is in an open space and is open to the public. There are public toilets, rivers and open pathways to lead anywhere. There is also a church and a church yard nearby with shops and cafe's nearby. Also the covered market is not far away, and there is a car park very close by and we are very close to Hitchin Town. 

However for our scene, it works really well with the idea we have of it being a quarantine area. If it was inside of a shop it may not work as well and have the same affect on people. Although the stream isn't the best part of the site, I think it will work a lot better now that we won't be as close to the graveyard / churchyard / church. There is a hotel close by, a few car parks surroundings and a busy road is nearby as well.

Conditions Of The Site:

It is an old area. The pathway isn't in immaculate condition because of cracks and raised tiles. there is a lot of rubbish and litter in the stream, making an unpleasant smell. There are stairs close by to go up to the town and to the car park. There are archways which are covered in cobwebs and dirt, and old gates near the area. There is a car park right next to us and we are really close to a hotel as well.

Site specific theatre is any type of theatrical production designed to be performed at a unique, specially adapted location other than the standard theatre. This specific site either may be originally built without any intention of serving theatrical purposes (for example, in a hotel, a courtyard or a converted building), or may simply be considered an unconventional theatre space (for example, in a forest).

Restrictions:

• Parked vehicles
• ducks / swans / geese
• toilets
• phone boxes
• paying machines
• we cannot place the military van near the stream as it will block the whole pathway
• we cannot use the stairs as the scene will be too open and too separated
• we cannot put the audience in the archway part as it is too small and closed

This was the list of props we needed with our old storyline, now we need:

- head torches

- blood capsules

- fake blood

- plastic sheeting

costumes: 

- for Corrina:

- Blue jeans, pink jumper, coat, boots.

- for Nathan & Amber:

- White all in one suits 

- Military people:

- Trousers, tops, jackets, boots

Budget:

• Head torches (provided by Georgia & possibly me)
• Blood capsules (provided by Chloe / being ordered) - vary from £1.99 - £.5.00
• Fake Blood (£1.50 - £4.00)
• Plastic Sheeting (vary from £7.99 - £20.00 depending how much we need)

When walking around the site, it gave us a really clear image in our head on how it was going to work. We could also picture how the set would be placed and where the audience would stand. Having the gates meant we could use it to hang some set such as signs or orange sheeting, we got saved by having our scene move because it was a really hard set to put up with the easier location so it would have been harder in the churchyard as there is hardly anywhere to hang anything and the location we ended up with was suited so much better to our scene.