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".
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