Picking Oose tracks

Nothing Compares to you

Drugs don't work

Marry You

7 years

Component 2: Working Notebook – FRANTIC ASSEMBLY

Here are some questions for you to consider when writing your Working Notebook.

It is best to complete these at the end of every lesson while thoughts and ideas are still fresh!

Research        Understanding           Experimentation           Evaluation              Reflection      

1. What are the names of the techniques/ exercises that you learned today?
2. Why are these technique/ exercises important?
3. What have these techniques/ exercises helped you to understand about Frantic Assembly?
4. What skill will this exercise improve?
5. How could you use this exercise in a performance?
6. How are your ‘Frantic’ skills growing?
7. What can you do now that you couldn’t do before today?
8. Did you run into problems working on the technique/exercise?
9. If so, how did you solve those problems?
10. What did you contribute today in the lesson/rehearsal?

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Week beginning 23rd Jan

Picking Oose is a devising technique used by Frantic Assembly and was in fact used when devising Lovesong. 

Picking Oose uses everyday movements like picking a piece of fluff from somebody's jumper, adjusting their collar or touching their hand.

 This can then be developed, sometimes by incorporating other devising techniques, to tell a story and create a relationship.

Which other techniques that you have studied so far would you partner with this one to develop a story/relationship?

Which 'Frantic' techniques have been used to create this sequence?

What are your initial thoughts about the relationship being shown?

With your partner add 1 or 2 other Frantic Techniques to develop your story/relationship. 

Be as creative as you can be. At this point what you are doing is just 'play', trying out ideas, experimenting and congratulating yourself on 'accidental' successes, just as Frantic Assembly do. 

In your notebooks please write down what you have done today and how you developed your work. Be specific.

Learning to Fly - Student work

Learning to Fly - Students

Well done for great work this week, you produced great work that can easily be applied to your devised performance.

This was the work produced by Q group on Wednesday. Using the Flying lift that you all did, they applied it to an extract from Peter Pan. 

Below please comment with ideas to either develop this scene or ideas for other stories that this lift could be used in. 

It doesn't just need to be used to represent flying. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, this lift is used when Christopher is talking about his love of space. It could easily represent swimming or something more abstract. 

Be as creative as you can and if possible identify the moment in the story that you would use it? 

Learning to Fly

Devising music

Using music is really helpful when devising and something that Frantic Assembly do. Try some of these tracks below whilst you are working -


Here comes the fuzz

Between us and them

‘You need me, I don’t need you’

Air

Social Network Soundtrack

Underworld

Goldfrapp

Tripp-Hop Down Tempo

Lamb

hybrid

Learning to do Chair Duets - Frantic Assembly

Chair Duets Instruction video

Follow the link for music to help you devise - suggested by Frantic Assembly Instructions and music suggestions 

Chair Duets Examples 

Ignition Programme - Chair Duets

Othello cast - Chair Duets

Chair Duets Instructions

• Firstly don’t try and create a story or a background to a character. Just create movements and let that become the story...

1.    Both face forward and try to imagine you are on a sofa watching a television.

2.    Start by one of you placing a hand on yourself or your partner (knee, thigh, shoulder, neck, head) moving your own hand or placing the hand of your partner (on you or somewhere on them) – keep it clean.

3.    Alternatively you can lean forward/ back or push your partners torso forward/ back.

4.    Create 3 further moves (so you have 4 in total)

5.    Once you have done this for your 4 moves, your partner takes over- you can start to place/ move elbows, cross legs, move neck.

6.    Repeat this series of 8 moves, let it become a story and evolve a bit. Try to identify an attitude in the moves- are you being angry/ petulant, flirtatious, frustrated? Start to form a relationship (romantic, sibling, abusive, argumentative inappropriate etc)

7.    You can now develop a further 4 to 8 moves (12 to 16 all together.)

8.    Don’t get bogged down in character. Have fun with it, just play together – experiment and see what comes out of it.

Frantic Assembly - Push Hands and Learning to fly

What is Push Hands? Find out here - go to pg 106

A student version of Push Hands

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