Learning Outcome 1 - Be Able to Interpret Ideas for Performance Material

Sources: themes eg social, cultural, historical, ethical, spiritual and/or moral issues; textual eg
autobiographical material, literary and non-literary text, poems, stories, dance notation, music scores, sheet music; visual eg painting, postcards, photographs, artefacts; aural eg music, audio recordings, live
sound; media eg films, videos, newspaper and magazine extracts Exploration: eg exercises, improvisation, research, discussions, idea and thought mapping, try-outs

Introduction
For this unit our class got split into two groups. Each group would then have to compose a performance of two songs, lasting at least five minutes each. These two songs would need to be related to the set topic, your groups would also need to include interactive aspects when performing the two songs to an audience.

The themes we were asked to base the two songs around were peace and conflict.
for the interactive aspects we chose to create two back drop videos for each song. One video to reflect conflict and one to reflect peace.

Below you can see the bullet points of ideas that I put together from some of the various discussions me and my group had when discussing the songs.

CONFLICT

Themes
-        Powerful videos/images/newspapers/famous posters etc.
-        Start off with small scale conflicts and build up to bigger conflicts such as riots, and eventually war.
-        Videos start off switching from scene to scene slowly, but gradually build up in speed to build intensity.
-        Have a video that cycles such as peace leading to war, ending in peace, building back up to war etc.
-        Switch from 1st world country kid playing war game such as COD or Halo, then switch to scenes of real war/conflict in 3rd world countries.
-        Include samples of radio announcements and speeches.
 
Music
-        Start off acoustic and build up from there.
-        Switch from calm music to loud heavy music depending on the scene.
-        Minor key.
-        Modulate to a different key at some point.

PEACE

Themes
-        Iconic videos, e.g, man walking on moon, people holding hands, peaceful sunsets, people in harmony, having fun, peaceful nature ect.
-        Start off with something atmospheric, gradually change through peaceful animals to humans


Music
-        Written with a heavy influence or reggae
-        Up beat with major key, possibly major version of conflict song
-        Modulate towards the end
-        Have a tempo change

Group Things to Consider

Interaction
-        Change clothes in unison
-        Create backdrop
-        Audience interaction (clapping, dancing) 
-         Have the cornet play the last post behind the audience so its more realistic

Jobs
-        Teddy: Make Facebook group
-        Emma: Lyrics
-        Charlie: Make a collection of media
-        Sophia: Find YouTube videos
-        Will: Find possible music styles/influences we could have
-        Spencer: Find YouTube videos