Slung Low - Day 3 - The Great Bear

Lucy Hind giving pep talk

Sup,

Today has been a day of research, continuing working with 'The Great Bear'. Keeping our work away from the script as much as possible, we've been looking at some of the main themes presented in the piece and the ways that we can find images in these themes and present them to the audience.

The themes were:

• Crossing the ocean / nautical stuff
• Gambling
• Ash
• The element of chance

Research

We got some nice interesting ideas thrown about. Gambling with life, addictions, fish and chip stands, Zeus, lightning strikes, and burnt down homes.

Got to see an experiment with the realistic human ash I was working on yesterday. It's amazing how quickly these guys have worked, and the effort put in is crazy. For the chef to look as though he is dissolving into ash, the techie folks have come up with a genius method involving filing tights with the 'ash'. I know the video is on one side, but you'll get the idea.



Afternoon saw the majority of groups getting down to work building things. Check the pictures.

Making a shark fin

Making a 'wind swept' umberella

Alan making another phone call...

More ash

Cardboard clothing

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