"Dr Faustus" - Marlowe (13) (Sins)

Below are the pieces of music we have decided to use for each sin (we only use as much as these songs as the narration takes):

• SLOTH & GLUTTONY - "3:14 Every Night" from "The Social Network"
  • (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfpxuJbVaBA)
• PRIDE - "Fashion songs 4 London Fashion Week"
  
  • (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSWk-IIc9Yc)
• WRATH - "Emotion Series - Anger Vol 2"
  
  • (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHRqTSgKJGg)
• LUST - "Express" from "Burlesque"
  
  • (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3oz7ENqFz8)
• GREED - "Ode to Greed" from "Payday 2"               
  • (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4DovMFabo)
• ENVY - "Message Man" by Twenty-One Pilots
  
  • (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-f3DLoSyY)

We ran our first four sins focussing on our traverse staging as to make the piece look interesting for all audience members. We then discussed having the sin script section recorded rather than spoken live. This discussion started because Rhiannon and I wanted to record our narration for Lust. We wanted to do this as this is not only a long section to remember whilst doing the movement, but we want to perform this to the best of our ability vocally (and felt that doing a movement section might make us out of breathe and would alter how we spoke). Another benefit of using pre-recorded narration is that our timing for our movement sections would be constant each rehearsal and therefore should be very effective in the actual performance. Our narration would fit perfectly to the songs we are using for each section as we could edit the tracks and merge them. It also means that we can focus on our movement in order to perform this to the best of ability. Next lesson, we might record the other sections of the sin script.

On our first recording of lust, Rhiannon and I had divided the lines - some lines we said individually and some lines were said in unison. We thought this was an okay way of doing it, but we particularly liked the sections we said in unison as we felt they were more eerie, seductive and chilling. We decided that we would do a second take, this time saying all of the script in unison. We then listened back to the recording and decided that we needed to slow it down to make the piece sound more seductive and therefore more likely to tempt Faustus to give in to the sin of Lust. We slowed the whole thing down on our third take and also worked out where the most appropriate places to pauses were. For our final recording we worked out what words we should emphasise - these words were "touch", "take", "desire", "ohhh", "sex", "eroticism" and "flesh". We thought these words formed the semantic field of lust and were very provocative.

After doing our recording, we began coming up with ideas for our movement section of Lust. Rhiannon and I worked out how we would go from our final positions of Wrath (on one knee on the floor doubled over), to the beginning of Lust. We decided we would do a body ripple to stand up and then we would walk to each other and circle each other (to create tension and intimacy).We experimented with a short floor section consisting of mainly rolls, stretched and hair swishes to look as seductive as possible to lure Faustus in as to try and make him give in to the sin of Lust. We didn't create any more this lesson as we ran out of time, but shall continue with this next lesson.