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Jessica Mann interview used for verbatim research. (Appendix 6)

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Jessica Mann interview used for verbatim research. (Appendix 6)

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- We wanted a mixture of red and blue lighting to create a purple hue over the actors coming from many different angles on stage.
- The different coloured lighting represents the mixed emotions victims may feel after the traumatic events such as sadness, anger and anxiety.

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Minimal staging and costume (Appendix 4)

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Minimal staging and costume (Appendix 4)

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Taking from our practitioner Paper birds, we wanted to keep the set simplistic so that the audience focuses on the message of our piece. We have 3 boxes lined up and an evidence board behind.
We also use a statement costume piece to differentiate between character e.g Police hats for the detectives.

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- After working on the script further we felt as though the game show was not developed enough to fit in and have a purpose in our piece.
However, we have used the verbatim from the questionnaire within an opening sequence.
- We begin by stating headlines from the Weinstein case and integrating knowledge of the move me too movement to allow the audience to gain a greater understanding of the cause we are trying to support.
- We also go on to state facts about the me too movement within the headlines to add a level of intellect to our piece.

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We want to imitate the men who said inappropriate comments to the girls who took our questionnaire.
We feel as though showing the audience an over exaggerated example of how women are harassed on the daily will bring light to how important the topic of sexual assault is.

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As a group due to circumstances we decided to work on our vocalisation of characters. We felt that differentiating the voices between characters was important for the audience's perspective. It is also an important part of paper birds techniques.
For my character Jessica I have researched her American accent so that I am able to accurately portray the transcript through verbatim.

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As a group we created a game show scene where by the contestants give ridiculous answers to questions focused around sexism and the “me too” movement. This scene was created in the style of “slapstick” as it is an extremely comical scene within a serious piece. We felt that performing some of our verbatim answers in this way to an audience what give people a realisation to how clueless some people to sexism. We hope this would help people to rethink their answers and opinions on certain matters.

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."- Martin Luther King (Appendix 1)

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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."- Martin Luther King (Appendix 1)

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- We decided on this stimulus as we thought it would allow us to bring light to a topic that people are afraid to talk about, sexual assault. Many cases go unrecognised due to the fact that victims are too afraid to come forward about their stories. They fear their attacker becoming annoyed and or being shamed by people (slut shamming).
- We all felt very passionately about this topic and wanted to create a piece that brought light to it.

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- We wanted to collect our own verbatim data and find out how much people really know about sexism and sexual assault. To create our piece in the style of paper birds we needed qualitative data that we conducted from open questions in our online survey.
- Asking questions such as “What has been said to you during cat calling”. This allowed us to gather some interesting responses and find out how the average person can be made to feel uncomfortable through inappropriate behaviour.

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One source of verbatim we used is the real life transcripts of the victims of Weinstein from when they testified against him in court.

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Mimi Hayley - Model/ Project runway manager
Jessica Mann - Actor (Girlfriend)
Lauren Young - Screen Writer

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Evidence Board with Verbatim (Appendix 5)

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Evidence Board with Verbatim (Appendix 5)

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We thought that a clever way to show our verbatim research and stories would be to display it on a board that the police officers can use to solve the case. The victims statements along with images and facts about sexism and the me too movement will be displayed on the board. We drew inspiration from the production “Thirsty” where they displayed their verbatim stories as graffiti on toilet walls.

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> Harvey Weinstein is a 67 year old Hollywood film director.
> He was accused of sexual assault and or rape by 80 women.
> Weinstein had a variety of relationships with these victims, one even being his girlfriend. However, the most common was made through ‘casting couch’ where by he would lure girls through things such as auditions abs use is influential power to pressure girls into sexual acts.
> He was convicted in February 2020 and is serving a 23 year sentence.

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We chose Paper birds as we have done lots of research into their style of performing and have viewed many of their shows (Mobile and Thirsty). Paper birds uses real life stories with a political meaning to convey an idea to an audience. We thought this would fit best with our piece on the victims of Harvey Weinstein.

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- Lizzie Bordon is an alleged murderer who was on trial for the murder of her father Andrew and her step mother Abbie. Both victims were killed with an axe and ultimately Lizzie was found as not guilty. The case is still unsolved.

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The unseen truth of Hollywood.