Crushed and filled with all I found
Underneath and inside Just to come around
More, give me more, give me more

Ah ah, ah ah
Ah ah, ah ah
Ah ah, ah ah
If I had a voice, I would sing

                                                                                         Anything you do will contribute to your logbooks and project.                                                              @Jack Morton I was a little disappointed when you ate the doughnut before anybody else. This was a clear decision that came from yourself to against your "boss" and unfortunately I fear this rippling through to your work work. Despite this I let it slide because after all it was a fun little side task, and it made me laugh. But Jack I ask for this behavior to not effect your huge capabilities. Besides you made a good attempt in the physical theatre piece which was just a quick activity piece and a start towards creation.  I appreciate that this may be something different to what you usually devote yourself to. But even if you hate it, trying different things will help you to develop and advance as an actor. Have faith as I in you because it will not be the end product. Although this week you were sat down for around 50%  of it. I think this was well received I know the last lesson can be a drag. Due to missing last week like everybody I will still follow the rehearsal plan but be more lenient with it. What I ask of you Jack, is your 100% focus, obviously this is hard to do when your not fully happy with something. But at times I felt your mind going elsewhere. This is perfectly normal and when we do some meditation this may become evident to you. Your task is to annotate your script on what we have set so that you don't forget, I know the opening is a bit bitty for you but stick with it. Also next week we are covering your scenes so please come with your concentration and ideas. Research into your chosen animal.  Pin things up on padlet or add them to your own project. Like clips, websites you can look at behind the scenes of planet of the apes.  Overall though apart from a few things i would like you to rectify  which will come with time. You did make a good effort in the physical theatre. You applied confident techniques to your character and was open to some of my wacky ideas. Keep up the work Jack you are very talented! and sorry for wearing your hat :)

"Of course, thinking about a dark room is very different from sitting in one." - https://www.fastcodesign.com/3020888/why-creativity-thrives-in-the-dark  So, in an experiment, Steidel and Werth arranged a simulated office environment with three different lighting conditions. 
Some of the 114 study participants in this test sat at cubicle with a desk light of 500 lux, which is the workplace standard. 
Others sat at a spot with a bright light of 1,500 lux, a setting often used by TV studios. 
A third group had a dim light of 150 lux, similar to a very cloudy day.

At their stations, study participants worked on four classic insight problems that require some creativity to solve. Solve is a very intriguing term to describe creation, often its depicted as artsy artsy mumbo jumbo **** but in this particular article the verb 'solve' is used. This marries this idea of academia, intelligence and creation as a whole topic effected by light.  (The “candle problem,” for instance, asks people to put a candle on a wall using just a box of tacks; the solution requires realizing the box can be tacked to the wall.) People at the dim workspaces solved significantly more problems than those at the bright cubicles. In my opinion this demonstrates the ability to solve problems with a black and white answer, it may require practicality but it does not explore ones conscious creative inset. Also, everybody is different did they get a vast arrange of people? How can you be sure? What it does illustrate is the power of light and perhaps that is an answer to many problems throughout this World. I really do believe light can conjure creativity. Odd isn't it? How can darkness flourish such bright ideas?

Dim lighting creates a “visual message” capable of nudging our minds into an exploratory mode. So that's why you call it mood lighting! Learn something new everyday. You might learn more than one thing in darkness. "The idea is that dark places suggest an uninhibited freedom that loosens our thoughts, and that bright places suggest a compliance that restrains them." Now weirdly, I decided to turn off the lights as it was a spontaneous and instinctual thing to do. It wasn't until after like now where I am sitting reading about the impact of light. This statement contributes towards my overall aim for simply turning of the lights.  It could be a potenciaql factor of why so may prisions have white walls, because rather than encouraging the inmates to explore there consiousness creativily, it forces them to think about the crime they have commited in a more narrow filtered consent. This is the torture. Consistent with this theory, the researchers found that study participants who felt self-conscious were immune to the creative charms of dim lights. Which is why both Jack and Mae explored more as they were comfortable in this setting. 

While creativity thrived in the dark, careful reasoning flourished in the light. 

“A lot of room effects emerge outside of conscious awareness,” Steidel tells Co.Design. "Before you go smashing the nearest lamp in the name of inspiration", consider one final experiment that Steidel and Werth performed. Once again they arranged three lighting conditions:
bright
dim
standard
and gave study participants a creative task. But they also gave them four logic problems that required a great deal of analytical thinking. This time the researchers found that while creativity thrived in the dark, careful reasoning flourished in the light. Wow! This is incredibly interesting! Lets repeat this... 

While creativity thrived in the dark, careful reasoning flourished in the light.

See if both me and my brother on rare occasions are working in th living room, we typically argue over the lghts. Ive always been the same and preffered them off. Where as my Brother has always been afraid and liked them on which has continued into him as a 17 year old. Now he has always been the intelligent academic one, studying physicals, chemistry, maths, further maths and an epq in maths. I guess the fact that I love them fully off and he likes them on is a factor towards this fact. My Mum is very much like me and my Brother and Dad are similar too, which means we like our mood lighting and incense sticks and they like bright lights and to keep there shoes on...

In other words, a well-designed workspace must adapt to what you’re working on. Steidel suggests a flexible lighting situation for all the tasks one might perform during the day: dim areas for creative brainstorming sessions and bright ones for administrative chores. “An optimal lighting scheme would provide a setting for all activities in an office,” she says. After all, great ideas might arrive in the darkness, but a lot of other work is needed to help them see the light of day.

Now I turned of the lights because I thought it was a cool idea, to see if they were really focussed and committed and to add another medium to the overall process of creating physical theatre inspired by Samuel Beckett. It wasn't until now that I understand the benefits of this and in fact there are more then I thought there would be. I cannot see one negative argument for such a simple task as flicking a switch. I shall bear in mind the impact of light from now on and also include it within the tech aspect of the overall performance. 

Another major difference would be Floki’s rivalry and immense hatred for Ragnar’s friend Athelstan a Christian that Ragnar befriended at Linders Farm and learnt alot from him. The real Floki was known as “Raven-Floki” because he took three ravens with him to help him find Iceland. The first raven flew for a while before returning, so he knew it had not found land. The second one flew above the boat before landing again. The third raven flew away and never returned, so that was the raven that he followed, knowing that it had found land. When he found it, he hiked to the very top of a mountain, where all he could see was ice, as it was winter. Therefore he named it Iceland.

Floki has always been open and honest about his view that Christianity will be the death of their ways and he is adamant in his belief that Athelstan was a direct cause of this death because he influenced Ragnar so much in his thinking of new ways. None of this is new, this is all part of Floki’s character, his belief system that he is so immersed in. Over the years however, we have seen Floki progress further and further into some deeper belief in his Gods.Although I think it was just out of pure jealousy from Floki. Adam has medieval views about topics such as Christianity and his son Judas being remarked to as gay. There is a line within the script,
E:"Wouldnt you want our soon to experience love no matter what form?"
A:"My son aint gay. Its not Adam and Eve and there fluffy cat named tickles.
E:"Give me one reason why!"
A:"Its not Christian."
E:"You aint Christian?"
A:"Yeah but I got a mate called Christian"
I think this represents the nonconformist egotistic views without actually displaying these views that could be offensive. 

Floki’s extreme views became far more apparent and he was vocal in his hatred of Athelstan, whom he felt was responsible for everything wrong in their lives. His behaviors became more erratic as he sought his own guidance from his Gods. It was during this time as well that he became less able to control his emotional outbursts with even Helga, the one person who loved him without question. He turned on her in violence, then quickly realized the wrongness of his behavior and swore to her that he was sorry and it would never happen again.

Overall Floki is a disillusion  visualizist, a bit of a maverick and extremely eccentric particularly in the early seasons. I am conflicted with Floki's character because his views are not open minded which suggests an inability or stubbornness to learn, he killed Athelstan, and didn't give him and Helga another child resulting in her death. But at the same time, audiences seem to love him including myself as he warms with his quirky and gestural facial expressions/ posture. I think because of this Floki could be the shadow of a human being because I don't believe you can like nor dislike any person. It is very difficult to categorize people into right wing and left wing unless in extreme circumstances in my opinion. 

Furthermore I did not want my representation of man to be in either category, but for the audience to decide because who am I to say? Adam and Eves relationship is conflicted because on the one hand they share small bursts of passion but on the other hand Adam often beats Eve and Eve has had an affair with his brother Technology. Therefore I marry the two characters together because I cannot place Floki in a label that makes him either good or bad. 

Likewise Adam treats Eve poorly but stays home most night to look after his children. On this basis I came  up with the idea of within anything I direct including this I will place hospital bracelets on there ankles with there character names written on them. This is because a character maybe based on true events or a real person or may be fiction, but the only person you can truly accurately represent is yourself.  Also we have different minds in the same world, and interpret the same world, differently so every person in the audience with perceive characters differently. Therefore it is my justification that no character can truly represent they are a filter, label or illusion of what could be.  

Floki is the son of Loki and is extremely mischievous like when in the first series he pulled the cross necklace of a Christian man, which caused the Vikings to fight all the British men who were making piece. Whilst initially I haven't based the character of Adam directly on Floki, I have taken inspiration from his makeup and above is my justification for this.