Week 6: TIE (Storms)

Adding Statistics

We first did a walk through of all that we have done so far and went over the order of what we have done and went over the reasons why we were doing it in such a way. "Banter" is quite an easy way to get an audience to relax and we want the audience to relax in order for them to open up to us about their feelings and how they view their communication skills. We then decided that the biological imperatives that boys are told they should have, need to be challenged on stage by us and we thought that the best way for us to do that would be for one of us to actually step out of the group and challenge what we have presented earlier on. For example, at the start we are stereotyping boys and exploring the ways that they are communicating, and almost criticizing that, but we thought that if we get some facts that compare the amount of boys to girls in different situations, it could propose a good pathway into introducing facts about suicide and the ideas that boys actions are caused by societal influences and not "just because they are boys." We wanted to unpick the stereotyping that we have presented onstage and show how each of them is a societal or peer influence instead of instinctual.

We researched some facts that we could use and we decided on these facts:

• Men are 40% more likely to speed.
• Men are 4 times more likely to lose their hearing.
• Men are 5 times more likely to go to prison
• Men are 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.
• 80% of all suicides are men.

We thought that on the last one, we could have someone step out and challenge that statement by saying, "so you're saying that being a boy is bad." And we would then move into the explanation of the societal views on men. We thought that we should highlight the expectations that are presented and forced onto boys from birth and see how they progress throughout a boys life.

We started experimenting with the expectations that are set upon boys and men throughout their lives. Here's what we came up with: https://youtu.be/gkvsHJ1FHy8

I liked the idea that we added some Goberesque style titles in for the audience to understand the age group that we are showing and also we are adding in the sharpness that Gober adds to performance, like when you snap in and out of different scenes. I think that we do need to work on the speed of the lines and the gaps in between the different scenes so that we keep the audience interested and engaged.