Reading Response 6 – Graphic Scores – Thea Sang

Basically, our performance can be divided into four scenes. The first scene describes how the young king was troubled by different charges and criticism. We use humanoid pieces of paper to represent the young king and black bats to represent charges and criticism from other people. We will demonstrate the confusion and pain of the young king through a chaotic scene, where the black bats fly around the young king and further they intertwine with each other as well as rotate together. At the same time, for the audio, based on the mysterious background music, we will add people’s voices at a specific point in time. With the gradual chaos of video, the sounds of video will also become more and more slur and mix together. At the end of the first scenes, the chaotic sounds disappear, only leave a clear to push the young king to find a demon and fight the demon in order to complete himself. The second scene is the young king’s experience on his way to demon. Along his way, he always remembers the charges and criticism from others. Thus, in this scene, the black bats always go alone with him. The young king climbs the mountains and goes through the forests, and at the end of the second scene, he finds the cave of demon. In this part, we use different sounds of footsteps and winds to indicate where is the kind. Also, we use the different filters on the video to demonstrate the young king has experienced different severe environments. And the overall atmosphere of the second scene is depressive. In the third part, the young kind and the demon confront with each other. The demon tries to tempt the young king to kill him. Once the young king follower the command of the demon, that means the king is actually controlled by the demon. We used the environment sound here and also record the voice to imitate the sounds of demon. At the end of the third scene, the young king decides to give up killing the demon. All the sounds will stop for a while here and the light will also turn off for a while. The fourth scene, the ending, we demonstrate the young king come back his country but there are no black bats flying around him to trouble him but only follow him as he has realized he can never escape the rumors and fears, but he can coexist with them and bravely face them. The music here is more relax and lively. The overall picture is brighter than before.

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