Research

 

These videos are what I looked at for research and stimuli to do with shell shock and how it effected people mentally and physically. I found some of the images really helpful as we could use the shaking and the static movements in our physicality to show that they had been effected. Also a lot of the images were quite distressing and uncomfortable to watch so I think that we could use this horrible atmosphere in ours piece to show the audience the reality of what was happening and how lots of people didn't understand what the men were going through.

 

I also found the insomnia really helpful to look at because in our improvisation we explored sleep a lot and how that is supposed to be a close time in a relationship but was being destroyed by the mans illness and how we could demonstrate that in our piece.  

 

This shows the physicality of how people were effected and what happened to them and some of the effects.

 

This is part of a documentary about the effects; physical and mental of shellshock. I found this useful because we can explore physically and through movement how they would have been seen and how others would have reacted to them.

 

 

I found that looking at a real example of what had happened really helpful because it gave us a real person to explore and look at how they were effected and the emotions that came with them.

This is about insomnia and this helps us because we are looking at nightmares and terrors and how this effected people and their sanity. I also found it interesting because it showed what was shown to some troops and how it wasn't always seen as a real problems - like when the cartoon is used to make it funny.