MEDICINE

Concept Trailer

This concept trailer was made during the design process for the show. I wanted to accentuate the feeling of memory and flashbacks being a key component of John's story. Presenting This in a way that felt tangible to the viewer was an imporant theme I wanted to ensure was seen through its creative vision.

John's Final Monologue

This was the most important moment of the show, I wanted to make it hard to watch, I wanted to humanise the chaos of John's mind and John's memory. This is the moment that suddenly we are no longer in the three dimensional space, we are in his mind and his faded, diluted and confused mind. Film negatives created a huge component of telling his story, alongside the live camera bringing the story into the now, showing us the extent of John's mental state within the real world.

"John is terrified/panicking."

This scene originated from an art piece entitled; 'SHE JUST STOOD THERE AND SAID WHEN WILL IT JUST BE OK?' this was the concept from interpreting this part of the script with the directions simply; "John is terrified/panicking'. I wanted this scene to both express the childhood abuse of John, his trauma response to the situation (shutting down) and the feeling again like he is completely forgotten and irrelevant to anyone else. Playing with this scene we didn't know if we wanted to focus on John's feeling or the aggression, in the end the contract of the two created by the incredible composition by Dominic Semwanga and Ed Jones made the scene as powerful as can be seen in this clip.