Following the previous exercise of exploring structure and mood changes, I found that I wanted to use sound and light to dictate the flow of my performance.

I started to think what colours made me feel what feelings and what these colours meant in everyday life. I started to find songs were popping into my head.

I wanted this exercise not to say what people’s associations with colours should be, but to suggest mine, both negative and positive. To further this experience I wanted to add the element of people’s relationship with song, whether it was their most played on their iTunes or if it was the first time they ever heard it.

I figured that if I used songs that had the colours I used in the title, associations would start to already be made by others and not directly by myself.

STRUCTURE

Highlighted in the last exercise was structure. With this idea i would have it in the round and the stage plit into sections by the colours like a pie chart.

I would spend two minutes in each segment enough time to cover both positive reactions to the colours and negative. to help the whole performance flow further, I would start with positive in the red then move onto negative then start in the yellow with negative and move onto the positive, and so on for the rest.

The following is a list of the colours I used, the song which include them and associations with them;

RED – Lady in Red, Chris de Burgh

• Positive: Love, Roses, Passion
• Negative: Blood, Anger, Danger

Yellow – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Russ Morgan

• Negative: Madness, death, decay
• Positive: Sun, Flowers, Beaches

Blue – Deeper Shade of Blue, Steps

• Positive: Sea, Sky, Water
• Negative: Drowning, Cold, Sick

Orange – Orange Blossom Special, The Spotnicks

• Negative: Bitter, Superficial, Fire
• Positive: Warmth, Optimism, Joy

Green – Green Green Grass of Home, Tom Jones

• Positive: Fresh, Mint, Cool
• Negative: Mould, Envy, Illness

Purple – Purple Rain, Prince

• Negative:  Bruises, Pompous, Arrogance
• Positive: Royalty, Imaginative, Spiritual