meeting+ sad and good news

Descrive and evaluate neural mechanisms of aggresssion

Seratonin is thought to reduce aggression by inbatiting the firing of the amigilya to emotional stimuli that might be otherwise lead to aggression. Low levels of aggression have been linked to increased suspectability of impulsive behavoirs. Some drugs are thought to alter seraton levels and increase aggression. A study by Mann et al have 35 healthy subjects serotonin reduces using a questionnaire to assess hostility and aggression levels, he found that increased aggression and holsitiltiy scores but only in men.

The advantage of this study is that it provides evidence for further study, however the evidence was gained from questionaires meaning it was self reported which means there is a possibility of demand characteristics, such as social despirablility. As this may be a variable of why the results were found to only work on men as females are more likely to want to be seen as a relaxed passive person compared to the men who like the idea that they are strong and aggressive men. another problem with this study is that it is reductionist, as it dosent take into account other variables for example life changes or daily hasstles, it is also reductionist because it only takes into account biological factors when other studies have provided more evidence that t isn’t purely biological. Another disadvsntage is he used a small sample size, it is also gender bias as the results were only found to work on men this shows that Seratonin must effect men differently to women meaning the gender bias msut lay in human studies of this area.

Today i had a meeting with Miss Eastwood,sadly this performance has very minimal set and lighting, meaning it would be difficult to jsut concentrate on that this is the downside. HOWEVER, the good news is I have the opportunity to be Co-director instead this means i can still explore the sound, set and lgihting aspect as well as many others too. with this in mind some of my new goals are to: better my communication skills between the actors and myself,how to go from ideas and build a clear vision of the show,(and as we are performing a classic shakespeare comedy) learn to draw out the comedy of the play as well as getting to grips with  classci text.

because i am now co-directing ihave looked at a few directors for infleunce, Gregory Doran artistic director of the RSC "Gregory was officially appointed as the RSC's Artistic Director on 14 September 2012, and took up the reins properly in January 2013. He programmed his first season from September 2013.

In 2014, Greg directs Henry IV Parts 1 & 2with Antony Sher as Falstaff, Jasper Britton as Henry IV, and Alex Hassell as Hal. Both productions open in the Royal Shakespeare Theater in April 2014, and will play in Stratford-upon-Avon through the summer before travelling to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in October 2014. After a short UK tour in October and November 2014, the productions will transfer to the Barbican to play over Christmas 2014."

and Michael Boyd "Boyd trained as a director at the Malaya Bronnaya Theatre in Moscow, and in 1979 took up his first post as a trainee director at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, graduating to Assistant Director a year later. In 1982 he joined the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and three years later became founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow, where he staged a production of Macbeth starring Iain Glen, an adaptation of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Michel Tremblay’s Quebec plays,The Real World? and The Guid Sisters.

Boyd joined the RSC in 1996 as an Associate Director, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic in London in April 2002, as part of the This England: Histories Cycle.

During this time he was also Drama Director of the New Beginnings Festival of Soviet Arts in Glasgow in 1999, and directed Miss Julie in the Frank McGuinness version at theTheatre Royal Haymarket in February 2000.

Taking over from Adrian Noble in 2003, Boyd assumed control of the RSC, burdened with a deficit of £2.8m, with a remit to turn its fortunes around. He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival (begun in April 2006 and involving other companies as well as the RSC) and a London season at the Novello Theatre.

In 2007, he launched the long-awaited redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. This included construction of the temporary Courtyard Theatre to provide a Stratford venue while work was in progress. It was designed to house The Histories cycle, before its transfer to the Roundhouse in London in 2008."

After looking at these directors i would like to achieve as a director myself, To learn how to properly direct and control a large group of actors as well as making moments of comedy and seeing how to define and refine comedic moments.

Now to the meeting as i said before Miss and I were discussing  and we have decided that msuic will be a great way to create comedy in the play but also need some darker songs to contrast the ending and as co director she has given ME the role of finding the music!

As i jsut left the meeting i had a brainstorm and come up with the rather clever idea of using the song "sweet dreams (are made of these)" as the original can be highly funny escpecially when the actors are prancing about the stage, also i have foudn a Marylin Manson cover of the song which is rather dark and eerie but yet with the same lyrics which means it will have the contrasts he is looking for!

will bring up my idea in the next meeting.....