We devised scene 11 today, and I came up with the idea to have this style of music as the soundtrack to Roma's death, contrasting the up beat song, with the sound of machine guns firing at the same time.I felt this idea was very Brechtian, as the song will Juxtapose with the content of this scene, as you would usually expect a very dramatic and sad song to accompany a death scene, but I know how Brecht likes to use inappropriate music in his scenes, so I felt this up beat and lively song by Benny Goodman would fit this scene perfectly, and we tried it out and it really worked.
We tried out lots of different ideas with Roma's death in this scene, we tried slow motion when Givola shoots Roma, and this really works and it looks Brechtian and very epic. It also goes with the music,as it contrasts, the music is very up beat and fast, and the dying is very slow and stylised. I am glad that everyone liked my idea to use this song, as it sounds really good with the gun shots, and it is not what the audience will expect at all. It shows how the gangsters, Ui and Givola really do not care about murdering people for petty things, and they see it is a joke or a game.
The music starts when Ui(Liam) enters the stage, and goes to shake Romas hand. They both out stretch their hands and circle each other, Ui watching Roma intensely, and as Roma goes to shake his hand, Givola appears from behind Ui, with his bodyguard(Heta) and shoots Roma, multiple times. We time this with the gun shot sound effects and it looks really good so far, and this was only our first lesson of creating this scene! I have gone into more detail about this scene in my scenes blog.
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