Explain which drama techniques you used in your piece and why.

We chose to use a technique called Verbatim during several sections of our final piece. Verbatim is a technique which utilises quotes from real life stories or documented events to increase the believability of dialogue within plays. We decided to apply this technique to one of our scenes showing a protest outside of the parliamentary building in London. The protest occurred in March last year to oppose the sexual harassment women are subject, specifically in the film and TV industry. Using quotes from the protest, which was documented by several news platforms, enhanced our dialogue in the scene and heightened our chances of receiving sympathy from the audience.
Additionally, we applied layers of sound in the scene in order to set the atmosphere as loud and crowed. This was effectively done by overlapping the lines/quotes which were spoken during the protest scene, as well as adding in silent pauses and short, loud outbursts. The levels of loud and quite, coupled with the layering of quotes worked really well to portray the feelings of the protestors and create that tense and frustrated effect.