Over the past few months we have been preparing for our Destination Imagination (or DI as we call it.) performance. For our challenge we chose the Medical Mystery. Our challenge is to chose a illness/disease and solve a medical mystery in a 8 minute performance/solution. We also had a few requirements within the challenge. We needed to have 2 team choice elements ( We chose music and embroidery). A symptomatic. A technical element we had chemistry and electricity and, a double vision which we used iPads to face time one another.
We also had a few requirements within the challenge, we needed to have 2 team choice elements ( We chose music and embroidery). A symptomatic. A technical element we had chemistry and electrical stuff. And a double vision which we used iPads to face time one another.
My DI group the designated doctors, was made up of Emily, Alivia, Tamara, Maggie, and myself, which I was very glad for as I know we all work pretty well together and will get the task at hand done. When we first brainstormed we came up with the idea to use Porphyria or vampire disease as our medical mystery. When we were first coming up with ideas for the story and how we could create our performance we came up with a few ideas one being that we do a parody of something and make it medial themed. We in the end decided to do Dora the Explorer but change it to to Flora the Physician. And have Socks (Boots) be the one effected by our medical mystery.
For our set and props we tried to make it seem childish and like its something flora made herself, we made a backdrop and bushes and a doctors clinic. Then the double vision was made as a floor map which myself and Alivia were in charge of. We used a stand to secure an iPad that then FaceTimed another iPad to show what it looked like from a birds eye view.
Once it was regionals we were prepared prop wise but defiantly needs to practice more with the props. Before our performance/solution we ran though it a bunch of times to get it right and make sure we all knew our lines and actions and then we got up and did it. Right before we went of our symptomatic started leaking with the water had put in 1 part of it so we had to quickly try to stop the leak.
We had a few things go wrong, we forgot to use 2 props that helped show the symptoms socks was experiencing, and we had a issuer with the symptomatic and it not opening. Overall though we made up for it and really did our best performance.
Looking back on our preparations for this I do see a few things myself and my group could’ve done differently and better. One of the big things here was issues with the symptomatic and it working properly I definitely feel like we made the mistake of doing it later on and having it be completed very close to regionals because, we didn’t get much practice with it at all leaving us a bit confused with it.
I’m very glad we used Basecamp thought DI and preparing for it. WE kept all our to dos there and are able to see who does what and when. That was one thing that really helped us keep on track and time with most of our DI prep and stuff needed to be completed for it.
Now we have provincials just around the corner and we are preparing for it now. Wish us luck!
