Monday 18th November 2013

This lesson was given to us for preparation of our protests, due to happen the following week. 

As I have previously said our protest was on animal testing- a subject we all felt passionate about. 

The plan: 

As our protest would have to last we decided to split it into three segments of fifteen minutes and repeat this 3 times. 

• We would start by saying three shocking facts our statistics whilst standing on chairs to get the audiences attention. 
• We would then entwine with the audience repeating our facts with straight faces almost as if we were manikins. 
• After we started our beautician performance. Kate and myself acted as society, blind beauticians who didn't see the problem with testing on animals. We would rub make up products on each others face and arms while commenting on how 'okay' this is, because its been tested. At this time Abdhi would also be a beautician but she would act as a person very aware of the consequences to the harm the make up would cause the animals. She would read out shocking statistics as Kate and I pretended not to here.
• To get the audience more involved we thought of having a quiz including questions such as
  'How many animals are killed a year from animal testing?'
  'How much money is spent on testing animals each year?'
  To gain a response we would have sweets as a reward for people joining in while making them aware of the facts/statistics. 
• We would then stand back on our chairs like in the beginning and start a sound scape with the same fact from the beginning getting louder and louder until we are heard over the mumble of talking. Ending with us sinking onto our chairs like manikins. 
• This would ideally last for fifteen minutes and then be repeated another two times. 

During our protest we would have shocking pictures (such as the ones above) around where we were performing and maybe even have some stuck to our bodies so people can actually see the effects of animal testing on animals.