By now you may know what DI is, if not you can view my previous post or keep reading. DI is basically a tournament where many groups of kids, classes or teams come together and present there understanding of a challenge through telling a story. Each challenge has a different objective, for example the challenges that I worked on was based around a disappearance of a colour and a vanishing act that we needed to incorporate.

We started just a month and a half ago, where we focused on practicing our instant challenges which are essentially mini challenges that they present to us on the spot and we usually have a certain amount of time to complete them. For example one challenge we practiced during our class time was a timed game where we had to stack plastic cups using just elastics and string, the team with the highest tower won!

After many classes of instant challenges we started on the actual challenge, we first got into groups of 4 or more and chose our challenges, like I said at the beginning my challenge was the fine arts one. In this challenge you had to create a skit that included the question “what would happen if a colour disappeared” also a vanishing act that would help the revealing of the answer to the question.

We started brainstorming ideas and came to the conclusion that we would base each colour off of people, and the genre would be mystery/adventure. The story was about the disappearance of the colour yellow and how an agent from the CIA would help find that primary colour. An agent is led to Giza, Egypt and the skit ends in the finding of the colour which was part of a group of people who wanted to cause “chaos” they where called the eye of rah. We decided to create a vanishing act using lighting and shadows. There was a script with hieroglyphs that we researched and they translate into the location of the colour, the revealing of the translation was glued at the back using paper so when the light shined through it, it created a shadow which appeared overtop of the hieroglyphs.

Us making the hieroglyphic script:

The day of the tournament we arrived at 8 am, then at 8:30 we went to a opening show where each group was presented, the we showed off our posters. At 9:30 we signed in for our instant challenge, overall I think the challenge went well because we worked together really well as a team. After that we had a few hours before our actual challenge so we decided to setup, go over lines and run through the whole play a few times. Our challenge was at one so we had to check in a few minutes earlier, I think the challenge went pretty well but I definitely think we have a few things to work on. Overall we came in second which means that we will be heading to provincials in a few weeks! Here are the final scores that we received:

Can’t wait until provincials!