Devising-Week 1

This week we have started to devise for our devising unit. We have decided to go for the idea of a game show where the contestants would sit around a table and a host would go round the table making the contestants do a variety of tasks to stay alive.The idea was that they go in there expecting a game where whoever wins will get a cash prize but it turns out that they are actually playing to survive.We got this idea from the film “Would you rather?” which is what actually happens in the film but we would change the challenges and the characters to have certain traits that would be portrayed throughout the story.

The characters are:

• The Host-the person who the players think that organised the game. At the end when we find out that he was the last person to play the game and win, he didn’t get to leave. He only gets to survive for the next game before he would then have to have a battle with the person who won the current game and whoever wins this then gets to be the host for the next game. Nobody ever gets to go back outside into the open world.

Contestants-These are the people who come here who are in desperate need of money and reveal this during the rounds before they are killed off. They start off by chasing money but end up chasing survival. The characters are (we haven’t made up names yet):

1. Dom-The scared one-this is the one who refuses to do anything and doesn't think that the host will actually kill him if he refuses to do anything. He is too scared and gets shot by the host within the first round to set an example for the rest of the contestants.
2. Ashley-The funny one who tries to make a joke about everything that is going on and ends up not taking the game seriously enough which ends up with him being too slow in one of the challenges and gets killed off in round 2.
3. Carl-The quiet one who doesn't say anything unless he has to. The round which he gets killed in (round 3) is one where he is meant to be very vocal but nobody hears him leading to him losing meaning that he gets killed.
4. Toby-The one who falls in love with one of the female contestants and gives his life for her so that she can survive for him. This leads to him getting killed in round 4.
5. Freya-She is the person who starts off really innocent and doesn't want to kill anyone at the beginning in the middle there’s a trigger that makes her want to kill everyone in the game and have no sympathy for anyone. She is full of hate and doesn't control her anger in the last round leading to her getting killed in the final round (round 6). She is the person who becomes the runner-up and is the last contestant to be killed.
6. Meg-the smart one who identifies the weaknesses of everyone and ultimately wins the game. She then goes up against the host and kills him taking his place as a new host who will host the next game.

Next week we will start to devise our first couple of scenes and try to have a bigger back story on our characters.