Devising-Week 2

Monday

On Monday, we tried to do our opening scene but we got stuck for ideas. We tried to all different openings but we still couldn't find one that would make sense to the audience and somewhere that we could go with the script. We decided that we would message each other over Facebook to see if we could go anywhere with the scene.

Tuesday

On Tuesday, we decided to scrap this idea because we decided that it is more of an idea for a film than for theatre. I really liked this idea but as soon as we tried to do an opening scene, we struggled on what we could do. We tried coming up with a range ideas like the use of strobe lighting but nobody could come up with any appropriate dialogue leading us too having to change the idea entirely. We also decided that as this is a devising unit, it wouldn't be appropriate to do this idea as it wouldn't be original as we was practically copying the film "Would you rather?".

I really liked this idea and I wanted to carry on with it but it’s not something we should do for devising because the idea is not original. We are just copying the whole concept of the film but changing the characters and the challenges slightly.

We then brainstormed the chasing pavements idea to see what we could come up with.

Thursday

We had this idea that we would do this piece which I think could be called “Jamie’s always watching.”

The whole idea of it is that it’s like big brother with the cameras but Jamie is the leader of the UK and has put up camera’s to make sure that nobody makes any fashion statement and we all look the same. The story follows a rebel group who plans to take down the cameras and eventually overrule Jamie. The twist is that the leader of the rebels is actually Jamie and is actually spying on the rebels to see what their plan is. We don’t find this out until she kills everyone at the end.

We now have this idea that the leader would also have two boyfriends at once which would lead to her having to choose who to kill and who to tell the truth to and maybe running away with. We still haven't worked out what will exactly happen to make her kill the rebel group. Throughout the whole play we would call Jamie a "he" but it would turn out to be a girl.

I really like this idea because it's much more original than the other one we had before and I feel like the storyline would make more sense. Also, I think the audience would be able to understand this one easier as they wouldn't get confused on the situation at the beginning.