Drama Devising Update

This post will be a recap of drama for the past couple of weeks:

We have now assigned characters to the role:

1. Freya-Sam-The rebel leader who is also Jamie who when she gets caught out, kills the rebels to keep her cover. She is in love with Spencer and Jeremy and when she has to choose who to kill and who to live with, she chooses Jeremy to live with.
2. Meg-Ruby (Sharpshooter)-The best friend of Sam. She is the one who is the best with the gun and when she finds out what Sam has done, she kills Sam and Jeremy to stop her from being killed. She also has a crush on Spencer who gets killed by Sam which is another reason why she kills Sam in the end.
3. Ashley-James (Newcomer)-He is an ex-computer worker who used to work for Jamie but comes to the base to join the rebels. All the others get suspicious that he’s Jamie as he knows a lot of information and end up killing him.
4. Dom-Tim (Technology guy)-He used to be bullied at Jamie’s headquarters and moved to the rebel group so he could be respected. This turns out to backfire as the rebels are now the ones that bully him and is always forced to do things for people
5. Carl-Craig (Ex-soldier)-An ex-soldier who is first to get suspicious of James being Jamie and doesn't trust James.
6. Toby-Jeremy-The person who falls in love with Sam and the one that Sam chooses to survive but ultimately gets killed by Ruby as Sam kills Spencer
7. Kai-Spencer- The other love interest who gets killed by Sam and the one that Ruby has a crush on. Ruby avenges his death when she kills Jeremy.

We started our opening scene with an empty stage except for Tim and Sam on stage at the computers. Then Jeremy come on and covers up the cameras using spray paint. The guard then catches him and attempts to kill him. Spencer then comes running in from the audience to try and stop the guard but then gets too violent and Craig and Ruby drag them out before they kill the guard as the rebels never kill anybody.

I think this scene could be made more entertaining. I think that the audience would be confused and wouldn't understand what is going on and needs to be introduced more to the story before we start with the action. Also, I don't think that it really looks interesting visually either.

Then the team come in one by one and Jeremy comes in injured and Freya is out the back talking to him when James walks in and the rest of the group confronts James and he is checked by Tim to find out that he is clear. Sam says that to get into the group that he has to go through a training program which is a movement piece of us trying to see if he useful for anything. I like this movement piece because it shows time passing and him failing at all the missions. I also think that it makes the audience understand that we are trying to expand our rebel group but we don't let them in without going through training. They will also visually see that he couldn't do any of the exercises that I've been he's been given. This leads to Sam telling him that he’s not getting into the group and tells him to leave. He then overhears our conversation on the way out and reveals that he knows a lot about Jamie and where the cameras are Sam then accepts him into the group whilst Sam tells us to remove us from the news and do various other tasks to make sure we still stay unknown to the outside world. Craig immediately is suspicious and talks to Sam about his worries and Sam say to keep her posted on the matter.
There are then two date scenes. One with Sam and Jeremy and one with Spencer and Sam.
We have now changed this to two different date scenes:

1. One is a date scene with Sam and Jeremy which ends up with Sam not wanting to actually go out with Jeremy because she doesn't want to reveal her identity.
2. Another is that Spencer and Ruby now confess their love to each other and end up going to bed together. This now means that Spencer doesn't ever have a crush on Sam. He now has one on Ruby instead.

I think that this makes more sense that Sam having two boyfriends because it would be hard for her to cheat when she the group is very small and intimate. It would also make more sense for Ruby to kill Sam as well.

The rebels then are back training at the base where they all have a discussion about if James is Jamie. Tim and Craig think that he is whilst Ruby doesn't which leads to her having an argument with Jeremy about it and Jeremy squaring up to Spencer. Tim gets Sam and they have an argument and she gives him a final warning as he has warned him about his violent nature before. This turns out to be the start of the downfall of the group.

Then they all go on a mission with Sam and Ruby leading. This is a movement piece where everybody apart from Tim goes out on the mission to try and get the cameras down. After choreographing the movement, we then added strobe lighting and cannon affect to make the dance more interesting.

I like this movement piece because the lighting looks really affected and I like the choreography we have put into the song. The audience will really understand that we are on a mission to take the cameras down.

This then leads to Jeremy getting angry and kills an innocent civilian. This then leads to a split screen of Jeremy and Sam arguing and a news report that gets the others frustrated as Jamie is lying about them and spreading fake rumours around. This then leads to Jeremy getting kicked out the group. Jeremy then confronts James and accuses him of being Jamie. This ends up with a fight scene between James and Jeremy. Jeremy then lies to Spencer saying that he is going to kill Ruby which gets Spencer involved in the fight. Then Craig and Tim beat him up. The scene blacks out then comes back on with James being dead. The rebels then blame each other on who killed him and agree to hide the body until Ruby walks in and see the body. Ruby agrees to hide the body from Sam but Sam then walks in and tells them to explain themselves. They say how they were suspicious and wanted to take no chances. Sam then says that they were wrong, they’re not Jamie. Tim then confronts her saying that he thinks that she is Jamie leading to her killing Tim, Craig and Spencer and keeping Jeremy alive. Meg then kills Jeremy and Sam and becomes the new leader of the world. I then decided that we could then finish with a news report of the anniversary of Ruby taking over which the group then agreed.

So far I think that the show is coming along really well but I think we should do a full run-through when we can because that will give us a better understanding on the scene transitions.