Devising: Day 10

After experimenting with our idea based around drugs, and finding that it is a difficult subject to do well and remains a mainstream stimulus. We decided to move onto another idea. One that we hope, will be a more sophisticated and mature topic of choice. This topic being education.

We began by discussing ideas. The rest of my group filled me in with the idea they had came up with as I was away the previous lesson. We wrote down what we might include in such a piece. The main idea, showing how education had changed throughout the years in terms of pupil power an how much power teachers have now. For example, 50 years ago teachers would have respect from students, whereas now, students answer back and seem to have too much power.

We thought that some kind of soundscape would be really cool to show a modern day classroom situation. Where the pupils would be unruly, taking over each other about random, irrelevant subjects. The petty squabbles and struggle the teachers go through trying to keep discipline in a classroom.

We thought we could found the soundscape off by quickly changing into a typically historical classroom setting, where the pupils respected and seemed to be scared of the teacher almost. However, these were early ideas and need work before we can show anything.

In terms of staging, we thought that arranging the audience in seats in a classroom layout with us at the front would be a very nice and authentic idea.