Devising: day 12

We were straight back to the drawing board today. As a group, we recognised that the soundscape we had created a couple of days ago didn't really work and came across as unsophisticated and somewhat GCSE. We listed all the sounds we would hear in a classroom such as coughing, nail filing, ringtones, calling out and tapping. However, the problem with the sounds such as nail filing, tapping and ringtones was that they can't increase in volume and the other sounds would overpower them. I suggested if it may be worthwhile recording our noises and looping them onto a audio recording. This way we would have control over our sounds and would be able to increase the vine effectively, allowing all sounds to be heard and hopefully causing the hectic scene we want.

In terms of dialogue, we were stuck. We didn't want our piece to seem childish and immature, but at the same time, wanted to capture an authentic classroom scene. We decided on a list of words. Each person would only have one line to keep some structure and sophistication  but these lines were tailored to adhere a typical year 10/11 classroom. We said these lines in cannon before repeating our lines faster and faster into a mess of noise. To end we had the teacher slam a cane onto the desk and demanding "books out" to signal a change in the scene, going back into a Victorian style school.

We performed this to the class as you can see below. We think that it's a good basis for an idea. However, I think we need to think if a more creative way of staging it and need a clear point to end the piece as it dragged to a certain extent.