Devising: Day 14

Having previously began writing our script in the last lesson, we decide to run through it. Whilst running through it we ironed out a few mistakes and proof read as we went. We then set the boardroom scene and acted what we had. Afterwards, it was clear that we needed to make changes. We decided to cut out the part where we got one of our members to walk in late. We felt this was unnecessary and to achieve a more comical effect, we should add him in later. However, by doing this, we made the script shorter, leaving us with too little content left to perform with. Hence, I took the task of trying to re write the script. Obviously, I used the base of what we had previously written. However, due to discussion addressing the issue that we needed to go off on a bit of a tangent during the scene, I tried to add in a argument between those for the cane and against the cane. Whilst making the piece entertaining and comical. However, I needed to be careful that I didn't drag the scene on too long, try and do too much with it, but at the same time, setting us up to be able to move into a new scene smoothly.

Underneath is a picture taken from the boardroom/meeting scenes in Future Conditional. As a group, I think we all found these scenes very entertaining and captivating. They seemed to flow very nicely and at times, I forgot that these people were acting. The scenes were done very well, which has inspired the creation of our boardroom scenes. All the characters in the scene below had very different personalities and backgrounds, hence why they all had differing opinions and behavioural traits, like the Eton school boy, or the Scotsman from a deprived background. This was an area that we wanted to use in our piece. We wanted to have differing ages of our characters and backgrounds to  show a difference in opinions btween the characters and how education should change. For example, an older character may be more ruthless and for the reintroduction if the cane, where a younger, perhaps fairer character would see the problems lying with teaching methods.