Devising: Day 17

We were missing two members of our group today, so we thought it was pointless trying to set anything as we didn't have the numbers to do so. Instead, we dedicated the lesson to research and writing. Two of our members started researching certain topics about schooling and once completed, we will try and implement that into our own work. I worked on writing the script for the next scene as, personally, I feel that writing is a particular strength of mine and would like to take responsibility for writing as well as learning more about the art and improving my script writing. One thing I found difficult about the writing was that it's very hard to progress when you don't actually know where the piece is going. We had to think about this. Eventually, after discussing the idea of a 70's school and that of modern day schooling problem, we opted for progressing into a scene about school in the present/future, mainly looking at how generations inherit traits and exploring the ideology that if the current generation causes so many problems in schools, how will future generations behave and effect society as a result?

With that in mind, myself and my script writing partner for the day began to create the beginning of our scene. I wanted to include real facts and articles in our piece to make our boardroom scenes as realistic as possible, whilst trying to cater the script to allow for the characters in our piece to shine through, with aspects of comedy, much like in "Future Conditional."

Below, I found some pictures of children misbehaving in a classroom. I found these rather interesting as they represent the message that we want to get across. That children nowadays and potentially in the future seem to own increasing power over teachers and seem to be able to do what they want. In the pictures they appear out of control and animal like. Which is an aspect that we want to explore and implement into our own piece based on the future of education, the power of pupils compared to the teacher.