Devising: Day 19

We began our lesson with discussing what we had done last lesson. We knew we needed to ask some teachers to answer our questionnaires as part of our research. However, we needed to think of a set of suitable questions to ask them. This was our first task. At the same time we wanted to keep the questionnaire short. We decided five questions we would all ask different teachers at a later date and then decided the teachers we thought would offer a range of opinions and experiences.

Afterwards we discussed how we would open the scene. We wanted to keep the soundscape idea we ha previously thought of so thought that recording sounds with us miming still the best option. In terms of new scenes we wanted to show a range of techniques and styles. We already established that we our meeting scenes would be all dialogue based and very natural, allowing us to branch of into different styles. We thought that showing two futures an option, potentially exploring different options available for schools to go down. Whether they will get worse, become more prison like or if changes in the curriculum were needed. We noted down these points and will continue to explore these ideas.

So far, ideas have been very hard to come by. We want to make it sophisticated and quirky, but our expectations have perhaps lead to us waiting for one great idea and perhaps not being fully behind the idea. Although our idea is a very interesting and mature one. We are finding it difficult in how we show how schools have changed.

One suggestion from our tutor was that we needed to think of an end question or solution for our piece. What do we want to show or get across? Then maybe, that will help ideas begin to flow. At the moment, it seems like we have hit a wall, but I'm sure we can break through it and begin to create again.

Below, are the notes of another teacher we interviewed on behaviour.Most noticeably, they thought that kids will always be the same and didn't think that behaviour had got worse at all.