Devising: Day 28



Having missed the previous lesson through other commitments, we discussed where we were at. With the three out of the four scripts ready to be printed. We briefly checked all of our scripts and made little changes to the area we felt necessary before printing. Whilst one of our group members began work on writing the script, the rest of us began thinking about the costume we wanted to wear during the performance. I think, with all the scenes where we would play students, we agreed that we would wear the same clothes, whether that be in the Victorian time period, or the future. The idea behind this being that the children will always have the tendencies to misbehave and will always have the same capabilities of bad behaviour, but that it is the time period and how this influences the children that cause a change in the behaviour across the years.


The costume we decided on for the students was black trousers/skirt, with a white top and various ties, we will adjust these uniforms for each scene, whether that be unbuttoning a shirt, rolling the sleeves up or taking off the tie. We also decided that the teachers would be wearing a robe in the 1800's and a grey blazer in the other scenes.

 

The Victorian picture that sparked our uniform idea. As you can see, they're all wearing a white collared top with a tie, however, wearing a blazer for us would be too difficult to find six matching ones, plus it would make quick costume changes even harder, especially in the traverse staging. Ideally, it would be great to have all the costumes we needed and be able to carry out numbers of costume changes, however, they would take too long and weaken our piece if we did so. I think, in order to improve what we done today, we needed to discus more, as a group, what we wanted the end script to be like, we left it to one person, who was happy to do so, whilst we got other things sorted and as a result, it may not be completely what we wanted as a whole.