Scripted: Day Eight


As discussed, we continued working on our ending scene. Individually, I think we were all really focused on our own reactions, which made things a lot easier in terms of setting the scene. The scene was a lot harder than we initially thought as the body language of the characters in the scene was so hard to get right. Although William holds the gun in the scene, he is in control of the situation but is completely out of control in the fact that he is holding a gun towards his classmates. I think, we all had some contribution in the main parts of the scene, such as when William finally shoots Bennett. As the script lacks stage directions, we had to read into subtext very carefully. All we had was "William shoots Bennett twice" and although we tried out a few ideas of how to kill his character off such as where to position him, either having him die down the side of a wall or right in the very center of the stage. We are yet to decide on the use of blood capsules but thought it would look rather effective of we did. Another question asked was where would Bennett be shot? In the head, in the stomach, knee, shin. We didn't know where to shoot him, but we decided a stomach shot would add a slow pace to it, before finishing him with a head shot to confirm his death and add to the shock factor of the audience. The next stage was how to kill Cissy, which we decided would just be a simple and quick shot to the head, with the idea that the blood from her head would spray over Tristan behind her. However, throughout the whole scene I was more focused on my own sequence of movements. I decided to slowly edge towards the stairs and creep up them before running back down when I see Bennett shot, which is when I begin to cry. I slowly make way after William confronts me briefly before disappearing off stage. Although William has the majority of the lines, I think it is vital to how we respond to these lines and give an accurate re telling of the story, I think from now, we need to work on getting this scene to a T, so we all know what we are doing properly and can move onto polishing other scenes.