Site specific: day 4

As we only had a 50 minute lesson

today, we we're split into three groups and given different pictures of fort Amherst that where all outside.

As ever is the case with devising. We found it very hard to come up with ideas. However in the picture we were given we did manage to come up with a short piece. In this piece we would find a small child crying in the corner of the wall. Two men on a tour would discover the child and try to help him. However, the only thing the child would say is how he lost his parents and that he came from the blocked up hole in the wall. Eventually voices of the child's parents began to ring out from no where as the child disappears through the hole, leaving the two men completely dumbfounded. We went with this idea mainly because of Fort Amhersts rich ghost history and thought it would be fitting and appropriate to create an eerie ghost story, as it is a subject that can open up a lot of potential story plots. Our picture is below.

The other groups both set their pieces in a slightly more distopic, futuristic setting. One thing that I really liked about what one group done was how they interacted and involved the audience again. They lined us up outside the room and brought us in. Before immersing us in the scene and telling us that we were soldiers. The part I liked was how some of the people in their group were in the line with us and began asking questions and answering back, which had us all completely fooled as we didn't know they were part of it. Adding a sense of realism to the piece. I really liked idea of including actors in the audience as it helps bring the piece to life and will hopefully lead to it being more effective by drawing the audiences attention and making them feel a much stronger sense of fear,  confusion or disbelief.

The third group also went down the futuristic line. Creating a very confusing piece about trying to find someone who has the key to the countries energy crisis. I liked the idea of how real the cause of the storyline was, as it is quite an apparent issue and could well be a problem in the future. However, I'm not sure how we could incorporate such a story based on out Fort Amherst location. I think there are many ideas and aspects from all groups that we can take and help to create our final idea that we are all happy with.

The hardest thing is trying to create something that is mildly relevant to the location and being able to do a lot with it. Plus the size of our class of 13 doesn't help with trying to create that many characters. I think once we set an idea we want to follow it will be far easier to come up with characters and story lines, one because we will have more time and secondly because everyone will be working on the same piece so, in a way, we will have more ideas between us in order to create the piece.