Site Specific: Day 6

Today, we finally agreed on an idea. We began by splitting into three groups and tasked with trying to find links between the pieces we discussed in the previous lesson, at regular intervals, we moved around the groups, explaining the ideas we had come up with before reforming our original groups.

We all had came up with very similar ideas revolving around a tour of fort Amherst in a futuristic setting with no power in it. With this in mind, we all came into one big group and began developing the idea into a piece we all agreed with and briefly deciding where the story would go. Like many of us said, we need to be careful we do not turn this piece into something like a film, such as saw or mazerunner, as it would be very easy to go in the direction of a full out horror. Another problem with going all out horror, was that we wouldn't actually have the public liability insurance to interact with the audience in the way we would have wanted to, nor would we be insured for anything that went wrong during the performance, hence it would be too difficult to pull off.

We did come up with the plans of a final idea. I think it still needs a bit of developing as it looks sparse, however, I believe this will come with another lesson of thinking time.

One issue that remains a constant is the arguments between the class and how people become very fixed to their ideas. It brings the mood down and energy down and becomes very hard to come up with ideas without the whole class's attention and this leads to the process becoming very boring and draining. I think the sooner we begin working on the same idea, the hardest bit will be out the way.