Devising

Today we started brainstorming and researching potential ideas for our devised piece. We have been assigned groups and together, have to devise a piece from a stimulus. Our stimulus was the song "Chasing Pavements" by Adele. We have done a range of things for ideas today such as looking at lyrics and potential meanings and interpretations, looking at themes throughout her songs. The ideas I managed to note down are below. The first picture was looking at the lyrics of the song and what we can get out of it.

 Below, we researched the story behind the song and linked possible stories to them.

We came up with one idea that we looked at a little more closely as you will see below. It was about 1930's gangs. We got this idea as we thought about a homeless person being taken in by a gang and longing to be in one as she thought that it would mean a better life, therefore chasing that idea of such a life, like Adele, who was chasing only pavements, which is why we linked it back to gang life not being as brilliant as the homeless person once thought, as she ends up being abused. Therefore was chasing pavements in the end and not some luxurious life.