Devising: Day 12

Today, we split into different groups and worked on ideas for scenes that we were involved in. For example, Theo and Tom took my research from the 1930's dust bowl and started working on creating monologues for the the gang members to give the audience and idea of who they are and a back story to their lives. Dan Smith, went up to music with a video of the attack scene to begin work on composing a drum piece, Dan M started on the lighting ideas and worked on the colours and how intense the light would be, whilst myself and Ellie worked on the scene in which Finn stays behind at the speakeasy and begins to talk to Tess. We started by brainstorming ideas for a topic of conversation. We researched popular jobs for women in the 1930's and found that 80% of teachers were female, therefore settled on the idea that Tess dreams to be a teacher. We also wanted a reason for why Finn is so silent and decided that when he was younger his father abused him, which wasn't uncommon either, this idea also lead onto the fact that Finn joined the gang in order to learn how to fight and protect himself and also seeks solace in the gang as they are the most fatherly figure he has ever had. Our ideas are below. We wanted a common theme between the two, so decided that they both moved from Oklahoma and found themselves in New York and both had aspirations whether that be a teacher, campaigning for equal rights or wanting to set up a buisiness.

Then, we all came together in creating the scene in which Tess and Finn get to know each other. We wanted to make the scene quite awkward but a bit humorous at the same time. We only got the first couple of lines done, but will continue working on it for the next lesson and will hopefully have a video to put up too.