Chasing Pavements- developing ideas

Over the next couple of lessons we began to develop ideas. We started of by looking at the lyrics of the songs and annotating them to see if any strong ideas would develop. We noticed that in the song she talks about wanting something better and having enough of the pain so we thought we could use this theme in the piece to show how we link to the stimuli. We then moved on to looking at other Adele songs. We began by looking at set fire to the rain and developed the idea that someone is trying to get rid of the pain by setting fire to it but setting fire to the rain is impossible so this could never happen. This lead on to the ideas of the pain of abuse and not being able to escape also the idea of permanent injury and wanting to be better again. We then moved on to the song turning tables and looked at the line 'under your thumb I can' breath' this related to the idea we came up with before about being trapped by abuse and pain. We decided as a group we could develop this to become a main theme for our devised piece to draw the attention of the audience. We then came up with different scenarios that we could fit these different themes. One idea was that we could put it into a gang theme where someone in the gang wants something better from life rather then being in a gang. Another idea was Soldiers being stranded longing for there way home and stop the pain of never getting where they want to go. After we looked at all the ideas we had come up with and put them into a mind map and started to decide of which 2 we liked best. We picked out the solider idea and gang idea and developed each of them using themes that we had developed from looking at the different stimuli. Creating mind maps for each. Then we decided which on to go for which was the gang idea. We then created a brain storm of techniques which we could use and how we could use them in the piece to help develop our piece further.