Devising- Thursday 17th September

Today in the lesson we looked at dialogue and how effective it is when it is used correctly. We got put into groups and were given a director. My group consisted of Dan, Carl and I then Kai as our director and we were given the script 'hes talking' which is about terrorists in South Africa who finally get caught. Each scene is set in the same flat in London but has different people in each scene due to the original character Luke who got caught giving his story different and how it causes different people to get caught. In the scene we have Luke who is let free because he gave up the names of everyone else and Tanya and Miles are there because they managed to leave as they had British passports. In the scene Luke is trying to make the other 2 get angry at him for what he has done. In the scene I played Tanya, Carl played Luke and Dan played Miles. Firstly we read through the script and worked out how each line should be said and what emotion each of the characters was feeling at that moment in the script. We then set it on stage where we decided to have random chairs on the stage and each time we discussed the next person who was given up to the police then a chair would go down. This was to symbolise each of them being sent down for what they had done. I feel that doing this helped us to understand quality dialogue and how if we develop it in the right way it will have a greater effect on the audience and cause them to connect more with the action. This helped me to think of the idea of using scripts within devising or real life conversations which are going on. This would help to make our piece realistic.