Devising- Monday 5th October

Today in the lesson we watch more of the black watch to gain some ideas on what we should do on the piece. We looked at how it is set out traverse. Our group decided we liked how they used this as we were able to connect the audience by them seeing our face as there are angle with no audience. We also looked at how they sang a song into changing a scene. I though of an idea of how we could use this to start and scene. They also liked how they told history by a monologue but he changed his outfit to fit each war he was talking about. This helped me to think about costume and how I think our costume should be basic blacks but we should be adding bit of clothing to suit our character. We then moved on to working on our scene again but decided to work on it in traverse. We made sure that me and Tom where sitting on opposite ends so that we were as far apart as possible, We then started to go through our piece and add in a bit when I said ' we just don't have this killer instinct' but we decided this didn't work as it showed us getting closer in our argument. We then decided to change it so that the rest of the cast would do it after I said the line in a pause. Where Dan and Dom start where Dom carries it our and then Freya goes to but cant. This showed how women could not be strong enough. We then got given the note that we need to make our dialogue more natural as it sounds like we are in an interview so we decided we would read through it and make adaptions.