Devising- Deciding on staging

When we were deciding on staging we wanted it to be different to normal performances like being on a stage and the audience in front as we wanted the audience to be involved in the action. So we first decided we wanted to try performing it in the round.

 We did this so the audience was on all sides so they felt like they were looking on in the action like a pedestrian walking past. When we tried this we tried it in the conference scene with Judith and Micheal. Doing this we created the scene to fit the round and we decided that it was really hard to make sure that the audience could see all the action and in the round there is no point where we can leave the stage easily. 
We then watch a video of the black watch in one of our lessons and we saw how they used traverse and decided we were going to try that with the same scene but change the ending of the scene to make it more suitable to traverse in our movement piece with narration. When we had created this we decided that this would suit our piece better and we were able to have as much room as we needed as we didn't need to confine our self into the round. We also decided it would be good at we have 2 strong point a its either end so it would be good to have important events happening at these so then they are more memorable where as in the round where you stand only has significant to which part of the audience you are facing so in the traverse at these points everyone can see your face. We also liked it at in the travese we can have places where we can exit and stand without blocking the audiences view to what is going on where as in the round this is harder and can become confusing.