Devising- Thursday 5th November

In today's lesson we carried on looking at arranged marriage and how we wanted to put it into a scene. We decided we wanted it to be like a similar idea that we had come up before when we were originally doing the soldier idea so we took the idea of cross cutting and changing scenes. So this is when I suggested that we started writing a 2 sided lift to look at the male scenes and female scenes. From the females point of view we women we wanted her to be harrowed, confide in a friend, defend what she wants, being tricked into going on holiday and then the day of the wedding. We wanted it to be abroad as a lot of stories spoke about being tricked into going on a holiday. From the males side we wanted him to show how he wanted it to happen and he was happy for it but for the right reasons and we also wanted to show the parents talking to him. Showing it from the side of the man and how forceful he would be and how much he wants it but he doesn't. We then decided on the who would play each character. Freya would be the girl with Dan.s being her dad, Dom being the boy with Tom and  I being his parents and Kai being the friend to confide in. We thought Freya should be the one who doesn't have a mum because of our limit of girls because she would feel more pressured if her mum memory would be used as a means to do something. We then continued on to put the scenes into order. Deciding to start with Freyas mums funeral, then the fathers discussing what was going on, then we wanted the the boy being told, then confiding in a friend followed by the going away. This was the rough basis on which we wanted it to go but we need to finish it next lesson.