Devising- Tuesday 3rd November

Today in the lesson we started by discussing what we did from the last lesson on our human trafficking piece and Theo had found a trailer of a film that he suggests we watch to be able to understand the feeling and the emotion behind this. It would also help with the hard facts of what human trafficking is. 

After we did this we started looking at arranged marriage from different points of view and we found an arranged marriage hand book

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/149854/FM_Survivors6.pdf

This helped to understand how bad arranged marriage could be. We then decided as a group that it would no longer be an arranged marriage piece but it would be force as there is a clear difference between having a choice and being made to do something. Our piece being about womens rights we decided that forced would be more appropriate and we should show the pressure put on the women and how hard it is for them. We also discussed how we could make it more emotive and get the audience to understand what arranged marriage is about as a lot of people do not understand the reasons behind it and the suffering it causes after. The hand book helped me to understand how impossible it is to escape when you have been forced into something that you don't want to be in. 

We also spoke about a story of a women who was practicing to become a doctor at university when here parents forced her into marriage and she was sent to Afghanistan where she could not practice what she had learnt and was hardly even allowed to the leave the house. She went from being independent to completely isolated and unable to have a life. This made it clear to me this was a good topic to chose to show what we want to and show how women are still not equal to men.