19th & 20th January 2015

During Mondays lesson (19th) Tom and I sat down and discussed the monologue scene which will be used after the torture/introduction scene of our devised piece. To do this we used the research we done over the Christmas half term so we could find out what each member of the gang could talk about. Once we had collected all the information and research together we made monologues for each gang member and the author.

For the second half of the lesson I went to the music department with Dan and recorded his drumming piece which will be used over the attack scene. We went back and showed the rest of the group and they liked it. An idea I had when Dan was choosing lighting was that we should use strobe lighting effects over parts of the fight/argument scene. We then watched through the scene Kyle and Ellie had made which was them meeting properly for the first time, we decided to use pink/light purple lighting for this as it is a convention of love.

In Tuesdays lesson (20th) we performed our monologue scene roughly and Dan lighting to it. We then decided to block the break up scene which is now our second ending, this is done using the technique split screen. On one side of the split screen we have Tom and Ellie talking about Kyle and Tom's trying to persuade Ellie that Kyle doesn't want to speak to her any more whereas on the other side of the split screen it is me, Dan and Kyle playing cards. The ideas I had during blocking this scene was that Dan and I should stand on the opposite side of the block to Kyle as we're still at the awkward stage where we don't know if we're friends or not after the argument scene. Another idea I had was that Kyle mentions that we should play KINGS because he feels like he is above us and has a higher authority, another way I said we could show authority would be me and Dan leaning on the block we'll use as a table whilst Kyle stands tall above us. The main idea I contributed was that throughout the card game each character makes sly&witty comments that are relevant to the situation doing things such as using the cards (king, queen,joker) to portray what has gone on with the gang.