5th November 2015

In today's lesson we started to work on our 'forced marriage' scene. For this we had to decide characters and think about how we can base it around the male and how he can be our main character which after a long debate was sorted. Next it was onto how we could start this scene, I had the idea that the scene could start with 2 men talking on the phone about arranging a marriage for their children. Then the group and I faced a problem, as we only have two females in our group we had to find a way of having two mothers and a wife. The way this was solved was by me coming up with the idea that the main male characters mother has recently died and therefore calls his friend living in England and tells him to get his daughter to marry his son; of course the Englishman accepts as it means he will gain wealth and high status in the foreign country.
The Englishman tells his daughter they're going on holiday and then throughout the holiday manipulates and mentally abuses her into getting married to this boy. That is so far the storyline I have come up with, In the beginning I had the idea that the phone call between the friends could be about the loss of the boys mother and then the two friends get onto the topic of needing a new 'family'.
Today I believe to improve what we could've done was speed up with contributing ideas so that we could actually start blocking the scene. An alternative to today's lesson could've included making the transition from the Human Trafficking scene to the Suffragettes scene and/or start blocking the Suffragette scene. Next lesson I plan on making a start on blocking the Forced Marriage scene and to hopefully get a strong outline of how it'll look.