Devising

Today we properly started our new unit devising, we were split into our groups and we then had to come up with various ideas around the stimulus chasing pavements, one of the ideas was our piece has a old fashioned mafia gang to it and one person is trying to get out of the gang for a better life but the gang find out and kill him/ her, I really liked this idea and we had a few more brainstorm ideas off that idea so we already have a well thought out storyline for that idea, one problem with this idea could be making it seem childish or not having a well thought out story line for the reason of the gang member leaving and it not really making sense. 

Another idea we had was a group of soldiers get dropped in the middle of nowhere due to their mission going wrong and have to get back to civilisation, but there is a road that seems never ending and because of dehydration and lack of food they slowly grow insane and turn against each other. I had the idea that then one of them dies and this person speaks to the rest of the boys as a ghost and spurs them on leading the soldiers home, I thought this would be a good idea as it could get the audience emotional and it seems like something we haven't really done before. 

All these ideas were created just from the stimulus chasing pavements, we then started elaboration on this with never ending road and stuff like that and getting images off Google to try and develop our ideas even further, these are some of the photos we found

 

                                                 

These are two examples of the style and atmosphere we would want to create with our American style gangsters

 

For these pictures we say the first one as how the soldiers would see the road at first, full of colour and hope but towards the middle/ end when they have lost all hope this is how the road would seem, dull and lifeless, if we were to choose this I think we would have these pictures projected on the back wall as the play progressed so it slowly got darker and darker to show how they soldiers are affected.