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For the past couple of lessons we have been trying to come up with a solid idea we can perform, this has proven to be very difficult as we came up with an idea we liked but then we all ended up nit picking the negatives and sort of changed the idea so much that it just fell apart.

We went to visit Fort Amherst for a whole lesson to walk around and get a feel for our location. We all found this really helpful however it didn’t inspire any ideas that we hoped it would. We discovered from the guide showing us around the tunnels that another fort similar to Fort Amherst was once a mental asylum, this sparked us to bring up our mental hospital idea again.

Me and Ashley came up with the idea that there could perhaps be more than the doctor working there, maybe there are a few cleaners and other staff that are dodgy and kill a patient by injecting them with too much medication, this would then get blamed on the doctor and it could be sort of a murder mystery sort of thing, this then prompted the idea that there could be a psychiatrist that’s visiting the mental asylum, the doctor would be showing the psychiatrist around and showing him the patients and their different traits and mental disorders, we still had the idea that the doctor is sort of dodgy and perhaps abusive . Next lesson we explained to the class the second idea about the psychiatrist, the class really liked this idea so started to think more on the storyline to develop the idea further.

We came up with a few characters that we wanted to have, so far we have


Doctor

Nurse

Psychiatrist

Then we have all the patients, we didn’t want to go with the classic bipolar disorder which is quite cliché and as we have decided to set it in the past we have gone with people being put in the asylum because of things such as unmarried mother, someone who thinks they’re the second coming, someone with basic special needs like dyslexia. We have included other disorders like schizophrenia, a girl that thinks she’s 6 years old even though she is 21.