Over the past week we have been focusing on individual scenes, we worked on the opening, I wrote a script for the opening but didn't realise there had already ben one written, either we will choose one to use or we will combine the strengths of each one and go with that. With my version I had the Doctor and Nurse having a slight squabble, this would show the audience some slight tension about the situation, it also shows that the Doctor has a short temper and perhaps the audience will be a bit suspicious of his character and then connect better with the nurse.
The other script we worked on was the scene where we use the electric chair on the character that is silent due to PTSD/ Shell Shock. We describe to the psychiatrist the electric chair and what it does, the psychiatrist asks some pressing questions frustrating the doctor, again this shows the audience that he might not be the best doctor and doesn't have the patients safety in his interest. During the use of the electric chair the Doctor and Nurse make the decision to up the voltage to an unsafe height, after this has stopped and there is no change in the patient the Doctor quickly moves on to the next patient ignoring the failed attempts with the electric chair giving a corrupt and neglecting atmosphere to the doctor and nurse.
With these scenes we wanted to bring through that the Doctor doesn't like the psychiatrist being in his mental asylum and therefore is rushing him through the tour of the patients and perhaps mishandling some of them along the way.
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