Week 4 - Devising

This week consisted of developing our ideas we have by making up more scene to go into our piece to help make the scenes we have so far link. We came up with a proposal scene on Monday which shows how Bobby is forced into this arranged marriage with brother Taylor by her father. At the back of the scene with be happy Bobby and Billy watching over the proposal and when brother Taylor asks her the happy Bobby screams 'NO'.

'Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are selected by a third party rather than by each other. It was common worldwide until the 18th century.'

We had a bit of feedback from Kirsty on Monday were we discussed about our piece and all the relationships and how it might be too complicated for the audience to understand it all. Then we decided that instead of having Phoebe as Bobby's sister Betty she was also going to be Bobby as well. Which meant we had to tweak some of the scenes we already had.I came up with the idea to have one happy and one sad Bobby, the happy one would always we with Billy-Joe as he makes her happy and the sad one would be with brother Taylor. Phoebe decided to be the sad Bobby and I'm the happy Bobby. Which is why we changed it so Phoebe is getting married and I just have my hand on her shoulder during the wedding scene.  

With this we would have one Bobby on the side saying all of the other Bobby's who would be doing a scenes feelings and real emotions that she's not saying. For example with the dinner scene that we have Bobby sitting down at the table and then the other Bobby behind her reacting to the things the father is saying because the Bobby sitting down isn't brave enough to say them. We had some feedback on this scene about the way the Bobby stood behind the other Bobby should express her feelings. For example I was shouting them but they said the tension was already there so there is no need to shout but maybe just have an angry tone to my voice. 

We have also worked on a dance together to show that we are both Bobby and to help the audience understand that better and when we showed the group on Wednesday they seemed to know without us saying anything. We also came up with a scene for the mother to show her relationship with the father since our play is based on the relationships between each other. We now have a scene with brother Taylor and the father talking about the arranged marriage.

With the scenes we came up with this week we now have a beginning, middle and end to our play. We have linked 6 scenes together which is what we needed to do mainly this week to make our middle of our play. All we have to do now is make a few more scenes up to link to beginning to the middle and the middle to the end and then we have our play. We have also figured out a few songs for some of the scenes but some are yet to be chosen and then we need to think about costumes which we will probably discuss near the end. I think so far our play is going really well as we have a lot of material to work with. Hopefully it will continue to go this way and it isn't long until we have our final piece.