Devising.

In the beginning the process of devising was very difficult as we all had very different ideas and we couldn't effectivley get them across, so we began to disagree a lot and work was sidetracked a lot. I found it was particularly difficult to keep focus when working with your friends but in the end we managed to pull together a decent performance we agreed on with all our different ideas in them.

We would start by discussing the basics of a scene, who's there? Why? What's going to happen? Before improvising around that stimulus, stopping, evaluating then fixing until we had produced a full ten minute piece.

However we wouldn't have got to the final stages if we hadn't made two people in our group (Ella and Sophia) directors. Through this all of ideas were heard in a more efficient way and  the scenes began to come along quicker. We still had a few disagreements but everyone was pulling their weight.

In the beginning we had a mismatch of ideas about things that could happen/ relate to a train. For example
- slave train
- a train for jews in the war
- a train bombing
- an everyday train

However this became too complicated and we found it hard to link all the scenes together, so we picked one idea - the train bombing. We picked this because as we asked our site teacher questions he actually revealed that the room joining onto our space had actually been bombed. Which directly related to our site (as it was heavily effected) and fit in to our train story.