Week One: Devising

For our first week we got introduced into what we are going to be doing. We got put into groups of 4-5. In our group we had 4 girls and 1 boy. When we got into our groups we first of all researched some issues in the UK that affect teenagers. We looked up about gangs and religion. so we thought of our storyline, we based it on a 16-year-old Muslim which gets shot by three black boys in and estate where the black boys run the area. All three boys get arrested. We are showing in our play what has happened to the Muslim boy who got stabbed to death and how he got involved in with the wrong people.


We researched about gangs and religion, one website we found some information about gangs was on the Mirror Online, he information I got was 'Muslims in jail numbered only 3,681 in 1997 but last year there were 17,278.' Their proportion of the prison population in that time went from one in 16 to one in seven. A source said: “This is mainly because of the number of foreign ­nationals in UK jails but is also affected by religious conversion.' 

Later on in the week we finally decided some of the character we wanted to make it stereotypical with the black teenage gang members, teenage Muslim boy and white teenager boy trying to get involved with the gang. 

This week we got straight into acting, as soon as we had an idea we got up and started to act it out to see if we liked it or not. I believe that we did get a lot done this week. however, for our next week lessons we will all try to come in because people have been coming in late and not attending lessons. I will also try to attend every lesson. I believe that I need to give more ideas and opinions about the play. I believe I am currently trying my best to do contribute with the group with bringing up ideas and trying to make them work. We started to sort out our characters this week and the storyline.