Week Two: Devising

For this week we have been intensively doing some rehearsals. I believe that a lot of us were not putting in 100% effort and commitment. I also believe that myself has not been concentrated a lot in the lessons because I was drifting away and daydreaming a lot. On Thursdays lessons we realised that we only have a week left so we all tried in with putting in our commitment. We had to sort our scenes our properly. My character for this performance is two different characters. One is the news reporter at the beginning and the end, this character is not seen for a long time however, she is a formal white female news presenter. She is posh and formal, she is like the narrator of the performance. She starts by giving the news of what has happened. Then the acting comes along, then she finishes the performance with the rest of the report. My second character is the white teenage boy who tries to join the gang full of only black teenagers. He is not really accepted because of his colour so he is annoying as he tries to become close friends with the gang. 

The other three girls are the black teenage boy gang members. One is the eldest which is 18 and he is like the leader of the gang. He is very stubborn and only thinks about money, he does not like any other race except his own race. The second eldest is 17, he is the more quitter one, he is speaks his mind when he has to. The youngest is 16 and he is the one who is the oldest younger brother so he tries to follow his older brothers footsteps. He however is more friendly, he tries to let the Muslim teenage boy to come into their gang. The 16-year-old Muslim boy is the youngest members old friend from before, he is afraid of what people will say about him, he tries to fit in to the gang by going against his religion and his beliefs. 

We made the scene transitions quicker and much more effective by going straight into the scene or split sense so it would be easier to go from one scene to another. 

For our next weeks lessons till our performance we need to go through our last scene because we just about touch on it this week, we only went through the scenes we have, we just cleared them up, added, changed or taken away some stuff from the scene. 

Next week for all our lessons we need to all be in because we have not been giving commitment all of us. Next week Thursday we will be performing to our drama group so before our performance we need to clear up all the scenes and finish off our last scenes.  

I personally believe that we have achieved our last weeks improvements for this week. We was all attending and making sure that we put our 100% commitment and focus. We also got a lot of our scenes all sorted out just our last scene left to clear up properly.