SPA- Chasing Pavements -11

Today, our lesson quickly spiralled into a mess, before we had even started devising our first scene.
We had some good ideas for our opening scene, I suggested that we should set our scene on the evening before the murder, having the audience walk into the hall, and into their seats whilst Jon (who will be played by Oliver) and Robert (who will be played by James) are sat facing the back of the stage, perhaps watching a scene from 'Child's Play 3' as it is thought that this film influenced and inspired some of the horrid things that they done to them, such as putting paint into James' eyes. Cel then suggested that we could show an advertisement for bricks, to which I agreed would be an interesting idea as its significance would become so much more later on in our performance, she agreed with me that we may as well show the adverts for batteries and paint, as all are relevant and would have the same significance. James thought that this idea wouldn't work too well as he felt it gave away what our piece was about, which we do not want to do, we would rather make it less obvious and let the audience realize the links between different things themselves, until they eventually know we're performing work in relation to the James Bulger case. I won't go into details, but things got quite heated within my group and resolving James's, Oliver's and Cel's argument took up the majority of the lesson. By the end of the lesson, things had settled and we have agreed that we will start with my idea and Oliver found {FIND SONG NAME-INSERT SONG} to play quietly as him and James plan there day of bunking of school for the coming day. I also suggested earlier on in the lesson, (as it is a medium of Cels and James's ideas) that we could just have a can of blue paint, some batteries and some bricks perhaps up centre stage, as it is not as obvious but the symbolism is still there, however, due to even more 'disagreements' we are not going to use this idea nor are we going to use the idea of the advertisements at this point in our piece, however I think that both of these things would work at different points of our performance so will keep them in mind for if we run short on ideas at another point of our devising process.