SPA- Chasing Pavements -8

Today's events were good in the sense that everybody has now recognized that comedy, this time, is not working for us (but we still tried it out, which is part of the devising process:)) but bad in the sense that we have now gone back to square one and need a new approach. We went back to our original planning sheet, everybody was coming up with many different ideas, but we were making no progress as everybody was too focused on their own ideas, rather than discussing through and figuring out happy mediums between different topics and stories. Our teacher could see that we were struggling with making ends meet, and got us each to pick one idea/theme/technique we want to be about. My original idea was to work on something that has more relation to our stimulus (Adele's 'Chasing Pavements') such as the view on life from a homeless person (as when sat on the pavement everyday most will have 100's / 1000's walk past, ignoring them and carrying on with their conversations, but through this homeless people get to hear / see glimpses into so many different peoples lives and stories. But, as each other person in my group wanted to base our piece around mental illnesses, I changed my idea to fit in with what everybody wanted to do, I agreed that we could base our piece around mental illness/s but think that we shouldn't show the mental illness through the perspective of the person that has one, as it is impossible to give an accurate representation of an illness if we haven't experienced them ourselves, we can only work off of what people who have these illnesses are portrayed to be like, which is often inaccurate and stereotypical. By the end of the lesson, we were calmer with the fact that we have started again, and in our next lesson, we will decide for good what our work is going to be about and start devising our piece.