12.11.2013

Explain what is happening in the except and how it fits with your full scene

  In this scene, we start of with Craig(Max) and Rick(Yunuse) arguing about the boat not moving, resulting in aggressive contact between the two of them, almost knocking Xanthe(Lucy) overboard. After calming things down, the group talks about Paige's(Jade) life and how she is having problems at home. We also get a bit of the group starting to enjoy alcohol beverages, Paige and Xanthe than the others. We thought that this could work as the beginning for our piece, since it would right away establish some of the desperation that some of the characters are having being on the boat, and also shows the dynamics between characters.

Describe the process of making decisions shown in the excerpt
 
     With the conflict at the beginning, we first thought that it could be everyone arguing with each other, Craig and Rick obviously talking about the boat and the girls arguing about something else, Still, we weren't entirely sure if it would actually fit the personalities of the characters for all of them to just blow of like that. In fact it might even be against their true nature to do so, since both Xanthe and Vera would just want everyone to get along and calm down. There was no real reason why the girls would fight, so we decided that the conflict would happen between Rick and Craig. Rick's character is very work and family centred, and with a bad temper it would be quite likely for him to get annoyed with the other, especially Craig, who is supposed to sail the boat. We played around with the idea that we could start of our scene right away at the fight, but since Craig and Rick have been good friends, we felt that there needed to be some backing up before the 'explosion'.
 
Notes

   After showing our devising so far, we were given some really good notes on what to work on next. Mainly, we need to ask question from our character and ask them, what is their driving force on the boat. Is it that they want out? Why? Would they show their emotions to the others on the boat? This was really something that hit me about Vera, I wasn't entirely sure if I knew the answer to all of these questions.
    I have established before, that Vera isn't entirely sure about the relationship with the other characters. She doesn't feel as close to them as she might have had before, and perhaps this trip is a sort of a test for her to see, if the others truly are worth her time. She isn't exactly eager to stay or get out of the boat, but why is that? Why is she so indecisive about the group? Perhaps there is still a part of her that is somehow attached to the group, or someone in the group, much so that she cannot seem to let go of the past to move on with her own life.
   This was a thing that we discussed a lot as a group, the dynamics within the characters and their own little friendship ensemble. It was our starting point for the whole piece that this trip for the characters would be something they have done before together, a tradition, but perhaps in the recent years the friendship of these characters has been pushed aside by other things in their lives. The big question within the group is, if they really even are friends any longer, or if they should be, but from the characters Vera is the only one actually acknowledging it. The others have probably thought about it, but would rather push it aside. Xanthe, for example, sees this group as her foundation and because of depression is desperate to make this group work once again.

   In further devising, I feel that we really need to work on getting some dialogue for Vera and Paige, since now they have been more on the background. Both of the characters have great potential on creating some kind of discussion or drama, and it would be important that all of the characters have their time in the spotlight.