Final ideas for Chasing pavements

Today we came up with final ideas for our piece for 'Chasing Pavements' today in lesson we finally managed to come up with a really cool sounding idea, miss cordell helped us out alot and told us to think outside of the box, because obiously everything in drama has been done before so we need to add our own spark to our piece

In the end we decided that the soldier idea, despite it being really good, would not be able to entertain the audience and get us the grades, for example, the crash at the beginning would have been really effective, and the soldiers individual stories but the play would get a bit dry and boring and we need the audience to stay engaged and feel sorry for the character who in the end is going to die

 We are also not going with the idea of the gang idea, however we are using the story in part of our piece, we had the idea that the performance starts as a blackout, and you can hear shouting and screaming, then as the lightrs come up, you see a dead body with a gang, who are tying up loose ends, (Basically killing someone for not doing something), and then the soppy character of the gang, a stranger (Ellie)walks around and sees the dead body, the rest of the group run away but the emotional (wet) character that is played by Kyle,doesnt run, and this shows them falling in love in a way. We havent planned out the full story, but in a nutshell, Dan Mckay is the Author, writing the story, which we are the characters of, and it shows him writing the story and us acting it out, which will look really cool. Initially before this amazing idea,we allcame up with origional ideas, which were in fact really good, but it wasnt outside the box or strange in a way, we dont wan the audience to be able to relate our play, to a film or other play. Because its our owndevised piece

We had the idea that Dan canever finish the story with a happy ending (showing the cruelty of life), and he gets more and more frustrated, and drinks alcohol while writing, so to the end of the story, Dan ends up killing himself, its really difficult to explain, but when we sort out the order of the performance and look into more depth about each character, i will be able to tell you more about each individual character, how they feel and why they are behaving like they do

Personally i wanted the Author because i can act really well at being stressed and i feel the part would have suited me, hopefully i will have a good role in the actual story, me and theo need to come up with important characters to play otherwise we will hardly be in it and wont be matching the grading criteria, im slightly dissapointed i didnt get the part,but it was done in a random draw so i cant complain. Apart from this our story is odd but unique and i feel it will seriously entertain and interest the audience,and they will be engaged throughout the performance/

 One thing im worried about is the idea that Dan Screws up the paper and re-writes it, i feel that repeating it too much will bore the audience, although its a really good idea and it really shows how the author cant find a happy ending, it may confuse the audience,

Next lesson we should sit down again and structure the play, then once we have more knowledge on the play, we should start devising the opening scene, i really want to start trying different ideas, because fir the past few lessons we have just been talking about ideas, and havent peen putting them into action tosee what works well, and what doesnt, i cant wait to start working on this. But i seriosly want a part that i will be really good at acting, i know i could have shown my potential by being the Author,so next lesson we also need to tactically assign the appropriate characters to each actor.