first devising blog

this blog is for the past few lessons, we started devising a performance last week, we got given some lyrics to stimulate a performance, the idea we got from the lyrics was the word home, we started to spit ball ideas and came up with the idea of someone coming home and getting killed in a train bombing, we then decided to split the piece into different stories about the people on the train and how they got there, the character i have decided to play is a teenager properly around 17 who just got back from a holiday with his mate, i have not decided on a name for my character yet or any of his personal details. my character pushes his friend of the train which actually ends up saving his life. we have decided to use two songs so far for this piece we are using animal by by Martin gracix and Love is blindness by jack white. we use these songs for the first 2 scenes we have. in the first scene danny liam and jake come in and sit on a bench in a train station and chill there until the train arrives, jake and danny accidentally switch bags and danny ends up having jakes bag which actually has a bomb in it, when jake releases his bag is gone me amanda liam connor and jay walk around the stage in slow motion as if we were just people in a train station but danny and jake are still moving normal speed and jake is trying to find danny but because of all the other people on stage we block his view of danny and all end up on a train. we walk onto centre stage one at a time and set up a train like scene ( 3 chairs as the seat and 3 people standing holding railings like on a train ) me danny and liam sit down on the chair, jay and amanda stand holding the railings and connor leans on me. i sit on a seat texting with my hood up whilst jake moves around us looking for danny, he looks at a few people and misses danny, when he looks at me he pulls my hood of and i just stare at him as everyone is frozen apart from jake at this point. when jake moves away from danny, danny opens his bag and see's he has a bomb, at that point everyone turns to see it and we all react, i have decided i will try to run away as a natural instinct but stop because i realise we are on a train, jake then snatches the bag and lifts it in the air, when the lyric ' love is blindness ' plays he drops the bag and we start to move around the stage from side to side swapping with the person to the side of us.