The idea we finalised was to have a teen who's considered to be mentally unstable but isn't, he's just very intelligent and introverted. This misunderstanding leads to him being left alone and given extra support from school. His ultra intelligent brain waves lead to him disrupting technology such as lights and mobile phones. Eventually, he gets taken to a psychiatric hospital where he's treated for his "illness." This focuses majorly on the idea of mental health we all found interesting last lesson.
We wanted our play to start with the end scene as it forebodes to the audience the characters downfall. Below is a scene we devised for our opening to show this:
We discussed our next scene where we wanted to show how effective Ollie's powers are in real life and how much of an outcast he is in school. This sparked the idea for the school scene. In this scene, we have the chairs in a triangular formation with Rob at the front on the right being a teachers pet, Lorna and I in the middle to the side throwing paper at each other not really caring about the lesson and at the back, Ollie between Lorna and I.
We wanted to have a voiceover similar to Mrs Horrocks from our Flint Street Nativity to show the authority of the teacher. We wanted to show the paranormal side of the Ollie immediately to get the audience thinking. We were going to have a text tone sound effect and Ollie would get his phone out and look. As soon as the screen lights up, the lights dim down and Rob, Lorna and I lean towards Ollie to grab him and his phone and when we're close, we have a blackout and when the lights come back up, we're all back in our original positions.
Next lesson, we will discuss our ideas further to develop more scenes.
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