Devising (14) - Dialogue

In this lesson we purely worked on dialogue. We discussed the idea we had previously about people having a conversation in a cafe, however, we decided against this as we felt it was drawing the idea away from the media. Although we would be presenting how the media influences other people's opinions, we felt that we could have dialogue that focussed more on the media. This brought us back to our idea of someone being on the TV that Lewis is watching. However, we then thought that this could be a bit cliché and typical. We then thought of news presenters at the beginning and end of the programme, when they are shuffling papers and talking to each other - we asked ourselves what they are talking about at this point. This question intrigued us. We then thought that we could be TV presenters having a meeting about who we were going to have in on our show. This would happen as a split screen; on the other side of the split, Lewis would be doing some movement to show that he is trying to get his life together and is working hard.

Decisions:

• To show that it is a breakfast meeting we decided that we would have someone turn up late. 
• To make the conversation more natural we would include fillers, tag questions and interruptions. In our first draf of the conversation, we didn't have any interruptions, so it didn't sound very natural.
• Use colloquial terms and more simplistic dialogue to make it seem more natural than a presentation.

We were really struggling writing the script, so we didn't write much this lesson, but we have a couple of ideas on where we want to go with it. We decided that Rob's character would be worried for Lewis' character and is basically saying what the audience are thinking, whilst Ollie and I would be symbolising what the media is really like, in how harsh it is.