2 Major outcomes from rehearsals
   Today, our group was having some trouble with our ideas and how to get them connected with each other. After some discussion and 'little' help from our tutor, it was established that our group had too many ideas and story lines to put into a 10 minute scene. So, obviously one of the major outcomes was the change of direction with our scene and discover what is our specific plot and what we want to tell to the audience. We ended up focusing on the life of a man who involuntarily becomes like his abusive father, raising the question in the end, whether we're the result of our environment or of our own actions.

How did you come to those outcomes?
   Our original idea for our scene was to tell two stories, the story of an abusive man and a servant who becomes the target of his abuse. we had worked on a lot of scene about the man's past, just to realize that our characters were not defined enough and that our whole 10 minute play would be too confusing to tell two different stories. At some point, we were even planning to bring in two additional stories about the two other servants, but because of our time constriction those plots we're ditched in quite an early stage. Once, we had a talk with our tutor about our scene, it was clear that we had to change our play and make it to focus on one story, so that all of the characters could be more specified and our message to the audience clearer. Since we had worked on the scene with the man's past the most, we decided to focus on that story, rather than creating a new plot to the servant. All we need to do now, is to add more to the character and the story to develop a all round story line.

How are you using...

1. Song Lyric?
   By now, I feel like we have ditched the song we had(Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm). What we originally pulled from the song, were things about women's rights, work and equality. At first we were trying to work with something with women's rights, which is what we researched the most, by having an abusive man and women who have fallen as victims, because of their lower position. But since our change of direction in our play, I can see only one of our original main feelings still sticking around. Power.

2. Research?
   A lot of the research we did was on women's rights and the industrial revolution. As I said before, since the change in direction, we pretty much dropped all the things concerning women's rights and also most of the researched done about industrial revolution we ended up not using. Still, the main idea of women joining the work force we used somehow, since we include female servants in the play, even though it is not clearly connected to industrial revolution.

3. Acting techniques?
    In one of our scene, that we have so far planned, we use freeze frame to create tension and anticipation on what is to happen next.