Idea 2 History Lesson

• self aware play
• narration
• stylised movement (frantic assembly-esque pieces)
• Song
• tickle tickle slap

(Bell Rings)

(children walk into class rowdily)

Teacher 

Kid 1: morning miss i'm ready to learn some really cool/

Teacher: That's nice, shut up now please and watch this video

(decrepit old tv is slowly wheeled on)

Scriptwriting ideas BLOG term 3

IDEAS BLOG

My Initial script idea approach was simply the basic concept of Obsession and seeing where that can lead me rather than heading straight to narrative and character

A want to explore the idea in a naturalistic and relatable way rather than an over the top farcical manner but i think it would be interesting to explore the spectrum of the feelings associated with that word.

The "Never meet your heroes" saying

(Obsession Research piece)

Music 

Stan - Eminem (lyric video)

Collosus (Explicit) - Tyler The Creator

One way or another - Blondie 

Love You Till Tuesday - David Bowie 

Purposes of Media lesson +

Richard Dyers utopian theory 

Escapism

He saw media/entertainment as a form of escapism for its audiences which is why it is popular 

"Audience consumes media to escape reality"

Richard Dyers questions 

Who's our audience?

What do they want?

Dyer believes that audiences consume media to draw key pleasures from that experience 

Nowadays we can tailor what we consume to what we want

Age 

Music taste

Sports 

Communication linked with psychology 

We were asked what we liked in media and our thoughts on why people consume it

Will Patel : "I just like things that provoke emotion weather they are happy or sad"

Hector: "urban reality youth sad but you don't have to endure the reality of it"

Eve: "people like seeing others in a less fortunate situation"

Lily: you can play out an unrealistic fantasy. Wanna be voeyers

Clay: "people like expecting a revelation or thrill, detective stories, cliffhangers etc"

Sidonie: "people like relatable, realistic drama"

Reece: niesh demographic"

Dyer

People like media that expresses ideals about how human life could be organised and lived.

Entertainment offers the image of something better to set against the realities of day to day existence.

Audiences choose to consume media because it includes...

Social tension - Political themes

Kendrick - institutional racism

4 lions- islamaphobia 

X-men/avatar - inequality (others) fear of the Unknown 

Problem vs utopian solution 

Exhaustion - energy

Scarcity - abundance 

Dreariness - intensity

Manipulation - transparency 

Fragmentation - Community

Inadequacy 

Superheros - marvel dc

Being able to dream of being extraordinary 

Treatment 

Equilibrium - disequilibrium 

Dilemmas to overcome 

An exciting incident 

Absence - something that's missing in our lives 

E.g. Happiness, love etc.

Location (homely, uncomfortable)

Personal questionnaire 

What makes you frightened: my future (failure) 

Interesting family member: dad moved to England at 17 with his older brother now works with the lighting crew at the colleseum. Nana, Sufi, 

Happy childhood memory. Watching Fireworks from a pram

Do you have a special/interesting hobby? 

Writing lyrics/poetry, making music/songwriting 

Artist I admire 

Tyler the creator -musician/rapper 

Kendrick Lamar - Musician/rapper 

Wes Anderson - Film Director. 

Heath ledger - Actor. 

Idris Elba- Actor. 

Fred Astaire - Dancer Nadia Latif- Theatre Director 

Period of history that interests you 

The 80's

Synopsis

Synopsis 
This radio play follows a married couple's (Lucy and Damien) argument through its ups and downs, twists and turns eventually heading to some pretty big revelations. 

The whole story is a re-telling of the seven deadly sins in a modern context.

SCRIPT

Radio Play Script

 (instrumental of Israel by Chance the Rapper fades in)

(Keys jingle from outside the front door, the key enters the lock and twists. The door squeeks slightly as it opens. Shoes swipe across the mat)

(Enter Damien)

Damien: 

(Shouts upstairs) I’m home babe, work was a lot of stress,  I dunno 

feel like I'm always failing even when I try my best.

Think I caught a cold too I started sniffling 

Are you alright up there it feels like you ain't listening

(Lucy from upstairs)

Lucy: 

No hunny bun I can hear you just fine!

(Turns Hoover on)

But speaking to you feels like a waste of my time

Damien:

YOU KNOW I CAN STILL HEAR YOU RIGHT

(Hoover is switched off)

Damien: I really don't wanna fight but if that's the beast you're feeding food/

Lucy: 

I don't mean to appear rude 

But I'm telling the truth

Damien:

About what?

Lucy:

You miss a lot with your head in your phone 

Ideas Notebook

Ideas

General Ideas 
Poetry/Spoken Word? - Phonically engaging
Back and forth/Call and response type motif with conflicting characters

Isreal - Chance the Rapper ft. Noname Gypsy

Characters
Angel - Devil or Devil - Devil
Modernisation of ancient sins

Damien Thorn - The Antichrist
The Omen Series

Lucy - Kendrick Lamar

For Sale - Kendrick Lamar (a conversation between kendrick and this fictional character)

Rap Genius

I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin' in the hotel room
I didn't wanna self destruct
The evils of Lucy was all around me
So I went runnin' for answers
Until I came home

Lucy is a romanticised form of Lucifer (a.k.a Satan).

Lucy is a common slang for another supposed evil in the world LSD. Kendrick is very much against drugs, so it is quite possible that this is another evil he is seeing in the world. The interesting thing about this is the history of the slang of Lucy. “Lucy in theSky with Diamonds” was in origin a song by John Lennon that was interpreted to be about LSD, while in reality it was about his son’s drawing of his friend Lucy. The evil prevails in symbolism, by making positive songs into evil references.

Kendrick’s love for Lucy is a metaphor for the acceptance of evil into our lives. Kendrick falling for bling and material things over the importance of his home is something that he sees as evil and is upset with himself about

Play Circumstances

Radio Play

Kai Kwasi Thorne

As I do Hell Pains

Playwright : Kai Kwasi Thorne

Character Names

Lucy Thorn (Female lucifer/conceptualized by Kendrick Lamar - to pimp a butterfly)

Damien Thorn (From “The Omen Series” tv show, his character is the antichrist)

Thorne: connotations with roses (brutal beauty)

Emotion

I want there to be a journey in terms of emotion in the piece starting with a calm passive atmosphere at the beginning. Then building up

Status

Working class relatable to the general audience.

Damien is from a lower class family.

Lucy is from a slightly higher-class family (upper working class).

Energy

Lucy has higher energy than Damien but in a sense they balance each other

Voice

They are comfortable with each other and therefore speak informally but are intelligent enough to be able to properly articulate their arguments.

Objectives

To argue

To accuse

To inform

To manipulate

To deceive

Gender

Lucy-Female

Damien-Male

events

Damien gets home. His wife is waiting

They start arguing

Argument builds

Revelations (cheating

Context is revealed

Resolution

The resolution is false.

They stop arguing but still resent each other

Dilemma

Throughout the argument these are going to be the faults (sins) that they accuse each other/deny themselves of committing.

Seven deadly sins

Pride – Instagram (vanity) “you’re more into your phone than me”

Cheating (Envy) “I saw you eyeing that guy at your work do”

Wrath – (tempers) “stop raising your voice”

Gluttony – “all you do is

Lust – lack

Sloth - housework

Greed (mine, mine, mine)

Location - Domestic setting

The entire radio play takes place in the house, in the front room/kitchen. It is a reasonably comfortable apartment in North Greenwich

Characters

Damien Thorne (28 years of age): Deep soothing voice. He has a neutral Londoner’s accent. He is intelligent and well spoken despite his slow. He works at Barclays as a cashier. (Representative of the evils of capitalism)

Lucy Thorn (27 years of age): Her voice is a little harsher than Damien’s. She also has a neutral Londoner’s accent. She is also well spoken and intelligent but a bit more emotionally unstable than Damien and prone to resorting to shouting. She works in politics for the Conservative party.