Project

A Sad Story - https://youtu.be/E-vO7PtEt9Y

In-class writing

1. My vision for this project was trying to make it look as close to real life as possible, considering my yet limited directing skills and a little variety of surroundings to choose from.
2. I maintained a few original story elements in my new modernised project - husband's "fake" death and wife dying at the end.
3. I made it modern in terms of small details - airplane instead of the train, TV news instead of the telegraph; I also removed the wife's friends so now she finds out about the accident on her own; Also the wife does not have any health issues and she truly loves her husband.
4. The climax is the wife killing herself and husband opening the front door a few seconds later.
5. The strongest part of my project so far is the pictures - I took all of them and they are in the correct order.
6. The weakest part is the captions as I have not come up with them yet.
7. This project helped me realise that there are way more steps to creating stories than I thought; I also learnt about the different parts of the stories that make them interesting (climax etc.).
8. I learnt more about how the theatre works thanks to this project - I got to actually stage the pictures trying to make them as realistic as possible; I also realised how hard it is to work with the actors sometimes and trying to express the ideas in my head correctly.

First project draft

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Pm8P9kN8EnXIptFSM7UZ3xzf_7iFicE6JuT7JtJzL8

Ideas

Genre 

• Romance/drama

Characters

• Both main characters are in their 30s
• Husband John
• Wife Kate
• No other characters

Setting

• Takes place in the 2000s
• Happens at home (living room -- kitchen)

Plot

• Husband "dies" in an airplane crash due to weather conditions
• Wife (at home) founds out via TV news
• She tries to call him but he's not answering (PM)
• Sits still for a long time, remembering all happy moments they lived through (PM)
• Goes into the kitchen to get a knife (PM)

Climax

• She kills herself the second her husband opens the door

Resolution

• Husband comes in, sees his wife dying, comes up to her
• Sits by her side till her last second of life

Pictures

1. Wife is reading a book on a sofa, while TV is on
2. News program with an airplane crash comes up
3. She puts the book away, looking at the screen
4. Takes the phone with fear on her face
5. Calls her husband multiple times, walking around the living room
6. After multiple calls and no answer she sits one the sofa with a still blank face
7. Random happy events with her husband flash in her mind
8. Stands up, starts calmly walking towards the kitchen
9. Opens the drawer and takes a knife
10. Looks at it for a second
11. Takes it with two hands and cuts herself right in the middle of the stomach
12. Husband opens the front door with a worried face
13. He notices his wife and rushes to her
14. Tries to calm her down, hugging her
15. Sits by her side
16. Black screen

Presentation

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FlXPhb3EjK7URXuHb-kK2DpBqywRakqMbwhMft2bByw/edit?usp=sharing

Modern play

• The husband's airplane crashed due to weather conditions
• No data so he couldn't send a text
• She looks out the window and sees skyscrapers
• Tv news talking about the airplane incident