Fourth Account: 23rd September 2015

As our piece only had two stories which were quite similar due to the theme of females being sexual trafficked, we decided to have one based on a boy going through forced labour trafficking. In order to come up with a plot, my group and I looked at three case studies. We finally decided on one as a main and we plan to use elements of another one in it. Following this we fed of some possible scene ideas and decided to act them out and see if they were potential scenes we could use. This was a good practical as one scene developed so much as the location changed from a park, then to a bus stop and finally standing outside waiting for a taxi.

Third Account: 21st September 2015

In today’s lesson we analysed the Bradford Girl trafficking story which one member of our group gave us. We thought that it could be good to use as our storyline as it was very interesting and there were ways we could portray the situation using various drama techniques. For example, Frantic Assembly’s chair duets to symbolise that some men are trying to feel up the victim. Although we had decided to use this for our performance, we didn’t think it was that heavy enough to formulate the whole piece. Thus we thought to base our piece on two individual stories. The first being the Bradford girl and the second being the Nigerian girl online case study that I previously gathered for my group. We also thought of songs that could be included in our piece, we thought that having a light upbeat song against a dark violent scene will make it more effective as the juxtaposition would be so severe. After all of this theoretical work we decided to improvise a opening scene and from there we decided it’ll most probably be in our piece; it is set in a police station interview room where Georgia (our Bradford girl) is being questioned.

Second Account: 17th September 2015

We decided to research different trafficking case studies independently. I found quite a lot under sexual, child and forced labour trafficking. One that stood out to me was about a Nigerian girl who got the opportunity to move to London for a ‘cleaning job’ which slowly unfolded to be a job in the sex trade. We decided to develop ideas on sexual and forced labour trafficking. This is because forced labour isn’t a very prominent issue so we would like to inform our audience that it is very severe. Individually, I researched some facts and statistics and my group and I are planning to project them continuously throughout our whole performance.

First Account: 16th September 2015

Our initial stimulus for our devised drama was a song about the sex trade: sex trafficking and prostitution. This was given to us from a student in our class.My group and I decided to broaden this stimulus to human trafficking on a whole. We also read a poem called ‘Home’ by Warshan Shires. This poem related a lot to the current migrant crisis in the EU. After this we brainstormed different ideas and narrative that would fall under Human Trafficking and Migration. One initial idea was about a Muslim girl from Syria who moved to England to live with her ‘uncle’ but instead he made her become a sex slave.