Development session #2

We had another fantastic development session with the LifeIsSwifties.

This session we worked on identifying themes in the lives of teenagers, and mapping them to see “what was core, what was core core, and what was core core core.”

Some of the answers were surprising to me. I particularly was surprised by the fact the participants did not centre friendships, but fandom was ESSENTIAL. We dug deeper, though, and discovered what fandom meant - community, culture, belonging, artistry etc. The interconnectivity of a lot of these themes and issues was very interesting.

I recorded the most amazing conversation as we discussed these ideas. Only to discover it didn’t work and was totally silent! I am devastated. But I know we will have so many more juicy chats to unpack our themes.

We also did a cold read of the first ten or so pages of script, and I was THRILLED that the teens like id! They laughed a lot, said it was relatable (and didn’t seem like an old person was poorly imitating them) and had lots of great questions afterwards. Feeling very excited to keep going!