Being productive

Read about the production roles, look at the production team, and read the interview with Vanessa Alexander to help you answer these questions.

How many of these jobs do you recognise?
Do you know what all these people do?
If Being Eve were a play, what might they be doing?
What got Vanessa Alexander hooked on Being Eve?
Does she see the series as being different from other television series for young people?
Magik and Rose was Vanessa Alexander's first New Zealand feature film. In what way was that different from what Vanessa Alexander is doing now?
Who does Vanessa Alexander give credit to?
How important is a writer to a television series?
Do you know the names of any writers of television episodes or series?
Does the writer of a television series have much of a role to play in depicting who we are?

You are aiming to devise about 3-5 minutes worth of script. The object is to be original but to stick to the given synopsis. Each group needs to appoint group members to be:

Peter Salmon, director, with Fleur Saville and Vanessa Alexander.

the director, who keeps an overall eye on the scene and thinks about what has gone before and what will come afterwards;
the playwright, who writes down the devised script as it's created for all to have as a record;
a timekeeper for your rehearsals who reminds you how much time you have left;
two class stage managers to keep everyone focused back stage so that they come on when they are supposed to.