The importance of research:

Research now more than ever plays a crucial part in our piece, the amount of knowledge and understanding we have gathered by carefully reading and analysing what we have found on the event has created our piece. Below are some link of work and research we have looked at to help inspire our piece:

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/may/06/monsters-james-bulger-arcola-niklas-radstrom - this allowed us to see the interpretation of the play 'Monsters' from the playwright's point of view.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/young/bulger/5.html - the novel allowed us to get most of our quotes to make our piece as realistic as possible.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Monsters-Radstrom-Nikla-NEW-Paperback-1-May-2009-/361078121450?pt=Non_Fiction&hash=item5411eee3ea - a link to the play (available to buy)

Series of links used for verbatim and backgrounds for our scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9pIf04l2U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm5w7tdTmvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0OLg7OrLKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upiTb6ZfJa0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0FSkEVWOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfWWKot2qUY

News articles:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/james-bulger-murder-20-years-1594811
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254971/James-Bulger-Jon-Venables-Robert-Thompson-kidnapping-timeline.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273769/Jon-Venables-lawyer-recalls-killers-angelic-face-James-Bulgers-brutal-murder.html

How has research effected our project so far?

Research has played a big part in inspiring us as a group, not only have the workshops we've created involved research to play a part as a stimulus, but our best work has involved a basis of research, for example the trial scene we created would of been unrealistic if we didn't have a knowledge about the understanding of how it worked. Furthermore research also helped us find a name and our main idea that we wanted to give the audience. We researched mental disorders, race discrimination and homosexuality acceptance through different periods to try and inspire us to create a scene through the eyes of one of the people and how they would of been treated in the 1900's compared to 2014 although this scene didn't particularly grab us the research again helped us move on to a different stronger idea that without research wouldn't of happened.

It has been proven that our best work is born when we look further into detail about the subject we are creating, weather we watch past students work, look at TV or news articles, or find videos and interviews online, they all work as stimulus' that inspire us to create pieces that are more realistic for our audience and would therefore help "force our audience to care about the content" something very important to us as a devising group.