During the first visit to the cemetery, a key idea I picked up on was the different types of trees that resided there. Additionally, I educated myself about the people who were buried there. After that visit, I researched heavily into the trees in the cemetery, which was my main focal point for the research stage of devising. I made numerous PowerPoints and documents detailing the different sorts of trees within the cemetery, looking into the historical, cultural and biological aspects of each and every tree. Evidence for this is here: 

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVZSV93aRObLlYgcW9i2zKYmN3ZWtOcViToIdu2qiAI/edit 

The next stage of our performance was physically creating the scenes. I helped work on the Yew Tree, whilst also writing the speech for the first scene. For the speech, I researched different cultures and mythology to seek ideas for the monologue. I wrote up a Word document entailing two stories of Norse myth, as evidenced here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yspn2GD5P_k8bR6nMGL5eiEFUCw8Ec4Pv0bZLTuG_Mg/edit. Shifting my focus more heavily on the speech and much less on the research, I began working heavily on the speech both physically and on the script. One thing I could’ve done better during the research project was going to my other actors and cast to test if my speech was better, as a lot of the beginning speech lacked proper refinement. One other area I think I could’ve worked on for the speech was increasing the level of the enthusiasm of the druid to really capture how devout he is to the yew tree. I think doing this would make the importance of the yew tree much more evident and has its effect on the performance be more impactful. Finally, I think my level of volume needed work in the final performance, as it felt like I was at some points too quiet whilst at other times I was audibly much louder.