In my group, we were going to have a scene where a the man at war is about to cross no mans land while his wife is at home doing the “typical womans job” i.e. washing, cooking etc. We were going to have a moment, where just as the man is going cross no mans land, he takes out a chain where he and the woman at home kiss it at the same time. This moment is significant as it signifies how far away families physically were during WW1 yet how close they were just through something small like a chain or photo.

We decided that in our scene, the man gets shot in slow motion so that the audience sees the brutality of war. As the man gets shot, the woman at home receives a pain in her chest and at this point she clenches her heart in pain and falls to the ground. This specific part in the scene also showed our audience what it was like for families and women in WW1, to cope with the pain of having their husband killed, while still having to look after kids, elders etc.