3rd day Rifgames 12-10-06
All together we decided that the game will be developed on two sceneries: the plaza del Florido (in spanish and now called Rif Plaza) and the beach with the impressive ruins of the Cafe Chipula, an antique touristic construction on a little off-shore island, that has been destroyed by the wilderness of the sea long time ago.
In the morning we have divided in two groups, the ones that did not take photos the day before stayed with David, Hisham, Said and Iman in the computer room, working hard with photoshop. The others - mostly girls that could not come the day before - went to take pictures of the other scenery chosen, the Plaza del Florido, which is the centre of comunication in Al Hoceima, where all the busses, taxis and trapis stop. And it resembles a bit Lavapies (in Madrid) in the past.
Afternoon: Workshop on scripts in two groups, one with Tarik, one with Noe
The two stories will start in the plaza del Florido:
Ahmed is a minor who earns his living as a shoeshine boy. He usually walks around the plaza, where he meets haragas - youths that want to migrate illegally -. They do not accept him, they throw him out of the group. A boat owner, disguised as a kiosk clerk is the contact person for the guys that want to take off. There is also a well-dressed gentleman that askes Ahmed to clean his boots and at the same time tries to get information from him. In the end he has to deal with all of them at the beach, where they are going to leave for Europe (second scene) One of the kids suggested, that the shoeshine boy could be the main character of the Lavapies game. (Heureka!)
The protagonist of the other story is Mustafa, a mafia guy who controls the patera travelling business. He has three men working for him, strong and bad guys. It starts in the plaza with one person who is willing to leave saying to Mustafa: - Salam, I tell you three words: how much is it, when do we leave and where do we stay -
The action is nothing but the preparation of the trip; who is taking care of the ressources: gasoline, motor, tarp and collecting the money. It ends or starts in the Cafe Chipula - the beach - where twenty people take off in the boat, among them three women. Before they leave, the cops arrive, get bribed and then help to push the patera towards the sea...
