Progress of Creating Peformance
We were all working as separate groups and we each had a
script to make once we had our own scripts we combined our scripts together. We
staged our scene by sitting in a semi-circle for simplicity reasons. Nick came
up with an idea which was to lean forward whenever a character was being
introduce because it gave an powerful feeling that something is about to
happen. Also we came up with voice overs which were done in a very original way
by creating a life for the character. Each person had to describe a character
and give clues about what’s happening to them however not give away too much
away. We also did it in unplanned orders since we thought it would be interesting,
we kept the actors dialogue simply because we know that teenagers want the
truth so we didn’t want to over exaggerate and we made sure that the word
abusive was not used or exposed in the acting. At the end of our piece we had Ayo
and Ahmed who both said a speech to let the teenagers know that you can't
change what happened but you can move on from it then better yourself also
always remember that there are people who can help you get out of the
situation.
Then
we had Shabil and Chrystal who were doing the monologues for each character
explaining in depth how they all feel by confronting the characters. When I
watching the peace what stood out the most to me was Mariesha monologue at the
end of her piece, the monologue was about decision making which was very inspiring
and powerful because it made the audience think about the situation and how serious
these topics are. Also we broke the fourth wall because we interacted with
audience when Chrystal and Shabil were delivering their monologue for the
characters they were giving the audience insight into his or her thoughts. It
was a good idea because we were interacting with the audience and we were
including them in the situation
Us a group decided to do a piece
on domestic violence and sexting because they're major issues in society. The
majority of teenagers go through this and don't realise how serious it it is. I
honestly thought it was a good topic to work on because many teenagers are affected
by it. however teenagers find it difficult to speak out because they feel
afraid to speak to someone, which leads them to being becoming depressed and
not focused in school, starting to use drugs and alcohol, overdosing
themselves and attempting suicide.
Teenagers think by running away
from a situation will solve the situation. They believe that running from their
problems is an appropriate means of dealing with crisis instead of
communicating with others to get problems solved. We want the teenagers to
understand that being in a violent household and relationship can physically,
emotionally and mentally destroy you. We decided to sexting since it has become
very controversial because people don’t realize that once an image makes it
onto the internet you no longer have any control over it. And it come to haunt
you year later.
Teenagers may not think it could be a problematic right now but it will affect
them in the future.Many young people who thought sexting was a harmless game ended up having their lives destroyed. In one tragic incident, Sexting may seem like harmless fun, but teens should think twice before hitting the “send” button. There is no turning back once a message is sent.
Decisions Making
Our
TIE project was based on making decisions for you. There is no doubt that all
of us need to make decision in many situations and depend on these situations
we make either quick decisions or deliberate ones .However ,sometimes we must
make fast decisions and most of time they are right . But we need occasionally
to take time to think before build any thought about things that maybe affect
our life. The thing about difficult decisions, and decisions you need to make
under pressure, isn’t just that they’re hard to make in the first place
Developing Ideas
As we were doing our research on
sexting we came up with an Idea which was to do a forum. We thought it would be
different. In the forum we gave different opinions on what the character should
do, we had ¾ people who thought the same thing and ¾ who thought different
which interesting because we got to see people’s opinion. We also decided to repeat what we said again
to make an affect. When Prince says he
last line which was “disgusting” we stopped saying our lines and looked up and
all said together “enter” which was a very important powerful line but we kept
messing up because we all weren’t saying it at the same time, therefore we kept
going through the scene again until it was perfect but we kept struggling with
the ending because we wasn’t saying “enter” at the same time. Some of us were
too fast and too slow but then we thought of the number game that we do in warm
up which helped us 10 times better.
Furthermore we came
up with another scene which was mine, Brendon and Prince’s scene we came up
with a story line which was Prince was an aggressive step dad who was an
alcoholic who is violent towards his wife (Me) and his step son (Brendon) we
came up with an idea how to start off the scene which was My character Charlene
and James were in the kitchen and she was telling him how she struggling with
finance but he doesn’t care all he wants was a drink and prince made it clear
that he doesn’t care and all he wants is a drink. And because he aggressive and
violence towards her she has to respect him and listen to him because if she
doesn’t he will hurt her. But we
decided that she shouldn’t let him
drink at first because Charlene knows how he is when he is drunk he is very abusive hence why she
refused to get the drink for him but because she knows how he aggressive he can
be she went to go and get the drink for him.
As I came up the
stage the scene Adam arrived home late and James was asking him irrelevant
questions because he wanted a reason to hurt Adam he tripped him up and Charlene
came back in the kitchen and tried stopping James from hurting him, Adam left
the scene and Charlene and James began to argue then he grabs her by the neck
and threatens her. This scene was a challenge because we wasn’t connected to it
we played around with the scene by try doing it in different ways which was
helpful.
I used Stanislavski
technique which was sense memory by using sense memory it helped believe in the
moment and thinking back of something that affected me in the past to get a
real feeling. Prince and I also did excises
that we learnt in BTEC first which was called Meisnar method acting which helped
us to say words in different ways until we felt the right emotions we had to
keep repeating the word until we feel a
emotion.
We had good ideas but they were too over complicated and we
didn’t want to scare the kids away we wanted them to understand the
message. We didn’t want to put any
actions in the abusive scenes because we don’t want the students to focus so much
on the acting but focus mainly on the message.
I do think we used a bit of Bret because with Bret he wanted his audience
to go away and think about the situation and understand the message but with Stanislavski
he wants the audience to feel sympathy
for the character.
Like I said before in rehearsal
we sat down in group and discussed certain circumstances based on domestic
violence. Once we all came up with a idea we got up on our feet and started to
improvise scene and played around with the scenes. As a group i think we worked
really well together because not only one person was doing the work, each and
one of us would go home and do research on domestic violence to help us with
our devise piece. We were all contributing and getting up experimenting until
we came up with a solid idea.
There was days where we were
running out of ideas because they were too good but were rather to complicated
and people were getting frustrated because people stopped being committed to
the group and started to be half hearted about the work which brought the group
down because if one person isn’t willing to contribute it distracts everyone
else’s focus which made an big impact in our rehearsals. I think that became
one of the downfalls in our group because it affected our rehearsals time
because we could not rehearse through
each scenes if someone turn up or we would get someone else from our group to
fill in for the person that has not turned up to rehearsals.
During rehearsals I honestly
think that I was really helpful because I was giving out my ideas. And I also
helped others with their scenes. If someone from my group never turned up to
rehearsals I would play their character.
As a group we worked really well as a team because we all listened to
each other, gave out ideas, and helped each other with our scenes because
everybody has their own strength and weaknesses. Furthermore i did research on
my topic to get facts about them.
