TIE PROJECT

    


  

 

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.