homework 3

1.
what choices did you made with your group to make one of these articles into an East End Tale? Why?

How did you make the new tale you created like the tales in the play?

Which character did you play and how?

What theatre skills did you use to  perform the tale?

My group got a story about a gang that threw fireworks at a moving police car, we decided to zoom in on one part of the story, we chose to pick up on one boy whose mum didnt know where he was and a police offcier turned up on her door to give the news that he had been involved in the incident. We made it into a tale by using sound, rhythm and movement. I played the mum and a gang member. I played both by using freeze frames. At the start i was talking to my friend and walked into my house next a police officer came in and as he went to tell me what happened we showed it. We used split stage, silence and freeze frames. At the end we alos used mime to create tension and upset. 



2.
You then worked on your EET in your group. Answer the following:

How did you bring the location of your tale to life with sound and movement?

How did you communicate the characters?

How did you use the text of EET in this work?

We used sound and movement at different times. It is Logan, Amaia, Gloria and Chris in my group, logan has crutches at the moment so we placed him in the middle and started of with fast movement aroud him then we used clicking sounds to create the sounds of raindrops. we then moved to a bar by doing this we picked out key things you hear and see in at a pub such as glasses hitting the tables smoking drunk movement. We communicated the characters by using our bodies such as showing a soft gentle ladie wrapped warm closed up and the sly man with broad shoulders. We used it by picking key paragraphs and reading outloud while acting what is being said by using the space around and sound.

Blog 5

Blog 5

On monday we went through our monologues based on characters in the East end. I chose the wmen that gets beaten because i think to make an effective piece you have to choose a character that isnt mainly focused on and a big part this way you can create an exciting story and your own character. I used alot of repetition like CRASH!WOLLOP!BANG! becuase in East end tales we are meant to use sound and physical theatre.

 I really enjoyed dans because he showed alot of emotion and passion. I think he uncovered the true character and what he said fit together and flow. Dan did tale 3 which is about a common smoking, drinking man who drinks beer and says 'cheers,london pride' but he has a hidden secret that he killed someone. Dan also used the space really well because he was right against the wall, stood tall at points which showed his characters, tall, proud and loud with hidden secrets and guilt. 

Next we got into our East End tale groups. Im working with Chris, Amaia, Gloria and Logan on tale 6 which is about two Carribean people at a bar. The lady spills her drink on a man and he looks as if he is going to hit her but then it all stops and she buys him another beer, they start talking. I like the Tale bt im not sure what we can do to make it a peiice of physical theatre. Next we got a peice of A3 and spiderdiagram our ideas.  

Blog 3 and homework 2

Blog 3 and Homework 2  

B3. 
This lesson we started of in the small room and did some exercises, Max chose to do the exercise bus stop. We did to improve our impro skills, my favourite was amias and logans they got the scenario, a blind date logon chose to be more femenine and amia was quite cockney it was really funny and they made it funny because they didnt block eachother they just said YES!. Next we played splat again. 

Once we finished the exercises we got into groups and read through tale 3 which is a man is talking about what the east end would be like if he was his friend. This tale suggests the east end would be ypical cockney man who smokes and drinks but has an awful past because he killed someone. We had to draw round someone and fill in his head what he thinks, in his body, personality and outside what everyone else thinks of him, i cant put in the photo of the sheet so i will write some things we thought here> 

BODY- 
* Happy on the outside 
* Frozen with guilt 
* lost little boy 
* alone
* Disguised 
* Hidden 
* secretive
* secretive 

OUTSIDE- 
*Eastender 
*Common lad
*Druggy 
*Crap jokes
*Jack of all trades 
*joker 

• What scene did you develop?
• What drama skills did you use to do so?
• Explain what you did as a group. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.

After we had done this we collected all our ideas up and put it in a peice using dance and physical theatre. This was one of my favourite things ive done since coming into the school. Amaia, phoebe, Zac and elllis was in my group.We started of abit confused and unsure of what to do but then we got the idea of the thought he had killed someone was hanging over him. We chose to focus on one character and the rest being overpowering thoughts. Amaia was the East end at the start we all stood in different places being stereotypical people in the east end such as Ellis was drunk i was smoking and someone was the phone. We then all slowly came into a tight circle with our arms hanging over. Amaia was outside saying one of the lines 'cheers yeah london pride' she then slowly back upped into the circle of thoughts we tried to get her down by repeating things like murderer,you killed someone, guily guilty, this created tension and built it up. Then this abrubtly stopped as amaia shouted. We then chose to use the lines 'A blow to the cheek, a boot to the jaw' as she said this she circled us as we reacted to what she had said as if we been kicked in the stomach. 

• What was effective about the characterisation they had decided to explore? 
• Did the scene help you understand anything new about the play or another character?

Blog 4

monologue

Monologue 

women next door 

it wasnt love at first sight you see , I met him at a party I was drunk he was out of it, he crashed into me hit me over the head. He didn't mean to, he had a bottle in his hand swung to see his mate that's all, CRASH WOLLOP BANG. Anyways turns out his mate, my mate was handing over my number. He called me a few days after asked me to meet him at a pub. It was cute at first a few drinks chit chat and that then those few drinks turned into tables full. He was hammered, bladdered off his head.
still didn't see the fault
I helped him home, he tried to get me into bed, I pulled back he pushed harder CRASH WOLLOP BANG, my head hit the way I ran out I was done with him but he called me again said he was sorry and asked me on another date, I decided to give it another go you know.
still didn't see the fault
then those few minutes meeting him turned into hours and those hours turned into days then those day turned into months and they you have it, THE BEST TIME OF YOUR LIFE! until CRASH,WOLLOP,BANG. See what I didn't know was he had a temper not the odd spark, slam, shout no he got FURIOUS, furious at me, one day I got it mixed up I got him cider rather than beer, stupid that's what he said stupid, stupid bitch, fucking stupid.
still didn't see the fault
it was months later since it it.. happened, I got home late from a night out with my girls he said Id slept in another mans bed he said id cheated on him, so he threw a plate at my head it shattered on my skull there was blood  blood everywhere. I left for days when I came back he said he was sorry he said he loved me.
still didn't see the fault
It wasn't often, it was rare it never really happened but the next time it did it was when we had our two beauty's my two twins I loved them but they screamed they fucking screamed. I was talking to him one day and they were screaming he said if I didn't shut them up he would shit me up. I tried I said I tried I tried! he pushed me down CRASH WOLLOP BANG
still didn't see the fault
and now I'm lying here in a coffin while the cameras shine in his eye didn't you realise what you were doing was wrong but the problem was I didn't see the fault in him my eyes were crowded by hearts love and forgiveness.

 

Homework 1

Homework 1

Write up what you found interesting about the East End Tale you have been given include:

A discovery you made while working on it and any questions that came up about rehearsing it and challenges you think you might have bringing it to life. 

We have been given Tale 6 which is about a man in a pub waiting for his brother who works in the pub, he see's two people who look like mother and son. They have dark skin, strong chins, welll kept names , messy hair, wide noses,  and they were carribean. The warm tired women turns from the bar and hits him, spilling her drink over him. The man looks furious and the bar sees him and they all watch exspecting him to hit her. Then all of the sudden she puts her arm on him and says my round next and all is well. 

The lesson before we had to develop on this tale and write about what we thought about one character, in my group we picked the narrator. We wrote that he was quite a hidden person that was a friendly but wasnt open to evryone. We had to go through a day in the life of him. 

1st- the narrator left his hosue and trpped so someone caught him he brushed it of and walked of quiclky because we were showing he wasnt friendly. 

2nd- He got on the train with loads of people around him, bumping into him and snezzing and coughing which shows he is quite uncomfortable 

3rd- He is walking through a back alley to get to the pub and bumps into a group of cockney 

girls who trys to chat him up , he doesnt respond and tries to get through them, this shows us that he isnt confident ladies man. 

4th- He is in the pub on the phone and people are trying to talk to him , we did this because from the tale we can see people thinks he is unsociable. 

I think this is an interesting tale because it tells us alot about different characters and it builds tension. The short sentences makes it easy to read and it is exciting. Weve discovered that the narrator is a big part of the tale and we find alot about his veiw and perspective on the things, we also learnt the atmosphear of the pub can be used in a really cool way because pubs are usually busy and loud. i think we might have challenges with amount of people in our group and using physical theatre in it because we might need more people in it. 

blog 2

Week 2- i went out of lessons to help someone with photography 

Blog 2

B2.
We started off with exercises that one person has decided to do. This week we did amaias exercise which was splat we all got in a cirlce and the game is that we all use our hands as splat machines. Amaia stood in the middle and splat random people if you are splatted you have to drop and the people next to you have to splat eachother, these exercises are good because it getts everyone focused as we want to do these games.


This week we went through what tale we are doing and we talked about what were going to do with the play. In my group is amaia, gloria and logan. After this we got into pairs and went through the prologue which is about a taxi man picking up a customer in the epilogue he is talking to someone but it is only the taxi man talking so as we were in pairs we had to create a conversasion using a few lines but mainly dance moves that use sounds and body movement, we do this to portray the real east end using body language and sounds. Me and Amaia chose to stay in the taxi but everyline we used we moved around the space to exspress what we were talking about. 

Next we watched a few of them, my favourite was robins and glorias becuase they used movements to make the peice flow easily. it was also quite funny. 

Blog 1

New term subject-

East End Tales 

Blog 1- 

Today we started of our new topic which is a play called East End Trails. It is based in the East End . 

First We all got our marks back for our blogs and our performance. I got a Distinction in my blog and my performance which im really happy with because i tried really hard and i put in the effort. I also enjoyed the topic because i have done it before and i loved inferring my characters feelings and emotions and then changing into a performance. Ive never worked on a detailed peice with just one other person so that was also interesting.

Next we started reading the script. I was quite suprised because it wasnt a usual script. There werent ovbious characters in it. As we read on what looked like poem paragraphs we realized there were different people with different stories. One that i liked was a part where three people described what The East End would be like if he or she was a human.

After this we talked about the play abit then we got up and did a physical exercise. We all walked around as ourself then thought about what a old lady would feel like crossing a busy street, we also practised acting cocky like a ganstar, an important buisness women and policeman. I think we did this so we could think about the characters and how they wqould feel and act also we looked at surrounding such as the countryside or a busy city i think we also did this to take into perspective that surroundings are a big part of our lives and the play is based in a very contraversual surrounding. 

Following this we went back to the play and thought about the themes in the play. We got into groups and got a A3 peice of paper and some highlights. As a group we thought about some themes in the play and went into detail about them such as 

-family problems such as relationship abuse - love - cant escape- hidden life - help 

After this we chose 3 freeze frames in each group and one by one we all got up and froze in our pisitions after we were all frozen everyone around us thought of a caption to matcht it.