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.