25th January 2006
Drama – Draft ‘Cold Blood’ Coursework
- What did you discover about ‘blood bonds’ during the Value Consortium?
- How did thought tracking help you explore different types of bonds?
- During Cold Blood, how did the idea of the divide and bonds play an important part in the role-play?
- What explorative strategies did you use? How did they develop your understanding?
During the Value Consortium, I discovered from the subject of ‘blood bonds’ that in my opinion, blood is thicker than water. The way that I gained this opinion was by a discussion that the whole class had about what we thought about the phrase ‘blood is thicker than water’. ‘Blood is thicker than water’ simply means that families are more important than friends.
The discussion began by a piece of paper being placed on the floor with the phrase on it. We were then asked to sit close to the statement if we were fifty-fifty in our opinion about it, to one side of it if we thought that water was thicker than blood and to the other side if we agreed with the statement. Most of the class, myself included, went to the side were they thought that family was more important then friends, giving the argument that family will always be there for you, friends come and go. Fewer members off the class, about three out of thirty, went to the side were they thought that friends were more important than family, giving the argument that family would always be there so you have to hold onto the friends that you have got. We were then asked the very tedious question, why? Why did we choose to go to the side of the room that we had? Of course there is no real answer to this question, but there is certainly lots of different ones! We were asked to explore what we thought about family members as opposed to friends. We were put in the situation of a friend against a family member in a fight, who would you defend? The person who you have spent your entire life living side by side with every day, or your best friend that shares all the same interests as you and is more or less seen by you as a brother. There were many different answers and suggestions thrown into the discussion, but the main answer was to defend your family because you can always find another friend! Maybe not as great as the one you had, but family is there forever supporting you, right?
