East is East Development

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The Family Portrait

In our first exam on East is east we were asked to create a family portrait of the Khan family in our groups. I was Abdul in our portrait and I portrayed this by sitting down quite proud and looking up to George, my father. We also used levels to show the status of all the family members in the portrait, we showed Sajit as the lowest status because he is sitting on the floor but we then showed George being the member with the highest status as his standing up and is looking down on everyone else.

 In addition, it is a symbolic moment when George rests his arm on Abduls shoulder as it shows a sign of dependence and them bonding. Furthermore, in our portrait we used Drama medium such as space, costume and props. For example, we used space to show how Sajit was very distant from the rest of his family as his sitting further away from the family. We also used costume to show how proud George is by dressing him in a suit.  

We used props such as a cigarette to show how stressed Ella is in the portrait. This symbolizes that she can never get a break from her family. Also when we see Abdul smile it shows the audience that he is happy that he has connected with his father, George.

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Defining the Essence of a Scene

Later on, our task was to define each key moment or issue in each scene in Act 2, we had to do this in our groups. We then decided to show the key moments by creating still images of the key moments, we then also included more than one key moment in a still image.

For Act 2 Scene 1, our group did a still image of Tariq eating sausages in their chip shop while Meenah is trying to cover the smell with an air refresher. We chose this moment in the scene ...

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