We were then delegated a practical assignment in which we have no longer than eight minutes to portray different stages in a group of peoples' lives and how they progress with time. The assignment was to be performed in groups of six.

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Navdeep Sahota                                                                         Saturday, 3 December 2005

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‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man’ Ignatius Loyola

Upon hearing this statement I began to think if and how it was possible. I decided to comprehend it as saying a person possesses the same character traits throughout his or her life. This then triggered my imagination to consider the possible character traits one can possess. We discussed possible character traits in a group and how a person changes with a particular mannerism during his or her lifetime.

We were then delegated a practical assignment in which we have no longer than eight minutes to portray different stages in a group of peoples’ lives and how they progress with time. The assignment was to be performed in groups of six.

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The group I was a member of collectively decided to depict four stages of life: childhood, adolescence, middle-age and old age. We chose these in order to show the constant evolution of the characters. The next stage of development was the story line. We felt that a linear sequence would be rather tedious and require little thought from the part of the audience. Therefore we decided to create a montage where the scene is completely different to the chronological order of events.

The story line itself would be the progression of the group as a collective unit: we ...

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