During the monologue I played the main character Ben and I explained how my friends and family tried so hard to make me happy but it never worked

In the first image I used monologue to show my character’s innermost thoughts. I wanted the audience to know how I was affected by the situation, I wanted the drama to deepen and the audience to get involved. I wanted the audience to sympathise with Ben.  Saying to the audience about my hobbies made the audience sympathise with Ben because he will never be able to do his hobbies. The audience sympathised with Ben and to know the audience were connecting with Ben some were saying things like ‘aw’ or ‘bless her/him’.

In the second image we used role play to develop the characters. We wanted to portray all the characters connected to Ben. With the technique the audience sympathised with Ben because not all of his family members cared about him. We used still image to show Ben’s life in detail, we wanted the audience to concentrate on the facial expressions and the boy language, we wanted them to understand the characters feelings. The images made the audience sympathise with Ben because the first 4 images showed how happy Ben, his family and friends were but then after the accident the last 2 images the happiness turned into sadness and despair.  We used cross cutting to show the contrast in one scene the members of Ben’s family were shouting and angry and in the other scene it was all quiet and calm, this showed the audience that Ben was not the only one frustrated about the issue his family and friends were also angry, sad and annoyed about the issue.  The last technique we used was narration to narrate what was going, we wanted the audience to empathise with Ben and to do that we made Ben narrate what was going on so they can understand the situation he was going through.

I created my character in my first piece by making my body parts fall to the ground, formed a sad smile on my face and looked directly at the audience, this showed that I was sad because I was paralysed and this should of made the audience sympathise with Ben because through his facial expressions they could see how the accident affected him.

I created my character in the second piece by talking more formal and more porch to show that I was an older woman, for example: when Rosalie said Ben was useless I used the words ‘excuse me’ as it is more of what an adult would say, I acted like an older woman as I was Ben’s mum. I placed my left hand on my heart and shouted Rosalie’s name to show that I was shocked about what she said of what she thought of Ben. To show that I was angry I raised my voice, stood up and painted at Rosalie showing that I was still in control and that I was mad at her.  In the first still image I created my character by bending down to be at Ben’s level and next to him, miming me holding a cake by placing my hands in front of me and Ben and by smiling while looking at Ben, I wanted our levels to be the same to show friendship and not control and also to show that we were both important, I smiled to show that I was friendly and not harmful.

In the first piece I made the audience sympathise with Ben by telling them how I loved sports and how it made always happy but now that I was paralysed it was impossible to do anything, which brought despair and sadness and it also made them sympathise with Ben’s friends and family because they were trying so hard to make happy but because he couldn’t move he was never happy.

In the second piece I made the audience sympathise with Ben because he was so happy and active before the accident but after the accident his happiness turned into sadness and he was always quiet, showing that he wanted to be alone as seeing people move around or help him makes him think of the old good days. Also Rosalie made fun of Ben it made the audience sympathise with him again because they could see that he was trying to move and he was angry and yet he couldn’t do anything about it, he was telling her to stop and she just continued so the only thing he could do is listen to her insults.

In both scenes they had the same contrast as they both showed how happy they were with their family, friends and sports but after the incident all the love disappeared and the happiness and love turns into sadness and despair, this made the audience sympathise with Ben as he will never be able to do anything again. Also in the second piece during the cross cutting there was a contrast where in one scene they were calm and quiet while in the other scene they were shouting and angry, this showed the audience that Ben’s family members were also annoyed and frustrated about the situation. The levels used on the second piece was also a contrast as Ben was sat down on a chair paralysed while his little sister was stood up looking down at him, this showed the audience that Ben was treated like a little kid as he was paralysed and people had to do things for him as he couldn’t move, which him look stupid, young and useless.  

One the second piece the fifth image represented family love as on the picture we all hand one hand on a family member’s shoulder to show we stick together and that we love each other. I represented paralyse by trying to make my legs, arm, hand and hands drop to the floor, this must of made the audience empathise with Ben as they knew what was wrong with him.