GCSE Drama The Five People You Meet in Heaven: Development and Evaluation of a drama peice

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Development Page 1 - Person 1 The Blue Man - (Remember to mention the Elements of Drama and Drama Medium!)

Head: Thoughts of the Blue Man / Body: Personality of the Blue Man

Development Page 2 - Person 2 The Captain - (Remember to mention the Elements of Drama and Drama Medium!)

WHAT we tried to show by creating the ‘web’:

We used a ball of string as a prop to create the ‘web’. When we created the web we tried to show what it was like being kept in an environment against your will not being able to escape. Prior to the exercise we discussed the idea of being held hostage and the emotions that one would feel in that situation, so we could then inject these initial ideas into our group drama. We also tired an exercise were we realised we were not alone and that there was another hostage in the neighbouring cell, so one by one we watch as pars improvised the first meeting of the two hostages. It was very effective as the character emotions were strong as we were already in character and had encouragement from working with other people. We tried to show realistic reactions if we actually were in cells by ourselves. We finally showed everyone trying to break free from the web; many people broke away easily and did not look behind but many made the decision to go back and help others. Eventually, everybody untangled themselves from the string and it fell limp to the floor.

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HOW we tried to achieve this:

We tried to achieve this by having everybody in the group stand in random positions around the room and throw a ball to another person. The ball of string would eventually unravel around us in a tangled mass and that would create the individuals own ‘enclosure’, in which we had to imagine we where kept against our will, isolated from any sense of normality. We sat down but still kept the string in place around us and then began to improvise with our neighbours. The lighting used was a single torch that acted ...

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