Drama Course Work
Saint Joan Our first task was non-naturalistic, choral work using a short piece of text. By use of non-naturalistic drama, we learnt that when Joan heard the voices, she was probably scared and worried that she was going mad, but she may have been happy, as she knew God was talking to her, telling her what to do. We saw two sides of the story, one where she was pleased to hear the voices of saints and one where she was very afraid. The actors who played the saints used hushed voices, which helped me to understand that what Joan heard may have been supernatural, and frightening, making her unsure of her convictions. We had the saints move closer into Joan's personal space. This made us understand that Joan may have felt invaded, or encroached, and in turn afraid. The lines that we used, were repeated and said in choral, but sometimes, one actor would just say the lines, but in a loud, firm voice as if to order Joan. This showed us that Joan might have been persuaded by the voices, truly believing that they were giving her God's message. Next, we did some scripted work. We had a small extract from the play, "Saint Joan," by George Bernard Shaw, which was about Joan's arrival in the town of Orleans and how she met the commander of the army there; Dunois. We were in groups of two. We portrayed Joan as impatient, masculine, and uncaring about what her soldiers were doing; this
Development phase
Billy liar - Development phase From the play, my group have been set to direct and act out the middle section of Act 3, from page 99 to page 103. Our section starts at the bottom of page 99, line 634 where Geoffrey says "what time of bloody night do you call this?" and finishes at the start of page 103, line 728 where Geoffrey says " Don't try and be funny with me, lad! Or you'll laugh on the other side of your face!" Just before our assigned section of the play, Liz, Billy's ex-lover who previously left town and has recently came back, and Billy plan to move to London. They imagine running away together, having children, and being happy. The idea of Billy going to London came from a job offer as a script writer in London. We already know Billy is a fantasist, and therefore script writing would be perfect for him. Following on from our assigned section, Billy packs his belongings in to a suitcase and leaves home to go to London with Liz. The section is set in the living room of the fisher household, in 1959 at night time; 'it's only ten'. The living room consists of a dining table which is positioned upstage left, two single chairs which are positioned centre-stage right, the kitchen entrance and exit is upstage right and the hallway is upstage left. The style of text in this text is very naturalistic as it is a conversation between parents and their son, emotions changing,
Blood Brothers
GCSE DRAMA unit 2 Portfolio Work 1 Response 1 For our first piece of work, to the opening of our unit 2 "Blood Brothers" section, we were set the task of taking the first and opening song in the play, "Marilyn Monroe" and to add different drama techniques. The basic layout for my group was as above. We had two different couples doing very similar things but at the same time, they were also slightly different. We also had one narrator who spoke the song as well as doing various, appropriate actions. When reading this opening for the first time I thought that it was about a mother who was very troubled yet extremely happy, that no matter how much she was in debt or how many times the welfare bothered her, she was only ever bothered about her many children. The mother was amusing in ways which showed her happy side but then again when she was saying things such as, "No more dancing", it clearly showed that she wasn't overjoyed about that as she obviously loved to dance and feel young. Throughout the song, we see the mother is always comparing herself to a certain Marilyn Monroe. I believe this is because Monroe was seen as an idol. She was always photographed looking pretty and slim and all women wanted to be like her. She was a very big role model to many people. Although, later on in her life, Monroe started to go off the rails, she got rather mixed up with life and went
Drama work on the theme of oppression.
Drama GCSE Unit 1 In our first unit we looked at opression (mans Inhumaity against other men) in general but we mainly looked at opression in Nazi Germany from 1936-45. We discussed things such as the death camps all over the world and we collected information about this and other types of opression over time. Over this Unit we used many different techniques to help us portray opression in a variety of ways. Whilst looking into opression, we were shown things to trigger responses from us all. One of these things were pictures from the Miami Holocaust Memorial built in memory of the thousands of jews killed during the reign of Adolf Hitler. Seeing these pictures gave both me and my class mates an idea of how bad things were for the jews. Although these pictures gave us a slight idea of what was to come it made the class realise that this unit was very serious. We also looked at other aspects of oppression from different eras and cultures. For me i believe oppression is rich and powerful stopping the "lesser People" from having their say. There are many examples of oppression over time such as the slave trade, Hitlers genocide of the jews and to the present day Robert Mugabi and the way he treats the public of zimbabwe. We have explored these different "versions" of oppression in many ways in the studio. We have done freeze frames in which we worked in
Drama script - Doctor Who - The Lady and the Locket
Doctor Who - The Lady and the Locket Cast: The Doctor – Joe Powell Amy Pond – Alex Swallow Rory Williams – Ed Pocock Dana – Lydia Dominguez/Lucy Thomas Bounty hunter – Ryan Kirk Maxis – Matt Clark General Talok – Joe Powell (voice) Plot: Team TARDIS arrive at a small village on Earth in response to a distress call, but there is a surprise in store for the Doctor and with a bounty hunter after the new arrival, the job of keeping her safe is going to be trickier that anticipated. Script The scene opens in space, and a damaged spacecraft hurtles towards Earth. On the TARDIS, the Doctor, Amy and Rory are talking. Doctor: One of these days I’ll take you two to the sixth moon of B-zazz, it’s got upside down mountains that glow in the dark and every inhabitant is lactose intolerant but they’re okay about that. Amy: What’s wrong with the other five? Doctor: the first three are at war with each other, the fourth is lodged in the planet itself and the fifth is a massive black market with lots of guns. Not exactly pleasant so number six it is! The Doctor stops suddenly and closes his eyes. Amy: Doctor? Rory: Are you okay? Inside his head, the Doctor hears the voice of a distressed alien. He suddenly opens his eyes and starts flicking switches. Doctor: Sorry kids, B-zazz will have to wait! Amy: What’s happened? Doctor: Psychic distress call,
Personality reflection - the life of Princess Diana.
ADA2O0---Final Examination SCRIPT Princess Diana [At the Ritz Hotel] “Life is a journey.” Tomorrow I will return to London, the place which gives me too many memories. At this hotel, my lover Dodi Al Fayed just proposed to me. Although I feel being a young woman again, and I know family is the most important thing in the world, how can I still believe this after suffering those difficult times? I was born in the late afternoon on July 1, 1961, in Sandringham, Norfolk. My parents Frances and Edward John Spencer were hoping for a male heir to carry on the Spencer title, so I did not have a name for a week. I also have three siblings: Sarah, Jane, and Charles. Maybe I was born to have an unhappy family. My parents were separated when I was only seven years old. My estranged mother had an affair with Peter Shand Kydd. I…I still remember when my father loaded suitcases in the car and my mother crunched across the gravel forecourt and drove away through the gates of our house. What a great sorrow! On December, 1967, my father won custody of me and Charles and I was sent to Riddlesworth Hall, an all-girls boarding school, in the following year. However, I did not shine academically and was moved to West Health Girls’ School in Sevenoaks, Kent. Luckily, I showed a particular talent for music as an accomplished pianist. In 1977, I briefly attended my finishing school, and
Drama Coursework
GCSE Drama 1699 Paper 1, Unit 1 - Portfolio Anya Sweilam Response Task As a class we looked at a picture called 'Girl In The Dungeon', it evoked thoughts of depression and grief. From the picture I was able to infer that the girl which appeared in the picture had been deemed an outcast by society and almost left to rot. It is arguable that the girl was locked in the dungeon because her state of mind was questionable, maybe it was seen as almost abnormal or atypical. However, it could also be assumed that the solitude in which the young girl was forced to endure pushed her into an unusual state of mind, possibly leading her to be thought of as 'mad'. When our groups were formed, I worked with Holly, Nancy and Caitlin. We decided that madness could be portrayed in many ways and ultimately could be seen as any form of abnormality. We took this central idea and around it formed a piece of drama involving bullying. We thought that although bullying was neither an abnormality nor form of madness it can result in one experiencing psychological problems which can often lead to or be the cause of madness. We began by choosing that I would be the main character and the person who would experience the four stages of madness: annoyance, fury, rage and eventually madness. I was hot-seated by the three members of my group in order to achieve an insight on my character, although the
The Outsiders
CE The novel I have read was called 'The Outsiders' by S E Hinton who is one of America's most successful authors for young people. Indeed she wrote the book when her friend, who was a Greaser, got jumped, indeed started it when she was fifteen years old. Themes concerned friendship, the meaning of true family love, gang rivalry and growing up. The plot was about the Greasers who are poor and usually wear leather jackets from the East side, and rich kids from the West side their natural enemies. The central character was Ponyboy who was only fourteen years old, and since his parents died in a car crash big brother Darry has struggled to bring him up properly. Pony's real family is his gang, a bunch of tough guys who watch out for each other. Darry too was important, 20 years old who is referred to as tough, cool and smart. Ponyboy has another brother called Sodapop who is 17 years old and was "Movie star kind of handsome" who dropped out from the college to work in a gasoline station called DX. Ponyboy's best friend is the vital Johnny who is 16 years old but whose dad was always beating him up. He was the gang's pet so he gets loved by everyone especially Dallas who was 17 years old and "The real character of the gang" because he is tougher, colder and meaner so he could be referred as a hood. A minor character was Two bit Matthews, who is 21 years old and famous for
My Autobiography
My Autobiography. It was a normal Sunday morning, the weather was good and church had just finished. We were all having coffee and then it struck me. There were lots of people in the Micklem hall, and they were all being given a booklet. I wandered over there with a few friends to try and see what they were doing. Then I saw it. The front cover of the booklet they had. It had a weird name. At first I didn't understand. Why was it called Stanmore Scenes? I knew we were in Stanmore but I didn't realise why you would call something Stanmore Scenes. Even so it wasn't until later that I would understand more about it. That evening my mum had a phone call from her sister. This helped me to find out what she and the others had been doing earlier that day. When I found out I was extremely confused. I didn't think my Aunty could act! I didn't even think it was possible for the church I went to, to put on a play about its life. It was mad. How could they put 150 years of history into a couple of hours? Was it possible to do? Anyway none of my friends were in it so why would I want to be in it, it was mad. So my friend Sarah and I decided we would leave them to it. After that Sarah and I soon forgot about Stanmore Scenes. All until one day a few weeks later at school. We were all told about this play being put on at St. John's church. We were also told that our school, St. John's C of