Creating an Atmosphere

Creating an Atmosphere Recently we have been doing a play whilst trying to create an atmosphere. The idea behind this unit was to create an atmosphere that was seasonal at this time of year, which is winter. Normally when watching a film, which has a wintry atmosphere it, would be something like a Dracula, Ghost stories, Murder Mysteries etc, so one of these ideas would be ideal for a play, as ancestors & scriptwriters have described to us in films and stories for hundreds of years. Before we got into groups and started the improvisation we did a few warm ups to help. Some of these warm ups helped us to express our emotions more fluently, there was one activity in particular that was particularly odd. In pairs we had to do an improvisation based on a game of chess, however this was no ordinary game of chess, this game of chess was arranged with "Death" the grim reaper himself and an innocent human playing for his/her life in which the grim reaper would then posses. During this improvisation we had show many different emotions contrasting with this event such as fear, stress and nervousness. I used a few small expressions like biting my nails and hesitating whilst taking my turn, which showed the audience that I was careful/cautious. However I wasn't performance wasn't extremely effective in persuading the audience that I was. When we had

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Please do not laugh at me...... Hi my name is Bhavesh Tapariya, brother of Priya and Priti Tapariya, son of Kalyanbhai and Nanuben

Please do not laugh at me...... Hi my name is Bhavesh Tapariya, brother of Priya and Priti Tapariya, son of Kalyanbhai and Nanuben Tapariya and grandson of Kurjibhai and Amarben Tapariya. Taking the role of being in the committee is an important and vital role if the school is to run in a co-operative manner. I did think about going for the committee in previous years but felt that I was too little and that people would walk all over me... but now I am 2 whole mm taller and I think I can find myself sitting in the committee meetings able to see over the tables. People may think being in the committee is another badge, but for me it's about helping the school. If I wanted the badge I would just take my sisters, but I want to see the school succeed in each step it takes and I want to be there when these steps are taken. There are people here standing against me asking you for their vote, but are they doing it for themselves or for the benefit of the school... YOUR school. They are standing here giving you lists and lists of what they have to offer I know I can't offer anything, unless I am given the chance, but at the end of the day there is only one person that has the power to change things in this school.... And that is Mr Barnes but.... I will help him support the school. I will come up with good ideas, and if I cant I'll just ask my sisters. Sorry if I bored

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Reflective Statement - Service Learning Project

Antonia Vassileva Quest for Meaning Prof. Tom Oberhofer Reflective Statement Our group chose to volunteer at the Pier Aquarium for our service learning project. Our main task was to design the Aquarium's brochures, so that they become more competitive with the brochures, which other tourist places offer. In addition, we helped with setting up for the Fish Head Ball, which was a charity event held by the Aquarium to raise funds. I had an amazing experience, while doing the project, because I discovered that it can be very rewarding to volunteer, especially if you like the people you are working with. The Service Learning Project was the first volunteer work that I have done in my life, so initially I was not really sure of what to expect from the experience. When my group members and I headed over to the Volunteer fair a couple of months ago, none of us knew what we wanted to do for sure. We were open for pretty much anything, but still it had to be something that would grab the interest of all of us. As we entered the crowded Fox Hall, we saw many stands cluttered next to each other, each with a person behind them hoping to recruit some volunteers. We wandered around for a bit looking for something to catch our attention. We saw the Pier Aquarium stand where Karen (our future supervisor) was smiling at us and inviting us to learn more about the aquarium. I have always

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Direct a production of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" focusing in on act 1 scene 1.

In my assignment I am going to direct a production of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" focusing in on act 1 scene 1 and comparing and contrasting two very different versions of the play "Macbeth". I am going to be looking at The BBC Shakespeare that is the "medieval and bleak" production and The Middle English Programme, which is the "modern, rural and abandoned" production. Two different people have directed both of these versions and they have both approached it in a way that I least expected them to, after reading the original script of the play "Macbeth" My task is to compare these two versions and to direct act 1 scene 1 in a way that I feel will enthral and excite my audience. Act 1 scene 1 being the opening scene of the play "Macbeth," needs to have a powerful and explosive opening, this will keep the audience curious and questioning what will happen next. The scene features 3 repulsive and gruesome witches who speak about a man named Macbeth. Macbeth is a Scottish play that is set in the 11th century in the late Victorian times in the era of Elizabethan times. The play itself is bloodthirsty and extraordinary yet it's a play that features great tragedy and greed. The play opens with three unsightly witches preparing to meet with Macbeth. Macbeth was a Scottish Lord, or Thane, who had recently defeated the Norwegian's army in battle. King Duncan was delighted with

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Desire for Individuality.

\ Desire for Individuality Different. That's what individuality is. A person trying to distinguish himself from others that's what individuality is all about. In the excerpt "Black Boy" by Richard Wright and "Coming of Age in Mississippi" by Anne Moody, Wright and Moody tried very hard to achieve individuality. Wright and Moody both had personal experience with people trying to deprive them of their freedom to be themselves and say what they wanted to say or act the way they wanted. Both writers had to deal with racial issues, negative families and their communities trying to deprive them creating an individualistic view for themselves by telling them to do things the way everyone else did without asking questions. Wright and Moody resist influences from authorities and family to achieve their goal of individuality. Both Moody and Wright wanted to be individualistic in their decision-making and attitude towards life. They both wanted to shape their thought processes without any external influence from parents. Let's take a look at how Wright trying to achieve individuality. He wanted to write but was criticized by his mum, uncle and grandmother. While he lived with his family, Wright wrote a story that was published in the papers. The editor of the paper was the only person who encouraged while his family questioned his judgment and criticized him for writing. Wright said,

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Imaginary Story

Imaginary Story Inspector Dixon could recognise slight scratch on the victim's bracelet. Now he discovered the murderer of Mrs Watson. The only person who could make this scratch was... 'NICKY!' My name is Nicky, a seventeen years old college girl, who wants to be a detective in the future. It was a sunny and cloudless day. The library was very quiet. There were about sixteen people in library and two of them were looking for some books on the shelf beside me. My schoolmate, Sally Looney was looking at me in a dull and bored look. Her eyes were half closed and her ginger hairs were stuck to the end. No one might imagine she was a clever girl, who has achieved 12 A* grades in her GCSEs and 5 A grades in her AS-level. 'Sally, Inspector Dixon was just about to say the name of the murderer, because he just discovered a scratch on the...' 'Nicky! I have called you more than three times! Are you listening to me?' Sally replied in a bored voice and a girl from the other desk raised her head to find out the origin of disruption. 'I am really bored. We have been in here for nearly 4 hours! I am hungry now.' Sally was shouting at me with an eager look. There were nearly seven ridiculous books on Sally's desk such as 'Collection of classic novels' and 'Yellow Pages'. 'Oh Sally, it's because you are choosing boring books. Why are you reading Yellow Pages?' I asked. 'I like finding funny

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Drama - Rebellion

21st December 2004. Drama - Rebellion. Angela Conway. We started our work on rebellion as a class by thinking of all the terms and groups of people associated with rebellion: we came up with terrorism, strikes, the French revolution, motorbikes, drugs, alcohol, anarchy, protests, sit-ins, rock music and teenagers along with others. My first improvised scene was in a group of three. I played a modern day teacher, who was trying to start a lesson, but the two students were being disruptive. When one pupil storms out of the lesson, and I bring him back in, the other is about to leave. We decided to use a dramatic technique and so put a freeze frame at this point, then a flashback to when I as the teacher was a teenager in the 1960's, in a protest against cutting down trees. This brought irony to the piece, as it showed the person who was against the rebellion was once a rebel herself. I think this piece went well, even thought we never performed it to the class, because when we were practicing the characters seemed real and not too 'over-the-top', we chose a good moment for the freeze frame as it was tense and emotive, and it did fit the rebellion criteria over two sets of generations. To have improved the piece even more, we could have made it a bit longer, and perhaps expanded our knowledge of the characters by spending more time considering exactly what they would do

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Evaluation - Personal Performance

GCSE Drama 1699 - Paper 1 Unit 1 Portfolio A01 = 'EVALUATION' Evaluation of My Group Our improvisation was set on a cruise ship on Christmas Eve. It showed the contrast between the mother, who was a cabaret performer, and her teenage son, who was forced to live on the ship with her. It showed how the teenager thought that he was better than everyone around him although the adults didn't seem to think so. It also showed the troubles in relationships between mothers and their teenager children through how the mother had a sleazy reputation with lots of different men and how the son had to cope with it. Amongst this problem he had to cope with the normal teenage complications such as girls. This life through a teenager's eyes was made in the hope to make you laugh and feel for the son. It was told by the teenage boy, who was a narrator and in the scene, which he read from his diary. Natalie played the Narrator/Festus who was an intelligent, sarcastic and quick witted teenage boy who was not particularly good looking and was always competing against the adults who he thought so little of. Maise played Festus' mother who was a good looking cabaret performer whose ear piercing singing provided a constant embarrassment to Festus and endless amusement to the drunken men. Joe played a drunkenly boisterous man that Festus catches with his mother. He was an over the top man who

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HKCEE is an effective performance indicator. Discuss.

HKCEE is an effective performance indicator A student at the end of his/her five-year secondary education normally takes the HKCEE. Our team strongly oppose today's motion, "HKCEE is an effective performance indicator". To begin with, let me define the motion, "HKCEE" refers to the Hong Kong Certificate Examination of Education, which is a public examination that HK F.5 students sit for every year. "Effective" means capable to perform duties well; and "performance" refers to something done and ability, while "indicator" means being a sign of. First of all, I would like to make one thing clear. HKCEE only shows the academic performance of those who study in normal schools, like ours, and those who sit for the exam, but NOT those who are studying in schools like international schools. Thus, HKCEE is not an effective one to show those students' performance. This point will be further developed by our first speaker. Secondly, HKCEE can't show one's ability in all aspects, which means it's not showing the all-round development of a student. Therefore, it's not an indicator which is effective to show students' performance, in which performance refers to one's capability in all aspects other than academic performance. This will be explained in the following paragraph. She will also show you that HKCEE cannot yet indicate a student's academic performance effectively, not to

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OF Mice and Men Key Moments

Cultural Background In Of Mice and Men it was set in America in the great depression. It is shown by the racial comments that are made by the actors when they talk about a black person. Many times the characters say nigger which now is not accepted any where but back then it was just normal to treat people that way. It is also shown at how the people at the ranch treat Lennie just because he is different. Key Moments In one key moment in the play Lennie kills Curly's wife. He does it by accident because he can't control his own strength. She asks him to feel the fabric on her dress but he accidentally breaks her neck. He runs away to the river. People in the town find out about this and go to find Lennie to kill him. George hears about it and goes to find Lennie. He goes to shot him because he knows that the other people will hurt him more. He finds Lennie sitting by the river. He talks to for a while calming him down. Then when Lennie is facing the river listening to George, George shoots him in the back of the head. Lennie falls to the floor. Then he gets up turns to face George and walks of the stage. Then you see back to the prostitute's room and welcomes in curly. When Lennie kills Curly's wife the lights dim to show that she is dead. It also does it to darken the atmosphere. When Lennie is sitting by the river he is sitting on the bed. It is being used as the

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