Introducing Characters

Sister (Christa): Christa is the main character. She is the victim and the innocent one all the time. She always gets pranked by her two siblings and her dad is sometimes mean to her. Her aunt is the one who is always there for her. She is always tired of the complaining and the pranking and wants a little bit of love from her family.
Brother (Yusup): He is one of the sibling that prank her all the time. He finds it funny and he is the oldest one so  he thinks that he could have anything his own way. He isn't very close to Christa byt he is close to me and that only because we work together to prank her.
Me (Ward): I am the other sibling that always loves to prank her. Me and Yusup always plan something, sometimes we get away with it sometimes we don't, our relationship is not that bad but I personally find Christa annoying that's why i always prank her. My dad is mean sometimes and my aunt tries to stop me and Yusup from ruining her life.
Aunt Rania: She is the only responsible one in our family and the only one that could control us all even our dad. She comes to our house every time. She could be nice to us all but we all know that her favourite is Christa because she is always getting picked on.
Dad (Akshansh): He is our dad. We dont always lie him. He could be very careless at times even though he is the one who decided to adopt us. He is always arguing with our Aunt and always exaggerating things and causing problems. Most of the times he is mad but other times he is bossy. It is very hard to see him be nice to us.
Aunt (Jana): She is not always around so I don;t know how she would deal with us. She sometimes doesn't know what to do because we are all complaining. She isn't very fund of us but she still does a better job than my dad when it comes to being loving.

Friends Selfie

Hot-seating

I interviewed Christa who plays my sister, I asked her these questions and responded with these answers:

- How do you feel about your brother?
I think he could be mean sometimes because he keeps pulling these mean pranks on me but sometimes I feel like he cares about me sometimes.
- Do you like your aunt?
Yes, I love her she is the only one that is always there for me and she also understands me she is like my mother and could be a lot of fun to sit with her.
- Is your dad caring?
I don't know , sometimes i guess, i mean he is really weird and does not know how to control his anger issues but he did adopt me and so I am grateful for that and he also stands up to me when my sister and/or my brother pranks me.

Family still photo

Conflict Reflection

           1)Why is conflict often an important part of a drama presentation? Explain.

I think that conflict is important in a drama presentation because you can have a lot of emotions, gestures and different tones when you talk and usually the conflict in a presentation is the most interesting part to the viewers and it makes them pay attention because some conflict could be fights and many people enjoy watching fights happen whether it is physically or verbally.

     2)Give an example of one lesson when you created conflict in your drama scene and say how you did it. (pauses, gestures, action, dialogue etc)

The last presentation that we did involve conflict when two of the characters were arguing using dialogue and hand gestures and the whole topic was about to raise awareness.

     3) How did you demonstrate creativity in your final video task? Give examples of how you tried

 new things or were thinking outside the box.

When we did our final video it was mostly the hand gestures and the dialogue that made it look creative because when we edited it at the end we made the sad scenes black and showed how it was a sad story.

     4) Do you think your message was clearly communicated in your video or could you have improved it? If so, how?

I think that in our video it did clearly show what the message was but we could have made it more creative and have less dialogue in the video and have one of our group voice record it to make it more interesting and unique, at the end of the video we did write down what the problem was.

     5) Think back to your performances at the beginning of term two, and now your current performances; do you think you have improved or developed any drama skills? (vocal skills such as: clarity of diction, inflection, accent, intonation and phrasing; pace, pause and timing; projection, pitch; emotional range, or physical skills such as movement, body language, posture, gesture, stillness, timing, control; facial expression; eye contact, interaction with other performers)

Yes, I do think that I have improved from the beginning of term 2 until now because I have found more ways of communicating and my vocal skills when I am preforming and depending on the scene, and I know now where to stand and how I should be positioned when I talk anot have my back turned. I now know that body language and using different getures is important and could add more effect on the play. I gained a lot of confidence during this term but I could use more emotion when I am preforming.

Reality TV reflection

1) How have your characterisation skills developed in this reality TV unit? (give examples) 
I am now more confident with preforming in front of my class an change my personality. With my first video that i did as my character I was not exactly sure of how to actor what to say, but i had more practice through video's and now I understood what my character is meant to say or do. I have a better understanding of how to act like and my character has not really changed throughout the topic its juts the way I speak now is louder and I an now more confident in my character. 

2) What target can you identify for yourself in order to improve on your characterisation skills next term? 
I can practice my performances before doing the actual play to make it better for the audience and also now how to work with other people because everyone has their own way of understanding things so maybe if the whole group cooperated and communicated with each other it could always make the performance better. I could also improve with my blogs and write more to it and make it more detailed 

3) How can you improve your homework when completing written work about the practical explorations in class? 
I can video or picture everything that we did in class so I wont forget what happened in class and I will use more detail and information to explain my work and to make the person that is reading this understand exactly what is going on. I can include an evaluation in my work like what went well and what went bad and what needs improvement in our play.

4) What have you most enjoyed about this unit? 
I enjoyed working with my friends and my classmates and making the video's more fun for us to watch. I also enjoyed being a different character that is not me because it is fun doing something that I am not used to be. 

5) What was your greatest achievement in drama this term?
Achieving a 6 and working with many different people in a short amount of time  

Props for 'best bits'

These are the props that we used:
Jessie: I used a pink scarf and a cardigan
Meredith Grey: All she has was a book that is meant to be a bible
Abou Bakr Al Sadiq: He had a wrestling robe
Lisa: Bandana and a necklace