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

best bits movie

Drama

Reality TV debate

Wednesday 11th October 2017

Reality TV debate 

1) Do you think reality TV is more 'entertaining' than dramas or documentaries? Why/why not?

Yes I do think that reality TV is more interesting because this shows what really happens when people do not act and now you know how people act in real life towards other people in the show, but in my opinion i don't think that drama is the best genre there is, I prefer others more than documentaries, dramas and reality TV.

2) What moral or ethical problems might there be with a programme like Big Brother that is filming its contestants 24 hours a day? Explain.

I think that it is not the most wise idea of having the cameras following the contestants everyday 24 hours and not giving them privacy, because I do believe that people should get privacy especially when they need to go to the bathrooms. I also believe that people would want to be alone at some point if there was a problem going on which usually happens in reality TV shows. 

3) What reasons do you think some contestants might have for quitting a reality TV programme?

Some people might quit reality TV because of all the problems that there may be and for example Big Brother, some people may think that it si an invasion to their privacy. Also they don't want to get judged by the media and the people and maybe they cant handle the hate that they are getting. 

4) How 'real' is the action or coverage that we see in reality TV programmes? Explain.

As far s we can see everything looks real but sometimes they could plan things or a script behind the scenes thinking that it might entertain us. We can never fully trust the media because their could be rumours their could be lies but reality TV was meant for the truth behind everything. 

  

Emotional Entrances

Question:                                                                          8/10/2017

Emotional Entrances 

a) Explain one moment where you are using body language in an obvious way to indicate your emotional reaction to the situation. (What are you doing exactly and why?) 

When it was the first time to walk into the Big Brother House and it was a shock for me and my character is a person who is in love or obsessed with how she must look and how others look and judges them by their outside (like their cloths, hairstyle, if their makeup is done correctly etc..) So for that moment I was in a shock which means i opened my mouth slightly but i was always playing with my hair but also seeming shocked. I did this to show  my character is self obsessed but at the same time express my emotions.

b) Write an honest response in character of how you feel about one of the other people you have just met in the house. 

I thought that they were all different and most of them didn't even have a taste in fashion and I have problems with people who don't wear the things that I like. The French guy was too weird and obsessing over his pants that didn't even look that good, the wrestler was too aggressive and violent to talk or even live with me, but the only one that i don't mind was the singer, song-writer girl because just like me she loves style and cares about her look which is who I am looking for being friends with. 

 c) Describe what your character felt upon entering the house and their response to it and initial thoughts.

As soon as i stepped into the house I was shocked because it was so big and full of luxury which i definitely what I am looking for. I stepped inside and then i saw the amazing stairs which lead to where I met everyone. I first thought that they would be a bunch of normal people but then I met that celebrity who is a singer-song writer and actress and that when i thought that we were going to get along just great, that if none of the other people come in and ruin everything while we are enjoying our time here.  

 This is when I first came in 

This is when the singer/songwriter came and we met for the first time

This is when we all met together 

Sorry Miss but when i tried to upload the video it said that it was too long and I did not know which part to cut out.

little sister

My character is very self centred and loves the way she looks, and if she saw someone that does not have a good taste in their cloths then she will judge them and start making rude comments about them. Surprisingly she enjoys the outdoors but not necessarily sports just enjoying the fresh air.

little sister

Year 9 Work 

Final Reflection

In the last week of the project it was a bit of a mess because we had trouble to find out what we were going to do, there was a bit of a lack of team spirit and management because some people will not get along well with the others but at the end it was better. We had trouble with time management and we needed to get a time extension because we couldn't be done with what we had to do. Some of us had to stay after school to work on this project because we could not finish it in class, the music went well but it was the clay that we had problems with because we could not get the right looks and editing was another big problem because it needed a lot of work. We had to get the pictures to fit in with the music and the narration but at the end we managed to get the work done. I also usually had a few problems with updating my blog. Next tim we should follow the action plan to make sure that we are going to be handing it on time. In conclusion i think that the team worked well with each other and managed to finish the project to improve next time we should make sure we get our work finished on time.
My teammates were:
Jenna
Hamael
Faris
Adam.S
Adam.M
Hamza

Action Plan

Reflection 1

In our groups we have made a storyboard together and finished off the powerpoint that the teacher gave use to complete. We also finished drawing/sketching the characters that are in the horror story. Some of the art students started to bring in some materials for the project and the music group stated already started with playing the music. There are difficulties in this group because we have 7 people and some of them are hard to work with and that could be a problem. In conclusion the group so far are doing a good job in organisation and communication.

Story Board

Story Telling Research Idea

This is the story that our group decided to make. We decided on making it horror themed because we thought that everyone has moe experience with horror considering that we did a topic about that in English and last term in Creative Art as well.

reflection

Stage Combat Choreography and Script with reflection:

Script and a small description 

Sophia has a present for Caroline, but it was too big and Caroline took that as an insult and thought that she bought it for her because she was fat, and then the drama begins.

Script:

Sophia: Hey 

Caroline: Hi 

Sophia: Happy Birthday 

Caroline: Thank you 

Sophia: I saw this amazing gift when i saw it reminded me of you

Caroline: Thank you I can’t wait to open it

                  ( i open the gift and look disgusted) 

Caroline: Are you sure this is for me 

Sophia: Ya, do you like it

Caroline: do you think I am fat

Sophia: what no why you don’t like it

Caroline: I hate it ( shove from the front)

Sophia: ( reacts) how could you ( shove from the front)

Caroline: (reacts and steps forward) 

Sophia: ( shove from the front) You should at least say thank you

Caroline: ( Reacts and steps back ) Never

Sophia: ( reacts and steps forward)

Caroline: I thought we were friends ( slap to the face) 

Sophia: ( ducks) 

Caroline: ( reacts) How did you do that

Sophia: (slaps to the face) 

Caroline: (slap to the face) 

Sophia: (block) I hate you

Caroline: (reacts) 

Sophia: (punch to the stomach) This is what you get for not appreciating what I got you 

                            (circle each other)

Sophia: (eye pock) 

Caroline: (reacts and slap to the face) 

 Sophia: (reacts)

Caroline: (Back hand slap)

Sophia: (reacts)

Caroline: (punch to the stomach) 

Sophia: (reacts) 

Caroline: this is what you get for being the worst friend ever (Punch to the stomach) 

Sophia: (reacts, falling down) AGHHHHHH!!!!!!

Caroline: (hair grab) we are not friends anymore!!!

Sophia: (reacts) AGHHHH!!!!!

THE END 

Reflection 

Person A

Ward Gunce su’s friend: Chareoline

I am going to be a lady that ordered clothes online but ounce s ( the delivery girl) The shirt that i ordered is 10x bigger than i expected it to be, so then i start the whole fight and get so mad that we start to fake fight physically since we are learning stage combat. I am a type of person who will get moody and mad very easily so that will be hard for Sophia ( Gunce su) to give me the present and me liking what she gave me

Person B

Gunce su the person that gets me the present: Sophia

She is going to be the person that gave me the wrong shirt because it was 10x bigger than i asked and It was wards birthday. Sophia ( ounce su) never new that Caroline ( ward) would think of it that way. She is the type of person that thinks that everything is fine and does not stress too much on giving presents to her best friends.

Scene background: 

We are fighting because she gave me the wrong shirt even though it was a mistake, but I think that she did it on purpose because the thinks that 

I am fat so than i start the fight. This is going to be a silly performance because we feel that it is going to be more funny and interesting, we also thought that we will have more ideas and dialogue between us and also acting serious is hard for some of us. 

How do you think your stage combat will go? 

I think that this will be good but i may have trouble trying to memorise the choreography and which one goes where in which place, But i still think that we will do a good job in total because we just need to practice a lot at home and at school. There may be some hard time with the reactions and how to be confident and for me to smile less during the plays.

In Drama class today we had to perform our performances that we had a week to practice on. Me and my friend Gunce su were one of the first people to preform on stage, and for me this is the hardest things but i had to get over it. I got a prop with me on stage and it was a big sweater so that it can be better with some props on stage. The performance did not go so well probably because we did not practice a lot and did not memorise the choreography probably and that will probably affect our grades. The techniques we used was slapping, punching, shoves and the extra move that we added eye pock. i also had the mistake of when i make a mistake on stage i just have to keep going, i can improve on that if i have confidence.