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I would have found it frustrating also. That’s because they haven’t chose the country yet and they just started choosing the names. Why country? That’s because first you should know from where the family is from so you can come up with names. But they had the names which might have not even matched the names of that country. For example lets say Korea. If they family was Korean, I don think they would have named they kids as Dorothy, John or James. The family might have been Turkish and they don’t have such names. The names should be the same as the country would have. They should be careful with the names they choose.
For me the best for developing the plays works the script part. I think when you just start the play you don’t really make sense. For example in our group we just started, and people were laughing in parts where you should be angry or saying nice stuff in a sad part. I think it just works out better while writing it out first. When you write the script you get to think more and decided what you will say next, that way you don’t have to think of things you are going to say. I remember we started just saying the words out, and Samir and I have realized that it just doesn’t work. So we went to SRA and started working there. We as a group came up with the things of what each person must say and when. When we were practicing it helped us a lot. That’s because we already knew what we were doing and we weren’t all messed up. Everyone had their line to read and it said what we were meant to do.



My monologue.

I think monologues are pretty useful. For people who can not speak in front of audience, this is a chance for them to learn how to. I will give an example from mine. My monologue was going pretty well. When I started practicing I kept on laughing the whole time. I tried it like 4 times in front of my friends, and I got much better with all that. When I had to perform it I was not as nervous as I thought I would be. Also monologues help us to express ourselves. When we tell a story we can think of many things to say with all the emotions.

Kmans Stuff

In respons to the homework from february 9th (oops) i think that monoluoge can be very important in large plays. It gives them a quality similar to books. In books whe can see a characters thoughts and this gives us a much better understanding. If we see two people talking and one says "thats just like what happened on sunday". The audience whould have no idea what was happening unless it froze and a character said " last sunday joe got drunk and lost one hundred dollars gambling. " If we didnt have monoluoge whe wouldnt now this. Monolouge gives us a better understanding of characters and why they do things.

Kmans Stuff

This is a recap ofwhat my group has done, where we are now and what whe plan to do.

So far the global warming group has reasearched the issue. As many know , it will apparently bring the appocolypse. Floods , heat waves , penguin casulities, everything. We looked at all the causes and affects of global warming.
Causes

• Use of gases
• Wasting energy
• More population
• Ignorance

Effects

• Flooding
• Extincition of Polar animals
• Droughts
• Loss of nautral resources

From this whe had all the infromtaion we would need in our performance. We moved onto writng the script. After much discussion we ended up with a Charles Dickens Christmas Carol esque story. Whe decide that we would start out in the future with all the affects of global warming visible, and then whe would go into the past and see the cause. At the end of course whe would have the hallmark ending where the characters realise its human ignorance that will bring their destruction , blah , blah , blah.

So far whe have acomplished our script. Whe have written the first five scenes and have a conflict and a solution. Every thing a growing play needs.We have also rehearshed it several times but we need to get a serious one going

Kmans Monolouge Response

I think that my monlouge was a interesting performance. It was based on the affect that global warming has on people in Africa involving droughts. I wanted to stress the fact that they have nothing to do with global warming but they are the ones who are affected by it. I used many adds for charity as my basis. Things like eating pity were my chief ideas to really show how the people feel about global warming.

My perfomramnce was good. I think i had a strong delivery and didnt give anything away with my emotions or facial expression. I already talked about my personal expeirence in my evaluation. My monolouge was more about a community than an individual and i proably could have added some deeper reflection or show the affects better if i had gone deeper into evaluation.

Kmans Stuff

1. That would be frustarating because our plays are sopposed to be culturaly aware and we should be sensitive to this. If we are going to give this to another school who doesnt know all the cultral things we do there is no point. In our performances we discuss things like globalisation. We protest against it , but do it anyways. If we are all children of an international world we we see every custom and culture why should we only use one as our inspiration. There is so much to offer and so many things available for use to use and we are simply ignoring them. Even the people who are from the countries of globalisation and the western culture is their own , they should try to make it more international.

2. For me i think the best combination so far is scripted improvisation. No dialuoge is written or actions , but it states what happens in the scene and from there what it should convey to the audience. From here the actors or actresses can use their own skills and talents to their advantage instead of using what the scripts require.

Curly Fri

This week in drama we started scripting our play. I was not here on Wednesday, so I only helped today. It is going good so far. I really like what the rest of my group has done for the first two scenes. It seems to be very realistic. The personality of each character varies according to what their entire role is in the play. The rapist has a "strange" aura and you can tell that something isn't right about him. I really like what we have so far and I think it will turn out really well! I can't wait to see what the other group has done!

nad

I think you might have found it frustrating to hear that korean and other students from different nationalities are naming their characters Western and European names such as Dorothy, John, and James, because American and British names have become stereotype names that are used commonly. It also limits the ability of improving the character, because the names affect the characters' nationalities and religions. The plays we are making are supposed to be international, and not limited on only one area of the world since we are looking at a global issue. There should be korean, Indian, English/American, and other names from different countries. Why should everybody be limited to western names when they have millions of other choices?

When it comes to the different ways of developing the play, i found scripting the easiest. This way we know what is going on, and it is much more organised. when you improvise at first, then write the script it is not as organised and you often forget ideas. In my point of view, the best way is to script, and then perform it using the scripts. As you perform you will realize the mistakes and additions to the play, or things you need to change, replace, and delete.

My monologue; nad

I think my final performance of my monologue was okay, but i think i was a bit too nervous becuase i mixed a few words around, and i smiled in the end, although i was not meant to. I also could've put a bit more detail to it rather than listing what happened. Over all, i think i did satisfactory.

Reflection

1. You might have had found this frustrating to hear because this an international standpoint we are dealing with. Not the average joe stereotypes. It's important for us to recgonize that not the english-speaking civilization is a very dominating one but there are much more who are dealing with the same things or much worse. We are representing children from all around the world. These are global issues, something we have to acknoledge.

2. I probably like improvisation best because you get to explore your skills in drama and toy with your knowledge. To be able to go on and on about one topic and act as casual and in character as possible is a talent. I like to express these feelings and act it out rather than writing it up. Video recording is something I also like to do in some cases because you can check over your work and see how you can perfect it. Though, everything you do is watched and too expectant. You act a certain way around a camera and what most people want to see is the true acting. Word processing I find kind of useless other than just writing up the script. Even then, I just like to memorize it in my head not by reading it and then memorizing.