I think that our final performance in front of the audience was quite amazing and some people found that it was wonderful. However it was not perfect because there were some people who still were laughing during the play but it was not their fault. Even though it was hard for all of us to get into it and not to act like the actual characters in the scripts, but some kind transform into them and imagine the environment around us, we tried to produce the best piece of drama work ever.
Making the scripts “international” was not that hard to do. The fact that it was out of time and in the middle of nowhere was a good idea to use. Also the terms that we have been using at the beginning and the ending of the performance and different facts and laws of the children’s policy were educational and made the performance even more international.
Sound scapes helped us a lot and also the fact that the audience liked it and did not laugh at us pleased me. The problem is that there were some of the sound scape(s) that were pretty disturbing and funny (especially the barking dog) at some point…
Another thing that I liked about it was the group work. While we were writing the scripts we did not use the given time proficiently at all. Basically we finished producing them on the day they were due (there were many mistakes in them which made the dialogues sound stupid [they just did not make any sense]). By fixing them we achieved what we set out to do. But unfortunately we did not use them at all. The whole performance was completely improvised but the good thing is that we did not do any mistakes and made no long pauses at all. I would also like to take into account that while we were rehearsing 3-4 lessons before the final performance, we did not have anything at all. + We did not come after school to rehearse it (I am not sure about the other groups).
I think that everyone’s (including audience’s) facial expressions created tension and it made everyone (including the actors) feel sympathy for the poor, lonely children who are currently living on the streets.
Another thing that made this performance amazing was the previous lessons and different stuff that we worked on. The one that I find most useful one is the monologue because it was the one which taught us to feel free and calm in front of the audience and get into the performance. I also think that the Shelby’s and Margalit’s group found it very useful because most of their part of the performance consisted out of monologue which changed every time Shelby performed it. I think that she improvised it over and over again during the rehearsals and the final performance.
In addition I would like to thank Ms. Tickle for keeping us together, helping us, giving us useful ideas and having fun with us in drama class during this term. Unfortunately this is going to be my last drama course but there is a little chance that I am going to switch to the drama class next year because the Drama class is my second “Arts class” choice.
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Evaluation
I think that the final drama’s performance went really well. It was much better than it was few days before our final performance. During our rehearsal lessons most of us were just walking around the classroom or just laughing. But finally it turned out as a very good piece of drama. I was kind of surprised that everybody acted really seriously and nobody laughed. Our audience seemed to be really interested in what we were doing. Our audience seemed to get the message that we were trying to sent to them. I think that our play was international and easy translatable to other countries. I think that the beginning and the end of our play helped to capture audience’s attention. The sound scapes worked really well too. I was really realistic.
I was a bit worried about my groups (the disabled child) performance, because we had some problems with finishing our script. It turned out that our script was too long. We had to cut out the ending of where the babysitter escapes with the disabled child and then leaves her on the street. We just made it shorter and simpler. But I think that we did fine on our final play.
I think that maybe we should use costumes next time. They would make our play more realistic and define character’s personality better. But it was good without the too.
I really enjoyed drama this year. Everybody can express their selves during drama’s lessons. Everybody have the right to express their opinion. Drama makes all people work together to create something amazing. That’s what we’ve done. Those 20 minutes of our performance was something magnificent, something that I enjoyed a lot.
I was a bit worried about my groups (the disabled child) performance, because we had some problems with finishing our script. It turned out that our script was too long. We had to cut out the ending of where the babysitter escapes with the disabled child and then leaves her on the street. We just made it shorter and simpler. But I think that we did fine on our final play.
I think that maybe we should use costumes next time. They would make our play more realistic and define character’s personality better. But it was good without the too.
I really enjoyed drama this year. Everybody can express their selves during drama’s lessons. Everybody have the right to express their opinion. Drama makes all people work together to create something amazing. That’s what we’ve done. Those 20 minutes of our performance was something magnificent, something that I enjoyed a lot.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Evaluation
Our performance was really amazing, especially compared to what we were like, even just two lessons before the day. Everyone thought that we would simply do an ok job, but we proved ourselves wrong. It was a really tough assignment, especially the scripting. This was the hardest part of the entire proect for me, because you didn't want the script to be cheesy, and you had to think alot about what you wrote to make it seem even somewhat realistic. At first i sort of doubted that certain scenarios would work in the play, but in the end they turned out to be some of the highlights. My favorite part of making this play, was probably the performance, because i got to see all of our hard work come together in such a satisfying way. When our class first started to construct this piece of drama, we all goofed around alot, and didn't take very seriously. But as we came nearer to the performance, i think we all got it together. I felt like it was a really good experiance for me to play the character that i did, because it really opened my eyes to what alot of people around the world have to live through every day, and it got me thinking alot about i would do if i were in thier shoes, which maybe translated a bit over into my performace. All in all, i think that our class really worked hard to get were we got, and that we put out a very useful, informative, and thought-provoking piece of drama.
margalit's evaluation
WOW
Thats all i really have to say about our play... by luck of some sort and pure genius we pulled it together. During the time we rehearsed we mucked about and goofed off and simply- didn't do anything. I had told my mother that were doing the play but I'll tell her on Tuesday if shes allowed to come... on Tuesday i told her that if she absolutely has too she could but i don't recommend it, so she didn't come. Then when we did fantastically.As my classmates have said, we did miss out quite a few parts of the play. Still, i think that we sent the messages we tried to send. The audience realized the lacking conditions of street children, and a few different organizations that help such children. I think that we sent out a message that we didn't try to send, how cruel adults can be. 3 of the 5 scenes had nasty adults. the messages along with our sound scape(s) created a very touching and emotional piece of theater.
If we were to do it again (for the p8's) then i could make some suggestions for what me might like to change. firs and for most we should study our lines some more, and maybe even practice once more. secondly i think that particular figures should have particular clothing items to signify this. for example the head chief in the soldier scene could have some sort of army hat, and the step mother could have a fancy scarf. thirdly we could have used some more props such as newspapers, toys, money etc. In my opinion these small details could increase the impact of our performance.
It was so much fun scripting, improvising and acting. i would be thrilled to recreate the play for anyone willing to watch us.
Final Performance
Our final performance in front of an audience was something of luck and pulled together skill and concentration. i think the audience made us perform better and concentrate more on what we were doing because we had to do it this time. i found it easier to perform in front of an audience because the people around me were more concentrated and i concentrated more on the performance that we were doing instead of fooling around.
The messages that we were trying to show about street children, i think we showed the audience well. how their lives are and how sad and miserable it would be to be a street child. the audience in the feedback seemed to get the points that we were showing and they even saw the fact that it was meant to be international and that we could give it to another school and they could also perform it.
Next time we could do it better. if instead of fooling around in class we actually did some work, the finished product would have come out better. we could have also maybe worked on the drug scene as a class and then maybe it would have worked as well. we could have also made more change to our performance to make it all better.
I think that our performance was good and the audience liked it. next time we could do more because there is a lot we could add onto, and maybe act out better. now we know that what we have is good, but we could make it better.
The messages that we were trying to show about street children, i think we showed the audience well. how their lives are and how sad and miserable it would be to be a street child. the audience in the feedback seemed to get the points that we were showing and they even saw the fact that it was meant to be international and that we could give it to another school and they could also perform it.
Next time we could do it better. if instead of fooling around in class we actually did some work, the finished product would have come out better. we could have also maybe worked on the drug scene as a class and then maybe it would have worked as well. we could have also made more change to our performance to make it all better.
I think that our performance was good and the audience liked it. next time we could do more because there is a lot we could add onto, and maybe act out better. now we know that what we have is good, but we could make it better.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Andra's Evaluation
Our performance turned out to be quite a success. Everyone performed with great enthusiasm and dedication. Our class was focused, concentrated on their lines and their performance. Our play went through smoothly but more importantly, our play captured the audiences and got their attention. The audience was also able to understand what was going on throughout the scenes and they gave positive feedback on our performance.
I was shocked to see that we were able to run through the whole play without anyone laughing or messing up. The reason I say this is because when we were given the chance to practice our parts and scenes, most of the groups including mine, did not use our time efficiently and wisely. We could not concentrate and thoroughly run through our script. Because of this I improvised many of my lines but I still stuck to the structure of my script. I believe if our group would have used our time more efficiently we would have improved our performance and we would have been a lot more prepared.
However our group, the child soldier group, did extremely well in the end with what we had. The script included so much action, energy and drama. There was a lot of chaos in the script, soldiers were attacking villages and kidnapping children to fight as soldiers themselves. We were trying to show the violence, chaos, and misery of our issue through the script. This action really got the audience’s attention during the beginning of the play.
Drama has been an extremely enjoyable lesson for me this term. One reason for this is because I felt that I have improved during drama this year. I feel a lot more confident about acting then I did before. I learnt many new skills and techniques. During our monologues, I learnt how to improvise and this became useful during our play. We were also given the chance of creating our own scripts and play. We were given the freedom of using our imagination and creativity and we were able to show it to our audiences in our play.
I was shocked to see that we were able to run through the whole play without anyone laughing or messing up. The reason I say this is because when we were given the chance to practice our parts and scenes, most of the groups including mine, did not use our time efficiently and wisely. We could not concentrate and thoroughly run through our script. Because of this I improvised many of my lines but I still stuck to the structure of my script. I believe if our group would have used our time more efficiently we would have improved our performance and we would have been a lot more prepared.
However our group, the child soldier group, did extremely well in the end with what we had. The script included so much action, energy and drama. There was a lot of chaos in the script, soldiers were attacking villages and kidnapping children to fight as soldiers themselves. We were trying to show the violence, chaos, and misery of our issue through the script. This action really got the audience’s attention during the beginning of the play.
Drama has been an extremely enjoyable lesson for me this term. One reason for this is because I felt that I have improved during drama this year. I feel a lot more confident about acting then I did before. I learnt many new skills and techniques. During our monologues, I learnt how to improvise and this became useful during our play. We were also given the chance of creating our own scripts and play. We were given the freedom of using our imagination and creativity and we were able to show it to our audiences in our play.
On the Thursday before the holidays we performed our play about global issues to the M3B class, parents and teachers. I think that this performace was a very good achievment and was twice as good as any rehearsal we had done. Throughout the play we remained focused and at no point did the class come to a point where they had forgotten their lines or were not able to perform. Everyone put a lot of emotion into their performance and it had a very positive impact on the audience. One thing i think that we could have improved is to have some simple costumes and props. I think that costumes would define certain characters a lot better and make it a lot easier for the audience to understand the background and storyline of the people involved. I think that one of the best sections of our play was the beginning and end of the play. This set the tone for the rest of the play and created a good atmsphere, uniterupted by anyone in the cast or audience. The repitition of the beginning of the play at the end left the audience with that atmosphere. I think that because our play was well focused as well as serious it stopped the audience from laughing at bits which some people might have considered funny. I think the only mistake throughout the whole play was when we confused the languages at the end, but i don't think it was noticeable. I think all-in-all we performed a very smooth piece of theatre which had a positive impact on the audience.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
I must say that our preformance was nothing short of a miracle and amazing concentration. The preformance seemed to the audience that we had been practicing with full dedication but in the fact we had never really done any proper practicing of the play, all together we ran through the entire child soldier's scene as a practice twice with the child soldier's group but i think that because we were put under pressure we really pulled through. this happened many times with our class.
I especially liked the fact that the sound scape worked very well because me along with several other people thought that the people in the audience would not understand the intentions of the sounds, but to my surprise that is what they seemed to like the most.
The child soldier's group worked well in the preformance but the production and rehearsal was dreadful, it was plagued with problems from important figures in productions being unable to come to meetings along with very little enthusiasm but after practicing as a class as a whole we seemed to completely forget everything and stopped laughing and did it surprisingly well.
I think the script was especially good, i loved the fact that it included all sorts of topics that we had discussed to include, but some things were cut out due to shortage of time as well not having the props to convey it to make the audience understand what was going on, one such thing was music playing during the drug scene to symbolize his hullucinations as well a 3 scenes that were cut out completely even though it was in the final script one was when the UN and NATO forces agreed to do something about the growing problem with child soldiers and another scene skipped was when the child soldiers are killing an entire village and the horror that the main character is suppose to convey as he is shooting innocent people and sad horrific music was suppose to play along with this. another scene that was skipped was the one on one confrontation between the general and the main character with him being premoted to captain of the other child soldiers.
Drama was something i enjoyed this term and something that i will miss since i will never do it again because i had chosen Visual Art for m4 and m5 but if there is no more room in Visual Art i had chosen Drama to do because that is my second favorite Arts class. one thing that i especially enjoy about drama is the freedom. we have the ability to make anything with the topic given and have freedom get to a final piece in whatever way we need to which was great because that let us experiment with different things and discuss and act what would work better and worse. Something that i especially helped with overall confidence in any situation is the monologue preformance that made us preform in front of an audience with no one else on stage and with just us preforming, it also helped me with improvisational skills because my ENTIRE monologue was improvised but i think it turned out very well with no hitches. Overall i would be glad to be able to do drama next year but sadly i can not.
I especially liked the fact that the sound scape worked very well because me along with several other people thought that the people in the audience would not understand the intentions of the sounds, but to my surprise that is what they seemed to like the most.
The child soldier's group worked well in the preformance but the production and rehearsal was dreadful, it was plagued with problems from important figures in productions being unable to come to meetings along with very little enthusiasm but after practicing as a class as a whole we seemed to completely forget everything and stopped laughing and did it surprisingly well.
I think the script was especially good, i loved the fact that it included all sorts of topics that we had discussed to include, but some things were cut out due to shortage of time as well not having the props to convey it to make the audience understand what was going on, one such thing was music playing during the drug scene to symbolize his hullucinations as well a 3 scenes that were cut out completely even though it was in the final script one was when the UN and NATO forces agreed to do something about the growing problem with child soldiers and another scene skipped was when the child soldiers are killing an entire village and the horror that the main character is suppose to convey as he is shooting innocent people and sad horrific music was suppose to play along with this. another scene that was skipped was the one on one confrontation between the general and the main character with him being premoted to captain of the other child soldiers.
Drama was something i enjoyed this term and something that i will miss since i will never do it again because i had chosen Visual Art for m4 and m5 but if there is no more room in Visual Art i had chosen Drama to do because that is my second favorite Arts class. one thing that i especially enjoy about drama is the freedom. we have the ability to make anything with the topic given and have freedom get to a final piece in whatever way we need to which was great because that let us experiment with different things and discuss and act what would work better and worse. Something that i especially helped with overall confidence in any situation is the monologue preformance that made us preform in front of an audience with no one else on stage and with just us preforming, it also helped me with improvisational skills because my ENTIRE monologue was improvised but i think it turned out very well with no hitches. Overall i would be glad to be able to do drama next year but sadly i can not.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Evaluation...
I think the play went really well. A lot better than i think any of us expected. I thought some people would end up laughing but no one did, which made the play a lot more powerful. I think the start of the play and the end of the play was really powerful, i think that really captured the audiences attention, the sound scape also worked really well and made the part a lot more powerful.
I think we took a lot of time to rehearse but it was all worth it. The final product was really well, but i think that if we had less time too rehearse the play it would not have come out that well. When we were rehearsing the whole play as a class we were always messing up and we were always being told to stop laughing. That is why i was very surprised in the end when none of us laughed.
The child soldier part was the one i was in. We were the first group to perform. I think it went really well. I think we captured the audiences attention at the start because the start was very powerful and there was a lot going on. It was the scene were the lady got shot on the street and everyone is scared watching her...this showed a real life situation. I was only in a short part of my play because i missed a lot of rehearsal time because i was away on sports trips, but i think i caught up pretty well. Writing the script for the play was a lot easier than putting it together and acting it. The script was easier because we all had a rough idea of what we wanted to include in the play because we all got together and discussed it. Trying to perform it was a lot harder because we had a lot of people in our play and it was hard to keep everyone focused but in the end we managed it.
I really enjoyed drama this term because the whole class got to work together and make their own play where we got to put in our own ideas. I think we were also really happy with the final product and all the work we did for it was worth it in the end. I think i got better in drama this term compared to our first lesson cause i couldn't stand in front of anyone and perform i just found it really hard. And honestly i don't think i have ever felt that scared before acting, in front of people. But i feel like i could do it now. I think the performance where we had to perform a monologue really helped me. I think it helped a lot of us for the global issues play as well, and made it easier to perform because we had more confidence.
I think we took a lot of time to rehearse but it was all worth it. The final product was really well, but i think that if we had less time too rehearse the play it would not have come out that well. When we were rehearsing the whole play as a class we were always messing up and we were always being told to stop laughing. That is why i was very surprised in the end when none of us laughed.
The child soldier part was the one i was in. We were the first group to perform. I think it went really well. I think we captured the audiences attention at the start because the start was very powerful and there was a lot going on. It was the scene were the lady got shot on the street and everyone is scared watching her...this showed a real life situation. I was only in a short part of my play because i missed a lot of rehearsal time because i was away on sports trips, but i think i caught up pretty well. Writing the script for the play was a lot easier than putting it together and acting it. The script was easier because we all had a rough idea of what we wanted to include in the play because we all got together and discussed it. Trying to perform it was a lot harder because we had a lot of people in our play and it was hard to keep everyone focused but in the end we managed it.
I really enjoyed drama this term because the whole class got to work together and make their own play where we got to put in our own ideas. I think we were also really happy with the final product and all the work we did for it was worth it in the end. I think i got better in drama this term compared to our first lesson cause i couldn't stand in front of anyone and perform i just found it really hard. And honestly i don't think i have ever felt that scared before acting, in front of people. But i feel like i could do it now. I think the performance where we had to perform a monologue really helped me. I think it helped a lot of us for the global issues play as well, and made it easier to perform because we had more confidence.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Evaluation of Final Performance
The audience's reaction at the end was the most surprising part of the whole project. The audience was scared and saddened. I didn't realize that the play was emotional, because almost everytime we rehearsed the play, we were told to "STOP LAUGHING". A few unscripted changes were made during the actual performance, but it was unbeknownst to the audience. Our audience was composed of the M3B class and a few parents of the actors and actresses.
My castmates were really good. All of us made the performance "real" and it's true that the best performers are the ones that are really exagerrated in character. My favorite part of the play is the introduction and the end, because those are the most powerful sections of the play.
My performance satisfied me, but there is always room for improvement. Especially expression, in my case. My two roles were: a murdered villager and an abusive mother to a disabled child. I could have been more aggressive in my second role, but overall I am okay with how it turned out. Next time, I will exagerrate my reactions and facial expressions more to really be in character.
My castmates were really good. All of us made the performance "real" and it's true that the best performers are the ones that are really exagerrated in character. My favorite part of the play is the introduction and the end, because those are the most powerful sections of the play.
My performance satisfied me, but there is always room for improvement. Especially expression, in my case. My two roles were: a murdered villager and an abusive mother to a disabled child. I could have been more aggressive in my second role, but overall I am okay with how it turned out. Next time, I will exagerrate my reactions and facial expressions more to really be in character.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Global Issues Performance
M3A have been known to reduce teachers to tears before now, but never because of the quality and emotional impact of their performance. Students performed with compassion and conviction, working as an ensemble as they performed the end results of ten week's work. Well done!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
the real orphan runnaway
orphan runaway
(Matthew, Yusif and Claudia sitting on chairs, others sitting on the floor)
Matthew: Oh I wish my parents came and picked me up.
Child 2: Me too!
Claudia: We all want our folks back, and maybe someday, they will….
Yusif: Claudia, stop telling the littl’uns (points to kids on floor) fairy tales ok! It’s no use! We don’t have any family! This is a dump, where people drop of children they don’t want.
Yusif approaches the group of kids.
Matthew: We’ve been friends for a long time now but you’re about to cross the line with me. (Gets up) You’ve never been THIS jumpy before! And I’m only a year younger than you. I’m tired of you treating me like a kid, I can take care of myself (the two are now facing each other) like I did for the 9 years before I met you.
Child 1: Shhhhhhhh…Don’t fight, it reminds me off…
Yusif interrupts saying…
Yusif: Ok, ok! Fine… I’m sorry!
Claudia: (Children pout/cry) look what you’ve done… you’ve upset the kids! You’d better help me keep them quiet!
Matthew: here, I’ll play to! Claudia
Claudia: Thanks! Yusif… come over here!
(Play dolls/cars)
Margalit: (scream from off stage) get down here. NOW!
Yusif: I wonder what “The Witch” wants now?!
Matthew: I suppose we should go- it’ll be mad if we don’t.
Claudia: it’s just about time for lunch time … still, I doubt the foods gonna be any better today then it has been for the past 10 years that I’ve been here!
Matthew: come on everyone… (Sarcastic) lets get some healthy food!
The children exit stage….
Rearrange chairs
The children enter stage later…
Matthew is sits at the head of the table
Claudia: Are you sure you wanna sit THERE?
Margalit walks in furious about this and then she smashes his face into the table.
Margalit: Get to your seat NOW!
Matthew: But nobody is sitting here, so I wanted to.
Margalit: no means NO! Only important people get to sit at the head of the table, and you are NOT important any one!
She says this and drags Matthew across the table to his chair
Margalit: (Quieter but loud) that’s why you’re here…
Child 1: (whispers) that’s gotta hurt!
Child 3: Shhhhhhh!
Margalit: Here’s your (pauses)…food. Placing the breakfast in the bowls that are in front of the children
Yusif: I don’t want to eat this, it looks disgusting pushes the bowl away from him
Matthew, Child 2: I don’t want to eat it either! Matthew pushes his bowl in front of him
Margalit: (Angry) children if you don’t eat your food the will be no more until dinner time
Yusif: (stubborn) I don’t care
Yusif throws the bowl of food at Margalit
Margalit: That was a very, very silly move, now you have to do the dishes, and you get no food even if you wanted it. (Picks up the bow)l and places it on the table with an angry expression. All right brats…if you aren’t gonna eat the food then get outa my way!
Margalit points at yusif. You, stay here!
Matthew: Come on guys let’s go.
Child 2: aww (All children but Yusif exit the stage on the left)
Margalit: your one of the elder children here, so the little ones look up to you. I can’t have you disrespecting me in front of them. Listen to me! I can’t have you influencing them to be bad. YUSIF!
Margalit slaps yusif making him fall down.
Freeze… then rearrange chairs
Matthew in their sleeping room, Yusif walks in, limping
Yusif: Man I swear this room gets smaller every time we come back here!
Matthew: tell me about it!
Yusif: You know what? I wanna go back to the times when I was a kid and didn’t understand any thing…
Matthew laughs
Matthew: yeah, like why my folks never came back from vacation… those were the good days huh. Didn’t seem like it then though…
Yusif: one day…I’m gonna run away! Just, don’t tell anyone. Keep it in your head K? ‘Cause when I do I want you to, you know how a pilot has his right hand man?
Matthew: yeah…
Yusif: well, when I run away… I want you to be my right hand man…
Matthew: Defiantly! I’ll come with you!
Claudia and Child 1 enter the room and sits down with Yusif and Matthew
Yusif: hi with a sigh
Claudia: Hey, what you guys talking about?
Child 1: how terrible this dump is?!
Matthew: yup!
Yusif: Can’t believe I ended up here.
Child 1: I know…
Claudia: but what can we do, it isn’t like we can just leave…
Freeze
(Two boys run on stage from left, Yusif stops and sits down)
Yusif: get up, hurry we have to keep on going!
Matthew: yeah I know! I need to tie my shoe lace… (Gets up and then catches his breath)
Yusif: (looks around) I think we lost her! I can’t believe it! We really ran away!
Matthew: we did? That’s amazing!
Yusif: as long as we keep a lookout we might just get lucky, and stay away from there!
Matthew: All right then. How ‘bout we take shifts sleeping?
Yusif: that’s a good idea, you sleep first- you’re younger. I’ll wake you up later.
Matthew: sounds good to me… (Yawn)
Yusif: Just one more thing-
Matthew: yeah?
Yusif: If I don’t wake you up, or you don’t find me when you wake up… because they caught me… I want you to know that I wont tell on you and you’re safe out here, just stay away from cops and drugs… and be happy… don’t worry about me. Alright – never
(Matthew, Yusif and Claudia sitting on chairs, others sitting on the floor)
Matthew: Oh I wish my parents came and picked me up.
Child 2: Me too!
Claudia: We all want our folks back, and maybe someday, they will….
Yusif: Claudia, stop telling the littl’uns (points to kids on floor) fairy tales ok! It’s no use! We don’t have any family! This is a dump, where people drop of children they don’t want.
Yusif approaches the group of kids.
Matthew: We’ve been friends for a long time now but you’re about to cross the line with me. (Gets up) You’ve never been THIS jumpy before! And I’m only a year younger than you. I’m tired of you treating me like a kid, I can take care of myself (the two are now facing each other) like I did for the 9 years before I met you.
Child 1: Shhhhhhhh…Don’t fight, it reminds me off…
Yusif interrupts saying…
Yusif: Ok, ok! Fine… I’m sorry!
Claudia: (Children pout/cry) look what you’ve done… you’ve upset the kids! You’d better help me keep them quiet!
Matthew: here, I’ll play to! Claudia
Claudia: Thanks! Yusif… come over here!
(Play dolls/cars)
Margalit: (scream from off stage) get down here. NOW!
Yusif: I wonder what “The Witch” wants now?!
Matthew: I suppose we should go- it’ll be mad if we don’t.
Claudia: it’s just about time for lunch time … still, I doubt the foods gonna be any better today then it has been for the past 10 years that I’ve been here!
Matthew: come on everyone… (Sarcastic) lets get some healthy food!
The children exit stage….
Rearrange chairs
The children enter stage later…
Matthew is sits at the head of the table
Claudia: Are you sure you wanna sit THERE?
Margalit walks in furious about this and then she smashes his face into the table.
Margalit: Get to your seat NOW!
Matthew: But nobody is sitting here, so I wanted to.
Margalit: no means NO! Only important people get to sit at the head of the table, and you are NOT important any one!
She says this and drags Matthew across the table to his chair
Margalit: (Quieter but loud) that’s why you’re here…
Child 1: (whispers) that’s gotta hurt!
Child 3: Shhhhhhh!
Margalit: Here’s your (pauses)…food. Placing the breakfast in the bowls that are in front of the children
Yusif: I don’t want to eat this, it looks disgusting pushes the bowl away from him
Matthew, Child 2: I don’t want to eat it either! Matthew pushes his bowl in front of him
Margalit: (Angry) children if you don’t eat your food the will be no more until dinner time
Yusif: (stubborn) I don’t care
Yusif throws the bowl of food at Margalit
Margalit: That was a very, very silly move, now you have to do the dishes, and you get no food even if you wanted it. (Picks up the bow)l and places it on the table with an angry expression. All right brats…if you aren’t gonna eat the food then get outa my way!
Margalit points at yusif. You, stay here!
Matthew: Come on guys let’s go.
Child 2: aww (All children but Yusif exit the stage on the left)
Margalit: your one of the elder children here, so the little ones look up to you. I can’t have you disrespecting me in front of them. Listen to me! I can’t have you influencing them to be bad. YUSIF!
Margalit slaps yusif making him fall down.
Freeze… then rearrange chairs
Matthew in their sleeping room, Yusif walks in, limping
Yusif: Man I swear this room gets smaller every time we come back here!
Matthew: tell me about it!
Yusif: You know what? I wanna go back to the times when I was a kid and didn’t understand any thing…
Matthew laughs
Matthew: yeah, like why my folks never came back from vacation… those were the good days huh. Didn’t seem like it then though…
Yusif: one day…I’m gonna run away! Just, don’t tell anyone. Keep it in your head K? ‘Cause when I do I want you to, you know how a pilot has his right hand man?
Matthew: yeah…
Yusif: well, when I run away… I want you to be my right hand man…
Matthew: Defiantly! I’ll come with you!
Claudia and Child 1 enter the room and sits down with Yusif and Matthew
Yusif: hi with a sigh
Claudia: Hey, what you guys talking about?
Child 1: how terrible this dump is?!
Matthew: yup!
Yusif: Can’t believe I ended up here.
Child 1: I know…
Claudia: but what can we do, it isn’t like we can just leave…
Freeze
(Two boys run on stage from left, Yusif stops and sits down)
Yusif: get up, hurry we have to keep on going!
Matthew: yeah I know! I need to tie my shoe lace… (Gets up and then catches his breath)
Yusif: (looks around) I think we lost her! I can’t believe it! We really ran away!
Matthew: we did? That’s amazing!
Yusif: as long as we keep a lookout we might just get lucky, and stay away from there!
Matthew: All right then. How ‘bout we take shifts sleeping?
Yusif: that’s a good idea, you sleep first- you’re younger. I’ll wake you up later.
Matthew: sounds good to me… (Yawn)
Yusif: Just one more thing-
Matthew: yeah?
Yusif: If I don’t wake you up, or you don’t find me when you wake up… because they caught me… I want you to know that I wont tell on you and you’re safe out here, just stay away from cops and drugs… and be happy… don’t worry about me. Alright – never
Orphan Runnaway
Orphan Runnaway
A door knocking
Mom: Come in.
Kid: Ms…you locked the door again!
Mom: I’ll be right there... (Walks over and opens the door)...How was your day?
Kid: It was really good! I got a 10 on my spelling….
Mom: (Interrupts) Sure, sure whatever! That’s good, that what you kids do these days!?... I wouldn’t know!
Kid: Yeah, we also went over to the fifth graders, they’re so cool!
Mom: One day you’ll be a fifth grader too, then you’ll be outta my hair for good, hopefully. Just go do your homework or something, get out-of my way! I have to make you dinner, don’t I?
Kid: fine... (Skips of stage.)
Mom: I don’t know what we’re gonna do with all these bills! There’s not enough money to pay for them all! If they cut off the electricity, then we won’t be able to watch Survivor! And, it’s not like Katy is gonna be able to go to college, anyway. Otherwise, who’s gonna keep house for me? (Pause) I’d like to see Katy try and cook for the rest of us…but ha she can’t take that kind of responsibility. She’s just…a spoiled little baby, who has to have everything done for HER! (Pause) Ha…but I’m smart enough to go get a microwave meal…so I don’t have to do much! (Yells up the ‘stairs’) Food’s ready so get your scrawny, little butt down here! I’m not gonna wait for you much longer!
Kid: Coming!
Mom: (Pause) what’s bloody taking so long!?
Kid: What happened to the TV?
Mom: What the hell did you do?
Kid: Nothing, I didn’t do anything! I just turned it off.
Mom: It wasn’t supposed to be on in the first place! Only I can touch the TV! He bought it for ME! (Walks offstage to see the TV)
Mom: (off stage) Oh my god! You blew up the TV! (On stage) Your father and I bought one thing for ourselves, and you ruined it! You’re so useless; I don’t know why your father brought you into this family! That was rather stupid of him bringing an immature child into our sophisticated relationship! You and that father of yours don’t do anything right! That bloody idiot didn’t even buy me anything for Valentine’s Day! (Phone rings) Speak of the devil… (sweetly) Hello! (Leaves stage)
Kid: I did do my homework…I don’t know what she’s talking about! Useless...? I’m not useless! Well, at least…I don’t think so…I always do my homework! And I help her with the dishes, and I do my chores and everything! I didn’t mean to ruin the T.V, it just sort of happened. She can’t really think that my dad is stupid! He’s a successful salesman! He told me so! And you can’t be a salesman if you’re stupid. Can you?! Well, SHE’S the only one that’s stupid in THIS house! Dad had lots of girlfriends before this one…but she’s by far the worst, and stupidest! She gave me peanut butter for lunch today, again. I hate peanut butter! She should know that by now! I mean she’s been here for like 6 month already! All of my dads other friends were nice to me, and cared about me and didn’t give me peanut butter. And they all cared about my grades too… she wouldn’t care if I didn’t do my home work, but I did, I did it earlier. (Shows her homework).
(Mom comes back onstage)
Mom:
Kid: I did my homework, before I watched TV, see?
Mom: (into phone) hold on sweetie! (Shakes her head then talks with loud whisper) never mind, fine, whatever! Come with me, we’re gonna go by another TV.
Kid: So… there’s nothing wrong?
Mom: Of course something’s wrong, you ruined the bloody TV! (Sarcastically)But…noooooo, you’re just a stupid little kid, who never does anything wrong, eh? Well, I need a TV so I’m gonna buy me a new one!
Kid: uh, okay Ms…..
Mom: It’s Ms. Kate, and it will be Mrs. Once your father brings out that shiny diamond ring!
Mom: (mom sweetly, talks to dad on cell phone) I know we can’t afford it… (Pause) but, I have to! Without out Survivor, I won’t survive! (Pauses…lets dad talk)…It’s okay, don’t worry, I’ll by a small one, just big enough to see the hot host!
Kid: I’m hot; can I have an ice cream Ms…..?
Mom: No! Can’t you see I’m on the phone? (Sighs, sweet talking to dad) Your lovely little daughter is costing us too much! (Pause) That little midget is taking up too much room, too much space, and too much money! (Pause) … No, I can’t do that; I can’t get a job…that’s absurd!
Kid: is that daddy? Can I talk to him?!
Mom: (To kid) NO, he’s talking to me! (To dad) You’ve got that little midget that I’ve got to watch…! (Stare at kid during pause) We’d both be better off without her! (Pause) We need to talk when you get home! (Hangs up).
Mom: (To Katy) Here’s a lollipop; it should keep you quiet for a while! I’m just gonna go get a new TV, so just wait right here in the park, keep yourself busy and I’ll be right back.
Kid: okay Ms. Kate, I’ll stay right here playing.
Mom: (Pats Katy on the head) Yeah, just don’t bother anyone; they don’t need your edginess! (Mom goes offstage)
(Blackout)
Kid: (sits down, crosses her legs and puts her head on the floor)... (Wakes up)…dad? Daddy? Daddy? DAD, where are you!? Dad? It’s dark out here! Daddy?! I’m cold! Daddy! Where are you!? Daddy...? Daddy? (Stands up and starts looking around, and wanders offstage).
A door knocking
Mom: Come in.
Kid: Ms…you locked the door again!
Mom: I’ll be right there... (Walks over and opens the door)...How was your day?
Kid: It was really good! I got a 10 on my spelling….
Mom: (Interrupts) Sure, sure whatever! That’s good, that what you kids do these days!?... I wouldn’t know!
Kid: Yeah, we also went over to the fifth graders, they’re so cool!
Mom: One day you’ll be a fifth grader too, then you’ll be outta my hair for good, hopefully. Just go do your homework or something, get out-of my way! I have to make you dinner, don’t I?
Kid: fine... (Skips of stage.)
Mom: I don’t know what we’re gonna do with all these bills! There’s not enough money to pay for them all! If they cut off the electricity, then we won’t be able to watch Survivor! And, it’s not like Katy is gonna be able to go to college, anyway. Otherwise, who’s gonna keep house for me? (Pause) I’d like to see Katy try and cook for the rest of us…but ha she can’t take that kind of responsibility. She’s just…a spoiled little baby, who has to have everything done for HER! (Pause) Ha…but I’m smart enough to go get a microwave meal…so I don’t have to do much! (Yells up the ‘stairs’) Food’s ready so get your scrawny, little butt down here! I’m not gonna wait for you much longer!
Kid: Coming!
Mom: (Pause) what’s bloody taking so long!?
Kid: What happened to the TV?
Mom: What the hell did you do?
Kid: Nothing, I didn’t do anything! I just turned it off.
Mom: It wasn’t supposed to be on in the first place! Only I can touch the TV! He bought it for ME! (Walks offstage to see the TV)
Mom: (off stage) Oh my god! You blew up the TV! (On stage) Your father and I bought one thing for ourselves, and you ruined it! You’re so useless; I don’t know why your father brought you into this family! That was rather stupid of him bringing an immature child into our sophisticated relationship! You and that father of yours don’t do anything right! That bloody idiot didn’t even buy me anything for Valentine’s Day! (Phone rings) Speak of the devil… (sweetly) Hello! (Leaves stage)
Kid: I did do my homework…I don’t know what she’s talking about! Useless...? I’m not useless! Well, at least…I don’t think so…I always do my homework! And I help her with the dishes, and I do my chores and everything! I didn’t mean to ruin the T.V, it just sort of happened. She can’t really think that my dad is stupid! He’s a successful salesman! He told me so! And you can’t be a salesman if you’re stupid. Can you?! Well, SHE’S the only one that’s stupid in THIS house! Dad had lots of girlfriends before this one…but she’s by far the worst, and stupidest! She gave me peanut butter for lunch today, again. I hate peanut butter! She should know that by now! I mean she’s been here for like 6 month already! All of my dads other friends were nice to me, and cared about me and didn’t give me peanut butter. And they all cared about my grades too… she wouldn’t care if I didn’t do my home work, but I did, I did it earlier. (Shows her homework).
(Mom comes back onstage)
Mom:
Kid: I did my homework, before I watched TV, see?
Mom: (into phone) hold on sweetie! (Shakes her head then talks with loud whisper) never mind, fine, whatever! Come with me, we’re gonna go by another TV.
Kid: So… there’s nothing wrong?
Mom: Of course something’s wrong, you ruined the bloody TV! (Sarcastically)But…noooooo, you’re just a stupid little kid, who never does anything wrong, eh? Well, I need a TV so I’m gonna buy me a new one!
Kid: uh, okay Ms…..
Mom: It’s Ms. Kate, and it will be Mrs. Once your father brings out that shiny diamond ring!
Mom: (mom sweetly, talks to dad on cell phone) I know we can’t afford it… (Pause) but, I have to! Without out Survivor, I won’t survive! (Pauses…lets dad talk)…It’s okay, don’t worry, I’ll by a small one, just big enough to see the hot host!
Kid: I’m hot; can I have an ice cream Ms…..?
Mom: No! Can’t you see I’m on the phone? (Sighs, sweet talking to dad) Your lovely little daughter is costing us too much! (Pause) That little midget is taking up too much room, too much space, and too much money! (Pause) … No, I can’t do that; I can’t get a job…that’s absurd!
Kid: is that daddy? Can I talk to him?!
Mom: (To kid) NO, he’s talking to me! (To dad) You’ve got that little midget that I’ve got to watch…! (Stare at kid during pause) We’d both be better off without her! (Pause) We need to talk when you get home! (Hangs up).
Mom: (To Katy) Here’s a lollipop; it should keep you quiet for a while! I’m just gonna go get a new TV, so just wait right here in the park, keep yourself busy and I’ll be right back.
Kid: okay Ms. Kate, I’ll stay right here playing.
Mom: (Pats Katy on the head) Yeah, just don’t bother anyone; they don’t need your edginess! (Mom goes offstage)
(Blackout)
Kid: (sits down, crosses her legs and puts her head on the floor)... (Wakes up)…dad? Daddy? Daddy? DAD, where are you!? Dad? It’s dark out here! Daddy?! I’m cold! Daddy! Where are you!? Daddy...? Daddy? (Stands up and starts looking around, and wanders offstage).
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Script Preparation/Evaluating
Over the week we mainly worked on editing our scripts. My main group was the child soldier group, but I think everything is under control. During class today, we began planning our 'beginning' sequence, in which all the "street children" are coming around the garbage can fires. This is a really important sequence, because in it, we describe what it's like to be a street child and words to describe street children. It's the beginning of the play, so the audience will have a big impression based on the opening scene. It was very professional and I think that Ms. Tickle and anyone else who planned that opening sequence spent a lot of time planning it out. Rehearsing the play will be a long journey, but the end product will be satifying.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
In this double period, our class split up into groups, so that some of us were working on blocking and scripting, while some of the other people were writing on the blog. I worked mainly with my AIDS Orphan group, and we got a fair bit of work done, although it was pretty difficult at times, becuase our main character was alos involved in another group, so alot of the time we had to do work without him. Some of us also helped the child soldier gruop as extras, including me. It was fun, because there was not alot of pressure on any of us, because we were extremely minor characters, that will probably only appear once in the entire part of the child soldier play.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
26/02/2008
Today, different groups had different tasks, for some it was to performing the scripts, for others it was to finishing writing their scripts and edit them. However there were some groups that still had to edit their scripts because they did not make any sense and were performed at very low standards. People were not concentrated on their work and most of them were laughing during the rehearsal. Through out the lesson I have been working on my blog entries – reflection of today’s lesson. I posted 2 posts including this one and used the given time proficiently.
Seyidov Kenan Feedback
The script that we were working on last lesson is not ready for a final performance yet. There were many mistakes and most of it did not make sense. Also the script does not have the ending scene; it stops in the middle of performance. Our group edited the script and added different lines that fixed the script. However we did not finish doing it.
I think that we used our time proficiently; we fixed the script, performed the play 4 times and edited some of the lines. It was hard to perform it, so we lost most of the time for changing and adapting the script. However the second period of the lesson we got tired and were not as concentrated as we were at the first period. The reason that problem occurred was the fact that we were tired.
I hope that for the rest of the drama term we are going to use the given time proficiently to fix the script and perform it at the high standards.
I think that we used our time proficiently; we fixed the script, performed the play 4 times and edited some of the lines. It was hard to perform it, so we lost most of the time for changing and adapting the script. However the second period of the lesson we got tired and were not as concentrated as we were at the first period. The reason that problem occurred was the fact that we were tired.
I hope that for the rest of the drama term we are going to use the given time proficiently to fix the script and perform it at the high standards.
Reflection
today in drama, we had practiced our child soldier play today, because we didnt have many extras we could not practice the opening scene so instead we had practiced the other scene which i think that we did quite well because this was the original scene that we had improvised. we still needed to have an authoritive figure so we would be all focused.
Evaluation
Today in Drama we were rehearsing our plays. I'm find it easier writing the script than i do actually acting it. I don't think our group is as focused as it could be. We have our first two seasons but still need to do the last two. I think our biggest problem is listening to each other, because everyone is always talking at the same time. Which makes it really hard to practice because everyone is thinking of different things. But at the end of today's class we decided that Andra could be leader and direct the play because he seemed to have really good ideas and know exactly what he was doing. It is also hard practicing our play because we need a lot of extras, but we kind of worked that out at the end of today's class when everyone got together and we got the extras we needed. We just need some more time to practice and i think our play will be really good.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
feedback
I think the script was something that was magical or something from a movie. We had gotten some of the elements of the script from movies. One heavy contributor was Blood Diamond which also includes child soldiers. The script also has elements that make it culturally open and not associated with one culture or country. I think that people might think though that it’s set in Africa because of the names that we used.
I think that we used our time proficiently at most times. We read the script as a group together several times to make sure it was fluent and well made as well as creative. We did have problems though in the 2nd half of the lesson when we were practicing it with action. We had extras that weren’t committed as well as no one really knew who played who and what to do.
In today’s lesson I think that we will be very efficient and well practiced. I think that we will be able to practice it today in the full double lesson without distractions. It will be hard though to make it work because we need extras and all of the extras just fool around the entire time which makes it impossible to make it work.
I think that we used our time proficiently at most times. We read the script as a group together several times to make sure it was fluent and well made as well as creative. We did have problems though in the 2nd half of the lesson when we were practicing it with action. We had extras that weren’t committed as well as no one really knew who played who and what to do.
In today’s lesson I think that we will be very efficient and well practiced. I think that we will be able to practice it today in the full double lesson without distractions. It will be hard though to make it work because we need extras and all of the extras just fool around the entire time which makes it impossible to make it work.
Riyad Mamedyarov Feedback
I think the script was something that was magical or something from a movie. We had gotten some of the elements of the script from movies. One heavy contributor was Blood Diamond which also includes child soldiers. The script also has elements that make it culturally open and not associated with one culture or country. I think that people might think though that it’s set in Africa because of the names that we used.
I think that we used our time proficiently at most times. We read the script as a group together several times to make sure it was fluent and well made as well as creative. We did have problems though in the 2nd half of the lesson when we were practicing it with action. We had extras that weren’t committed as well as no one really knew who played who and what to do.
In today’s lesson I think that we will be very efficient and well practiced. I think that we will be able to practice it today in the full double lesson without distractions. It will be hard though to make it work because we need extras and all of the extras just fool around the entire time which makes it impossible to make it work.
I think that we used our time proficiently at most times. We read the script as a group together several times to make sure it was fluent and well made as well as creative. We did have problems though in the 2nd half of the lesson when we were practicing it with action. We had extras that weren’t committed as well as no one really knew who played who and what to do.
In today’s lesson I think that we will be very efficient and well practiced. I think that we will be able to practice it today in the full double lesson without distractions. It will be hard though to make it work because we need extras and all of the extras just fool around the entire time which makes it impossible to make it work.
Evalution Of Last Class
I really liked the script because i thought it really represented our 'Child Soldier' role really well. Some moments there was battle and some really intense moments. Its also not all about shooting which is the part that i really like. I just think that we need to include more instructions on what to do on the script papers, because at some points it was very confusing. I also think that some characters should have more lines because two of the characters only have one line which i dont think is very fair.
I dont think we used our time the best that we could. The group didnt really listen to each other which ment that a lot of people were talking at the same time. We also had difficulties finding 'extra' characters to play the roles that we did not have enough people to act out. We quite a lot of extra people to fill in roles. Next class i hope we get a lot more done and we need to start acting out a lot more of it, and if we dont have enough 'extras' some people will just have to play two roles until we find some more people.
I dont think we used our time the best that we could. The group didnt really listen to each other which ment that a lot of people were talking at the same time. We also had difficulties finding 'extra' characters to play the roles that we did not have enough people to act out. We quite a lot of extra people to fill in roles. Next class i hope we get a lot more done and we need to start acting out a lot more of it, and if we dont have enough 'extras' some people will just have to play two roles until we find some more people.
Aids Orphans
At the beginnig of the lesson we had only the beginning of our script typed and printed, so we continued it. It wasnt that easy, because all of us had different opinions what to write. At first we decided that brother leaves his sisters by saying them a sad good-bye. Yusif said that it is not realistic and that he is not going to act. We had to change everything. Finally we decided that brother leaves his siters at night. I think that this way is more realistic than the first one. We tried to act what we wrote but there were lots of people that were distracting us. It is much easier to write script after you do some improvisation. It gives some new ideas.
Our group was really bad organized. Well... It wasnt organized at all. We didnt work on our script a lot. Most of the time we were talking with other groups and helping them or disscussing differnt topics that had nothing to do with AID's orphans. Well we tried to act, but it didnt work very well. There are lots of things that we could have done to improve our organization.
Our group was really bad organized. Well... It wasnt organized at all. We didnt work on our script a lot. Most of the time we were talking with other groups and helping them or disscussing differnt topics that had nothing to do with AID's orphans. Well we tried to act, but it didnt work very well. There are lots of things that we could have done to improve our organization.
Aids Orphan
Our group made many changes to the original script. Like every other rough copy this script also had mistakes so we started fixing those mistakes and adding in some feeling. Usually when a person just sits in a room and types a script the script comes out to be very boring. But if the group starts improvising and noting some lines that might be useful really helps the whole process of making the script interesting. One of the main things we added to our script was the ending of the scene where the landlord asks for the rent and how the main character has to say goodbye to his little sisters and leave them with his aunt. During then class we did not improvise much but we combined efforts and made our script much more powerful and influential on the audience.
There was a time problem in our group because in the first 45 minutes all of the group was a awake ready to contribute but the last 20 minutes of the class just went to waste and felt like the longest 20 minutes of my life. Another time problem was that we were not organized at all. We spent all our time fixing our scripts but none of the time was taken to improvise except maybe 15 minutes of the double lesson.
This time my group and I have to be a lot more organized and I do not think that there is an actual order we should do things in. But between the double classes we should have maybe a short break to play a game or even go to the bathroom. Then I believe that the class will come back ready to work. The reason why I don’t think that we should do everything in order is because we can improvise and make additions to the script and also block at the same time. Also every group needs a leader. On Tuesdays lesson people were taking responsibilities but this did not mean that they were assigned leaders of the group. These were the people who wrote the scripts and knew what to do and they were getting frustrated having to tell everybody what to do.
Yusif
There was a time problem in our group because in the first 45 minutes all of the group was a awake ready to contribute but the last 20 minutes of the class just went to waste and felt like the longest 20 minutes of my life. Another time problem was that we were not organized at all. We spent all our time fixing our scripts but none of the time was taken to improvise except maybe 15 minutes of the double lesson.
This time my group and I have to be a lot more organized and I do not think that there is an actual order we should do things in. But between the double classes we should have maybe a short break to play a game or even go to the bathroom. Then I believe that the class will come back ready to work. The reason why I don’t think that we should do everything in order is because we can improvise and make additions to the script and also block at the same time. Also every group needs a leader. On Tuesdays lesson people were taking responsibilities but this did not mean that they were assigned leaders of the group. These were the people who wrote the scripts and knew what to do and they were getting frustrated having to tell everybody what to do.
Yusif
Child Soulja Script
The Script that was produced fitted the time frame very well. The whole script lasted around 10-12 minutes. The script was detailed, including important information such as the actions, expressions; it introduced each scene with some background information. However, the script needed to be clearer in terms of the storyline because when it came to the point where the group had to perform the script, some of the people were confused about how the story was supposed to develop.
The script could have been improved in some ways. The script was detailed but the Background info... that was included in the story could have been written more clearly, explaining how the story develops, and how the characters enter the scene.
The Lesson time we had could have been better used. During the double session, we did get some work done. For example we were able to set the amount of extras we needed and who would play as the characters in the script. But, we should have been more organized when we were acting out the script. There wasn't enough focus and we couldn't properly act out the script, we needed to organize the setting and scenes better, and there also weren’t enough actors to fill all the roles. So basically we all needed to get more organized and focused, use our time more wisely.
The script could have been improved in some ways. The script was detailed but the Background info... that was included in the story could have been written more clearly, explaining how the story develops, and how the characters enter the scene.
The Lesson time we had could have been better used. During the double session, we did get some work done. For example we were able to set the amount of extras we needed and who would play as the characters in the script. But, we should have been more organized when we were acting out the script. There wasn't enough focus and we couldn't properly act out the script, we needed to organize the setting and scenes better, and there also weren’t enough actors to fill all the roles. So basically we all needed to get more organized and focused, use our time more wisely.
Script Practice
Our script had a lot to work on and with. we had the idea and some things needed to have more added to them to make them sound better and make more sense. by acting the script it was a lot easier to see what we needed to change and add. we also needed to come up with a better ending part but we didnt get to there.we got some ideas but it was hard to think of more to add that would end the scene before the running away. it think we used out time quite well. we had more then 3 practices of the script and editted the whole thing. we also started typing the edited parts up. sometimes we did get a little distracted but we still did quite a bit of work on the script. Next class i think it would be good if we could do the same thing as we did this time. it was good to read through the script the first time and then try it out. this way it was easier to see what needed to be changed or added to.
Script Feedback
What feedback was there on the script?
What way could we have bettter used our time?
After acting out our script, we recieved some feedback on how to make it better. One such feedback was that our script was not as realistic as it could be. This scene was when our main character was leaving his sisters. We decided that the brother would leave the children without telling them because it seemed more realistic. I think we could have better used our time by doing much more acting rather than talking about the script because then we could have edited the script better. I think we also should have been much more focused and this will help us to achieve more in the next lesson.
What way could we have bettter used our time?
After acting out our script, we recieved some feedback on how to make it better. One such feedback was that our script was not as realistic as it could be. This scene was when our main character was leaving his sisters. We decided that the brother would leave the children without telling them because it seemed more realistic. I think we could have better used our time by doing much more acting rather than talking about the script because then we could have edited the script better. I think we also should have been much more focused and this will help us to achieve more in the next lesson.
Script of AIDS Orphan group
1. The feed back given to me from my group because I was one of the scripters was useful because the script really needed work. We needed to include more because we were really lacking in the full plot because it seemed like we needed more detail on how AIDS affected the childrens life. Also I think we needed an ending because it just kinda ends like after a one of the scenes and there is no closure or any ending really. We did more work on it so that it seemed more complete. This was good for our script.
2. I think our group would have worked more productively if we had been more focused at the end because our group just kinda disintagrated with people going and talking or helping other groups rather than staying focused. Also we need to work more in general because often times we got off track talking about other things. We also sat around not doing anything for a long time which didn't work very well. There are alot of things we could have done for our group to be more productive.
2. I think our group would have worked more productively if we had been more focused at the end because our group just kinda disintagrated with people going and talking or helping other groups rather than staying focused. Also we need to work more in general because often times we got off track talking about other things. We also sat around not doing anything for a long time which didn't work very well. There are alot of things we could have done for our group to be more productive.
Scripting AIDS Orphan
i think that my group worked well together in our class today. We got alot done, including some needed work on the script. We are almost done wth the script, and should soon be able to practice all of it together. Today we practiced the part that we already had scripted, and added a few improvments to it, and also added in extra characters in order to make sure that every one in our group had a meaningful part. I thought that we also worked quite productivley, doind a lot of work in a short amount of time, and we stayed focused. Next lesson, i will work with my partner on the Abandoned script. We will most likely work on voice projection, then we will finish one of the monolouges and practice the entire play all in one go.
scripting 101
our first use of the scrpit for the orpahn runaway, could have gone much better...
we did well scriptwise and we changed alot of things... like some of the lines and, order of events. thene again we could have accoplished much more if we had cooperatied and not wasted so much time arguing and just mucking about. i think that next week we should focus on the scenes that we didn't manage to work on... the actual run away, and begining of the childs street life. this part has not yet been scripted (and i am not one of the script writers of this scene) but i think that i will work on this part over the weekend, in time for next weeks class.
Tomorow my partner and i will work on the Abandond scene. during the first half we will work on blocking and voise projection. then in the second half we decided to work on scripting the kid's monologs as well as the ending to our scene.
thats it untill next time...
we did well scriptwise and we changed alot of things... like some of the lines and, order of events. thene again we could have accoplished much more if we had cooperatied and not wasted so much time arguing and just mucking about. i think that next week we should focus on the scenes that we didn't manage to work on... the actual run away, and begining of the childs street life. this part has not yet been scripted (and i am not one of the script writers of this scene) but i think that i will work on this part over the weekend, in time for next weeks class.
Tomorow my partner and i will work on the Abandond scene. during the first half we will work on blocking and voise projection. then in the second half we decided to work on scripting the kid's monologs as well as the ending to our scene.
thats it untill next time...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Evaluating the Script
In the 'child soldier' group, just one group member wrote the rough draft of our script. In my opinion, this script was well written and showed many different things that can happen while living as a child soldier. The script included battle scenes, meaningful moments between two or three characters and the script also had emotion. We should add more lines for some characters who don't have and speaking parts at all, and maybe take away some speaking parts from characters who talk the whole time (just to make it fair).
In class we didn't exactly use the time to it's full potential. We got distracted often and had trouble finding others who could fill in as 'extras'. Still, we made some progress today by getting the scripts and casting the main characters (the people in our child soldier group).
We will definitely run through the whole script (reading and acting) next time we get together as a group, I hope.
In class we didn't exactly use the time to it's full potential. We got distracted often and had trouble finding others who could fill in as 'extras'. Still, we made some progress today by getting the scripts and casting the main characters (the people in our child soldier group).
We will definitely run through the whole script (reading and acting) next time we get together as a group, I hope.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
UN Children's Rights
In class we presented the 45 childrens rights made by the UN in an extremely interesting way. It ws fun hearing all the other people presenting methods of their rights. We did rap and blues to present our rights and it turned out to be very funny and thrilling to make.
soundscapes
THE SOUND SCAPES THAT WE DID WERE INTERESTNG AND DIFFRENT ACTING STYLE THAT YOU WOULD DO FROM NORMAL AND IT WE ALL SEMMED TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS EASILY BUT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF LAUGHS THAT I COULD NOT CONTROL AND OTHERS.even though there was no sound it was very visual it was kind of lke miming in a strange way but with out the serious enthusiasm but i kind of enjoyed it. but wat i mostly like was that last lesson with our child abuse story were we acted out.
Street Children
Street Children World Statistics:
53,000 Children are subjected to homicide every year (Murdered)
Up to 80% of children suffer physical abuse in their home. This seems like rather a lot but I suppose in some parts of America and other developed countries children are stilll abused. I think that child abuse in developing countries is not uncommon, perhaps because there government has not proposed lows or enforces them.
120,000,000 million girls are subjected to rape or other sexual crimes.
In 2004, 218,000,000 children were subjected to child labour. I dont think that chiild labour is common in developed countries but common in 3rd world countries creating products for richer countries
My Coment
In the last class that we had we used a technique called soudscaping. It is when you and/or a group of people each have a different sound that you can just repeat over and over again when you are told to. We soudscaped the Wild West. I made the sound of a horse running.
Yes, i think it is possible to make a skit and play without extreme movement and words. I think there would still need to be a bit of movement. I dont think a lot of people would choose to go and watch a soundscape rather than a play. But i think you could still create an image through sound. The noises that are being used to create a soudscape would have to be very clear so that it is easier for the viwer(s) to imagine what is happening in the story that is trying to be told. I enjoyed doing this exerise because you can create your own image of what is going on through the sounds that you can hear.
Yes, i think it is possible to make a skit and play without extreme movement and words. I think there would still need to be a bit of movement. I dont think a lot of people would choose to go and watch a soundscape rather than a play. But i think you could still create an image through sound. The noises that are being used to create a soudscape would have to be very clear so that it is easier for the viwer(s) to imagine what is happening in the story that is trying to be told. I enjoyed doing this exerise because you can create your own image of what is going on through the sounds that you can hear.
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Our task was to imagine the many different sounds that could be heard in a Wild West setting. Then everyone had to create their own sound. The class came up with some creative sounds of explosions, gun shots, horses galloping and so on.
These sounds helped to create effective drama, as it gave us a good understanding of the setting and Wild West theme. I also found it easy to use the sounds and picture in my head what was going on at the time. For example, I could imagine how horses would gallop while the people were shooting in the air using their guns as different sounds were made.
However, to use only sounds to create drama would be extremely hard because you have to be able to create the sounds so that the audience will be able to understand what is going on in a performance. Also unless you make the sounds interesting, the drama won’t be interesting. With dialogue, it is a lot easier to perform while keeping the audience entertained.
These sounds helped to create effective drama, as it gave us a good understanding of the setting and Wild West theme. I also found it easy to use the sounds and picture in my head what was going on at the time. For example, I could imagine how horses would gallop while the people were shooting in the air using their guns as different sounds were made.
However, to use only sounds to create drama would be extremely hard because you have to be able to create the sounds so that the audience will be able to understand what is going on in a performance. Also unless you make the sounds interesting, the drama won’t be interesting. With dialogue, it is a lot easier to perform while keeping the audience entertained.
My Reflection of the Soundscapes
i thought that creating soundscapes in drama was a unique and interesting way to create an atmosphere. At first it was sort of hard to create a succesful soundscape because everyone got confused and forgot their sounds, or they didn't know what the different signals that ms. tickle gave us, but after the first couple of tries it generally got better. i think that, although a soundscape is a unique, and sometimes useful way to introdue a piece of drama, or a play, etc. i don't think that it can replace drama as an art yet. this is mainly because it would be very hard and, potentially useless, to create a peformance that totally consisted of gunshots, and cowboys yelling random things at the audiance. It would only further confuse the audiance in general. Although soundscapes might be a good warm-up practice, etc. it should not be used in the actual performance!!!!!
Sounds
During class we did an exercise which was based on making a setting seem more interesting. To participate in this exercise every member of the class had to choose a sound they would have to choose a sound which suits the setting they are in. Our first setting chosen was the Wild West and the sounds made the setting seem cheesy but really well organized. I personally think that if this exercise is improvised it sounds better than when it is actually practiced.
Our second goal was to create a town full of noise. We had to choose 2 noises. One made by our monologue character and one made by the setting in this case the town and it people. This exercise worked well and it really made our little town seem like a big city.
-Yusif
Our second goal was to create a town full of noise. We had to choose 2 noises. One made by our monologue character and one made by the setting in this case the town and it people. This exercise worked well and it really made our little town seem like a big city.
-Yusif
Sound Scaping
I thought that the sound scaping was not very effective because when you had people saying things like YeeHa and just repeating it over and over it sounded both fake and dumb. Also I personally don't believe that there was that many gunshots in the wild west. It did create effective drama because some sounds such as the wind blowing gave it a real feel of the desert and a not busy town but that errie kind of nice effect was ruined when someone yelled something or shot a gun. I dont believe it will be easy to make a drama performance that keeps the audience captivated without a story or some sort of dialogue that isnt YeeHa or Howdy Y'all.
Soundscapes
I believe that soundscapes are a form of drama. In my opinion, soundscapes are a lot of different sounds that are combined in different orders to create a story. In class, we were split into two groups and had to make different sounds in a logical order to make a story. I think the main idea of a soundscape is to create a story, using sound, that an audience can see with their eyes closed. If the soundscape is realistic and is in an order that makes sense, then the audience can picture what is going on around them. It is kind of like a movie in which you have to use your imagination.
ways to create drama
- for me Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in perfomance. In the last lesson we learn that the drama can be often conbined with sounds that we made and also with imagination. we craete effective drama when we imaginated that we were cowboys or cowgirls and we did some sounds relatives at these characters. We can have Drama without dialogue because we can do some others signs and use the imagination or other ways to communicate with the other people and also the drama can be without story becuase we can use the imgination and do a history without think before to do it we can do drama on the rigth moment just with imagination .
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Soundscapes
Comment on our use of soundscapes last lesson. In what ways did they create effective drama? Is it possible to have drama without a 'story' and without dialogue?
UNICEF photo essay
I think that UNICEF decided to do an essay in this way because it is more realistic. You actually see what the life of these children is. You can feel their pain, their happiness. When you read an essay you usually get bored. Sure, you can imagine everything. Video essays have bigger effect on people. They make you think about these children.
I think UNICEF wanted to show that not everywhere rights of children are respected. UNICEF shiows the situations that lots od children are in now. UNICEF wanted us to know that every child has many rights, even if he is poor country, even if he is not like others. UNICEF wanted us to know that all children are equal. UNICEF shows the situations that children are in now.
I think that our play can also have somtehing like that. We can show a lot of different childen in it. A lot of children that don't know their rights.
I think UNICEF wanted to show that not everywhere rights of children are respected. UNICEF shiows the situations that lots od children are in now. UNICEF wanted us to know that every child has many rights, even if he is poor country, even if he is not like others. UNICEF wanted us to know that all children are equal. UNICEF shows the situations that children are in now.
I think that our play can also have somtehing like that. We can show a lot of different childen in it. A lot of children that don't know their rights.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
UNICEF Photo essay
I feel they chose to show it this way because it helps the viewer to understand the meaning more. it also makes the presentation more interesting to look at, and therefore learn about. By seeing pictures it backs up the point that they make in their writing, and then makes us feel stronger towards the children. For me this is a lot more effective then a word essay, because words a just words, but pictures show that the problem is actually there.
UNICEF is trying to show us that there a rules, and laws for the way children should b treated, but these rules and laws are not always followed. that they are followed less then more, sometimes broken not by choice, or on purpose.
Maybe when we do our presentation we could somehow include pictures, to show that what we are saying is actually true. most people know it is true, but also pictures will get to them quicker then words.
UNICEF is trying to show us that there a rules, and laws for the way children should b treated, but these rules and laws are not always followed. that they are followed less then more, sometimes broken not by choice, or on purpose.
Maybe when we do our presentation we could somehow include pictures, to show that what we are saying is actually true. most people know it is true, but also pictures will get to them quicker then words.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
UNICEF Photo Essay
The photo essay that UNICEF produced was, in my opinion, more powerful than a word essay. When reading an article about child rights or child abuse, some people think “well, they’re just like the other hundreds of thousands of children who are suffering everywhere in the world”. But when you see the pictures of the children and how and where they are living, you realize that they aren’t just like “the other hundreds of thousands of children”. The people in the pictures are living like that all the time. They aren’t acting or exaggerating because there’s a photographer in front of them. The children in the photo essay are very realistic and they UNICEF workers are showing the conditions and situations that the children are in right now. They want the people of the world to know that by helping suffering children, they can feel good about themselves, because they are making a needed difference. In our drama work, if we know our characters’ lives really well, then we will be a lot better at acting as that character.
UNICEF Answers to photos
I think UNICEF chose to show the rights in this way because when you see it you feel very bad for the children and thier life and lack of a family. Also it is not boring because you can see thier pain and how they feel and everything. I think it is much more effective than a word essay because you can see that they are real and with a word essay you can imagin them and how they feel but it is so much different to actually see them. UNICEF is trying to say that many people need to take a more active role in the help of street children and that they are suffering all over the world and thier life is very hard. I think that the best thing to do is be visual so that the audience can see the street childrens pain and how they suffer. Also I think it was good that they had lots of different examples that they used and we should do that to.
try to live as the child in the streets
Today we were in the acting class that for me is very interesting because i can learn more and perfume my monologue. For me was a little bit difficult to be all the time in my character and don't laugh of the others but is very interesting to try this.
i didn't do it like my monologue because i change my character activities because in the monologue i get bottles and i did some autistics things ...But i didn't do it in class because we don't had bottles and the time was very quickly for me ..But this classes of exercises help me to try to improvise and improve myself.
i didn't do it like my monologue because i change my character activities because in the monologue i get bottles and i did some autistics things ...But i didn't do it in class because we don't had bottles and the time was very quickly for me ..But this classes of exercises help me to try to improvise and improve myself.
Street child role play
It was kind of hard to stay in role sometimes. For example when me and Kenan started fighting over a box and a stolen coat first i stabbed Kenan but later when he beat me up and took the stuff I started laughing.
The way I avoided laughing was by leaving the are, controlling my breathing, and stopping making eye contact with the person who made me smile. This worked very well and stopped me from messing up. Staying in role otherwise was very easy. But I discovered something else about my character. For example in role play he was stealing and robbing when in my monologue he only sells drus and has a calm relation whith his boss who he pays 93% of his earnings for a night. He is a wild character and is not the hiding type. I made my character more hardcore in the role play.
The way I avoided laughing was by leaving the are, controlling my breathing, and stopping making eye contact with the person who made me smile. This worked very well and stopped me from messing up. Staying in role otherwise was very easy. But I discovered something else about my character. For example in role play he was stealing and robbing when in my monologue he only sells drus and has a calm relation whith his boss who he pays 93% of his earnings for a night. He is a wild character and is not the hiding type. I made my character more hardcore in the role play.
Street child play
I really liked this activity. There were some moments when I felt as I am a street child for real. I had a task of this day. My day's mission as a street child was to build a bed for my self. I was stealing boxes from others. I was protecting "my home" from others. When I asked for money too. I was singing strange song. When I was singing this song for others "street children" they usually went laughing. It was a little bit distresstful for me. A the end of the day I was happy that I completed my mission. When I was acting a street child I understood that life of street child is really hard. Child have to protect his home, find some food, get some money. My character was a bit different from others. I wasn't involved in any serious relationships with other street children. I was all by my self. There were only me and my street. The monologue that we did before helped me a lot to stay in my role. I think that after this activity I know my character much better.
Answers to UNICEF Essay Questions
i think that UNICEF chose to show child rights in this way, because a photo essay is a much better way to communicate thing than a written essay, at least in my opinion. I think this because a photo essay lets you see the real conditions that the children are living in, and lets you see the children that they are talking about, which makes you feel alot more sympathy for them, because you can actually see their faces, instead of just reading their names, which makes them seem much more realistic to me.
i think that what UNICEF is trying to communicate to us through this photo essay, is that these children and their circumstances are very real, and should not be something that we read about in a newspaper or a magazine, say how sad it is, and then forget all about them. they want them to stay in our minds, so that we can think of ways to help them and make their lives better.
i think that we could apply this tequniche to our drama role play of street children by trying to place our characters in more realistic, and real-life circumsatnces, so that both the actor and the audiance can more easily see what these kids really live like.
i think that what UNICEF is trying to communicate to us through this photo essay, is that these children and their circumstances are very real, and should not be something that we read about in a newspaper or a magazine, say how sad it is, and then forget all about them. they want them to stay in our minds, so that we can think of ways to help them and make their lives better.
i think that we could apply this tequniche to our drama role play of street children by trying to place our characters in more realistic, and real-life circumsatnces, so that both the actor and the audiance can more easily see what these kids really live like.
Comment on the UNICEF article/video
I thought that the UNICEF video/article was really good. It stated the rights of children around the world. The statement that i agreed with most is the one that said every child should be born and straight away be given the right to a nationalty a name and to preserve his or her identity. This is common sense on what should happen when a child is born. I think it would be very wrong if this did not happen because its not fair on the child then or when he/she is older. And when they are that young they cant do anything about it, so it has to be a law that this right will be given to every child when they are born.
Acting as a Street Child...
At first when we started building our houses, I started laughing because it actually looked funny for us, but it is not for the street children who are starving every day and can't find a place to stay, and live in... After we woke up, it was hard for me to act, while Ms. Tickle was counting, I was planning what to do, so, at the beginning all of my actions were planned. Later, because of not having enough time to actually think about my actions, i started improvising. In a moment I realized that it was easier for me to improvise + because of me knowing so much about street children, i did know what my next logical step is going to be... I think that I did well, and I’d like to act as a street child again to gain more experience...
Role Play
Today's exercise was to actually, perform as the street child character you chose. The task was to keep in role, throughout the different times of your characters day, in the morning, afternoon, evening and at night. This exercise for me was fun and educational because as I was staying in my character, I found that while I was interacting with the other people and characters, it was hard to keep in focus and to improvise so that I would be doing something. I kept trying to think of how my character would react to different situations, if he would be an aggressive person or a kind and sharing person. It was also interesting to see what the other characters were like and how they reacted to different situations. Some characters were thieves, others were beggars and some sold drugs to get money. I think that this exercise helped everyone develop their characters a lot more.
Trust Exercise
Since i couldnt figure out how to post things I will post mine now. The trust exercises were hard. The first one where you had to rely completely on your partner because your eyes are close and they are directing you was much more difficult for me. My partner did well and I didnt run into anything which made me more confident on the second exercise where we had to fall at random times so our partners could catch us. Jackie and Riyad did well and alway caught me but occationally I decide to inform them about when I was going to fall so that they had a little bit of warning.
Steet child role play
Playing the role of a street child was actually quite interesting. Some points of the piece it felt like i was learning more about the life of the child i was playing. the child that i was playing was more of a wimp then the rest of the street children, by not attacking the other people as much, unless it was a means to survive. it was good because the interactions between the street children also helped me to add on to the personality of my character. at the end of the day i ended up worse then i had begun, and when we were looking back it was interesting to see what had happened. most of the events were realistic, apart from the part where i had to murder someone for 10 dollars :).. This probably wouldn't really happen, unless matters were very drastic. At the end i felt like i knew quite a bit about my character. The character that i made was different to the character in my monologue.
My Reaction to the UNICEF Photo Essays
these unicef photo essays really made me think about how privlilged i am to have a house, food, and and a good education. it could have just as easily been me that was born to a poverty stricken family in the middle of the Sudan, in the Drafur genocide, but it wasn't. any of these abused and deprived children could have just as easliy been born in my place, and they could have probably made good use of their position. it really does make me sad to think about how we worry about how people will percieve us, our how good a grade we are going to get on our next math investigation, when kids, even in this country are instead worrying about how they will get food, our if certain members of their families will survive if they don't get proper medical teatment. These are things that most of us never eevn give a single thought to.
Street Child In Role Activity
i thought that the exercise that we did today in class, was very useful in helping me to develope my character. Part of this is because you were able to sort of, in a way, experiance what a day in the life of an average street child would be, and you did not have to rely on research and statistics and such to help you understand your cahracter.
street child experience
in the other class on tuesday we presented our monolougue on street children. now today we did an exerscie on street children and our character on how you would live in the streets. it was because all the girls in this exercie were helping others and establishing relationships and giving there stuff away. while all the boys were nicking stuff and posestions and have fights they also drug runs and pickpocketing incidents. when we played this game it seemed very realstic and it put you in there shoes and you feel as if it is real and once it gets queiter you realize how lucky you are that you arent in that position and that wat would happen if you were. it feels really fun to prentend to do this and that it is a really good exersice to do and it make you look in the future.
Street child role play
The exercise was difficult for me. One of the reasons it was difficult was because it was occationally hard to stay in character because I would be talking to someone and the conversations would start and one of us would laugh and then it was really hard to stay in character. Also it helped doing the monologue right before hand because my character was still in my mind but i realized that my monologue character was slightly unrealistic because she was so happy and so optomistic and that the other people took advantage of the because I was stolen from twice. Once when I was awake and once when i was sleeping. Also I had to be tougher and because I acted young alot of people tried to take care of me like Shelby and Margalit which was interesting.
Trust Exercise
In case I didn't write a blog about the trust exercise before, I am writing about it now. The trust exercise was actually not that worrying because I trusted the people I was working with and the trust activities were not dangerous. For the first trust exercise, we led people around the room using signals. The person you were guiding was not allowed to open their eyes and they relied on their partner to not let them run into anything. The second activity was more difficult. We worked in groups of three. The three people in a group made a row and walked around the room together in that order. The person standing in between the two other people would just fall at any point and their partners were responsible for catching them before they hit the ground. Overall, no one got injured although a couple of people were dropped by their partners.
In Role
Today we did an exercise where we all had to play the role of our person that we talked about in our monologue. Everyone seemed to be really pro-active where as my character was quieter. I really enjoyed doing this exercise because i felt like i knew a lot about my character and i played my character the way i presented her in my monologue. Some people came up with a completelynew character and played the role of someone that we never heard about in the monologue. I was surprise that everyone stayed in their role. I thought everyone would be laughing and just being themselves instead of playing the character that they were meant to. I enjoyed doing this exercise and i would do it again. I also think it helped that we did the monologue before having to play our character while interacting with other people.
Why do street children get involved in drug trafficking drugs, prostitution or rape?
Of course people can find many different ways to definate why children get involved in drugs and/or prostitution. But my thought of why children get involved with drugs and/or prostitution or rape is because they might not have a wll paying source of money wich is the main reason of involvement. Children usually deal lower class drugs and answer to adult of the community who can even be workind for the government (ex. police officers). Usually these things are not done by children on their own because normally nobody would sell great amounts of drugs to children. And no street child would have the amount of money to actually get a decent amount of drugs. The adults do the purchasing stage and leave it up to the teenagers to sell the drugs and earn the money for them. The teenagers and children obviously do not get payed much (ex. the probaly get 5-10% of what they earn). Selling drugs on the street can cause close friendships and create small gangs which later enlarge to become drug kingpins. This can cause violence, murder arrest and many other things.
Another illegal activity street children get involved in is prostitution. Prostitution also is a like a food chain. There are people who all the prostitues come and answer to who probably give a cut to their leaders. Prostitutes earn more money then drug dealing chlidren. But during this job many diseases can be spread because of unsafe sex. Also sometimes prostitutes are ripped off by people and they can een get killed because of resisting to leave the client without pay. I think prostitution pays more than drug dealing but it is a more dangerous job.
By Yusif
Another illegal activity street children get involved in is prostitution. Prostitution also is a like a food chain. There are people who all the prostitues come and answer to who probably give a cut to their leaders. Prostitutes earn more money then drug dealing chlidren. But during this job many diseases can be spread because of unsafe sex. Also sometimes prostitutes are ripped off by people and they can een get killed because of resisting to leave the client without pay. I think prostitution pays more than drug dealing but it is a more dangerous job.
By Yusif
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
UN Rights of the Child
© UNICEF/ HQ05-1244/LeMoyneFolow the links to see two very moving sequences which highlight the need for child rights around the world.
Why do you think UNICEF chose to show the Rights in this way? How does it make you feel when you watch the photo-essay? Is it more effective than a word essay? Why?
What are UNICEF trying to communicate to us through this form?
How might we adapt this way of showing to our drama work?
On delivering a monologue....
How i felt during the monologe performance....when i was doing it i didnt feel that bad, but right before i started i was extremely nervous. once it was over with i was really happy but it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be, but still if i had the choice i would not have done it. I dont think i did that bad apart from one bit where i forgot what i was going to say...but overall it wasnt as bad as i thought it was going to be.
by Jenna
by Jenna
Monday, January 14, 2008
What are the effects if drugs?
There are many different drugs and effects that they can have on you. Injected drugs are directly linked skin infections and skin diseases. Drugs, such as ecstasy pills or smoked drugs (marijuana, cocaine and pot, for example) can directly damage your internal organs, whereas snorting cocaine or other drugs can collapse your nasal passages. Indirect effects can also include personality changes, bankruptcy and losing jobs and friends. So why do people take drugs? For experiment, for medication needs, to feel good or to temporarily escape from reality. Honestly, it does not pay to abuse drugs, because in the end you could be in desperation for food and shelter, needing money to pay for basic needs or even fighting for your life. Annually, hundreds of thousands of people die because of drug overdoses, drug-related diseases and infections and drug-related suicides. In my opinion, drugs are like and invitation to long-term struggles and evitable problems. Don’t accept the invitation…
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Monologue task
photo taken from http://www.armsoflove.org/A monologue is a dramatic performance with one actor. A monologue usually allows the audience to see inside the mind and feelings of a character rather than being driven by action. Your task is to create a monologue performance as a street child. Use your monologue to give us a taste of what your life is like on the streets. It's up to you how much or how little information you give us about your past, about why you are on the streets. Your monologue must, however, show evidence that you have undertaken research into the lives of street children, so that although it is obviously a creative work of the imagination, it is grounded in fact. Use the assessment rubric to help you structure your monologue. There are plenty of resources in the drama room, plus many websites with information. You will perform your monologues on Thursday January 17th. Dont forget that if you want to perform in your first language you must provide an English translation to Ms T before you perform.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Why Street Children Take Drugs...
I did some research on the internet about how different types of drugs can affect people and I found that the reason why many street children would take drugs is because they like how it affects their brain and how it changes the way they feel.
According to the sites I read, many drugs, from heroin and ecstasy, produce temporary changes in the brain that cause people to feel and act different. Some drugs can give people the feeling of pleasure while other types can give people a rush of adrenaline.
Street Children are young and can be easily influenced by others. They can be easily brainwashed into taking drugs. Once they take drugs they become addicted and continue to take them. Another reason could be because they are extremely depressed or traumatized and they resort to drugs to try and make them feel better.
These are the websites i looked at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_trafficking
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/closetohome/science/html/whydrugs.html
According to the sites I read, many drugs, from heroin and ecstasy, produce temporary changes in the brain that cause people to feel and act different. Some drugs can give people the feeling of pleasure while other types can give people a rush of adrenaline.
Street Children are young and can be easily influenced by others. They can be easily brainwashed into taking drugs. Once they take drugs they become addicted and continue to take them. Another reason could be because they are extremely depressed or traumatized and they resort to drugs to try and make them feel better.
These are the websites i looked at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_trafficking
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/closetohome/science/html/whydrugs.html
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