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.

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 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.

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.