Here are the exercises you did. For each one you should write what you learnt about the play by doing the task. Don't just describe the exercise. Say why you made the choices you did:
Q1: Working on the Prologue.
A1: When working on the prologue I was paired with Tara.We decided to create an almost sinister atmosphere with the concpet of the taxi driver. After all, you are getting into a car with an unknown person, handing your power away to the unkown. They could take you anywhere or refuse to let you out of the Taxi. This was reflected in our piece. The staging was symbolic of who holds the power in a Taxi. Tara, who was the passanger, sat down on a chair while I circled her, walking slowly and confidently. The circling represents how in a taxi you are trapped and everything surrounds you. The levels also show that the passanger is powerless as the taxi driver is in control of the cab and therefore holds all power. There was also a contrast in behaviour, while the passanger was dissmisve and shy the driver was bold and confident knowing he is in control. Roseby and Matilda did something that completely changed the scene and imidiantly I was engaged in their work. They took their scene which seemed to be an everyday scene with no particular issues raised, and turned it into a very symoblic and tense scene. They took and average taxi ride and added the issue of abuse. It automaticly made the scene more meaningfull. They carried this concpet on into their actions by making them quick and frantic creating a tense atmosphere. This atmopshere makes the abuse mentioned become more of an issue as it being shown as something that is very difficult, tense and generates fear instead of showing it as something that is very laid-back and relaxing by preforming actions with ease and no rush.
Q2: Hot-seating
Q1: Working on the Prologue.
What did you create and why?
What did another pair do that was effectiveA1: When working on the prologue I was paired with Tara.We decided to create an almost sinister atmosphere with the concpet of the taxi driver. After all, you are getting into a car with an unknown person, handing your power away to the unkown. They could take you anywhere or refuse to let you out of the Taxi. This was reflected in our piece. The staging was symbolic of who holds the power in a Taxi. Tara, who was the passanger, sat down on a chair while I circled her, walking slowly and confidently. The circling represents how in a taxi you are trapped and everything surrounds you. The levels also show that the passanger is powerless as the taxi driver is in control of the cab and therefore holds all power. There was also a contrast in behaviour, while the passanger was dissmisve and shy the driver was bold and confident knowing he is in control. Roseby and Matilda did something that completely changed the scene and imidiantly I was engaged in their work. They took their scene which seemed to be an everyday scene with no particular issues raised, and turned it into a very symoblic and tense scene. They took and average taxi ride and added the issue of abuse. It automaticly made the scene more meaningfull. They carried this concpet on into their actions by making them quick and frantic creating a tense atmosphere. This atmopshere makes the abuse mentioned become more of an issue as it being shown as something that is very difficult, tense and generates fear instead of showing it as something that is very laid-back and relaxing by preforming actions with ease and no rush.
Q2: Hot-seating
Why is hot-seating an effective technique to use in a rehearsal? What did you learn about the driver? What questions did you ask?
A2: When hot seating you have to think on the spot as your character. Thinking on the spot helps you to become and develop your charcter as you have no time to think or plan what you are going to say. Therefore in order to do it effectly you must just become your character and speak as them, saying only what comes to your mind. This enables you to think like your character. I learn a lot about the taxi diver as who he is as a person, what kind of attitude he has and the way he thinks. Specificly, we focused on what bothers him about being a taxi driver and what he enjoys about his job. The taxi driver actuallt gave out a very posative attidue towards driving which I like as to me a taxi driver isn't a very good job yet he seems to make the most of it. A question I asked was 'Don't you ever feel uncomftable letting a random stranger into a car with you.' This is again focusing on the opinion he has as a taxi driver. I asked this becuase I know I would hate to be a taxi driver, so by asking questions that get the hot seaters opinion it means I can push mine away and take the opinion they just gave me, otherise my own opinion of not likeing that job would have come through into my character.
Q3: Ensemble taxi driving:
Explain what you did as a taxi driver. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)
What did other people do?
How did you work as an ensemble?
A3: When being the taxi driver, I made the choice to be a male in his thirties who has the build of a construction woker. Broad shoulders, well built yet not muscular as he spends most of his time sitting in a car. I choose to be butch and cockney as it is set in the Eastend. I made the choice for my voice to be very deep and I spoke with a cockney accent. My voice was very laid back and casual, just like as if your were having a conversation with a friend about nothing much in particular. My phyisicality was very macho, my legs were open like a confident male and I was bent over my legs with my arms proping me up as they rested on my legs. However, when I was bent over I had a straight back and still gave out confiedence, it was not the submissve action of someone with out any confidence. Someone else in the group decided to make their taxi driver very effeminate. I really like this interpratation as it was very unusual. It showed thinking out side the box, however in all the times I have been in taxis I have never come across any effeminate taxi drivers. That doesn't mean there aren't any I just think its very unlikely and very true to reality. Although I applude them for their originality and creative outlook. We worked brilliantly as an ensemble, in the exersice Mr.Worden would pick one persons character of the taxi driver and after listening to them act out the script we would join in being their character. This worked extermely well as the whole class fell into a rhythm of the way we speak. This meant that we would know when and how to say the lines without having to listen or watch the original persons charactre and th rhythm of the way its said would tell us.
Q4: TALE 8
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Write some examples of what you underlined or take some photos of your script.
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Q5: You were put you into groups and has asked you to come to the class next week with ideas, character research and drawings of the characters you are exploring. This should be put on your blog.
A5: East End Tales 1
East End Tales 1 presents what the East End would be like if it was a boy. From the way the speaker talks about the East End I can infer its probaly a women as she describes him as sporty and sexy. I think that the writer is secretly describing a typical young person in the East End and using the 'East End' as a boy to represent common aspects and emotions of a young persons life in the East End. In the text it talks about violence from parents to young people, unemployment, the motivation needed for a young person to succed, inderpendance and the survival skills developed to stick up for your self. All of these aspects are linked. For example the motivation need for a young person is suggested by this quote. 'Okay, so he has a future. Sort of. He'd rather play football. Wouldn't they all? Or playstation' This is then linked to unemployment and the hardships of finding a job which is show in this peice of text 'But unemployed'. Its linked because it represents a cycle of hardship, every young person has trouble finding a job and knows that unemployment is high, this then impacts thier motivation as they see no point in trying because the odds are against them.
Some bullet points on the East End as a boy:
A5: East End Tales 1
East End Tales 1 presents what the East End would be like if it was a boy. From the way the speaker talks about the East End I can infer its probaly a women as she describes him as sporty and sexy. I think that the writer is secretly describing a typical young person in the East End and using the 'East End' as a boy to represent common aspects and emotions of a young persons life in the East End. In the text it talks about violence from parents to young people, unemployment, the motivation needed for a young person to succed, inderpendance and the survival skills developed to stick up for your self. All of these aspects are linked. For example the motivation need for a young person is suggested by this quote. 'Okay, so he has a future. Sort of. He'd rather play football. Wouldn't they all? Or playstation' This is then linked to unemployment and the hardships of finding a job which is show in this peice of text 'But unemployed'. Its linked because it represents a cycle of hardship, every young person has trouble finding a job and knows that unemployment is high, this then impacts thier motivation as they see no point in trying because the odds are against them.
Some bullet points on the East End as a boy:
- Had a hard life so knows how to stick up for himself. Hes a 'hard man' on the outside but inside hes sensative
- Tries to study and do we'll in college but he struggles. He gets sidetracked with gaming, fights, sport and his emotions.
- Has a 'toughest in the area' reputation.
- He cares about hi apperance and is secretly insecure but never shows it.
- Has had a troubled chidhood and can't deal with it being brought up. He tries to forget but he can't
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