Lesson 3 Homework 3 - 20.11.2014

Q1: You were given the marking criteria for developing for this project. You need to complete the sheet, you would have started this in the lesson – the sheet must be uploaded to your blog.

A1: This was what I wrote on my sheet as we weren't given a hard copy: 

'I think I have worked at a merit, the roll on the wall exersice really helped me develop my character because it made me think about the conflict in my character between what they feel and what they show. This helped me in my devised peice as we were thought tracking and therefore I could show the contrast between my feelings and what I show.'

Q2: You were asked to continue to be guided by the style of the play – it should feel physical – you couldn't use any props/chairs etc. 

• What did you develop and create? How?
• How did your homework help you develop the tale practically?
• Explain what you did as your character. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.) 

A2: 

• We did this exersice but our cover teacher didn't mention anything about the physicatlity of it. We were allowed to use chairs and we just devised a normal scene. I will write about what we devised but i can't talk about the choices we made to make it phyisical. 

In our devised scene we choose to be friends having a drink at a bar, creating the atmosphere of the East end which is where East End Tale 1 is set. Over the drinks we were discussing the new person in town, the east end descibed as a person in tale 1 is the new person in town. This also shows the audience that he has a large reputation in the East End as random people who aren't related to him are discussing his appearance in town. While this discussion was happening Lloyd, who's was originally the bar tender, steps aside and demonstrates the qualities we are talking about. He then become the 'East End' as a person. We related the different aspects of 'East end' to our own lives and experiences, for example in the script it states he hates smoking due to abuse from his father who smokes. We then related it to Jed, who is smoking in the bar and used it as a reason to ask him to stop smoking. My homework helped me enormasly as I had a better understanding of the character and a clearer picture in my head while acting. It is very hard to create an image in a scene of something you have no awareness or contex off. Due to my homework I could visualise the 'east end' more easily giving me a more accurate protrayal of the aspects that the 'eat end' holds. It also meant overall I was more confident as I felt prepared, this gave my preformance a boost and gave me a lot more freedom and confidence when devising as I had a lot of background knowledge. Allowing me to contribute to the divising of the scene freely. As a character in a bar with a group of friends, I chose to be someone with quiet alot of confidence. It was a typical friendly gathering, with me voice I decided to drop the t' sand h's to give it a slight cockney feel. My phyisicality was very relaxed as these are my dear old friends, the senario wasn't one where everybody is very akwared and you're with your 'friends' yet no one trusts each other or feels free to speak their mind freely. Linking with the confience that I projected out, I was also the one who'd speak the rumors and gossip. Of course, all the other character's talked about what they had heard but my character was the one to tak about specific rumors or stories showing a connection in the area and a popularity is the community.

Q3: In new groups of 5/6 you re-read Tale 6. You had to underline all the people mentioned e.g brother, landlord, mother…

• What did you underline in the text? - take photos, or write the list. Individually you decided on a character they you had underlined to create a role – on – the – wall for. You were given the sheet for this in the lesson. Upload this on the blog. 

A3: List of characters that were underlined: 

• I'm ('So i'm sitting behind the bar')
• Landlord ('cos the landlords a tight bastard')
• Brother ('Waiting for my brother to finnish work')
• Mother ('Mother and son')
• Son ('Mother and son')
• She's (' While she's all frinedly')
• My ('Cos my poor')
• Warm tired women ('Warm tired women, turning back from the bar')
• Hard sly man ('Has knocked into hard sly man')
• People ('People looking over')
• Whole pub ('And the whole pub's holding their breath')
• We ('We made something happen')
• Everyone (' And everyone breathes out')
• Brother ('Cos my poor trembeling brother can't hold the glass straight')
• Mum ('About how his mum died')
• Daughter (' She's saying about how her daughter's in America')
• Mum ('Doesn't want mum intruding')
• Daughter ('He's remebering his own daughter')
• Baby daughter ('That his baby daughter was the last person he kissed')
• them (' And one of them makes a joke')
• I ('I don't know how it ends')
• He's ('He's remebering his own daughter')

Roll on the Wall Sheet:  

Q4: Using the roles you had developed you created some scenes that show how these characters exist outside the play.

• What scene did you develop?
• What drama skills did you use to do so?
• Explain what you did as your character. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)

You then shared the work with the class and reflected.

• What was effective about the characters they had decided to explore? 
• Did the scene help you understand anything new about the play or another character?

A4: In our group we had 4 Hard Sly men, of which I was one of them, the hard sly man's mother and the landlord. We created a scene which involved some thought tracks and monolouges yet each character was always present in the room and connected to what the character/s were saying. At the beginning, we presented the audience with a simple scene at the bar. One hard sly man out of four was buying a drink from the landlord, a drink that was way over priced while the other three sly men were frozen in a cluster and Jed, who was the hard sly man's mum, was also frozen sitting down on the floor as if she was in a bed. There was then a short bit of dialouge between the hard sly man buying the drink and the landlord about how over priced it was. This then gave the landlord the oppertuintiy to step out of the scene and preform a thought track. This thought track completely went against the first image of a tight, selfish landlord and instead presented us with someone