09/10/14

Peer assessment 

Racial Descrimination Dabate

In our lesson before our performance we discussed racial discrimination in small groups and came up with points for and against racial descrimimation. We then had a class debate
And shared the points, this helped me understand and be in the mind state of being a naught and a cross

naughts and crosses excersises and visualisation

Visualisation


When we was in the smaller room we was asked to close our eyes and visualise our charecters house and surroundings, this helped me develop my character because I created his everyday environment and the mood of that environment.

This helped me also to know how my character feels before my scene because my scene does not take place in his house. When picturing his  home surroundings I felt depressed and oppressed because the house i pictured was cold and had peeling wallpaper, I could smell old furniture in the air, dust trickled up my nose and I could hear a tap dripping with that sound echoeing around the small kitchen,my bedroom was a normal sie quite small with a old tv.


Excersises

In class we did many exsersises to help me as an actor to develop all around. When we did breathing excersises and techniques it helped me with my breath control and my breathing and to know when to take breathes in between long lines. It also helped me with my projection to get across to audience that's are disant and sounding less like me and more like my character is something that I struggled with the most but am going to try different techniques to help with this. We also did a lot of physical exsersises which helped me shape my character and work on weight Balance. An exsersises which helped me develop myself into the emotions of the scene was to replace my lines with emotions and how my chareceter would be feeling in every line.

Naughts And Crosses

Naughts and crosses is a novel written by a British auther malorie Blackman. It is also a play. This story has no real time or date or era or place but is a alternative history were black people are the superior race to white. We get a sense of time because we know in the story slavery has been abolished but segregation still exists between the crosses (the blacks and the superior) and the Naughts (the whites and inferior). The two characters who the story is based around are Callum and sephy whos family's have a history of peace and friendship but the segregated outside world turns them against each over, kind of like a Romeo and Juliet story only with more modern issues.

Characters and relationships

Sephy
Sephy Hadley is a cross and the daughter of a wealthy and powerful politicion , kamal Hadley. She is very naive to the situation going on in the outside world. As the world sees the relationship between her and callum as wrong (because she's a cross and he's a naught) she doesn't see this and believes that because they love each other nothing else matters. Her relationship between her own family and people is most times bad, her peers in the school heathcroth gain hatred because of her relationship with callum. Sephy starts to see the world for what it really is when her family become targeted and in the centre of the liberation militia which are a terrorist organisation that callums brother and dad are in.

Callum
Callum seems to be a good kid lost In a troubled and oppressed society full of pain and misery.