Thursday 20th November, Lesson 3

This is my sheet I was given in the lesson.

Task 2

We were put into groups and given a tale which we were to create a response to as homework. This is my homework. 

We were then asked to develop a scene from the tale. It was physical so no props were used, and we decided to all take on the role of the woman in tale 2, yet we were all representations of her different emotions and characteristics for example I was the business woman side of her, the woman who "worked to live didn't live to work" whereas Harmony was the side of her that went jogging every evening and was a healthy woman.

 Our homework helped us as our we analysed the script in a very detailed way therefore we were able to look closer at the script and make sure we knew exactly how to portray the woman. 

As my character I made a choice to be standing, my laptop infront of me and I was typing. Every now and then I would pause, drink my coffee, take in my surroundings and then get back to work- almost like a repetitive cycle. I decided to make these choices because it shows that her work lifestyle is almost like a routine- the same things are done all day everyday in order to earn a living.

Task 3

In groups we all read over Tale 6 and were asked to underline the people mentioned. I underlined:

I then chose to do a role-on-the-wall for the 'sly man' character. 

After this we then developed a scene in groups. In my group, Matilda had also chosen to be the sly man. We decided to work together, using our role-on-the-walls. We decided to use one of us as a representation of the INTERIOR- the feelings or thoughts that the character had, whilst the other one of us was the EXTERIOR- what people perceived of the character.

 I was the INTERIOR so I was sat on a chair, whilst Matilda stood behind me. One after the other we would read out words from the paper- for example I would say " I'm fed up" and she would answer with " I'm arrogant". This was an effective way to portray what the character was feeling in comparison to what the character was perceived to be. 

We then shared our work to the class.

A scene that was effective for me was the scene with Jed who was the old woman from Tale 6. He went into detail about how the character felt, her emotions towards her son and her emotions towards her illness. It made me think a lot more about this character- she seemed somewhat insignificant before as she was only mentioned once in the tale, but Jed had brought her character to life and it was very interesting to see it happen.