Month: April 2016
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Drama – Drama in the making – Working record – Part 1 (Ideas to move forward and Stimulus)
The lesson before we found out what our performance stimulus was we had a lesson on ways to create and develop a performance in the some of the bellow techniques that were contributed by myself and others in class Magic “If” – Contributed by myself Given circumstances Script Writing Characterisation Hot Seating Technique (Interview to…
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Touching the void – Chapter 13 (Tears in the night Summary) Final Chapter
The final chapter starts off with Joe still trying to get back to camp. He can smell human excrement but can’t see any tents so he believes that his friends are gone. Joe calls out Simons name but no one comes. Richard hears a voice call out but shrugs the voice off because the voice…
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Touching the void – Chapter 12 (Time is Running Out Summary)
The book cuts back to Simon who has his own share of problems. He talks with Richard and he feels that it is probably time to head back home, Simon agrees but can’t bring himself to leave as he is still full of conflicting emotions on whether or not it is the right thing to…
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Touching the void – Chapter 11 (A land without pity) Summary
Joe wakes up and hears a voice pushing him on even when he is about to give up due to the long miles of snow before him. He has by this point gone 2 days and 3 nights without any food or drink to get him through. He keeps on trying to get back to…
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Performance Deferred
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to defer the external performance of your “Oh What a Lovely War!” piece until Tuesday 19th of June (a one week deferral). You will now be timetabled in lessons as normal tomorrow. Our apologies for the lateness of this notice.
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Part 2) Number 5
Intention of the drama/design/script with any relevant background information The intention of the performance is to convey how people can be easily swayed by money and risk the lives of many in the process. It is also to show the subject of war profiteering as the general ends up earning 10 million pounds whilst my…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Individual contribution to the chosen brief)
For the performance I did a lot of preparation in my research of propaganda and profiteering at war so my performance had more background to it and I could improve the way that I would act in a war like environment. I also contributed the ending of myself pulling out a gun and the lights…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Planning)
We have planned by talking amongst each other and doing different parts of our performance to see how they work and if they should be kept or not in the final piece. We will have a dress and technical performance to make sure that we are ready for the examination on Tuesday morning. I have…
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Drama GCSE – Oh what a lovely war (Working Record – Developments – Part 2) Number 3
As a group, we continued to develop a performance by adding and getting rid of certain ideas that we initially had. One aspect of the performance we are getting rid of is the funeral scene at the end where we thought that the use of the dead body would be too distracting to an everyday…