Reflection on assessment

For our drama assessment we had to do a reenactment of the Titanic. For our characters we chose the villain as me, the henchman as Rana, the damsel as Yasmeen, the Hero as William and the captain of the ship as Daniyal. I took over the ship and made William come to the captains room so that I could beat him up. He came and I beat him up. Yasmeen pushed me off him and they saved the day together. I showed my character by beating up William and doing a Mr. Burns on it. Also I was despicable towards Yasmeen. My performance was successful but I could have put on a more melodramatic performance and I could have beat up William more. In the play I was the character of a stuck up rich man. At lots of points I would stand over people and act like I was superior to them. This was to show that I was menacing and evil. 

PROPS

In my play I was the rich villain. I had a cane  in the play to support my character by using this cane in fight scenes or in other parts of the play. I use a cane to show that I am an old character and that I also like to show my wealth and authority through holding the cane and waving it around in peoples faces. This cane is used as hidden things in the play as well. Such as when I hijacked the boat I used the cane as the lever to increase the boats speed. This is why I used the cane.

Drama

The hero

The hero in most melodramatic dramas is the one that saves the damsel from the villains capture. Also the hero might kill or beat up the villain to teach him or her a lesson. Everyone who has ever watched melodramatic plays or even seen movies like batman or superman will relize that in every story the hero wins and saves people from the villains.

The damsel

He damsel in ever play or movie is the women that the hero loves and the villain also loves. This can vary from play to play because sometimes the villain does not love the damsel and vice versa. The hero always saves the damsel from distress unless it is a trajic play that the damsel is meant to die in.

The fool

The fool is a character in a play that is normally quite stupid and he will do anything that he is told. Therefore sometimes in plays he can accidentally work for the villain or sometimes he even saves the day by accident!! The fool normally informs the hero about the damsel in distress and saves the day because of his information.

The villain

The villain in very play is the bad guy. This bad guy normally captures the damsel and uses her as bait to lure the hero into a trap. The villain is cunning, smart, witty and sly. The villain in the old days would get booed and he would get things thrown at him once he entered the stage. The villain always loses the battle against the hero in the end.

REFLECTION OF LAST TWO WEEKS OF PERFORMANCE

I thought that in the last two weeks of the practicing went really well in the music side of things. We relised that we were actually going to perform in front of actual people and we pulled our socks up from then on. We went into changing pitches and we started to change the tempo during our music. The art department on the other hand was an entirerly different case... The were unorganised. When they came up to us they started to boss us around and they said our music was bad. Also they moved william from his music position because they were not organised enough to have a narrator. So when they came up we locked the door into our practice room. Then we got william to read out his writing and when he did we played music along with it. Then when we were fully ready we got the art people in two at a time so that they could each listen to it without to much fuss. Then we came to the performance with grade seven. The musics department was good in that performance only we had to quiet down our music so people could hear the narrator. The drama department was also good but they needed to time their puppets with the narrators story. In our second performance we fixed most of our small mistakes but the music was still to loud for the narrator. So I think that our group did quite well.

OUTLINE OF UNIT

Intra disciplinary unit: the art of storytelling

Key concept: communication

Global context: orientation in time and space

Related concept: Narrative

Objective: To create a musical performance using the indonesian tradition of gamelan as a starting point.