Key Questions: I decided to change a lot in the script , I thought up new ideas for the script because i couldn’t continue because of how it ended . I focused on the social worker , not doing a lot of things i could of done about the father and the child. I wanted to completely redo the piece because i felt it could of been much better but was told by sir that i had to continue. There was only four characters Lisa , Darius , Tyrone and Tyrese. Lisa and Tyrese appear the least which was fine for Lisa but Tyrese could of been expanded on. I gave Lisa no details and added none to Tyrese. He as happier and overall better but wasn’t focused on. The father was focused on more. No personal details were added but he was humble and treating people better , until the end. The social worker who was focused on more had no more detail added on other the paranoia he was the same . So overall i didn’t develop my characters a lot and the idea wasn’t as good as it could of been. The character that i developed was changed quite a bit. He wasn’t beating his child anymore and he even apologizes to the social worker , he was looking up as he fears loosing his child. He want based on anyone , I just thought of a aggressive black father who’s angry and miserable. When performing some people were confused as to why I had hit my child , they didn’t understand what type of person I was . After hitting the child and the social worker coming people people understood i was abusive. I think people understood what type of person i was and i think the slap i gave Tyrese communicated that very well. There was no improvisation in our piece , at least from me. I new what i was supposed to do and stuck to it , there were some hiccups in the performance but no improvisation. Our central question was about the relationship between fathers and their sons. I think we didn’t get the message across due to some mistakes on the end. At the end the social worker was supposed to talk to the audience about fathers and sons and what he’s been through , this would have propped the story and hopefully made people think but due Tyrese leaving himself dead in the corner of the stage and Ashan just killing himself in a corner people were left confused. We used the picture of a dead Aylan Kurdi on the beach being carried away as stimulus this is the story behind it : In the early hours of 2 September 2015, Kurdi and his family boarded a small plastic or rubber inflatable boat,which capsized about five minutes after leaving Bodrum in Turkey. Sixteen people were in the boat, which was designed for a maximum of eight people. They were trying to reach the Greek island of Kos, about 30 minutes (4 kilometers or 2 1⁄2 miles) from Bodrum. Kurdi’s father said: “We had no life vests”, but also said they were wearing life jackets, but they “were all fake”.Others have stated that they believed that they were wearing life jackets but the items were ineffective. It was later stated on Syrian radio that the Kurdi family paid $5,860 for their four spaces on the boat, which had twelve passengers on it despite being only about five meters long. Alan Kurdi’s mother joined in the trip even though she had a fear of being on the open sea. Tima Kurdi, Alan Kurdi’s aunt, advised her sister not to go. The individuals on the boat evaded the Turkish coast guard by setting out from an isolated beach, going out late at night. Around 5 am authorities started an investigation, after an emergency call that a boat had capsized and bodies were coming ashore.The bodies of Kurdi and another child were discovered by two locals at around 6:30 am on the same morning. The two men moved the bodies from the water onto the dry part of the beach.Later, Kurdi was photographed face-down on the water’s edge by a Turkish press photographer. On 3 September 2015, Kurdi along with brother Galib and mother Rehana were taken to Kobanî for burials,which took place the next day. It is Islamic tradition to bury the dead within 24 hours if possible. The Siege of Kobanî ended in March 2015 and Islamic State attacks on what was left of the city stopped completely in August 2015 . Or the short version Abdullah paid €4000 (£2900) for his family to get on a 5m-long dinghy from Bodrum to Greece. He borrowed money. This was not their first attempt to get to Greece. When in the dinghy, the sea got rough. Turkish smuggler abandoned boat, left passengers struggling. Boat capsized after one hour. After it capsized, the family clung to the boat. Mr Abdullah tried to hold his two children and wife with his arm, but one by one they were washed away by waves. This stimulus was the source of everyone’s idea’s . It got me thinking about father’s and son’s and their relationship. The stimulus was quite sad and made you think.
Item 1: The rehearsed improvisation/rehearsing was different from the final performance. I had different ideas for what was going to happen . Even though I didn’t think about the question that much I think if we had played it out like rehearsed then it would have been much better . When the father and the social worker first meet the social worker ask the father some questions , because the questions and the order of the questions in which they were asked was all up to Ashan in the moment , it was semi-improvised . There was things in our performance that were rehearsed and need to happen . Like the social worker finding the scar on Tyrese’s forehead , or the father slapping the child at the start of the performance. When we rehearsed it was supposed to go like this : The father slaps the child for trying to talk to him while he was watching TV , The child goes to bed crying in the corner after call the social worker but hanging up and while he does this it would have turned to the next day , The social worker comes and ask the father some questions , The father takes the social worker to see the child , Te social worker talks to the child but notices the child is covering a cut on his forehead , the social worker leaves saying goodbye to the father with there being some tension as they don’t like each other , the social worker then goes home to unwind , talks about his dead family , Tyrese would go and sit next to him making it a split screen connected by a phone call from the child talking to the social worker , the social worker would rush over to the house find the door open the father gone and the child dead in the center of the stage , he’d turn and talk to the camera about his dead wife and 2 sons and how he cant take it anymore , he’d then kill himself. In my head the social worker would of been Abdullah Kurdi , Aylan Kurdi’s father whose situation we learned about in drama and was a source of our play. This was my idea that would of gone with everyone else’s theme and would of made more sense and been better , I was the one making all the choices really as the others didn’t have any ideas but our performance was played in lessons and if we had did what I just wrote the our audience would have understood our piece more . Instead people we left confused , some asked why he killed himself , why i hit my son , why it didn’t have anything to do with refugees , why i walked onto the stage then walked straight off? , there was many questions so I think the audience didn’t really understand what we were trying to do. My ideas would of communicate the message but the performance didn’t.
Item 2: I made many mistakes in my script but wanted to change when it was too late. The script ended up rushed and didn’t really get the message across. I want people to think of the dark side of people and how desperate and stupid humans can be sometimes. If you read it you’d probably be left confused at the ending , wondering why he killed the social worker and what happened to the son and what happens after. After reading this you should be able to find the desperate times and the stupid times , there wasn’t to many dark times in this script but maybe the ending. From reading the script hopefully you would of got some overall themes from it . despair , sadness , anger and desperation. My script didn’t make much sense and was rushed at the end as I was trying to find a ending but it wasn’t that good. There probably isn’t a message people will get from this so overall it didn’t communicate my ideas well.
Item 3: For Darius’s (the father’s) home i imagine the living room being mostly bare except for a comfortable chair across from a 25 inch TV resting on a wooden table , Honduran mahogany wood floor . There would be no other furniture other than some bookshelves on walls that have no books in them. The kitchen would be in the living room not very big and contains a fridge , stove and counter. The sons bedroom would be big , single bed in the corner , small TV directly across from it , grey carpet , wardrobe near the door , a desk and then a lot of open space. I made his place like this to show he is alone a lot , the single chair suggest no company and the lack of anything like furniture , I wanted Darius’s house to be like Darius , not much inside . Everything about the house suggest people don’t even live there a lot. I chose two different designs for Darius , one had Ice Cube’s head and the other had Dave Chappelle’s head (with crack on his lips) , they both had black bomber jackets and were wearing blue jeans with Asics trainers (the white running ones). I thought of this design because I thought it made him look dangerous and a little crazy . When I asked people what they thought about the design they said he looks broke and a madman which is good because that’s what I want him to be like . When designing Tyrese i chose an abused child , because thats what he is and the only thing that made sense , I didn’t think to get a picture of him smiling as that wouldn’t make sense. The social worker was simple , a black man (light-skin) wearing a cheap suit , he would also be wearing a picture locket . I chose this because I thought it best fit him for his job. All of these design’s help me , this is because you can tell a lot about a person from what clothes they wear. And if people saw the characters how i designed them then hopefully they would understand more about what type of character they are.
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