Duolugue Task

During our Sunday's Drama lesson our task was to create a duologue about a scenario that we were all given. The scenario was that there was a boy named Carlos who lives with his uncle in Brazil, Where he is supposed to work on the streets to get money. Our scene had to be based on one night when he returns home very late without any money (because he spent it all trying to help an injured opposed train). then i was put into a random group with Laith,Aline, and I.

As for our scene, we began by building up tension for the first 45 seconds by showing carol's uncle being angry. We began with Laith and i watching tv then we walk around the house by throwing stuff around and getting angry and shouting about the class. then after a while carlos walks in the house and everyone gets angry at carlos(aline). She with fear sneeks into the house very creepily.

In order to keep the tension going we decided to show the uncle acting sarcastically with Carlos. He then only yelled a while later Making Carlos cry and shiver, frightening the audience (by breaking the tension suddenly). WE even showed that how carlos was against his uncle and how he wanted to be nice to other people when even though he worked for another group. the picture below shows how we combined all our skills to show the freeze frame that we created of our task.

Marking the moment

Train surfing is basically a wild ride on the outside of a moving train.Travelling like this can be dangerous and even life-threatening, because people could fall off or even die from electrocution due to the power supply, making collision with a railway infrastructure (bridges, tunnels, platforms, traffic lights or other trains) on the roof of a train, or unsuccessful attempts to jump on a moving train or off it. In this term 1 unit we are focusing on Brazil and how the poor people do train surfing as a hobby as they have nothing else to do in their lives.

For our task we were put into groups to create a scene of a group of train surfers who get a new kid who joins their group, the main part of this drama play was that all the old members of the group would jump of the train and the new member has no idea what to do, so he stays back on the train and thats when the police turn up and the new member blackmails the police that they he/she will hold the wire(electrical power line) and will die because he knows that if he gets caught it won't be good. 

For our scene we had Shawn and Sai as the two surfers, Oggy/Aline as the new member, Laith was the Bus driver and Anushka and Sai as the policemen/woman. The scene started off when Sai, Shawn and Oggy/Aline talk about trip and whether the new member should do it as he/she have no idea how to train surf. Then after the train arrives the group jumps onto the train and they have fun doing it as they are skipping and dodging the electric wires. then when they arrive at the station the Sai and Shawn jump off the train as they are trained by doing it everyday, somehow Oggy gets distracted and he doesn't jump as he was not sure how to jump of the train and by the time he realises the police are already waiting to catch train surfers. Oggy is extremely scared on what to do and then he realises he can blackmail the police but by then the police already offered him a deal- if he gives her his watch she won't arrest him, however he refuses the offer as the watch is very special to him-its his mothers. So Oggy threatens the police "If you don't let me go I'll touch this wire" and then we have a freeze frame to make that very last moment of the scene.

In order to mark the moment for our short play we had to do some little adjustments to make it look nicer. So at first we had build the tension with a stated picture. To mark the the moment we all had to stare at Oggy/Aline to emphasise his dialogue that he will say at the end of the story, this will basically put the pressure and also give the focus onto Oggy/Aline. Anushka screams "Noooooooo" while being a statue with a figure of a person who is very scared. She will have to promise Oggy that she will throw the gun down f he doesn't touch the wire. And everyone else in the play will stare at Oggy to show the viewers that Oggy is the most important focus at the moment. After this we took a still picture to capture are marking the moment picture to show how we did it.