Little Sister Dream House

Little Sister Dream House - Teamwork Task

Reflection

This was one of the hardest tasks I had ever done in Drama! I will tell you why.

So at the beginning of the lesson, Ms Ruiz got into her character, which personally I find so annoying but funny at the same time. She picked 5 people to be team captains, these people then had to pick students to be in their team. I got picked by Yassin, and in my team there is Tereza, Maya and Maria, including Yassin.

The task Ms Ruiz's character gave us was to design our own Little Sister Dream House - staying in character throughout the whole process! This was extremely hard because a lot of our characters had very different personalities and didn't agree with each other. It was really hard to stay in character because as soon as I wanted to talk or give my opinion, I would start acting and talking like me instead of acting and talking like my character Holly. Also I one of the people who in a lot of teamwork tasks or group work, takes the responsibility to be the leader and take control of things. However, my character Holly isn't like that because she has problems with commitment and so got bored really quickly but it also quirky, so she likes to make jokes and has a weird sense of humor.

Another thing that I found difficult was making decisions based on our characters. For example, Maria whos character's name is Samantha, likes to skateboard and is a tomboy. So we had to make the design our house based on the likes and dislikes of each character, even though we sometimes didn't like it ourselves. It was hard making decisions altogether because some of us wanted colourful walls and massive garden facing the beach, others wanted a simple white theme and a nice pool. So there was a lot of arguing that took place and not a lot of work. We didn't really control out time properly, and as a result didn't have a lot of time to draw it in class. So what we did to solve that problem was we planned the whole house on paper and quick notes, then Maya and I took it home (She came to my house) and we finished drawing the diagram of our Little Sister dream house.

My character

Description from green sheet

This girl is known for her quirkiness and also has Lyme disease which makes things difficult for her. She has problems with commitment which attributes to being too high maintenance.

My Selfies

Picture taken before going to a dinner with a few friends

Picture taken in the hospital when doing some blood tests

I purposely took two selfies to show both sides of my character. She is high maintenance and an attention seeker; likes to be around people and has a weird sense of humor. However she also suffers from Lyme disease and this affects her emotionally, causes memory loss and other abnormal behaviour.

introducing new unit - reality tv

MYP: Reality TV
Key Concept: Communities
Related Concept: Arts
Global Context: Identities and Relationships
Stamtement of Inquiry: Reality TV creates false communities of misinterpreted characters. Characters must show development in a performance to be truly convincing
Inquiry Question: How can an actor demonstrate character development?
A character must show development in a performance for their role to be convincing.

Domestic Abuse Final Project

Domestic Abuse Advertising Poster

Completed Video - Domestic Abuse

Referenced Statistic: In the UK two women are murdered every week and 30 men per year

http://www.lwa.org.uk/understanding-abuse/statistics.htm

Reflection Video

I am really happy and proud, not only with how the video turned out but also the teamwork and collaboration skills that my group used during the process of creating this. I feel like the work was spread out evenly and according to each person's abilities.

Aman is really good with computers so he got the part of editor - and I helped him out a bit as well

Arnima likes to take photographs and videos so she was camera woman

Adham can do very good impressions and use different tones of voice so he was the abusive boyfriend

Amirezza got out of his comfort zone because I made him write the script with me as well as manage voiceovers. Since he doesn't really like speaking and he says that his English is bad, I made him do something different

Lastly I am very emotional so I was the woman who got abused and had to cry

We all gave a fair amount of contribution to the creation of the ad. I had the original idea of the woman looking at herself in the mirror and imaging all the things the guy said to her. With the help of Arnima and Adham, we developed the idea and planned the script.

Arnima came over to my house on Saturday and we filmed all of the scenes so that on the next lesson we would just need to do the voiceovers.

On Sunday, I helped Amirreza and Adham record the voiceovers and after several tries, we got the perfect ones. We also went in lunch time so me and Arnima could tell Aman where to place all the scenes.

Adham, in the lesson, had found sad music to put as the background and at home I had created the sound effects.

*All of the sound effects and voiceovers were created - nothing was taken from the internet

Aman completed half of the editing and then I took the rest home, added the final touches and uploaded it on YouTube.

Idea behind the ad

When creating this message/ad, we wanted to really tell people that this issue is something that is still happening and even though there are phone numbers to call, many people who are affected by domestic violence don't speak up. The idea of the ad was to recreate a scene when the woman will ignore the whole thing and what is happening to her but still get hurt. In the ad, we see that she builds up courage to dial 991 however as soon as she hears her boyfriends voice she becomes scared and her courage disappears.

In many cases this leads to death - that is why we put a very bold statistic which tells you on average how many people die because of domestic violence. I also believe that even though it does affect more woman than men, it still affects men. That is why in the statistic we put a fact about men abuse as well. 

The problem with domestic abuse, is that even though people know about it, they take it for granted and yes, I cant even imagine how much pain the person goes through but we tried our best to show it in the little time we had and hopefully it touched someone's heart.  

I hope that you enjoyed the video because we really tried our best and I feel like many people in my team did things and took on new challenges when creating the ad.

Conflict in Songs

In this lesson of drama, I watched four different songs and had to answer the two questions below.

What is the conflict?

What is the song about?

Alanis Morissette - Perfect

• Trying to be perfect
• Family pressure
• Parents forcing son/daughter to be the best
• Comparing them to other people
• Pressure from others to be flawless
• Parents are pushing the child to be whatever the parents weren't - achieve what they didn't

Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

• Abuse from boyfriend/significant other
• Boyfriend's mother does the same thing to him so he does it to her
• She wants to leave and escape
• Domestic Abuse
• Lyric - 'Boy you best praya that I bleed real soon' is saying, get it done with and make me bleed so maybe you stop

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

• No one cares about the boy
• No one listens to him
• Neglected by his parents
• Bullied at school
• Felt alone and helpless like there was nothing else to do
• Killed himself in front of his English class

Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall

• Domestic Abuse
• Husband and wife fighting
• She [the singer] is the neighbour who can hear everything
• The police always comes late
• Even though they call the police it wont do anything
• The police wont fix the problem
• She sees the ambulance outside their house
• She [singer] prays that she was dreaming