Drama Devision Record 2

This week we have done various activities to do with the book The Island by Arman Gura.

We used this story and it's characters to create little short bits of our own. For example, Jordon, Keiran and myself created a news report from the scene where the wall has been built. Or, we were the Fisherman's family (Jordon being the fisherman, Keiran a child and myself another child), these were individual little bits of dialogue in the style of Stanislavski. He focuses most on the indivudual. We also looked at Brecht who focuses on the role, for example "The Fisherman" "The Mother" "The Child" while with Stanislavski it's more like "The Fisherman, Ragnar who has 2 sons" or "The Fisherman's son, Gurnard who is afraid of the Stranger."

We found this character role thing fun.

Yes, I was the Fisherman's son, Gurnard, 9 years old, who was afraid of the Stranger because the last time there was a Stranger on the island, my mother was killed by a sea monster, or so my father said. I don't want my father to be killed by a sea monster either.
So by doing this, it adds individuality to the character, rather than it being "The Child" and that he is afraid of the Stranger. This time he has story to him which removes him from Brecht and moves him more towards Stanislavski.

We also used some masks while doing our news report. I chucked it on because it was like I was one of the island people. I do not have access to any pictures of our group during this activity.