Research
Context
This Unit was the research aspect of Immigration project which is the subject of all three units combined. A lot of research had to be done for this project. This is because it was a new topic for us and has a lot of world wide factual reports. Therefore research was needed to understand refugees to see some stories and get into a character that was immigrating.
Research
The first part of our research was looking into the style of play we would be doing. We did this by our teacher showing us a clip of Come fly with me. Which is a comedic twist on immigration.
https://youtu.be/_S2wWVGprMQ
After watching this clip we were moved to a comedic play but after further research and understanding the seriousness of immigration we decided on not doing it in a comedic way but in a serious play to show a message to the audience.
My research came from news stories and articles about refuges immigrating across countries, the struggles they went through and the hardship that they faced just for safety in another country. My other research was to be done in our own time and I found a news article about a child dying from a sickness when he was in a refugee center which was supposed to be a safe place for him.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-border-guatemala-boy-migrant-dies-how-flu-felipe-gomez-alonzo-a8701586.html
Another reserach we had to do was of Stanalastivic because his way of performances and the way he told his actors to connect to his characters. Was a way which could help get into our characters for the play. We had to research his practice and how to get in contact with our characters with practices of writing monologues in another person view and practice acting as those characters we were given.
Our teacher also gave us pointers to our characters and stanalastivic practice.Another topic that i researched was stories from refuges that came from Afghanistan. Our whole clas was split into teams to research things from Afghanistan. My team had to do it for stories from refugees. We found two stories which we
recorded and told our class our research.
.Another research topic was from my class mates. We had to share stories of family members or people we know off going through the immigration process. One student gave us a story of his own of how he got from his country of Afghanistan. This story was very personal that we choose to take ideas from him into our play to show the audience the personal issues refugee go through and to
make the audience feel what many people go through.
Planning
The planning of the research of this Unit was planning on what we researched. Things like the news stories of the refugees we had to plan out to find. We did that by trying to find various news reports until we found a good story to put in detail and tell us our class. We planned on our monologues for our characters that were about a refugee we found in the news and using the Stanalastivic. The way i planned my monologue was to think of myself as the person that would be writing a monologue about there life and pictured being them and how they would feel. I did this because as part of Stanalastivic process he made sure the actors would feel what is like just so they could act it out as those characters.
Problem solving
The problem with the research part of this unit was trying to find specific articles for specific things. When we were given the task to find information and stories about refuges from Afghanistan. When we tried to research that topic there was many stories of immigrants and refugee stories but only a little amount of refugee from Afghanistan and even less stories with detail and a character to focus on.
UNIT 6
Performance
Context
This unit is on the performance of Immigration. The performance was of the play The container by Claire Bayley. This unit focus on the performance and the process in getting it ready for a show and a audience to portray our story of immigration and what refugee have to go through.
Research
The research for the performance was mainly focused on Stanalastivic and his practices on how a actor connects to there characters. His practices involved to ask yourselves questions on your character.
Who am i?
Where am i?
When is it?
What do i want?
Why do i want it?
How will i get it?
What must i overcome?
These question wills help us get into character and put ourselves in our characters shoes.
Planning
The planning for our performance involved mostly reading over our scripts. The script was The container by Claire Bayley. My character is Asha the fifteen year old and the youngest of the refugee in this container taking them to England which for them is a safe place.
My planning for my character was i gather the information i know about her. She is the youngest, and is very close to her mother figure that is in the container aswell. From the information gathered from the script and the research of refugee i planned of what my character would act like and how she says her words and practiced my part for the play.
Problem solving
For me this unit is difficult as my family is mostly English so i have no personal immigration stories of myself.
Another problem was lack of students so we did have to change a few things like changing our story to fit the class size.
Also our normal teacher was away so we had a substitute Shenagh and we are all still getting used to her ways of teachings.
One major problem is changing what we perform for the start weeks from the improvised work of the story from the student to the script work when we only have three weeks remaining to perform our piece and now learn lines.
As our class is very little and people are rarely in our class and the script is supposed to be separated into 4 groups but only 2 groups have been sorted and fully ready.
UNIT 7
Production
Context
This Unit is the production side of immigration and our play of The container. For this unit we
focused on costumes and props and the set and all the production side was our ideas and we had to choose what to do with our performance and how it will look and we did everything to do with this performance.
Research
The research for this Unit was on what it character would wear and how we repressed the countries those characters were from. My character was from Somalia so I chose to research traditional outfits. That would suit my character. We discussed all the production side ignore lightings and costumes in groups that we were performing in.
Planning
The planning for this unit was to plan out every production aspect of our play. The lighting, costumes, props and set design are all our ideas. We had to plan where we space ourselves out and where the probe are.
We planned lightening when spotlights show up and how the lighting would portray the actors being in a container.
Problem solving
One problem we faced in this project is that we planned to use more props and costumes and we planned to use lighting techniques and music. When it came to the performance there was a faulty lighting problem so we didn't have all the lights we wanted. The sound was also faulty so we didn't get the music we choose. Although these issues arose, we had to work with the lights and costumes that we had.
Evaluation
This Units have been about immigration. The Unit started with us trying to understand immigration and refugees. We did a lot of research and we had to understood stories and how people feel when traveling in small harmful places just to get to safety. By the end of this Unit we learnt the hardships of immigration and did a performance to a audience to porter these. I feel we did have troubles with the performance with lines and queues. I feel my participation was very good and my performance portrayed what i wanted and i successfully on my part portal a character that was in a refugee status. I did need a few improvements for next time like confidence and pacing are two of the major improvements i need. I will try do that by relaxing a bit my voice projection and pacing comes with confidence and if i relax more and try enjoy what i act i feel these improvements will happen.
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