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Our assessment was based on the play Teechers.

Our first scene was the Christmas scene at the start of act two.  I played the role of Hobby who was a troublesome teen who had many insecurity’s about her weight. Despite this she wanted to shine and be treated just like anybody else.

Alice played the role of Gail who was a outgoing flirtatious girl whom craved Centre of attention. She was also a friend of Hobby’s and Salty’s.

Mackenzie played the role of a shop keeper and Martin Roebuck.

 

We showed Hobby as a insecure teen by talking quiet towards the start and lurking towards the background. We also showed her constantly eating and wiping crumbs of her shoulder. This could mean that she dealt with her insecurities towards food as she used this as a coping method. She could also use this as it will always be there. Towards the end of the scene she got louder to show that she was a troublesome teen. This could also show that she liked to keep her insecurities inside and block people out in her own world.

We showed Alice as centre of attention as always being at the front and being flirtatious by kicking her legs and grinning like a chesser cat. We also showed she was out going by talking loudly thoughout the seen. Which implies she is happy with herself.

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In our performance of John Godbers play there was a scene in which Gail was attempting to song Mr. Nixon in his car, but her attempts were duly stopped by Oggy who hopped into the back seat of the car and began aggravating Mr. Nixon.  We showed how annoyed Nixon was getting with the tone in his voice. At the start of the argument Nixon had a more polite tone as if he was simply asking Oggy to exit the vehicle, but gradually got fiercer up to the point where he smacked Oggy. This was a very significant part as it showed Oggy that Mr. Nixon was going to stand up to him and that he wasn’t such a pushover.

 

My understanding of john Godber play called ‘teechers’, there are three character Gail, hobby, and Salty they all have different personalities. Hobby’s personality is loud mouthed, largely built in size and eats to comfort herself and help her fell happy. Gail’s personality is she is always flirts with Mr. Nixon because she fancy’s him. In the scene we did was the Christmas scene   I played Gail she was very flirtatious she was with Mr. Nixon.  I think she like getting all the attention in this play Miriam played   hobby she all way liked eating food  and little snack    she was very largely fat  and Mackenzie  play salty. We done this because   we thought each person suited their roles well,.

 

 

 

During our “teechers” assessment I played the role of oggy (the school hard nut) in my first scene. Half way into the scene I came on acting all cool and walking with my arms swinging beside me. I did this to show that because he is hard he has to keep a reputation and keep being the hard kid at all times so he has to make an impression of being cool.I did this by having a sort of hunch on my back to show that I can’t be bothered to stand up straight and I think john Godber put oggy in the play to show the power changes between the 1970’s to the 1980’s were teachers were no longer able to use the Kane so the pupils started to take control and that’s why everyone is scared of oggy because he has made it clear that he is the boss with the power. Also I had to slouch to interpret that I don’t care and I swung my arms acting like I had swag meaning that I was popular and needed an action for me to stand out as being “oggy moxon”. When I approached Gail (the chavvy slut) my voice changed to a confident swagger boy who felt self-assured that he was going to pull Gail and get her into coming to his dad’s party. I used this approach because it interprets oggy as being the mean kid who thinks he can walk up to a girl and get her in bed by just saying “hi” which in the real world does not work. I proved this by making my voice deep and talking like a chav to show a manly but aggressive boy. The deep voice also shows that oggy is the dominate one of the conversation and that he is the Alfa male when really he is just getting mugged off.

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In our performance the scene we done where the planning of the party and after the dance  Mr. Nixon’s car scene hobbie was performed by georgie hobbie liked eating little snacks throughout the day and shes very shy and is chubby georgie played her by waddling when walking and kept on eating things and we showed she was shy by her not looking at a person when talking  I acted gail by being bossy towards hobbie and always being right and later on brooklynne played oggy in the car scene he always trys to annoy people and brooklynne talking like a chav And swears which means she has no respect for others and doesn’t care Mr. Nixon was trying to get the kids more involved in school and show its not  boring to the students and make it more  fun to learn

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The ‘Morning’ Scene:

We chose to do this scene to, not only demonstrate our use of multirole, but to give the audience a sense of the individual personalities at Whitewall School. Take my parts for example, for this scene alone I had to play 7 separate roles! Although this does include non-speaking roles as well, I still had to use different body language, facial features and gestures to imply those different characters. However with the speaking parts, some of them were often quite similar. For example, I played Gail at one point and then ‘Girl-with-gum’ at another. This meant that, because of these characters common dislike for school, the personalities might be difficult to portray without making them seen to similar. However, in our version of the scene, we wanted to show the idea that the ‘Girl-with-gum’ could not care less about the teacher, whereas Gail, being the flirtatious girl that she is, would most probably be very interested in the teacher considering that he is male. From this, I can choose distinct, stereotypical drama technique that represent these slightly different personalities; gestures. The gesture I used was that of ‘fiddling with my hair’. However, for when I was Gail, I curled the hair around my finger so to imply that she was trying to appear girly and sweet (flirting), but when I did it as the ‘Girl-with-gum’, I was just running my fingers through it to imply boredom or a desire to be somewhere else (thought). This just goes to show that, although being very similar, this gesture, if done in two different ways, can mean two completely different things.

If I were to do this scene with the aid of lights and music, I would have a set piece for when each actor came in, that clearly represented each character to further the audience’s understanding of the separate personalities. I would also use a darker spotlight and maybe even a step or block for the more sinister characters, (Mr Basford), to help show both personality and status.

 

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In our first scene, of our class production of Teechers, my interpolation of Miss Maureen Whitham. When playing this Character I had to show Miss Maureen Whitham being not in control. I did this by making the character talk slightly slower and a little quieter also she didn’t move around very much. I did this because Miss Maureen Whitham, being a teacher who can’t control her students, is a very soft teacher who doesn’t like to get in anyone’s way.

 

In our second scene we did a scene between Gale, Hobby and Mr. Nixon. Mr. Nixon arrives late to his lesson. When he arrives to his class, five minutes late, his is in shock to find all his students just sitting around doing nothing. The scene then turns over to Hobby and Gale who are both just sat on the chairs. Hobby is eating a chocolate bar and Gale is sat next to her talking to each over. To do this we had Mr. Nixon over the other side of the room talking to other students. Gale that notices Mr. Nixon on the other side of the room and suddenly has a big smile on her face. Talking to Hobby when Nixon is walking over to them Gale tries her best to flirt with him. We do this by Gale walking up to Mr. Nixon and him pushing her away. We did this scene so the audience could get the idea of the characters. Gale being the Flirt, Hobby being the fat one always eating and Mr. Nixon being the new teacher trying to do his best as being a good teacher around the school.

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We chose to explore the part of the teenagers underage drinking before the school disco. We chose this scene because it showed where the teenagers where in regards to they dont fit in with the group you have at school for example the geeks, the chavs or the popular people this is because they are different to normal teenagers. We showed this by acting them all very differently but they all had one thing in common and that was they are all slightly shy.

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I think we showed our interpretation of john godber’s teechers by using explorative strategies such as narrating. Throughout our performance we used narrating to show what the person was really thinking, for example in the scene where Oggy invites Gail to his father’s party, Gail says “I knew he fancied me” , she can show she is annoyed with him by adding a facial expressions so that the audience have a clear understanding of how the character feels. We could have also added some other explorative strategies such as cross cutting between two scenes to make it much more interesting for the audience to watch. Overall I believe that we showed a good interpretation of teechers through narrating but could of maybe added some more to make the performance stronger.

 

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Our first scene was the play’s opening in which I acted as Salty, Jade acted as Gail and Ria acted as Hobby. During the beginning we focused very much on showing the audience how we interpreted the character’s relationships with each other, we showed Salty as the leader of the group keeping him constantly in front of the others and center stage. In the line ‘Sit down first year, stand up second year’ in which Salty refers to Mrs Hudson’s school assemblies Gail sits down and Hobby stands up on command showing just how much authority he has over them and establishing him as ‘the one in charge’. In order to show Salty not only as the leader of the group but also a youngster who surprisingly had a lot to say I paced and made elaborate gestures when I gave his speech, showing that although he seemingly hadn’t rehearsed what he was going to say he was very determined to put into words just what he was feeling. Even dismissing Gail with a gesture at one point, demonstrating how much he really cares about what he’s saying. This action of authority parallels and further scene in which he surprises Mrs. Parry with his maturity as he explains to her that the politicians don’t care about ordinary folk like him. In turn I felt that the interpretation of Salty showed his many sides which shows John Gober’s trate of using stereotypes and multi-role.

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My Assessment (Teechers)

 

Discuss the intensions of your character. How were they shown?

 

In our class production ‘Teechers’, Our first scene was when Nixon walked through the school corridors and heard the different types of teaching, (Miss Whitem and Mr. Basford). My interpretation of Mr. Basford (the deputy head teacher) shows that he was angry and a strict teacher and that his life revolved around good math’s results and good grades. I did this by shouting and speaking in a fast pace. This shows that Mr. Basford knew what he was going to say next because he had said the same sentences over and over again. This also means that we showed how long Mr. Basford has been at this school. We did this because it shows that Mr. Basford’s life revolves around the school and the grades, this is what are intentions were for this scene.

 

Another scene in the play Teechers that we selected was when Mr. Nixon arrives late at his first class, drama class. My interpretation of Hobby (best friends with Gail) was that she was continually eating and that she had no presence about her/ she was nonchalance to what others thought about her. Also that she is a shy character that might want a boyfriend. I showed this by the way I sat, I was slouched on a chair and my legs were wide open. This shows that she doesn’t care what people see. This could also imply that she may feel like no boys look at her in a sexual way and that the only way boys will look at her, is if she sits with her legs wide open. We did this to show that Hobby might want a boyfriend and she secretly wants to be as flirty as Gail.  And these were our intentions in this scene.

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In this scene I was Mr. Nixon who had just arrived at his first day of work at Whitehall. I was walking through the corridor as I watched the different types of teachers at work. I showed the different teaching by my reactions, which showed the relationship between my characters to the different teaching style. This was achieved by being shock when Megan (who was Mr. Basford) was shouting and me being amused when Charlotte (as Mrs. Whitam) tried to quiet down her class. I did this to show that MR. Nixon is from a completely different school, and that he isn’t used to being in this area. Even though I showed him as being confused with the attitude of the classes, I wanted him to show that he has a determination to make things better.

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We performed our group assessment on the play ‘Teechers’, in the first scene I played Hobby. Gail, Hobby and Salty are all really over excited with the fact they are leaving, Salty repeatedly shouts ‘Knackers’ to show freedom, he lets all his emotions out. They go through everything that they aren’t going to miss about their school. Hobby is constantly eating showing she is uncomfortable in herself, and eats to be happy. Gail chews her gum and twirls her hair to show she is girly, confident and makes her look in charge. We are all on stage for the whole of this scene, I would mostly sit down out of the way to show I am not as confident as Gail and Salty, I would be quite blunt with my voice and again, eating. I did all this because Hobby is very quiet, she doesn’t really like to be noticed, Hobby is quite a large girl so she shadows behind Gail, this is why she is not confident and eats to hide this.

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My interpretation of "Teechers" showed my understanding of John Godbers play in many different ways. One way I did this was by useing many types of multi rolling in my scenes. For example in one scene I played Mrs whitam who has a soft and calming voice but is known as a push over to her pupils, she has a very hard time controlling her pupils as they are out of control and crazy. I played the character Mrs Whitam by being very fragile and nervous when teaching her students. In the same scene I then switched to the character of Gail who is a student in Whitewall school who is uncontrollable and demanding in the way she acts. I played Gail by being flirtatious and talkative in lessons and outside of school.  This then meant for each different character I had to change my voice, and body language to show I knew how to interpret many different characters in my scenes, which showed I understand how to multi roll.

  

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In our opening scene we explored different drama mediums such as music/sound, use of space. We chose to interpret Godbers characters as young and fresh and we showed this through our use of inappropriate dance moves showing our immaturity. The music we used was well known and showed that we interpreted John Godbers characters as regular yet lively kids that, like any other normal kid, love music. The music heightened the atmosphere and the impact of energy from our first scene affected all our other scenes as well. Also, we travelled round the entire stage during our performance varying from using all the space on stage and the audience. This was to indicate that we were playing characters that were confident and feel dominant in their own space. Our opening scene showed many levels as we explored the different levels we could achieve on stage. We had moments on the florr, crouching, jumping , standing and even on a chair. The use of blocks and chairs were used throughout the performance as props to add emphasis to our lines. For example, Gail and Hobby hid behind a block at the thought of Oggy Moxon, emphasized their fear of him.

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Our interpretation of John Godbers play was the characters would have a large difference between each one. Oggy would be more of an excitable miky taking character rather than one that would step right up to people and puff his chest out as if he was about to punch someone. Gail would also be excitable but with a subtle flirtyness about her. Hobby would be a self-conscious character who would always look to find her way into the limelight. Salty would be a character that would play everything cool as if he knew about anything and everything. In our scenes we showed our characters I think quite clearly. We tried a little bit of a comedic side to characters like Mr Nixon. We showed the comedic side of Mr Nixon most probably in the dirty magazine scene, during the conversation between him and Oggy. The excitable and subtle flirtyness of Gail was probably shown best during the scene where Gail and Hobby where talking about Mr Nixon coming to the Christmas dance and how Gail was going to snog him. All three characters in the car scene I think where very well plaid especially Mr Nixon and Gail, the way there was a constant awkwardness between them was a big factor in creating a scene that really sucked in the audience, this also meant that we were really able to gauge into the minds of the characters that we were playing and play them as though they were really us. This helped allot as it meant that we were able to perform with fluency and this scene rather easily.

During our class module of ‘Teechers’, I was involved in the scene which was when Oggy Moxon and Mr Nixon had a heated argument in front of a massive group of Whitewall high school students. Ella’s Interpretation of oggy showed understanding and domination over the whitewall students. This was shown by Ella changing her whole facial expression and appearance by clenching her jaw to show anger and arrogance.  By Ella showing this facial expression shows her understanding of the Character of oggy moxon. Oggy moxon grew up in a pub surrounded by violence and inappropriate language, so this whole surrounding and a violent environment from a young age.  Ella played oggy to be full of arrogance and to have a huge ego by her changing body language, alternatively when I played Oggy Moxon in the scene of Oggy inviting Gail to his party I used a soft voice. I decided to use this voice drop to express his affection for Gail. I did this by having a softer and less common vocal voice and also a more tender look in my eyes. This showed his effect for gail and slight expression of love. However when I  finishing up my scene I said ‘oh where something easy to get off your luck might be in’ the use of this speech showed oggy moxon cheekiness and rudeness slightly coming into to play. This then reassured gail that oggy was a a rude, stuck up average teenage boy. This is cause oggy moxon never usually shows this side of him as he is known for being tough.

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Discuss the intentions of your character how were they shown?

My Intentions - When I played Mr. Basford (deputy head teacher) I needed to show that I was angry and a strict teacher I needed to show this more and to show the audience the Mr. Basford was a serious character I think I could have done this better. I needed to do this by shouting, being loud and to stand up straight. I need to do this because by standing up strait and being loud shows that I am a very strict teacher and doesn’t take no for an answer.  Also when I was playing the part of Mr. Nixon I needed to be a lot more nevus but trying to stand his ground I didn’t do this very well. I needed to show this when Mr. Nixon was having a confrontation with Oggy Moxion when Mr. Nixon said ‘I am going to report you’ severly time this show he was trying to stand his ground. Also I needed to play him as a nevus character when Oggy get right up in his face Mr. Nixon. I showed this by shakes and walks back. I did this because I wanted the audience to how serious I was playing the character.   

Hannah Williams

Discuss the intensions of your character. How were they shown?

During our class production ‘Teechers’, I was involved in the first scene which was when I was Mrs. parry, It was the part where Jordan was explaining about Mrs. Parry coming up on stage in school assemblies talking about educational matters when really she would like to say ‘Knackers school’. For this part I was only on stage for a few moments, as I had to walk across stage and mime. When I walked across the stage, I lead with my arm out in front of me, to lead the way, in the direction that I was walking. I then moved my arms around me in very big circular motions, to show that I was explaining something. Then I put my hands together at the end and said ‘Knackers School’. The reasons for doing these actions instead of just simply walking across the stage, is because Mrs. parry is a very large framed woman, with big over the top actions, with a loud opera voice to match. So by exaggerating my actions, it showed that I was playing a big over the top character. My next scene was playing Gail performing with Grace (who played Oggy). During this scene I was talking about Oggy and saying what he was like. Gail is quite a flirty girl, but she is also quite slutty, and chavvy, so as you can imagine she can be quite mean to the people she doesn’t like. Gail doesn’t really like oggy, so I had to show this, which I did by backing away, although Gail always has to look quite flirty. I showed this by twiddling my hair and standing with my arm resting on my waist, this also showed that I had a bit of an attitude. For my last scene I was playing Maureen Witham who is quite the opposite to Gail, she is a hopeless old teacher who doesn’t really know how to teach properly, but she is also quite quiet with a high pitched voice. I played the small part where I go over to Jeff and talk to him about the times Ed. I spoke in quite a high pitched voice, to show that I am a nice lady, and then when Jeff said ‘No I’m not into that’ I said ‘Oh’ then sat down next to him. I began to feel sorry for him at this point, and by sitting down next to him, it showed that I was there for him, when I was giving him advice. I also toned down my voice to show that I wasn’t trying to bug him, by having quite a high – pitched voice and being quite jolly, when he was clearly upset, with his face buried in his hands.

 

Dicuss the use of lighting and sound in Teechers. How did it add to the plays intensions?

During the production the Lighting and music had to be thought of carefully because it was constantly changing. At the beginning of the production when the audience was entering the auditorium, we had a Pink Floyd song being played; it was being played quite loudly, this showed that immediately the audience would have an opinion of what they were about to experience. The loud music makes you think that the school is going to be quite loud and disruptive, making it not a very good school! Compared to if it was a production about a private school, the music choice would be very different. Throughout most of the production, the lighting was very bright, this was because we didn’t want the audience to be in darkness, instead we wanted them to always feel involved and engaged, and we wanted them to feel like they were in the school with us, like they were a part of it. There were quite a few big monologues that people had to perform, so the lighting was changed for this, instead of bright lighting we changed it to a spotlight, so that the audience was only focusing on that one person in the middle of the stage, doing this also meant that the person speaking and performing could give direct eye contact to each member of the audience.

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Discuss the intentions of your character. How were they shown?

One of my scenes was when I played Mr. Basford (deputy head) and I was having an argument with Mr. Nixon (drama teacher) over the education system and how all schools should be fair. Mr. Nixon believes that everyone has the right to the same standard of education no matter what the family situation is or how much money is available. However Mr. Basford doesn’t care, as long as his kids have the best education possible. When I played Mr. Basford, I used a cane as a prop. I used this in a way that I walked on it and used it to show anger by pointing it at Mr. Nixon when we were arguing. This is because it shows his aggression towards Nixon and his lack of care that he is invading Nixon’s space and threatening him with a weapon.  I also tapped my hand with it impatiently before the argument got louder and more aggressive. This shows Mr. Basford doesn’t care what Mr. Nixon has to say and is just using his cane to show this to him because he doesn’t think Nixon is worth it until he says something that involves or angers him. Basford also paces around the room while he is explaining his actions to Nixon. He does this slowly and at his own pace to show his authority and power over Nixon. Basford slams a chair on the floor halfway through the argument. He shouts over it at the same time. He loudly shouts and slams the chair to show he is very passionate about the subject and cares an awful lot about the outcome of the argument. It also shows his anger at Nixon and that he wants to beat him because he disagrees with him.

 

 

 

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Redirect a scene

I think the scene where Oggy Moxon (The school hard nut) and Mr. Nixon have an argument, needs to be redirected. This because the performance was more of a standoff, but I think it should be Oggy ripping Nixon apart. This could be done by having Oggy Moxon circle around Nixon and getting the crowd to side with him. This would show that Oggy has control over the teachers and that the school are scared of him and let him argue with teachers and mock them in front of other students. It would also show his confidence and how he knows that he can threaten teachers and get away with it. From the point of view of Nixon, it would show the audience that maybe he isn’t all that he thought he was and that he still has much to learn about life at Whitehall (the school he works at). Dennis could stop being so active and jumpy when Nixon turns up and be more cool. To do this he should just stop when he sees Nixon, and then act all cool and follow after Oggy. This is because I think it would show the audience that the whole school can have a go at the teachers and get away with it, suggesting the school is rather bad.

 

 

I believe that the play was good because it was full of energy and made the audience laugh, but at the same time it had serious scenes to progress the plot. I think the audience were engaged because they didn’t know where it was going next as I am sure they didn’t predict that they would be involved. This makes them stay on the edge of their seat, but at the same time entertains them.  

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Discuss the use of lighting and sound in “teechers”. How did it add to the plays intentions?

Lighting and sound played a big role in the production “teechers”. The song by Pink Floyd, we don’t need no education, was played at the beginning of the production. This was to show what type of school Whitehall is. The audience gets an understanding that the school may not be posh, the children don’t care about education and the teachers are struggling. When there was a school disco the children pretended to be teachers by using dance movements from the 80’s. This was to show the audience that pupils do not dance like teachers. The song hit me baby one more time, by Britney spears, was used as this song is from the 90’s. Also later on in the next scene Mr Nixon, the new drama teacher, hits Oggy Moxon (the hard nut at Whitehall). The song hit me baby one more time is used again. This is supposed to be comical as Nixon is hitting a pupil just as the song says “hit me”. At the dance Gail, a student who fancies Mr Nixon, goes up to Nixon at the dance and throws herself in his arms. The song lady in red is played whilst the pair is dancing and the tempo is changed half way during the song to show the audience that Gail wants more to happen. In the scenes where there is only one person on the stage, the spotlight is always on them, this draws the audience’s attention to that one person.

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What scene was I most impressed with?

The scene that I thought that had the most feeling and the most thought and effort gone in to it, was brad and Callum’s scene.  It impressed me a lot as both their facial expressions and body language had shown true meanings to the audience.  The way they used the space and walked around and didn’t corpse and made the audience feel involved was fantastic. They used their words very strongly and in a powerful way. They had performed this so well because they had practiced hard and felt strongly for this particular scene.  They also made it really believable and as their tone and pitch of their voices changed  they really made it feel like a power ful scene.  They had changed the tone and pitch of both their voices  to make it seem like they are generally being serious  and they ment what they were saying.

 

 

What was  my thoughts on the sound and lighting of the play teechers?

 

My thoughts of the lighting, I think it went well because when we needed a spot light it came on at the right time and went well with the scene of whatever one it was . In the disco scene there was a disco ball and it filled the whole room with a rotating light of glimmer and shine, which made it seem like a actual disco.  Made it seem like real life and got everyone involved.  We put a disco and there was lighting up anyway so all we had to do is turn them on and switch them off at different times. The sound matched our school enviriment  because it was a ruff school and it was lould and came on at the right times and it all went brilliant.

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The character I played was called Gail Saunders. She has a crush on the new drama teacher. She was a flirtatious, spoilt, promiscuous teenage girl, with a high sense in fashion. My intentions were to show this as my character to the audience. What I did to portray this was

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Redirecting a Scene and Thoughts on the Performace

 

One of the only scenes in our drama performance that I think could have been directed better is the intense scene between Mr Nixon (the school’s drama teacher) and Oggy Moxon (the school bully and hardnut). This is because the argument is supposed to go on between the two of them whilst a massive crowd gathers to cheer them on. However, in the scene that we performed, there wasn’t a massive crowd. Instead, there was just an argument between Oggy and Nixon whilst Dennis (Oggy’s weedy friend) took on the role of the cheering crowd. When we actually performed the play to the audience, the person who played Dennis forgot to mention that “a massive crowd had gathered”.  I think that it would have been better if a crowd had gathered or the actors offstage had shouted remarks at the characters to show that the students at the school liked to watch a fight which suggests that they are from quite a rough, violent area. This also would have made it clearer to the audience. I would also redirect the scene so that the gap between where Nixon and Oggy stood clearly got smaller as they got closer to each other and the fight became more intense because I feel that this was unclear in the performance and would have been quite effective had it been carried out properly. 

Overall, I think that our class performance went very well as everybody remembered their lines and queues which meant that it ran smoothly and the audience did not feel awkward. As the show went on, the actors began to feel more confident which showed in their performances as their characters became more exaggerated and confident.

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discuss a scene that needs improving

I think that the scene with Mr. Nixon, oggy and Dennis needed to be improved because all but Dennis didn't show engagement in this scene. This scene is when scruffy Dennis is given a porn magazine by Oggy moxon, Mr. Nixon argues with oggy and almost gets himself hurt, it was Mr. Nixon’s first encounter with a school bully. He doesn’t go about it as well as he could have done. Personally I think that Charlie toomer played Oggy too quietly when oggy is meant to be vicious and full on, Charlie needed to make his voice louder and stand with a better posture. This would show that oggy thinks he owns the school and is very powerful, it also shows that he thinks he’s bigger than the other kids and stands above everybody else. Ryan Dennis was playing Mr. Nixon, I wasn’t happy with the way he played it because he was too subtle when confronting oggy moxon, he should have been acting as if he were in charge, after all Mr. Nixon is a teacher. He also should have been louder because no matter who a teacher is talking to the teacher will always be loud and make himself look like the bigger person and make himself look in charge. I was happy with the way mason acted as if he was Dennis; he portrayed himself as if he were a young lad looking at his first porn magazine. he got really exited and was shaking as if he'd discoverd a new species

 

talk about my performance, what was good and what was bad

I think that I performed well in the scene where my character Mr. Nixon had a run in with Mr. Basford who was played by Callum, they had a disagreement and we had to act out an argument. We both rose our voice as the scene heated up and we both used body language to show we had strong opinions, for example for a few of my sentences I would poke him in the chest to show I disagreed and what I thought had to be heard. I wasn’t happy with the scene I played as Mr. Nixon when I tried to control the class and they were just ignoring me, I should have been a lot more aggressive and I should have shouted to show I was angry and wanted their attention.

 

I was very pleased with how the whole play went, we had great feedback and I think it went very successfully. My mum said the whole cast performed well and showed they also really wanted to get involved. The way our class performed got the audience very involved I also think the lighting helped with this because it feels like we are not in a drama room but in the school that the actors were pretending to be. We made the audience feel like this by picking some of the audience up and getting them involved.

wibbons

Discuss the intentions of your character. How were they shown?

                For the opening of our performance of teachers I was playing the role of Salty. Salty is a student at the secondary school and is the character that is performing the drama play within our play. He is a loud and energetic character that comes on to the stage with lots of energy and confidence. When Salty is first introduced into the play the audience knows straight away that he is a child that is restless and hyperactive. To display this to the audience I spoke loudly and never stopped moving. I sway my arms around and walked about when the other characters on stage with me were talking. I shouted my first line and strongly emphasized my other lines. My intentions of playing the role of this character this way were too show the audience that Salty is a mischievous character that is all ways causing trouble and annoying the people he is with. By shouting and talking to the audience and not leaving them alone showed that I was not going to be quiet and that I loved to bother everyone.  Also in the production I played the role of Nixon, a drama teacher at the school, he is an easy going teacher that has quite a laid back teaching style. I played Nixon as quite a relaxed character but in one of the scenes was depressed and angry. In the scene when Nixon was depressed I put my hands on my head and sat down facing the floor, I talked slowly and sighed multiple times. I kept shouting at the people in my class and ignoring what they were saying, then at the end of the scene I jumped to my feet and shouted and gestured to with my hands. The intention of having my hands on my head was to show the audience I was depressed and didn’t want to look/face anybody. Looking at the floor shows I was feeling down and didn’t want to be teaching in the lesson. The fact I was ignoring what the people where saying was to show that I was not focused and I was distracted by my depression. The constant shouting of the two girls in his lesson were building up to the final point of when Nixon jumps to his feet and the anger over takes his depression as I shouted at the top of my voice to tell them to put there hands on their heads and their fingers on their lips. Using hand gestures in the seen just emphasizes my anger.

Katie Miller

Intentions Of My Character

In teechers I played the role of Hobby, a under confident shy chav, who goes to whitewall school. The first impressions I got from reading Hobby’s lines is that she is bored most of the time and doesn’t want to be in whatever situation she is in. For example in the scene I was in, The scene where Gail, flirty character, and Hobby are telling their Drama teacher,Mr Nixon, about the plays they have done before in drama, Hobby seems disinterested . She says the line ‘We done it’ A few times, this shows she is bored and doesn’t care what is going on around her or what Mr. Nixon has to say. I also think she has a manly aggressive nature about her. When I played hobby I made my actions slower and acted lazier. I also ate a mars bar in between lines to show she is always eating. I played the character of Hobby like this because of the stage directions and the manner of in which she speaks. I also created a picture of Hobby in my head and tried to make it come across in the way I played her. As We didn’t have set costumes for each character, we just wore uniform, If we did have costumes I think Hobby would of worn a hoddie as it shows she doesn’t really care. A few other people played the character of Hobby as well as me. Alice and Sophie played hobby as an Aggressive manly character. They Changed their accent, the changed their accent to a low, deep tone. This showed she was quite intimidating and manly. This adds to the fact she may be shy and under confident as she doesn’t like her voice or personality.

Lighting and Sound

In teechers we used sound and lighting throughout the show to create tension, build up scenes, to make people stand out and to set the scene. We also used sound and lighting in the show to improve our performance. Lighting was used for every scene in the show. For example in the scene where Gail, a flirty character, and Hobby, a shy character, are telling their Drama teacher,Mr Nixon, about the plays they have done before in drama, when another student,Peter Saxon , approaches Mr. Nixon and starts a speech about drama;A spotlight was used to single him out and to make everyone focus on him, everyone also cleared the stage so that he could be alone while he carried out his speech. This was done to create tension and to make people feel intimidated by his height, as he is a tall character. It was also done to show the types of students that go to whitewall. There was also a big use of sound within Teechers. Sound was used to set the scene; it was used as a transition from scene to scene and was used to relate to the scene, so the type of music would relate to what was happening in the scene. For Example, in the Disco scene where Gail and Hobby are at the disco waiting for Mr. Nixon, the music is disco style and upbeat. As soon as Mr. Nixon arrived a slow song came on, creating the perfect moment for Gail to appear in Mr. Nixon’s Arms, ready to receive the kiss she had been waiting all night for. ‘Hit me baby one more time’ By Britney Spears was used at the start of the scene to show the upbeat side of the disco but as soon as Mr. Nixon arrived the music changed to ‘Lady In Red’ a perfect song for Gail and Mr. Nixon to dance to. The song ‘Hit me baby one more time’ Was used to show upbeatness, fun and chaos with in the disco, whereas ‘Lady In red’ was used to show a serious romantic side to the disco and scene.