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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.