Unit 5,6,7 - Container and immigration

Context

for this unit we based the lessons on immigration. We were in  a group and spoke about our families and how they immigrated to London.

my story was ... when I was 8 my mum came to the uk to start her career . she came because there  was another child on the way and my dad was already living here. when I came here I didn't know any English and I learnt English within a year but not fluently though.  it took me 3 years to learn it fluently.

Planning 

we were given a task to create a piece on immigration. we had to think of why people migrated to different countries and what could happen when they do migrate. In my group we done a piece on a man swimming across the sea and getting caught  by border patrol .

we were reading a script called the container about people immigrating

to the uk and the characters have different attitude towards each other.

In lesson we worked in groups .

In my group i work with Cinzia , Dani, Shabir, Jorge , Nkechi.

were doing scene 2  and practicing our lines then we got up and acted it out .

then we all intertwined with the other group to start from the beginning 

this week we have been rehearsing our play reading our script and trying to read off script and also practicing  to be more of our character .

research 

 Stanislavskis techniques helps us on stage by putting themselves in the place of the character.
i could use stanislavskis techniques  technique to help me improve on my character jamal.

This week we worked on showing  more emotion to my character jamal when he was accused of working with the agent . my character was offended and angry once told 'i know who i can trust' i showed anger by standing up , rising my voice,using big bold body language and using angry facial expression  when saying: 
"He's the one you shouldn't trust he's an agent , am a refugee you understand ? because thats an important difference. i know about agents this is my third time trying to get into this fucking country thats why i know so much about it . ok ok!" 
In my day to day life I don't express anger very much so this was an interesting experience 



UNIT 7 - PRODUCTION 

Research:
Since Jemal was from Turkey we decided to do research on Turkish music . We chose this so it gives the audience a sense of where the character is from. 

In the play i played the character Jemal. Jemals costume was a old, tattered jacket with a blue pair of jeans . All people that played Jemal would swap jackets when the scene changed so the audience knows who's playing who .