GIF THREE!

This GIF is showing Sophey taking Katie away from her friends. It doesnt show this clearly so that is an issue that needs to be sorted out!

GIF TWO!

This GIF is showing Holly stealing from her mothers bag, so that she can buy new expensive clothes!

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GIF ONE!

This GIF is of Luke getting bullied because of who he is.

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Other art form.

My other art form is visual arts and for this I am making a powerpoint full of things called ''GIFS''. GIFS are a range of pictures put together to make a moving image. These are going to show the forms of betrayal that the characters go through in their everyday lives. These will be shown as a powerpoint behind the acting going on. We are not sure when they're going to be played yet but hopefully we will figure that out soon.

My Characters Role on my wall!

Character research!

Regina George; Mean girls.

I've took some inspiration of Regina George the mean girl on mean girls. I've been researching this character and watching some of the scenes she is in so I can take some things on board and use them in my performance. Regina George is the girl everyone is intimidated by. Everyone wants to be her, she always has the best clothes and always has to looks her best no matter what she is wearing. She is a extremely mean and cruel character, I don't think I will be as mean and bitchy as she is but I will be taking some inspiration off her character.

Lucy Beale; Eastenders.

Lucy Beale from Eastenders is not exactly a mean character, well she is in her own way. But, she always has to have her own way and she doesn't give up in till she finds out what is going on. She is also quite snappy and secretive. I think she is a good character to take influence off because this is how I want my character to be. I watch Eastenders all the time so I have seen a lot of the work Lucy has done.

Our new idea! :D

Our new idea and the idea we are now sticking with is to do an inbetweeners alike sketch about 6 friends going camping up the mountain. 

Characters.

Emily is playing a girl who is extremely clumsy, so she is always falling about places, forgetting things and loosing things.

Luke is playing a nerdy type character who is not friends with us but the lads thought it would be funny to bring him along so they can make his night hell. 

Holly is playing a dumb girl who complains every second of the day and never puts the mirror down. She is so self obsessed and she is not the brightest spark. She also always over dresses to go places.

Katie is playing a camp/gay character who hangs round with the populars.

Sophey is your popular high school boy who gets all the girls and bullies the people who he does not associate the same as him. For example she bullies the nerd.

I am playing your typical ''bitch'' who you get in nearly every performance. I am always snappy, boss people around and rise my voice a lot if something is not going my way.

Idea.

Basicly our idea is that a group of pupils from a high school go camping up the mountains one night for a laugh. They bring a long a ''geek'', as you would say, because they want to terrorise him. They gained his trust to come with them but all they do is make his life a living nightmare. Whilst they are up in the mountains nothing goes right for them as a lot of things keep going down hill for example; the bags go missing and the tent sets on fire, along with many more catastrophes. It turns out to be an awful night but defiantly one to remember!

How we explore betrayal.

Our form of betrayal is literally gaining some ones trust but making their life a living nightmare. Which also is bullying which is a form of betrayal also.

Similarities and differences.

I think they are both very different and they are two completely different forms of betrayal, they are not much alike. Ghost is a musical and Eastenders is a soap, so that makes them completely different in many ways but they do have the odd similarity like they both explore some sort of betrayal. They both are related to some sort of relationships from family relationships to love relationships.

My personal opinion is that Eastenders explores betrayal best because it is more realistic and you get to know the characters more, which makes you get into the storyline. It gets you more curious on what is going to happen and you understand what is going on.  But Ghost explores betrayal in a more exciting and interesting way because it is a musical so it is livelier, colourful and eye catching, which I suppose is more exciting for the viewers to watch. But they are both winners in my eyes in different ways, but I’d have to say Eastenders explores betrayal in a more detailed and realistic way.

Today we have made a story board for our final idea and we have improvised the first scene of the performance. We also have been researching characters that we can take influence from.

Our first idea.

We came did another mind map of the ideas we wanted to do;

Our idea was to have a car crash and have news reports projecting in the back ground every time there is an update of the crash, the news reporter was going to make up a whole story which is a lie just for publicly this causes fall outs and betrayal between the family of the victim. The victim was then to get bullied because of the stories being told but he is getting bullied over the internet.

Later on, after we had feed back of the teacher; we decided that this idea was to complicated to handle with in such a short amount of time so we are planning to come up with a new idea next lesson.

Our first idea.

Today we made a mindmap of all the things we would associate with Betrayal;

Prelimanary Study 2; Eastenders.

Preliminary Study 2; Eastenders.

We are looking at a soap opera called Eastenders, Eastenders is set in the East of London it has been running since 1985. It is a very popular and highly loved programme and always has a exciting story line. The story line we are looking at is the Ben Mitchell and Phil Mitchell story. Ben is jealous because his dad Phil never has time for him, doesn’t pay attention to him, leaves him out and does not have faith in him. Phil dedicates all his to his fostered son Jay. Because of this Ben betrays Phil by going behind his back and telling the police his biggest secrets.

Betrayal is represented in this because Ben keeps going behind Phils back telling his biggest secrets and all of his past so that he will get arrested just simply because of his jealousy. Also Ben is lying to Phil everyday and acting like it is normal because Phil has no idea what Ben has done.

I think Eastenders is suitable for any age, so it is addressed for families. This is because it is highly suitable for people at an elderly age to people in their childhood. This is because there is not any foal language and it is aired at a suitable time which is at either at seven thirty or eight o’clock.

My personal response on Eastenders is that I love the programme. I think the story line is always very effective and the story line between Ben and Phil has always been exciting to watch. I think it is very realistic in many ways because it would be the same as it would be if the same thing was ever to happen to a normal person. The thing I found most interesting is the fact Ben and Phil are extremely good actors, they can show their emotion really well and are in character all the time!

The style of Eastenders is very naturalistic. The camera work is very realistic it makes you feel as if you are part of it or you are there with them, Also they have a lot of close ups, the close ups catch really intense moments and it shows you how the characters are feeling just by the expression on their face. The set is also very realistic because it’s a real house, garage, etc. The sound effects are diagetic for example you actually hear the door shutting unlike if it was a musical they would add the sound effects in. The lighting is the same as any lighting would be in the day time and the costume they are just regular costumes an average person would wear. The end of the episode there is a close up on Ben and he says happy birthday dad in a very sarcastic way, after he says that as they call them the ‘dum dum dums’ are added in as a cliff hanger. This makes it a whole lot more dramatic, exciting and effective for the viewers. When it is close up it really shows his emotion and it is really good.

Preliminary Study 1; Ghost the Musical.

Our preliminary study is Ghost the musical. It is about a couple from New York called Sam and Molly who are madly in love. Molly is a potter and Sam works in a bank. In Sams bank he suspects some foul play going on and so, he finds out that it is his bestest friend doing dodgy work in the bank. His friend kills Sam because no one must know what he has been up to. Sam comes back as a ghost and haunts Molly because her and the killer are getting friendly and he is worried something will happen to Molly. So, Sam tries to tell Molly through a physic what happens to him. So she is safe.

This relates back to betrayal because his best friend went behind his back doing stuff in his bank and he found out so that means the ‘’best friend’’ would have to kill him so no one would find out what he has been doing. Then he tried to get friendly with Molly now that he was not here because he knew he could get her. So it’s betrayl against friendship.

The target audience is for people age 16 and above. This is because there’s a lot of violence and killing involved. Also it can be for people who love the film as Ghost is a very popular film so the audience was brought into see it as soon as the see that they have made it a musical. It has been out for a number of years so people have grown on it and will love the fact they have made a live musical of it. It’s a moderne performance and people like moderne things.

My personal responce to the piece is that I really enjoyed it. I have never watched the film before in my life but by watching the trailer I got very interested in the preformance. It was very interesting and colourful. It was majourly eye catching and really caught my attention. It made me want to watch the whole thing or go and see it for myself. I liked the bright lights and the fact there was always something going on. It was also very effective and heart warming because you really get to know the characters so you feel sorry for them when something happens. I enjoyed how they used a lot of multi media throughout, I thought it was very cool.

The style of the work is a musical because it involves lots of singing, dancing and acting. The genre is romantic and super natural like a twilight.There was three parts that stood out to me the most. The part where the physic women is singing and dancing. It is very colourful and contains a majour amout of flashing lights. It is very exciting and powerful. It really catches your attention. There is loads of multi media used in the back there’s like crabs and cocktail glasses projected on the back. I suppose it shows that she is a really powerful and bold character. There’s lots of dancers in the back mimicing the women. One of the other parts that stood out was the bit where Sam is killed. Before it shows Sam and Molly on the train, this is so effective and to me is the best use of multi media in the whole thing because you can actually see what looks like a train riding along the track with Sam and Molly on it, It is so clever. They are fighting on the train and it looks so cool because it looks like an actual train but you can see through it and see what is going on inside. At one bit when they’re fighting he pushes him out of the train doors and thety actually open like train doors would. It is quite flashy and there’s a lot of moving around going on. When they eventually stop fighting and Sam is safe and away him and Molly cuddle together because they think they’re safe but then Sam’s friend comes and shoots Sam. At this part there’s a heart beat and a heart monitor in the back. It is so effective and heart warming. I love this part it stands out so much. Another effective bit is the last big where Molly puts on the radio and their song comes and a very loud heartbeat plays which I believe is Sams heartbeat. It is so cute. The lighting is warm and the sounds are loud.

Lighting

One of the main methods is definatly the lighting. There’s very bright lights and they were extreemly flashy and eye catching. When Molly and Sam were together the lighting was very warm like red and pink colours. Also, I noticed If the character was dead their spotlight was blue as if they are alive their lights were bright like yellowy colours. This really does take some skill, It was so effective and clever.

The technology and set.

There is a lot of lighting used and there’s always dancers on the set. There was a lot of projections at the back to show where they were at that point of the performance for example if they were walking through the city at night there was big bright bulidings in the back. It used a lot of multi media throughout. I noticed the projections were almost mimicing the actors of what they were doing like if they walked forward the projection also would go forward.

Costumes.

The costumes were very simple and haven’t had much effort put into them they were more focused on the performance. Obviously they did make effort on them but when I’m trying to say is that it was not a majour aspect. They just wore plain sympol colours.