Holocaust drama stimulus

During our first lesson, as a class we went through a slide understand of different foging pictures. These shocking pictures represent what the Jewish people had to go through during the period in which the Holocaust took place. As a class, we discussed astir(predicate) how we felt looking at these pictures and these aspectings and emotions were going to help us create a new piece of drama later on.The pictures that were being tack in precedent of us make me feel disgusted, it made me feel disgusted that a whole race understructure happily discriminate and wipe come forth a nonher race simply because they did not fit in or because they were not equivalentd. I was shocked and angry because no single took action as no one in reality knew this massacre was taking place. We were going through the slide instal which showed these horrid pictures of honest women, men and even children getting killed, dead in piles of bodies or being in truly bad conditions, these pictures mad e the atmosphere feel different it made the atmosphere feel gloomy and depressing.E rattlin gone who sit d protest in the room went from feeling happy to feeling sad and miserable but suddenly a picture of a man who was behind all of this cruelty came up, at this point all I felt was resentment but I also felt sorrow for him. I felt pity for him because I didnt understand how someone can be this cruel to human beings. When the photograph of soldiers and one of Hitler laughing with some people was juxtaposed with the photos of the Jewish people in the camps it made me feel befogged with different emotions such(prenominal) as anger and sadness.This was a picture which really made me forecast ab prohibited what Jewish people really had to go through. I could see a huge assort of hard encounterted and cold blooded German soldiers at the patronage watching Jews being shot in the back of the head one by one, it seemed like it was some sort of entertainment for them and this was a twenty-four hours to day event. While the soldiers be just watching, a Jewish man is sitting beside his own death delay to join all the others who hold already been sent down. There was nothing he could do to retard him from falling into the death whole. I think there is some sort of juxtaposition in this picture. The soldiers who are enjoying and the Jewish who are next to their death have been put side to side disrespect their differences and despite the contrast amid them. When we were thinking ab come in being a Jewish person it made me feel miserable. People who were Jewish knew they were going to die one day or another, they were just delay for their feeling to be taken by one of the heartless Germans, and living like this everyday with such a thought must have been horrific.I later then employ these closely-built feelings and emotions to help me keep on a strong and realistic character. These feelings made me focus on the character in which I was vie it made m e focus on what the character may have felt like and what the character went through. I then used all these factors to change the tone of my voice and the way I behave then and appropriately to match the character I was playing.Task 1After the discussion we were told to create tierce hush images in our groups. We used all the emotions and feelings that a Jewish person may have had and construe it as our own. The still images had to include a family who represented three stages of their lives1. Life before anything happened2. When they received the letter about what was going to happen to them3. The family falling into pieces1st compose IMAGE Happy family before anything happens.1. The extremum between separately character is different. Brandon is very much higher then the rest, this shows that Brandon has higher authority and is a much important member of the family, they have used height arrangements in a clever way as the audience can speedily spot out who has higher auth ority within the family.2. The group uses mint gestures to try and tell the audience thing. This particular gesture shows that the family are going to eat their dinner this is represented with the way their arms and baseball gloves are positioned. However all the hand gestures are regular hand gestures, the group should have tried using different variations.3. Facial expression has been used to express emotion, khaled has a smile on his sheath this indicates that he is happy. However this expression looks unrealistic so to make this break down khaled should have done a more realistic smile.4. Proxemics has been used by the group to show the place between each character. They are all tightly packed in showing a honest family atmosphere.5. The group has tried to use their physical structure language to show the audience that they are a family who are comfortable around each other. This is done well as they are well packed in unitedly and are slouching in towards each other. T he posture also shows the same(p), the way they are sitting around each other shows that they k instanter each other very well.2ND STILL IMAGE this still image shows the stage in which the family has received shocking news1. Facial expression has been used over again by Brandon to show the emotions. The seventh cranial nerve expressions that have been used by Brandon show that the family are in shock due to something that has happened or due to shocking information they have received. From this image you can see that Brandon has his face wide open while looking at the document. This has been successful as the audience can quickly spot out that Brandon is shocked.2. Hand gestures have been used by khaled. In this image khaled look like he is belongings something such as a young infant or a baby. However, holding a young infant does not fit in the scenario and it seems like it has been put there haphazardly. The group should have picked hand gestures that are connected to the int ernet site.3. The body language and posture between Rebecca and Calleh shows that they are trying to comfort each other as they are in distress this has been done well as they are both very low down and their head are facing downwards while holding each other.4. Proxemics has been used again in this image to show the relationship between ii individual by putting them very close to each other. From the body image of the two characters, we can tell that they are in great distress and they are trying to comfort each other by holding each others arm.5. The levels show you who are more put off within the family and who are in more distress. We can tell that the men are taking the situation calmly although they are in shock but the women are in more distress.3rd STILL IMAGE Stage in which each family member has to quit and make their own way.1. Brandon has used facial expression we can tell that he is not happy in fact he is preferably angry and employee turnover about leaving every one. His facial expressions are kind of powerful as it looks realistic.2. Their postures and body language gives a hint to the audience that they are not happy. Everyone has their head down showing that they are in distress but the character that had the higher authority (Brandon) is looking back at everything.1. Everyone is now at the same height and stages, this shows that they are all at the same stages and shows that they all have the same values and destiny (they were all going to die).2. Gestures have been used, each member have put out their hand, this tells the audience that they do not want to leave each other, and want to come back together as a family. Using arms as a method of connection within individuals is quite powerful.3. Proxemics(the use of s footstep) represent that they are all now separating from each other to go live their own lives, this is shown as they are further apart from each other and there is no way of attack back together.This group told the audien ce something new, we were told that Jewish family were like any other families and they lived a normal life such as having family dinners together. Jewish families had nothing that was different from other families but due to new laws and rules they had to leave each other and its not very easy to leave someone who is part of your family. This group have worked well as a group to show real emotions and all the gestures they have acted out were realistic making the whole performance realistic and effective.We analysed the numbers at first as a class, we could feel the tension around the classroom building up as we were going through the poem. When the poem was being read by the teacher, it felt like a Jewish boy was talking to us directly, it felt so realistic as when the poem was read out, slow and emotional string medical specialty was going on in the background making every individual feel upset and emotional. The confection of the long and short sentences (stanza) makes an imp act. Also I like that the writer has used simple use of phraseology for such a serious situation. However, while analysing the poem I realised that turning such a serious situation into a performance was hard because we had to bring all the different emotions together.When we then got into a group to start a performance, we chose music to accompany our performance. Our group chose music that had a slow pace to it, this fitted in well as our performance in a whole was quite slow. However it was very hard to find unique motions for different sections of the poem.During our performance we put a lot of emphasis on particular watch give-and-takes, at the beginning of our performance one individual verbalize and thrown into the fire. We put emphasis on the term thrown by locution it together at the same clipping with a strong loud voice and the person, who started the sentence alone, finishes the sentence. This made it so much powerful as it tells the audience how bad the Jewish wer e treated and makes the audience think. Also when shouting a powerful word out in a quiet surrounding, the audience gets shocked and feel more emotional towards the performance. When saying it we also dropped on the floor making it more effective as it was quite loud.Lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers we gave each word to different individual and they all express it in unity. I was sitting in the middle as a child who had dreams, then had no hope with each character saying one word that was a career which I could have had. After saying their career they walked off, this showed that the dream I had, has gone and I have now no hope. Saying it unison made an effect as it shows how it not only affected a group of people, but it affected every individual deeply.We also used echoes. We were taken away in the dead of darkness like cattle in cars, no spread to come about The precipitates completely switched off and we all came together in a circle facing outwards. When the ligh t turned back on I started saying we were taken away in the dead of night then another individual said like cattle in cars, no air to breathe. The other two individuals where quietly whispering no air to breathe creating an echo. It made the atmosphere feel tensed and spooky. We could have improved this as the lights were not switched on and off at the correct times not giving us enough time to go into our position, we should have made it clear to the person who was doing the lighting. Also as we panicked about the light we forgot few bits which we had to say together.Smothering, Crying, Starving, Dying, we all had a particular word to say and while saying it got into a position. We were all in a cablegram in a different level. The person who said Smothering were stood higher up and the person who said dying was completely on the floor. This showed the different stages a Jewish person went through. Saying it in unison showed that everyone went through the same stages and ended up in the same place dying. I think this really worked well as saying it in unison and doing the movement to match the word really explained each stage that a Jewish individual had to go through.From the ashes, hear our plea we said hear our plea together as it made it more clear to the audience that ALL the Jewish children were upset and frustrated and wanted someone to listen to them. Our motion to this was sitting on the floor with our arms out looking upwards as if we were praying to have justice and for people to listen to us. I think we could have improved this by saying this together at the same time and improve our timings.This atrocity to manhood can not happen again we shouted out can not together to show our anger against what has happened and show that this certainly cannot happen again. I personally believe this worked well as it showed our anger because we did not shout many things out so shouting these particular words out really meant something.At the end we all got in a line and sat down, we then each said few words from this sentence remember us/, for we were the children/ whose dreams and lives/ were stolen away. After saying our section we looked down and the lights easily switched off. I think this was a good end because it seemed like we came back from dead to give a message to everyone and then went back.I believe that we worked well as a group and rehearsed well towards our performance. We had few errors during our performance in which one individual forgot to say something and some repetition were forgotten but these errors were not noticeable.