2 november- 7 november

This week in Class we focused primarily on running through the play and fixing anything we thought was wrong. It took us ruffly two lessons to finish the play so the play it self should last around an hour and 40 minutes. On tuesday Miss Cordell gave us targets to work on for next week. My target was to fix my body language. So far I have researched what makes a child bully and what they think it is going to achieve as a way of seeing what a bully thinks and feels so that I can use these feelings in the performance. To do this I read an article online from 'www.bullying.co.uk' This article has given me some insight on what causes a child to bully. The pages lists the following reasons as why a child would bully. 1.feeling powerless 2.low self-esteem 3.trying to get admiration and attention from friends 4.fear of being left out if they don’t join in 5.not understanding how someone else is feeling 6.taking out their angry feelings 7.a culture of aggression and bullying 8.being bullied themselves I find numbers 3, 4 and 8 very interesting as I feel the directly relate to my character. I feel the only reasons Micke bullies is to seem big in front of Jimmy and to avoid being bullied and hit by Jimmy like Jonne is. To work on my body language I mostly rehearsed my lines in front of a mirror and I researched a lot into bullying cases and stories of child violence. I also looked at what I do when I am saying my lines. I noticed that I never really make eye contact with who I'm talking to. This is something that I have worked on again by running my lines whilst looking into a mirror. One book that really stood out to me when I researched violent acts committed by children was the book 'The lord of the flies' by William Golding. This book demonstrates what people are capable of when they are left without any laws or punishments. The book is about a group of children being evacuated during the second world war and their plane crashing onto an island. The pilot is killed and the children are left to fend for themselves. In the book the character of Roger is the most terrifying as he enjoys hurting others. He even goes so far as to kill the character Piggy by dropping a giant bolder into him from a height. I also feel that the character of Piggy is Shockingly similar to Oskar. Piggy is bullied by the group and is an outcast. The only friend Piggy has is Ralph who tells Piggy to fight back against the bullies. This is incredibly similar to Oskar and Eli, not only is Oskar called piggy by Micke and Jonny but Oskars only friend is Eli who tells him to fight back. Also Oskar is nearly killed by Jimmy who holds Oskar's head underwater. Jimmy is very similar to Roger as he enjoys hurting people and gets a power trip out of it. During fridays lesson we finished the play and we worked on all our movement pieces. I still feel that some of the pieces could be improved but most of them work fine as long as we keep rehearsing them so that we do not get out of practice.