Year 9 Conflict
MYP:
Key Concept: Perspective
Related Concept: Expression and Narrative
Global Context: Fairness and development
Statement of Inquiry: We can understand how conflicts arise at home, school and in society through the field of drama.
Inquiry Question: Can controversy be explored through drama to represent different perspectives?
Salma and Adham are the police officers who want to help in the conflict. ( about a fence being built between a house.)
Varun is the neighbor, who is old but is supporting Abdullah for the fences.
Aman, Amirezza and Daniil are the grandkids of Abdullah, who live in the house.
Maya is a sheep herder close to the house.
Michael and Sahil (me) are brothers and the sons of Yassin (the mother) and Abdullah (the father), they also live in the house.
Yassin is the wife of Abdullah and is supporting Abdullah in the stituation about the fences.
Abdullah is the owner of the house, and is annoyed at the person who is building a fence between their houses.
Domestic Abuse Songs
Perfect
The person is trying to be perfect, the person is being told to be perfect. The situation could be within yourself. The parents are telling the child to be perfect. The child is getting pressure from other people.
Silent All These Years
Person is abused by a man and her lips are damaged because of that. She didn't talk about her being abused and she was very silent when she was abused.
Jeremy
A boy who is ignored at school. A boy who is bullied at school, can't contain his anger, so takes it out in the woods. No one cares about him including his parents. He kills himself in front of the class.
Behind the wall
The singer sings it without using the guitar to make the message clearer and emotional. A women is being abused by her husband, the neighbor can hear it, but if the neighbor calls the police, they wont reach on time.
Video Link Commerical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJvFYIpo1eI&feature=youtu.be
Poster
Child Abuse Commerical Reflection
1. What skills do you feel you have developed in this unit?
I developed my stage combat skills by making it more believable, my collaboration skills because I have been working with other people. My acting skills have improved as well because I have learned new types of roles, where as before I didn't get big roles in a performance. I improved my editing skills with new effects and slow motion, making a commercial was also new, so that also was a improvement.
2. What were your greatest successes in this unit?
My greatest successes in this unit was editing the video and getting it done on time. I think we planned our project really well. We communicated by using social media to plan our performance.
3. How did each group member contribute to the portrayal of the story?
Each member completed their specific roles given. My role and Daniil's role were to edit the video by putting effects, adding the tagline and statistic to the video. We also used slow motion to make it better. Famke, Tereza and Nehal acted in the commercial about Child Abuse, and Famke was the person who recorded it as well. They acted well and made it believable.
4. Do you think television/film can change the way we see the world?
Yes it does, people watch the news to know what's going around the world, but also false information could be spread which makes it bad.
5. What reaction did your performance get from the audience, and was it expected or planned for? (what was your original objective?)
The reaction we wanted was emotional and they were emotional while watching our commercial as it demonstrated how child abuse actually is, it looked realistic and that was our objective, to make them believe.
6. How can you apply your newly developed skills and experience to other performance work in the rest of this course is to another subject?
This improved my acting and editing skills, which can help me in the next course for drama. The editing skills will help in ICT, as we might be required to edit videos and etc.
