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Textual Analysis: The Story We Created In Our Group

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The story we created in our group was about a girl who slowly starts to lose everything; her grades drop, loses her boyfriend and her friends betray her. The story included characters such as the mother of the girl, father, sister, boyfriend, and her best friend. I played the characters of the boyfriend and the father. In order to portray the father I spoke with a low pitch and a slow pace. I crossed my hands to show how angry I was about my daughter’s low grades at school. I used proxemics by standing close to my wife to show that I was on good terms with her. I had a very angry facial expression and did this by changing my fascial expression to show my frustration. At the beginning of the scene when she first enters I was seated at the table …show more content…

We used this every time something bad or negatives happened to this girl. For example, when her boyfriend broke up with her we all froze to show this was an important scene. This was effective because it gave the audience a chance to take in this moment and remember it.
I feel we all worked very well as a group and that resulted in a very good final piece. We all conveyed the character’s feelings very well for example Ali used a higher pitch to portray a younger character, I myself used a deeper tone to signify the father, and Alex used a faster pace to show frustration. We used proxemics to show our relations with the other characters for example: Alex (girl) stood further away from me (boyfriend) after telling her we must break up.
I feel the other group (Blen, Yomna, Maya and Mariam) performed a rather good piece, for they used circular narrative by using the ending at the start of the play. This added suspense to the scene keeping the audience engaged. The group also used explorative strategies very well for example cross cutting was used between the sane version of Blen and the insane version of Blen. To improve this piece I feel the group could have emphasised marking the moment a little more, by adding a distinctive noise or sound to draw the audience’s attention, for I feel freezing is too basic and

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