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Week Beginning the 28th April

On Tuesday 28 th April, I had a Zoom call with Rob and my class this morning. We read through the script of “Our Day Out”. As some people were not in lesson, we had to read their lines. Reading the script with my class was very helpful because it made me understand how my character Susan who is a teacher would perform a line. For example, when Reilly says, “Sir’s in love, Sir’s in love!” I would turn to look at him with a raging stare and say, “Watch it, Brian!” in a sharp and angry tone of voice. This shows that Susan is of a higher status as she is a teacher, she has had enough of Reilly’s childish acts and cannot take any more of his behaviour. Whilst reading through the play everyone laughed at the scene when I say my line “Well Brian … I’m here” and “I’m all yours … Handsome” to Louis’ character Reilly, who is a cheeky kid and thinks he is the most good-looking boy in the class. His reaction to those lines is scared and confused, this is because he was messing around and did not...

Week Beginning the 20th April

Mnday 20th April research into radio play  Task 1 – Radio play is presented through sound alone, it needs a script, music and sound effects to keep the audience engaged. These will help the listeners imagine where the story is set, what the play is about and what the characters look like by the actor’s voices. Task 2 – “I am Kanye West” is my first radio play podcast. It was written by Darragh Mortell. The genre is comedy with a twist. The podcast is about a man called Toby Daniels who thinks he is Kanye West. He has been taken to a psychiatric hospital by police after a 999 call was made by his wife. After being released from the hospital he is in a taxi listening to the radio, it mentions Kanye West has been missing. The driver comments that Toby looks like Kanye, the drama finishes with the line “wait, what did you just say?”. The story starts with beeping sounds, nurses talking over each other to a patient who is giving birth. The sounds change to a new scene, ...