Joseph's English Journal

Macbeth’s deteriorating mind in different way as a lots of things going through his mind and hes questioning him self that everything he did was useless because he had to kill his best friend to become king, and also  Macbeth was pushing him in a way that she though was right. now his wife lady Macbeth is dead

Macbeth is STRESSING over the death of his wife and is coming to the conclusion that there is no point in living. There is an army outside of his castle, and the thought of it is sending his mind into a frenzy.

I’m writing about my area DAY AND NIGHT

It makes me think of wen someone is in trouble or getting jumped by a group of gang or boys because they don’t like him or tryna rubbed him

when I hear this song I think of headache because the beat of this song like jumping up and down while moving your head mad because it has no rhyme

this makes me think about Sunday morning, waking to up to this makes feel religious  and spiritual loved and other way makes me sad beachside it slow and it feels like funeral

it feels like holiday and happy time  like been at carnival meeting new people and making friends cold beat to dance to still and need a sick rhyme to go with it

it pissful and makes you think  about your future, it calms you down and it get you focus like to read books or revise

Introduction:

What is the social, historical and cultural background of the stimulus? Does it have a defined background?

The main reason for the chain of events leading up to the main event during the play would be Josephs decision to protect his family, by killing another man in self defence. If Joseph had not done this, he’s brother Billy would be dead, and he would not be in prison, but would have to live with regret and guilt of his brothers death. This came from the stimulus of a father and son thinking that they lost each other at war. This loss that they faced had to be forgotten but they lived with it for seven years before they found eachother again. This stimulus had historic relevance as many people lost family members during the war, and the father not only lost his son, but his wife as well. Showing the loss that the father faced and also the joy he found once he had met with his son for the first time since the war.

What is your central question and where has this come from?

My central question is ‘Where is the Love?’. This has come from Billy not knowing why his brother was in jail, and the reason why his family had kept this such a big secret throughout his life. This is the reason why Billy thinks that nobody loves him, and turns to drugs, alcohol, and crime. This idea was developed form the loss of the mans son, and wide. I thought that after loss like this, people may deal with it in different ways showing different emotions.

What possible drama scenarios, characters, potential dramatic tensions/conflicts might exist or be developed from the stimulus?

After making the stimulus more relevant to todays world the feeling of loss and being unloved can be developed through the use of a meeting between a man and his younger brother in prison. With the older brother explaining the reason why he had to leave his brother, the younger of the two can finally be at peace within himself. After finishing the rest of his sentence, the younger brother would leave prison and prove to his mum that he was the good guy that she always thought he was. He would go back to school to get his education, leave his old friends and old life behind him, and try to better himself altogether. The relationship between Billy and Joseph would become stronger, this is because they would write to each other, and Billy would go to visit Joseph more often to tell him about his family and what is happening in his new life.

What are your initial ideas?

One of my initial ideas is to develop a relationship between a dad and his lost son during the war. Seven years later, his son would find his father in the hospital that he worked in, his father was very ill and helpless and it was the down to the son to make up for lost time and care for him. Another is to use the idea about the loss and love of the father and son, and make it relevant to todays world. I feel that i could do this by showing where people feel loss and emptiness, in prison. I chose to show this through the use of a broken relationship between a younger brother and and older brother in prison.

What are the pros and cons of your initial idea?

One positive of my initial idea about the two brothers is that it links clearly to my central question of where is the love? The younger brother obviously feels unloved because his older brother, and role model had left him and was serving time in prison. Another positive is that it shows the emotions of the characters and how much the older brother meant to the younger brother in particular. A negative of the idea is that after only two characters during the play. This could mean that the play may be set in one place and conversations are kept between just the two characters.

A positive of my idea bout the father and son is that it shows that after years of suffering, happiness and love can be found again. Also it shows that their love can never be lost, and that although they have not been together for a long time, they do not hate each other and the love is still there. A negative is that it is not set in the present time, and is a time where i do not know much about.

Which ones could be developed further?

I feel that the idea about the two brothers in prison can be developed further because a background story into how each brother dealt with the situation can be shown. Also it can show the journey of how Billy bettered himself as a person in prison, and highlighted that sometimes it takes mistakes to make a person realize that they were doing wrong and that change is needed.

ITEM 2 Monologue, Duologue or Script.

The situation I decided to explore was about the lost family members where the younger brother got sent to jail for robbing a shop. He was using it as an excuse because he was the only one left to look after his mum and his older brother’s child. He spent six months in jail and on his last month he found out that his older brother was in the same jail as him. They set a meeting up between the brothers and the older brother asked him what he had learnt from being in jail and what can he change from that to help him improve. The younger brother told his older brother he was going to get his education, look after his mum and his older brother’s child. The older brother snapped and told him to stop making excuses and start looking after himself before others. The younger brother told his older brother that he felt alone he didn’t know where his brother was and what was happening. He told his brother that he was his role model and he looked up to him and when he left he had no one to look up to and that adds up to what is going on in his life at the moment. Tears came to the older brother’s eyes and he asked, with an emotional voice, “I was?” and he said, “sorry I didn’t know I was that important in your life. He also said, “you should look at the people you hang around with because not everyone is your friend and is not happy with the things you are doing in life. He told him to write a letter to their mum saying to accept him for who she thought he was and he is ready for a change and to start a new life.

What characters appeared? Joseph and Billy. Joseph went to jail for protecting his family. He stabbed someone in his neck in self defense and the person died on the spot and Joseph got life in jail. He is 20 years old and is the older brother of Billy who is 17. Billy was the younger brother that got left in the dark by not knowing why Joseph left his house.

How did you develop the characters in the play? I developed the characters from the research I did about a family that lives in South London, New Cross.

How did you play your character to communicate with the audience? I used my character to communicate with the audience with emotional voice and emotional music in the background which helped the audience to feel like they are apart of what is happening on stage or they can relate to it. The body language I used when the brothers first meet is angry and Joseph stood up from his chair and shouted at Billy.

How did you use improvisation to develop your piece? I developed my piece by carrying on even if my partner made a mistake I would stay in character and not look at the audience and continue with my role.

Item 3 Design Idea

What is your design idea? The characters are in Jail and are wearing different colour jumpsuits representing different ages. Orange represents over 18’s and the grey represents under 17’s.

Where would the design idea be used?

How does this idea communicate ideas about a character? This idea communicates about the character by telling the audience the different ages they are and why they are in jail.

How does this design idea communicate ideas about mood? Joseph was angry when he saw his younger brother in the grey jumpsuit as he didn’t want him to be in the jail. He wanted a better life for him outside.

Mrs. joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. And she’s out now, making it bakers doze.

Is she?

Yes, Pip, said joe; and whats worse, she’s got Tickler with her.

At this dismal intelligence, i twisted the only button on my waited coat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. Tickler was wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickler frame

It about old guy who have been in caring for over seven years without seen his wife and kid, his wife died but he wouldn’t remember because he has short memory from the bullet that hit him in his head.

his son billy visit him in hospital and bring him some new clothes to change to but he couldn’t even remember his son was, he getting back his memory when he touches his clothes and he was socked when his son told him about his grandson Dylan that makes him start crying he doesn’t who his grandson was or what he look like

later on that day his son bring his grandson to visit him for the first and that bring smile on his face as hie have the chance to see his grandson and tell how much hes misses home and wanna go back, they took him to toilet to bath him but he drop dead oh the way.

the historical and cultural background is about lost and moving on, is about a guy that lose his wife during the war and his son call billy who was missing and losing his son and wife drive him

• What was the situation you decided to explore within your rehearsed improvisation? Where did it come from? Were there any other scenarios that you discarded? Why did you discard them?

• What characters appeared within your improvisation? What details did you decide about them (e.g. age, gender, background, attitudes)? How did you develop these?

• How did you develop the character that you played? Did you base your character on a particular person/story/research you completed? Where did the character come from? i played as old guy who have lost his wife and son during the and lost his memory from the stress and from losing his family and later ob find his son, found out his wife is dead and his have a grand son

• How did you play your character to communicate this to your audience? How did you use voice/movement/body language to communicate effectively to your audience? play my character to communicate to the audience by using my emotions and trying to feeling the same pain the old guy is feeling

• How did you use improvisation to develop your piece?

• How successful was your piece in communicating your central question? What might need to be developed further to strengthen the communication of your central question?

Leave: Too many of Britain’s laws are made overseas by dictates passed down from Brussels and rulings upheld by the European Court of Justice. UK courts must become sovereign again.

Stay: The exit campaign has over-exaggerated how many laws are determined by the European Commission. It is better to shape EU-wide laws from the inside rather than walking away.

Leave: Britain does not need the EU to prosper internationally. By re-engaging with the Commonwealth the UK can have just as much clout as it does from inside the EU.

Stay: Britain will be “drifting off into the mid-Atlantic” if it leaves the EU, as Nick Clegg likes to say. In a globalising world the UK’s interests are best protected by remaining part of the EU block, with American and Chinese leaders indicating as much.

Pip want to be a gentleman. Herbert and pip agree to live together, Herbert  corrects pip’s poor  table manner, Herbert tell pip the whole story of Miss Havisham. about her family fortune when she was young all her family money was wasted by half brother. she fall in love and was marry a man from lower social class. this man convinced miss havisham to give him her share of the money. on the wedding day the man never showed up, she received a note at twenty to nine and that why she stop all her clock at that time. people assume the man ran of with the money and split with half brother. later on miss Havisham adopted Estella, but Herbert does not known when or where

I think that Lear saluting throughout this scene was to exaggerate his trust and respect for his troops to the audience.The salute shows some sort of respect that Lear has for the other people in the scene, but mainly Warrington, as he asks him to take over his kingdom when he dies and to carry on building the wall.