Tuesday the 25th September
Today with Sharron, we made our groups to work in so we can start writing our plays for the Papa-Tango project. My group consists of Chloe, Danielle, and Elena. We created a Soap opera for our play, Nicknaming the project as West-Enders, taking inspiration from the Show Eastenders, Which is a modern form of tragedy, our topic of learning for the past 4-5 weeks of being at the college. Today we had come up with character names an objectives of all of us. The present day is set in 1987, But the flashbacks take place in 1970.
My character is, "Mickey Fowler". He just wants someone to trust. He was cheated on by his wife of three years ; who also was pregnant, without mickey's knowledge. He works in the cafe, and is as common as everyone who lives in the area the characters live in.
Chloe's Character is , "Claire Hardy". She wants power. She works as a secretary for an up market finance company at the back end of the area they live in, the more posher area. She looks down on everyone, even her husband, hence the reason she cheated on him. She thinks that she comes from a more upper class than everyone, than what she actually comes from. She gets pregnant, It still would have been shameful to have been a single mother in 1970, so she decides that once its birthed, she will put it up for adoption. Although it is mickey's she won't tell him because they had just split up.
Elena's character is "Mary-Rose Hardy". She wants Love. Not in a Romantic way, but for a family to love her. She came to Sudford (the fictional area they live) to find her real parents.
Lastly, Danielle's character is Vera west. A friend of Mickey and Claire. she's the adoptive mother of Mary-Rose Hardy. She has a gambling problem and constantly takes out her problem and anger out on poor Mary. She cant have kids, and another reason she took in the daughter of Claire.
Wednesday the 26th September
Today we worked with karis, Who is part of Papa-Tango. She lead us through the various stages of writing a script.
Exposition: The introduction to all the characters. The beginning of the story, sets the scene well.
Build up: This is when the plot thickens. Perhaps a row/fight occurs and tension arises between characters. Or a secret comes loose and the main plot begins to set in mould.
Climax: A stranger comes to town (mainly appears in western style films). Something happens like a murder or someone who was never meant to make a return , returns.
Consequence: Be-it a murder has just happened, the consequence would be guilt or the other character is arrested. it is a bad outcome of an action of what they just did.
Resolution: The villain is driven out or fights have been resolved. The ending of the story and gives a finale from heart break to a happy ending.
We came up with consequences of each of the characters;
- Mickey wants someone to trust. People always mislead him in some way, like his wife. He hardly lets anyone in close , that's his downfall because he now never knows when hes got it good.
- Claire wants power. She'd do anything to get what she wants, even cheating on her husband with another bloke because she feels the place she lives in is too common for her liking.
- Elena , escapes her adoptive parents home, however she realises she was just a love child and still thinks no body loves her until her parents unites again to come together for her.
- Vera loses not only her friendship with the people who thought could trust her , but her credit card had been declined due to all the money she owes.
We all decided the script should be called , "the abuse of trust" , as in a way trust has been exploited by every character , either too them or by them.
By the end of that session we had with Karis, we had almost a completed script in notes.
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