Month: January 2016

Chapter 14 : Four years passed and Pip is older and is working with Joe as a blacksmith, But he hates being a blacksmith. He hides emotions because he doesn’t want Joe to know. He keeps thinking about Estella.

Chapter 15 : Pip tries to see Ms Havisham again, But Joe tells him not to. Joe fights one of his workers, Orlick because he was rude to Mrs Joe. Joe takes Mrs Joe inside to calm her down. Pip visits Ms havisham to learn Estella is abroad. On Pip’s way home he runs into Orlick and Mr Wopsle. They go home to see Mrs Joe was unconscious and had been hit in the head with the iron from Pip’s convicts leg.

Chapter 16 : Pip feels guilty for his sister being attacked because it was his convict’s leg iron. Mrs Joe can’t speak and can only right. Mrs Joe starts drawing a “T”  and Biddy realises it refers to Orlick. They see Orlick and believe that see will tell them he was the attacker, then instead she seems happy to see him and calls for Orlick by writing “T”.

Chapter 17 :Biddy moved in to help to help take care of Ms Joe. Pip goes to Miss Havisham’s house and realises how lonely it is without her. Pip goes on a walk with Biddy and he seems attracted to her but he believe his love is for and how he would like to be a gentlemen. Biddy tells him to give up on her and he got jealous when Orlick flirted with her but she doesn’t like Him.

Chapter 18 : Pip is at the pub one night and he is listening to Mr Wopsle is ranting on about a murder in the newspaper. A stranger who turns out to be a lawyer calls him out on the rubbish he is talking. Pip remembers him from Ms Havisham’s place. His name is Mr Jaggers and he goes home with Pip and Joe. He offers Pip the chance to inherit a large sum of money and get an education to become a gentlemen. Joe and Biddy are sad to be losing Pip and he becomes rude to Biddy. Pip is lonely feeling lonely when he goes to bed.

“It was an uneasy bed now, and I never slept the old sound sleep in it any more.”

Chapter 19 : Pip wakes up with an attitude because he believes he is too good for his old life. He gets a new suit tailored by Mr. Trabb. Mr Pumblechook took him out to dinner and is being nice to him because he is trying to get at his money. Joe is still upset that Pip is leaving and Pip tries to force an attempt to comfort him and Biddy gets mad at him because of the way he is acting.

“I promised myself that I would do something for them one of these days, and formed a outline for bestowing a diner of roast beef and plum pudding, a pint of ale, and a gallon of condescension.”

 

 

Task 1.

The V-effect is achieved by distancing the audience through the characters actions in the scene. For example, breaking the fourth wall between the actor and  the audience. When this done or ( something like this ), the audience members will no longer have the ability to act as if they are unseen or not heard any longer.

While we were thinking about what to do we were trying to find the best way to make the audience feel as if they had been distanced from the performance. By the end Jameel and the rest of our group had decided on the word “cracker”.

Our way of distancing the audience turned out to by making them feel uneasy (and also laugh a bit too from the reaction we got from the start.)

We were trying to make the audience think and feel more about how the audience the soldiers, who were very clearly untrained, by there actions rather than there words (obviously because of gibberish drill.)

By choosing a word such as “cracker” it made the audience focus more on the untrained soldiers rather than the word “cracker”. Having the spectators look more at the way the untrained soldiers were doing the push-ups,  planks and sit-ups appallingly, than rather what they were saying instead.

By our group doing this, it meant that the audience would focus more on the way the untrained soldiers performance of fitness and understanding how they hadn’t met requirements to join the army in WWI and how just because need bodies down on the war front, they would rather the rookie soldiers received as minimal and lacking training as possible rather than be trained to a standard where they would be able to defend themselves and fight properly and maybe just complete the exercise performance to a decent standard in our scene.

Task 2.

2a. They were trying to put it within context of trying to make their audience think more about actions of characters rather than what they say.

2b. The V-Effect is the use of distancing the audience and making them know they are no longer unseen.

It was used to relate to real events.

2c and 2d. We used the word “cracker” in our scene (instead of penis.)  We decided to show the audience how badly trained the recruits were and how they were not fit for service.

By using the gibberish language the audience focused more on the actions of the drill sergeant rather than what he was saying.

Based on a true story of the permian panthers and their star players trying to get to the state championship.

Many of the players show a sense of ambition in trying to get of their small home town of Odessa, Texas and trying to get into Division 1 Colleges and Universities to persue their dreams of playing American Football at a Pro Level.

Chapter 11 : Pip is at Ms Havisham’s on her birthday, She takes him around the house to the room she was supposed to have the wedding banquet in with 4 people in it.They are trying to get some of her money and being rude to Pip , but she kicks them out.

Chapter 12 : Ms Havisham invites Joe over Mr Pumblechook and Mrs Joe are shocked about Joe being invited since Mr Pumblechook works for Ms Havisham but has never met her.

Chapter 13 : Joe meets Ms Havisham and asks him questions but all of the answers are then redirected to Pip. Ms Havisham asks them to go after the Q&A and Pip asks if he can come back she replies “No. Gargery is your master now. Gargery! One word!” She gives Joe a bag, as they are returning home Joe believes that what is the bag is “astonishing”. When they get home Pip and Ms Joe are informed  there is a lot of money in the bag.