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.