Kingemocut

the Blue Remembered Hills drama GCSE.

this is a place i am going to post a mini test essay cos i can.

question 1: explain how you prepared your chosen design and/or technical skill(s) for the extract. Give clear details of your research, rehearsal and other preparation work to explain how you developed your interpretation of this extract through your own design and/or technical skill(s)

in the play "blue remembered hills the play write Dennis potter shows the brutality of human nature. he sets the play in world war 2 in the Forrest of Deen and inside a barn. he uses actors that are adults to play children.

In my groups version of Blue Remembered Hills i was a lighting technician. i used the lighting rig with the following gels; red, yellow and one. here is the layout of the lighting rig;

(draw lighting rig here)

the middle spotlight was used to light the actors that were on the performance area, the red spotlight i used to create a sense of atmosphere, i used the blue light to show emotion and i used the yellow light to show the time of day. i worked with the actors by asking them what type of lighting they wanted and told them if what they wanted was technically possible.

i used Wikipedia as a research tool but they had very little on the subject so i went to youtube to watch the whole play. i also read the entire script and used Google to get images of the inside of barns. with the light shining through to get ideas for the lighting places.

in the rehearsal stages i used the lighting board to test out some of the ideas, but most of them were impossible to do with the limited resources i had. the group asked me about trying to light the barn with a high percentage of colour, even though i said it would look to much like it was outdoors. when they disbelieved my i said to them 'if you don't think so the lets try the scene with the lighting like that.' when they did i recorded it to show them that the red and the blue and the rest shone like it was outside. they seen what i meant and i said to them that dim lighting would be best. this is what we ended up with.

i developed my interpretation of this play by watching the full program. the play shows that people have a brutal side of them that is shown when Donald gets burned to death, even though it was an accident. it also shows how fast children of the age of 7 fall out then make up.

the characters of Blue Remembered hills have all the different types of character. john - the bully, Donald - the outcast, Raymond - the one with a problem, Angela - the friendly one, Audry - the female bully, and the other one... - the true friend. the way Dennis potter shows them mixing together and falling out shows what life for a 7 year old must be like.

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--Kingemocut (talk) 13:53, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Fun Fact

I now have the last result from my drama GCSE, and it's a C!. the exam was a B too!!! :D