Criminal justice
Taught by Naomi
To start off the lesso. Sharon got us to warmed up by playing duck duck goose and cat and mouse, games we had played in recent lessons This helped us to build our energy for Naomi’s lesson
Naomi got us to warm up by us doing the vocal exercises we did last week ‘’ FI FO THUMB’’ we then sat in a circle and told Naomi about our character we had devised in the other lesson being rose..
Here's some points about rose:
• espanic background, aged 18
• has a daughter aged 2
• sexuality: lesbian and has a girlfriend
•been in solitary confinement before
• done a criminal act and is now returning to solitary confinement
• dad is a alcoholic and her sister raped her as a child
After hearing about the character Rose, Naomi wanted us to find a space and make it our own cell and show what Rose is feeling and does all day in the cell
We all spread out and got into character as Rose with music playing in the background to create tension and the real feeling of rose Naomi then wanted us to get up on our feet and show how Rose feels out of prison being free, and I chose to just smile and walk around the space like being in an open park with her daughter then Naomi told us to go back into our cells so Rose has landed back into prison after doing another offence. Then we got up again and this time Naomi wanted us to show Rose free again going home to her girlfriend and to see her daughter Rosalina. I suppose as a class having to repeat this showed real frustration within rose she was BACK in solitary condiment AGAIN it also taught how to go in and out of the character.
Naomi then asked us to do some improv imaginative work in which the character rose is walking around the space and is then approached by old friends asking her if she has anytime before going home for a quick catch up ( this is all told by Naomi while we act it out) thd four girls are then approached by four other girls talking and shouting at rose, talking about her past and stuff which has a emotional meaning to rose, rose absolutely looses it when the last sentence was spoken about her baby rosalina. Rose then black outs only to see a knife in her hand and the girl dead on the floor
"She's back in solitary confinement again, and it's not her fault".
This exercise got me very worked up and angry I really felt as if I had got into character and felt the moment.
Our next activity was to split the class in half into two groups and create a small circle this was the prison cell each person who created the cell had to step inside and create a still image of rose whether this be her self harming, laying on the floor, peering out the window, her imagining her baby etc. Naomi then put music on to help us flow in and our of the picture using techniques we done in the last lesson to exit a picture but still making it flow abstractly.
In these two groups we was then asked to create two scenes one being when rose comes out of prison and the second when she finds out she's going into prison
For the first scene my group being Danielle, Conor, Eliot, Parys, killah, Abigail Wendy, Kurtis and justina we decided to do a Christmas party and rose (mysekf) and Wendy the girlfriend walking in to have awkward silence by the family Danielle then blurts out "so what was prison like" with everyone then looking at Danielle in disgust, Sighs and huffs and puffs my line is then "where's rosilina I want to see her" to be refused by the family I sneak upstairs pick my baby up while everyone is in a still image I walk through the picture and say the line "my angel".
The second scenario is the justice system in 30 years, my group came up with the idea of Abigail and Kurtis being the T.V and Myself and Elliot are the news presenters, Parys is Rose, Danille Rosalina, Wendy’s the girlfriend, Connors the drunken dad, Keylheir is the sister and Justina is the friend
We start off the scene with Parys and Wendy (rose and girlfriend) entering the room to be cuddles by rosilina, rose then switches the telly on (Kurtis and Abigail) to then see Eliot and myself look up and get into role of TV bbc news presenters we talk about crimes recently been done such as a crisp packet dropped on the floor and the guy has been sent to solitary confinement showing how out of hand the criminal act law has gotten in 30 years time we then say have you seen this girl who has recently killed someone with Parys (rose) face appears on the screen rose then screams switches off the telly and panics with rosilina screaming in the background Parys then try's to talk to her dad (Conor) who is drunk and rejects Parys yern for help. Parys then turns to Danielle and says shhh you didn't see mummy on the telly and exits the scene.
Our feedback was for maybe the tv presenters to come out of the scene and grab Parys to create more of a futuristic feel.
The final task we was given for the day was to choose two lines to say as rose in our prison cell mine were "I live in concrete" and "I blame society" the first line I said as rose but the second line didn't have as much heartfelt Naomi told me I needed to find rose on the last line.
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