Edexcel Gcse: Play Analysis

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Edexcel GCSE drama 5DR01 U1 controlled assessment Discrimination YR 11 Max 2000 words My initial response to the stimulus given was the sympathy I felt for the Chol; it looks as if he’s trying to get away and I can empathise with that. It looked like he was in a third world country; I could this by looking at the picture, in the picture I could see deserts and sand – it looked nothing like a first world country. The picture looked recent; Chol’s clothes look like clothes that might be worn in 2000 – 2005. I used still image as an explorative strategy. Still image is a frozen image that captures facial expressions and emotions within a scene. In our group we were given a stimulus which we had to create a series of still images from. We…show more content…
Hot-seating is the development of empathy with a character through the use of questions. My teacher was in role as Chol and I was a pupil-in-role as one of the UN representatives. My teacher characterised her role by using simple language to portray a child (I could tell Chol was a child by the way he gestured things, by his body language and his facial expressions). This helped us understand that we could not ask such complex questions. Whenever Chol was introduced to loud noise, my teacher would put her hands over her ears to present a frightened gesture, and to portray a child. From hot-seating Chol, I learnt that Chol had a very rough time and that emotionally he was destroyed. I also learnt that Chol was a refugee and that his home was invaded by soldiers; his mother had gone into hiding and he was alone for quite some time before his uncle came to take him away. He has hopes to become a soldier to beat the ones who turned his life upside down. I noticed that when he spoke of his hopes and dreams, he would become more at ease and that he had set himself a goal or target to help him cope with new surroundings. When Chol started talking about his family he got a bit tearful. Through the use of discrimination, my understanding of discrimination and its impact on relationship deepened as I learnt that discrimination can literally bring someone’s world crashing down. I used hot-seating because it helped develop on a character

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