https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-G8cdxHte8

Stage Combat Choreography

Reflection:
Overall the unit was great. I think that our act was great with many features which made it look realistic. My acting was great in my opinion, I followed the choreography and and worked with my group really well. Our main topic was about a nerd being bullied by 2 different bullies who were offending his hobby and making fun of him. The moves we used were slaps, stomach punches, pushes, hair pulls and the neck break. The slaps and stomach punches looked the most realistic. I could identify that the audience were shocked and amazed of what we have done. There were many ways we could have improved on such as; adding more dialogue and improving our techniques and skills. Throughout the drama unit I have learnt a lot. I think that the most fun unit was stage combat because I love fight scenes especially in movies. I have learnt a lot throughout this unit and I hope we learn more in art and music.

Slap freeze with reflection

This is a photo of our slap in a freeze. Overall we have acted well and the slap looked so realistic and the reactions from both of us were great after the slap. We have identified many ways of doing the Kano which would fit well in the act. I think we were doing great but we could have improved by creating more tension throughout us speaking and we can improve with our positions. I hope we do more activities like this in the future.

MYP Stage Combat

MYP: Stage Combat
Key concept: Communication
Related concepts: Audience, Expression, Interpretation, Presentation.
Global context: Personal and cultural expression
Statement of inquiry: Combatants use safe and choreographed stage combat, communicating personal and cultural expression for the benefit of an audience.
Inquiry questions:
Factual: Why is SAFETY, eye contact and cuing important during Stage Combat?
Conceptual: What is stage combat? Why will actors engage in stage combat? How do you communicate as combatants on stage?
Conceptual: How do we mask the audience to create the illusion of contact in stage combat, reflecting  conflict in a real life situations?
Debatable:  How realistic is stage combat in different movies? How do they sound? body knaps or prerecorded sound effects?

Melodrama unit reflection.

We have developed cooperation and communication by working together and not arguing. We were fair and most of us have done equal work. We were creative by developing new ideas. We analyzed new features and new ways of editing.
My over exaggerating was good and my speaking was loud and clear while performing. My language was understandable and appropriate. 
Each of us had a fair amount of acting and all of us contributed in the acting. All of us had a character or two.
We were all happy with what we had to do and we followed our plan.
Yes because many films and acting these days doesn't have much of over exaggeration so maybe what we have filmed might influence many films by improving there story with over exaggeration.
The reactions from the viewers were great. They were all smiling and enjoying the movies. We got good remarks and in the future we would like to see more of this.
We can use this type of acting and we can change our facial expression and improve on our original aim. We had done a lot and it will help us in stage combat.

The Disney film

Peer assessment silent movie

Alice, Samia, Azaan, Nazih
Substantial.
There were many scenes which were funny and understood. I can identify who was who and what they were doing. Nazih's facial expressions were great and he made so much sense. Azaan was not using as many facial expressions as Nazih. Alice and Samia did not exaggerate much.

Mayukh, Jonas, Noor, Runa
Substantial.
I think that their acting was great but their facial expressions weren't shown much. They had great music backing them up. I think jonas' facial expressions were great. It was really funny and interesting.

Tanya, Maanya, Danyal, Nadia, Timur.
Excellent.
Nadia and Tanya had great facial expressions and acting. Their team could have been using better graphics and music. There act was really modern and different compared to the other groups so they did great.

My group: Anju, Mille, Adam, Mohammed.
Excellent.
Our facial expressions were great and our acting was funny and great. My facial expressions were great. The music fit with the actions and made more sense with the actions. We have analyzed different melodramas and used a various amount of facial expressions.