We are now performing our performance to Year 10 Learning Skills students. This now means that we know our target audience and can make our performance appeal to them more. Our performance will be shown Early December time therefore we have only a few weeks on this topic.

2nd November:
The aim for today's lesson was to try and incorporate the dramatic device - Narration, into our final piece somewhere.
We had the idea to either use Narration from the perspective of the Victim or the Bully being as Narration can be used very well to express inside feelings and too try and enhance the audience into accepting there feelings.

Formats of Narration:

- poetry

- thought track

- storytelling

- being the insider of the story, maybe the main character, instead of being someone from the outsider point of view.

- a diary entry, e.g 'dear diary...'

- the words of the narrator are the thoughts of that person

- music could be used as the narration, e.g the lyrics or the beat could tell a story

- people around the main character tell the story

- different points of view - perspectives - maybe the bully could be the narrator?

We were then divided into two groups and each group using narration were told to either focus on the bully or the victim. I was in the group of the victim, and we decided to focus on portray narration through a diary entry. Also by doing this we could use emotive language to capture the audience. With 10 of us in the group, we decided to split ourselves into pairs to focus on writing a diary entry. We wanted to show the slow increase in intensity of the bullying, to show how it was getting worse and for the anxious mood to increase, we gave titles to each section to show this;

 - the day it started

- getting worse

- paranoia

- physical abuse - the worst part of it

- the excluding herself from life and 'cracking' - last diary entry.

Chloe and I were assigned to write the diary entry of the bullying 'getting worse' :

"I'm getting bored of it now, its becoming a bit pathetic. Everyday I'm waiting for a remark, a witty comment, a push, a shove, and everything else that comes my way. It's worse than ever before and it's starting to hurt."

We then brought all of our diary entries together, and decided to stay in the pairs we wrote them in. Standing in a straight line with the reader and the writer of each on opposite sides, one after the other one person spoke the date of there diary entry and 'dear diary..' then the other person in the pair read out the letter. With the final entry in the middle of the line, this showed how the bullying gradually got worse, and the feelings of the victim were becoming more severe.

After showing our end scene to the other half of the group, the feedback we got was positive, although the main criticism was that we should add some music in the background of it to add more emotion and fluency. This scene is now the beginning of the Anti-Bullying assembly.