For our narrative,
we as a group wanted to explore issues
in which is a current concern in our contemporary society. With this in mind, we wanted to
ensure that this was highlighted in our narrative, in a sense as a way of raising awareness of such issues. In order
to do this, we as a group began to think of how we could include these with supporting evidence, (need to justify why we have
focused on such issues). These were the issues we chose to highlight:
- Mental health (Schizophrenia). Here due to the age of one of our character (Flora), who has developed such illness, we wanted to ensure we had done in depth research as to when such illness begin. Before any research was done, we had we stated that Flora was 8, however after research we decided to change her age to 13. This comes down to the fact that research by NHS suggests 'illness begin by age 14'. Although NHS suggests such illness begin at the age of 14, due to the character of Flora we wanted to make her slightly younger to fit in with the child-like aspect, whilst evoking audience reaction with her sinister behaviour. This was also due to the classification of our production, which we are targeting the age range of 15, and thus needing to make the audience relate to the character of Flora. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2005/mental-illness-exacts-heavy-toll-beginning-in-youth.shtml
Here I looked into children with such illness and how they may act, to ensure I get accurate representation. This gave me an in depth understanding as to what courses schizophrenia, without giving false statement.Lastly this this gave supporting evidence that children do in fact have Schizophrenia, and thus enabling us to show why we chose to have Flora have such illness.
Again I looked further into the illness of Schizophrenia, to have more understanding.
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We
also looked at the case of split personality, where
we were influenced by ‘Psycho’ of 1960. However by
making Flora to have this disorder would cause for too
much confusion, along with having Schizophrenia.
Furthermore there were variations of
‘Personality
disorder’ ranging from A- C, because we didn’t
want to portray the wrong image we didn’t want to offend anyone by making inaccurate
portrays in our narrative. Such ‘disorder
tends to have difficulty relating to others and usually shows patterns of
behaviour most people would regard as odd’,
which fitted in with this particular character. Contrasting this, other areas
such as ‘feeling they cannot really trust their
friends and associates’ didn’t portray Flora as we has
imagined.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Personality-disorder/Pages/Symptoms.aspx
Although not directly linked
with the case of 'schizophrenia'. This
gave me an idea on how we could direct our our actress,
who would be playing the role of Flora (we may be taking some ideas from footage). I will be showing
this to them during their auditing, which we would be conducting on Wednesday
(4th December) on how they could possibly play this role. The reason
as to why we’re doing an audition is due to the fact
that, there has been much interest where I have pitched our narrative
to drama students who have also expressed their interest in playing
such role.
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Lastly with
the rapid increase of domestic
violence, where is
suggested by BBC news ‘70,000
people suffer domestic abuse...every year’, which sadly affects children. We wanted to show
this in our trailer, demonstrating
the full effects it has on children, hence why we included this in our narrative
through the character of Flora.
Ironically research suggests those affected by
domestic abuse go unreported due to the normality of it. However a woman who
was in a former abusive relationship stated ‘It's imperative that the word of abuse, mental and physical, should be
known all over the country just to make everyone aware of what's happening.’ Supporting our reasons as to why we wanted
to include such act in our
production,
however in a horrific
manner to make a point. Such take on events could
support ‘Postmodernists’
interpretation,
which is a theory that undermines
the conventional narrative,
which our group aims to achieve.These are the links for reference (feel free to have a look)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/192104.php
http://www.rethink.org/diagnosis-treatment/conditions/schizophrenia?gclid=CIzegsnH87sCFTMdtAodET8AOA
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