Blood Brothers Portfolio - page 3
Keywords: Blood Brothers, Capital Punishment, Derek Bentley, Drama evaluation. Response Phase societal views, society prison
By Mose. on 01/09/2008
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 3 of 11 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
soon overcome by a glimmer of hope as Iris says to Derek that he will be let out of prison, its just a matter of time.
In the final scene, Derek is about to hear his controversial verdict. In contrast to previous scenes his family surrounds Derek. We did this to show that the family was with Derek right until the end. The judge sentences Derek’s as “guilty”. Gasps and shcok fill the excruciating period of silence as the audience’s minds dwell on the mortal sentence. One by one each family member discards from Derek’s presence. This symbolized that he was all by himself now. After the final flashback Derek repeated the line; “Im not afraid to die I have not done anything wrong “ to bring the audience back to the time at the start of the drama. To end the drama, Derek shouted, “ Let him have it Chris!” followed by a blackout. This was a significant scene, as these were ironically the words that made Derek Guilty in the case.
Time
In this piece, time was the core element of the drama. We needed to portray how time affects different people in diverse predicaments. We used split scenes to identify different paces of time. In one scene Derek is in prison waiting hopelessly for a response from his family. As for Derek time really doesn’t exist , as it seems as though it is dragging on so much, its simply stopped. However on the outside world, his parents are persistently working to get Derek out of prison, for them they are in debt to time, as Derek’s crude departure from their lives draws nearer.
In the opening scene, Sanjay who plays Derek is writing his final words before the execution. We used the drama technique “thought tracking”. Amber spoke his letter out aloud in the background. She deliberately used a low toned voice, to show Derek’s remorse about the whole situation. In his letter he is reminiscing the good times he had with his family. He was a very enthusiastic person and always hoped for the best in the film, because of this we made sure that a few jokes were cracked during the piece. This belittled the gloomy atmosphere and showed there was hope, right until the end.
The next scene, the parents of Derek are anxiously waiting for news. The body language of them both is very tense. This
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