Blood Brothers Portfolio - page 4
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: 4 of 11 pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
is a sign that they are running out of valuable time, and yet there is nothing they can do. The opening period of silence is broken by a knock at the door. We used the silence to build tension within the audience. Sophie who plays the mother, answers the door. After a brief conversation with the caller, she comes back on scene. Her bewildered face shows she is shocked but yet puzzled. Her prolonged silence increases suspense within the audience.
In the final scene, his parents are almost out of time. It’s the day of the sour execution of Derek. Suspense undoubtedly fills the minds of the anticipating audience. Derek’s father has taken his son’s case to the House of Lords, and is awaiting the life or death answer. In this scene Derek’s father is alone on centre stage, pacing up and down furiously. We did this to show that time was moving even faster, than in the two previous scenes. He is slowly approached by an Mp. The slow approach was used, to illiterate that the Mp had all the time in the world. The father starts breathing heavily, hearts start rendering in and around the audience. The news is broken. They are going to review over Derek’s case. Hope disintegrates the gloomy and dull atmosphere, only to be snatched away by the delayed news that they would only do it the preceding morning. Both characters remained onstage and motionless, this purveyed that time had now come to a stop; there was no going back and reclaiming it. With Derek’s future now certain, the father completely breaks down, and holds his head in his hands. We did this to show that the father feels responsible for the death of Derek, inducing much wanted empathy and compassion from the audience.
Still images
We produced two still images showing capital punishment. The first was set in the 1800s and the second was in modern times. The freeze frames included a three second countdown where a sound and movement could be made and a freeze, which was held for three seconds.
During the countdown to historical freeze-frame. The onlookers to the execution shouted and jeered at the executionee in a vicious and aggressive way and used hand movement such as punching the air to show they were excited and enjoying the execution. This showed the brutality and cruelty of the killing and made the audience
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