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Anastasiya Valentin was born in Russia and then migrated to the USA when she was 5 years old. She is a very carefree, bold and confident person but her upfront attitude could take a toll on her rude side. She is currently working as a bartender. She had won a lot of national marketing competitions during her college days. Her favourite TV show is gossip girl and her favourite food is Caesar salad and lasagna. Her least favourite TV show is Grey's Anatomy and her least favourite food is brussel sprouts and broccoli.

 Anastasiya when she won her national marketing award

Group reflection

Drama psa video and reflection

First, Ms.Ruiz introduced us to the new assessment where we were introduced to the PSA video. We watched a few examples as well to get an idea. Ms. Ruiz allocated us into groups of fur and I was with Yuya, Mario and Joseph and we first had to do a hot seat where we chose characters and then answer question based on your character. I was the victim and Joseph was the abuser. We started acting out a scene where the victim is noticed by the neighbors son and then the neighbors son complaints to the neighbor. This scene was about 30 secs. We did the scene properly except i did turn my back at one point.



Pre- Planning:

The day of filming:

We decided a few days back before filming that we should organize a day to shoot the video. On the day of the shoot (Sunday), after school hours we went to a street in Meadows four were we shot the PSA. I first did my makeup and changed my clothes as well. I think that the make make a huge impact on my character. Then we stop the scenes and it took about 30 to 40 mins to film everything. 


Props:

• Clothes for victim
• makeup 
• grocery bag
• football
• phone ( for the neighbor to sit and read)
• Lights for the shadow scene

Strengths:

• As a group we considered each others ideas and was contributive
• We shot the film on time and were organized
• Background music was utilized to create the tension and fear
• Shadow was used to represent the scary and torturing aspects of domestic abuse
• Sound effects for the fight scene was used (such as the knap)

Improvements:

• Get the preplanning and reflection done on time
• Stay in character during the shoot
• Improve the makeup look since it needs to look more intense and frightening 

How could we relate this to other subjects?

• We could use editing for ICT in case we need to make a video or a short film as an assignment.
• I could use the shadow effect for art as we were learning about shadow puppetry 
• We could lean new facts about domestic abuse and use the statistics for math, geography or history
• We could also use the background and sound effects for music.

Reflection on Domestic Violence act

For this act we were assigned into groups and the members of my group were me, Oliver, William and Josephine. We were given a scenario about a wife being abused by her husband and her friend was trying to help her but then the wife kept ignoring when the friend gave suggestions. The roles were:

Wife- Josephine
Wife's friend- Kalyani
Husband- Oliver
Husband's friend- William

It starts off with the husband and his friend complaining about the abusive husband wife. Then it cross cuts to a thought tracking of Josephine before she meets her friend(me) at the cafe. Then the friend comes in and they start to talk. The friend notices that the wife has a bruise on her lip. Then Josephine talks about her her husband abusing her. Then it cross cuts to a flashback of Josephine being abused by her husband. Then the cross cutting ends and scene goes back to the cafe The wife's friend suggests her solutions but the wife keeps ignoring her. Then there is a cross cutting of the husband at the bar and then the friend tells the husband to divorce her. Then the husband returns home and abuses her wife and files a divorce.

What were our successes?

• As a group we collaborated to make a script that was followed properly
• We made use of though tracking and cross cutting during our play
• As a group we stayed in character throughout the whole play
• We used props to give an impact on the audience
• We used sound effects to give a better visualization of the setting.

What was challenging?

• It was challenging when we had to think of how to use thought tracking and cross cutting 
• It was challenging when we had to make our plot more creative

Improvements:

• During the play we should have faced the audience
• During the play we had some issues with stage combat
• one of the members of the group didn't forget one of their lines at one point.  

Conflict Lessopn 1

Unit Introduction