Thursday, 29 January 2015

My own variation

Synopsis..
-          Set in the 21st century, Brazil – has religious properties it could be the reason why family are homophobic but we don’t actually have to show they family religous
-          Love between same gender (Male Gender)
-          Planned crimes – homophobic family want to get rid of the other families son
-          Modern clothing
-          They both live – never speak to family
-          6 part series
-          All modern composed music
-          Protesters
-          Contemporary filming
-          Secret meetings – 21st century way

Set in brazil …Two families the santos and the paulos …. P – homophobic - religious properties it could be the reason why family are homophobic but we don’t actually have to show they family religious ….. Sone from each family fall in love… Secrete love meetings, Walks on the beach, Texting, Out for dinner, Texts… Santos mum allows love to a certain point, little but not obvious

West Side Story


The main reason why Robbins had the rivalry of gangs in West Side Story is to show the cultural differences, which is similar to Romeo and Juliet. However both gangs are actually of a low social hierarchy which is what they don't notice. The Jets are penalized for having a bad background and they assume that they are of a higher class than the Puerto Ricans. They seem to believe that they are accepted into this higher social class because of they are of white colour.

1950's influences -

Living standards improved rapidly during the 1950's. Launderettes and home washing machines made looking after themselves a lot easier, which is shown in the way they are dressed and the elaborate clothing they have within the dance numbers, as rock and roll was the main influence in that particular time span also. Teenagers were identifiable as a distinct. They would have hung around in large numbers and rebelled a lot against the norm social standard. They are shown to be the gangs in west side story.

Baz Lhurmann - Romeo&Juliet


Shakespeares audience went to "hear" the plays rather than watch it. So Baz Lhurmann wanted to create a different Atmosphere. The movie is more of a visual experience. To enhance and unsterstand Shakespeare’s language, Baz Luhrmann set ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in what he calls a created world; a collage of modern and classical images drawn from religion, theatre, folklore, technology and pop culture. 

Short Baz Lurhmann quote, what came through in the interveiw - 

"I've always wanted to do 'Romeo and Juliet'. The themes it explores, the tragedy that is born of a prohibited love in a world of learned hate is one of those primary myths that appeals to all people. 'Romeo and Juliet', like all of Shakespeare's plays touched everyone from the street sweeper to the Queen of England. He was a rambunctious, sexy, violent and entertaining storyteller. We're tried to make this movie rambunctious, sexy, violent and entertaining the way Shakespeare might have if he was a filmmaker."


The idea behind this is that "…it's a made-up world comprising twentieth-century icons and these images are there to clarify what's being said, because once you understand it the power and the beauty of the language works its magic on you. The idea was to find icons that everybody comprehends, that are overtly clear. The hope was that by associating the characters and places with those images the language would be freed from its cage of obscurity." - Baz

Comparisons


extra notes for presentation


Traditional script Shakespeare -

* The language is socially indicative of the time  - "Do you bite your thumb at me sir?"
* Now it is more culturally diverse
* Marriage was highly rated - you were of a higher status if you were married.
* You never find out why they hate each other - this can be added to our own series of Romeo and Juliet as you never really know for definite as to why people disagree with same gender relationships. So we can link ours to the original in that way also.

West side story -

* Putericans were a growing minority group.
* Racsim was at its highest - main reason being that they were taking jobs form Americans.

Romeo and Juliet 1996 -

* Religious connotations - If you killed yourself Catholics back then believed that you would go to hell.
* We see murder/Suicide more politically
* Modern day setting distracts you from the olden days, you forget that your listening to an olden day script.
* Easy to follow like a kid with a picture book, don't necessarily have to follow the what it says but it communicates with gestures
* Guns were called daggers - "oh happy dagger"

Gnomeo and Juliet -

* Easy to follow
* no forced marriage more 21st century.

notes for the presentation


-          Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, though there is no record of him actually writing the play.
-          Nobody knows how Shakespeare began to write.
-          He became the lead of the theatre troupe - 'The Lord Chamberlain's Men'. The company proved very popular.
-          He was very successful and wealthy in his time, and his work has remained very popular ever since
-          Lived in starford-upon-avon - He was born 1564
-          William was one of 8 children – his father was popular glove maker and studied at a local grammar school
-          When Shakespeare was 18 he married his 26 year old wife Anne Hathaway.
-          He supposedly wrote the play in 1594 or 1955
-          Romeo and Juliet is possibly one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and has been developed into different formats of performance.
-          *** Romeo&Juliet
-          Based in Italy
-          Synopsis here
-          Explain plot – short synopsis
-          The story has been popular for hundreds of years
-          Might be that Shakespeare based the play on a poem, No evidence that Romeo and Juliet existed, so not known if it were based on real people
-          Shakespeare made wanted the play to be performed on stage
-          Back then it would have been performed with men playing both male and female parts
-          They would use younger men to play the female parts
-          We watched four different versions of the play
-          Shakespeare’s play would have been performed on a stage with little or no scenery and with just a
-          few props such as a bed or a table. There were very few stage directions and the actors would
-          have worn the most up-to-date fashions of the day. The text of the play would not have been
-          published, therefore each actor would probably only have had his own speaking part in front of him.
-          There would have been corrections and versions changed as the play was in rehearsal. A
-          collected volume of Shakespeare’s plays did not appear until after his death.
-           Everybody knows the story
-          There are many references made to the story of Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in our everyday
-          lives, for example: Elvis Presley sings about the lovers in the song ‘Fever’; Dire Straits recorded a song called ‘Romeo and Juliet’; ‘West Side Story’ is a famous musical film version of the play set in New York; Jane Austen refers to the lovers in ‘Sense and Sensibility’.
-          ***West side story
-          Is based on the popular script Romeo and Juliet a musical was created. In the 1950s racism was plentiful and this particular of variation of the play we find that they portray this by showing the mass immigration of Puerto Ricans to America the land of opportunity. Because of the racism they portray the two gangs. White American and Puerto Ricans and show their disagreements in stylized contempory dance *** Syn - Romeo and Juliet is updated to New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway production. We are introduced to two rival street gangs: the Jets, second-generation American teens, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants. When the war between the Jets and Sharks reaches a fever pitch. But Tony has set his sights on vistas beyond the neighborhood and has fallen in love with Bernardo's sister, Maria (Natalie Wood), a love that, as in Romeo and Juliet, will eventually end in tragedy.
-          all the songs written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim for the original Broadway production of West Side Story were retained for the film version and the original order of two songs was reversed for stronger dramatic impact. The movie more than retains the original choreography of Jerome Robbins,
-          *** romeo and julliet – leo – released in 1996
-          The story line is very much the same as the original and uses the original scripting, it revolves around two families in a feud, and starts off with a brawl between a few members of each family. The main difference is that it has the setting of 20th century.
-          The story revolves around three families from Verona.
-          *** Gnomeo and Juliet
-          The animated tale Gnomeo & Juliet knowingly follows the quintessential star-crossed lovers tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with the unexpected twist of making the characters garden gnomes that can move when human beings aren't watching. Though Gnomeo and Juliet belong to feuding garden-gnome families, they meet and fall in love. After getting some sage advice from a statue of William Shakespeare.
-          - romeo and Juliet – 2013 –
-          we watched this because we wanted our own created version to be modernised and we felt this would be good for our research to make our own play.
-          21st century makeover
-          Its like an updated version of the 1996. It is made to easily understand with modernised guestures to understand what they are saying even though they are not speak nowadays English.
-          We covered these as a class but found another version to write about
Synopsis..
-          Set in the 21st century, Brazil – has religious properties it could be the reason why family are homophobic but we don’t actually have to show they family religous
-          Love between same gender (Male Gender)
-          Planned crimes – homophobic family want to get rid of the other families son
-          Modern clothing
-          They both live – never speak to family
-          6 part series
-          All modern composed music
-          Protesters
-          Contemporary filming
-          Secret meetings – 21st century way

Set in brazil …Two families the santos and the paulos …. P – homophobic - religious properties it could be the reason why family are homophobic but we don’t actually have to show they family religious ….. Sone from each family fall in love… Secrete love meetings, Walks on the beach, Texting, Out for dinner, Texts… Santos mum allows love to a certain point, little but not obvious

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

information




The reason why Romeo and Juliet is still popular today is because the story is about love and as a bonus we are treated to different variations on that theme.

Courtly Love

Romeo portrays a conventional view of love, courtly or petrarchan. He 'moons' and sighs over Rosaline, he knows Rosaline will never feel the same. and even though he is teased by his friends benvolio and Mercutio he cant forget her.

Sexual Love

When romeo is at the ball his first words show the effect that seeing Juliet has upon him. In essance his first reaction to Rosaline and the emotional love he feels for her is probably better described as infatuation. 

Dutiful Love

Best Characterised by Paris in the dutifulness shown in the arranged marriage with Juliet. Juliet's mother and nurse promote the arranged marriage with Paris. you end up quite liking Paris as he is constant even though he falls in love with somebody else.

True Love

The reason why the play is so popular is not because of the different types of love it portrays, it is the description of true love that stands out against the other types of love and is immediately shown at the beginning of the play by describing the pair as star crossed lovers as this suggests from the start that their love is fated.

DISCRIPTION




Romeo and Juliet has subtlety and originality of its characterization, the pace of its action, which is shortened into four frantic days and has an extraordinary use of language. For example wooing a women was much more of an art form back then whereas now its much more direct and there isn't as much effort going in to pursue a lady. People expect things straight away when back then it was all about getting married before anything else.

Tuesday, 27 January 2015

mood board

Synopsis

I used a website called Fandango to help us write out our synopsis for each play/movie watched of romeo and Juliet..

expample...



The animated tale Gnomeo & Juliet knowingly follows the quintessential star-crossed lovers tragedy Romeo and Juliet, with the unexpected twist of making the characters garden gnomes that can move when human beings aren't watching. Though Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt) belong to feuding garden-gnome families, they meet and fall in love. But the clans' shared animosity is exacerbated when Tybalt (Jason Statham) dies in part because of actions taken by Gnomeo to defend a friend whom Tybalt was attacking. After getting some sage advice from a statue of William Shakespeare (Patrick Stewart), Gnomeo attempts to set things right, and win the heart of the lawn ornament he loves. The supporting cast includes the vocal talents of Michael CaineHulk Hogan, andMaggie Smith.

we will take note of this and make it in to our own words...

Friday, 16 January 2015

The Slideshow


I'm in the process of learning how to use PowToon. The reason why I am using this particular presentational device is because it is more interesting for the audience to watch. Also to keep to making it more enjoyable, we will not use to much text on screen we speak it instead, so that the audience member isn't sitting having to read through mounds of boring text.

We will add pictures and video clips to show what we have been research and for further information to back points that we would be making.

Shakespeare Himself


We have been given an assignment to create a slideshow presentation based around this question...

What are the main themes and plot explored within Romeo and Juliet? How does it Change contextually within versions we have looked at?

The slideshow has to be 20 - 30 minutes long and be interesting to watch. I want to make the PowerPoint enjoyable to watch so whether that be using power point or prezzie I don't know yet, but my partner and I will combine our set of skills and see what we can produce. To start off with I reread the original script of Romeo and Juliet so I get a better understanding of the play. I have decided to look into William Shakespeare, he who wrote the play, some more to help develop the overall outlook on this particular script.

I have researched a bit about Shakespeare online and in books. During my life in education I have learnt a lot about this writer in various different lessons, including English, History and Drama. So quite a bit of the facts have stuck with me so I didn't have to search to far, jut a little bit to jog my memory. I used Bitesize for some reliable factual information and to reinforce the statements that I already knew of. Here is some of the research I have found and will be using within our Presentation.

-          Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare, though there is no record of him actually writing the play.
-          Nobody knows how Shakespeare began to write.
-          He became the lead of the theatre troupe - 'The Lord Chamberlain's Men'. The company proved very popular.
-          He was very successful and wealthy in his time, and his work has remained very popular ever since
-          Lived in starford-upon-avon - He was born 1564
-          William was one of 8 children – his father was popular glove maker and studied at a local grammar school
-          When Shakespeare was 18 he married his 26 year old wife Anne Hathaway.
-          He supposedly wrote the play in 1594 or 1955

-          Romeo and Juliet is possibly one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays and has been developed into different formats of performance.