FINAL PRODUCT

Kite runner

Kite runner circulates around the life of Amir a young boy from Kabul. Its about his relationships with the people he comes across throughout his life and how they are affected when interrupted by other entities. Non existing relationship with his mother, fragility of it with his father and the constant struggle to seek his approval which affects his relation with Hassan later. Brotherhood that he shares with Hassan, and Rahim Khan the constant pillar in his life and Assef the bully. These all are interconnected. when dynamics of one changes it affects all. His fear for Assef stops him from intervening the assault. Every time he sees Hassan he is reminded of his cowardice which leads him to break of his relation with him. He runs every time he sees flaw instead of addressing it and ends up exhausting his body. To heal old wounds, to salvage what is left of his old relations he returns back home dedicates his book to Rahim Khan and avenges his brother's death by rescuing his son Sohrab from Assef's clutches. When something is included or excluded from his life it changes the design of his life for good or for bad depending on the nature of his actions that follow up.

Train of life

      schlomo the town lunatic comes running down the hills in alarm to tell the people of Nazis terrorising the neighbourhood village. When he delivers this terrible news the rabbi is quick to  believe him and then the rest follow. After lot of intense arguing on how to carve their way out of this sticky situation they all agree upon building a deportation train that will take them to Palestine via Russia. The refurbishment of old rusty train surprisingly caused them hardly any trouble. Or people posing as Nazi was not much of their concern, the Mordechai plays the role of a pseudo Nazi convincingly. Encountering some hurdles here and there they still make a safe journey to Russia.
         In the last scene schlomo talks about his friends and their rosy life, but he is cut mid sentence,when the camera zooms out and you see him behind the barbed wires in convicts clothes in a concentration camp. It was too good to be true after all!
          the Jews making a safe journey was just a figment of his imagination which he created to survive the brutal and horrendous treatment of the concentration camp, to remain sane to still keep that tiny hope from dissolving. After all we all have fantasies of our own to keep depression at bay to have a better image of ourselves and our lives. We all some time or the other indulge in the 'what ifs'.
           Schlomo couldn't escape from the clutches of the concentration camp so he found imagination as his only weapon for escaping.

Rembrandt

            In Rembrandt's earlier paintings his focus was on details from what dress the person wore in his painting, jewellery that they adorned and their expressions to tell their personality. He showed every possible detail to convey a story to the audience. I feel he was concerned that people would miss the point if the paintings lacked minute details. He paints what he sees the person as and fortunately the person demands the same in the beginning of his career.
            But as time passes people wanted him to draw them with a mask but still him being his stubborn self refused to which was the starting point of his downfall. He isn't bothered to finish the paintings anymore since they were for him and it didn't matter if it failed to get the message. His initial paintings were more verbose but now it felt redundant to do so. The last painting shows true colours, roots  of brutality in it's naked glory.
             

Skit on body

                A boy misuses his body parts. Fed up with his ways the organs come up with a devious plan to put him in his place.
               Starring
      Abhishek as the narrator
      Kiran as Johnny the irresponsible nincompoop.
      Me as Johnny's date
      Shraddha,Vikrant,Swarnima, Megha
   
        The organs cannot tolerate Johnny anymore, they decide to not co-ordinate and follow Johnny's orders. He starts acting out when he meets a girl at a bus top on his way to work,his eye starts twitching he gets jumpy and starts acting all kinds of crazy, still the girl by some miracle agrees to be his date for the party. Same episode is repeated at the party he gets out of control and is thrown out from the party. the organs make an appearance in his dream where they reveal their plan to him,he begs for forgiveness and everyone lives happily ever after.
         moral of the story: treasure what you have?

In the skit through gestures signs and symbols we tried to tell a story, using our body we tried to communicate.

Cognitive mapping

It is helpful for other classes where we need to construct stories. My chaotic thoughts are processed in a more systematic manner,I still get confused and lost because of constant bombardment of ideas words sentences and its a struggle to voice them out.

CCTV SERVES US IN VAIN

            To record people's reactions we put up some signs saying ' these premises are under CCTV surveillance '
          One was put up near the N3 bus stop on a tree. People looked at it while we were putting it up. But once we were done and new crowd came in they missed to notice it.

The juice center guy jokes "on a bus stop people wait for the bus they constantly keep looking if the bus has arrived they won't see the poster" way to lift our spirits! When asked how he felt being monitored by a camera, giving us an obvious look he replied that it would be good for the safety since everything will be recorded, and he too is going to install a camera in his shop so that he is not accused of theft of gadgets that students leave at his shop.
         We went back to the bus stop to ask the man who constantly stole quick glances at the poster. Turned out he didn't understand what it said since he didn't understand english. Not only should it have been bigger and stuck in a place from where anyone could see but also in different languages. If they buy it or not is secondary to acknowledge it is primary which didn't happen.

           Taking extra measures to stick the poster in the right place we asked around if the bus stop was crowded since it looked deserted and after receiving a green light we stuck it. Big mistake we should have know crowded meant six people to them.  The teenagers at the bus stop told us people won't take it seriously and that it was a safe space anyway. Even the owner of the bakery store Swati thought it was a safe place and cctvs will make it more safe. It's quite hard for me to view it as a place to hang around at night as it is located at the backside not that anyone can see what's happening and again no lights.
            I asked my friends if they noticed anything on the park gate a notice maybe but no,none of them had. My roommate even laughed after seeing it.she didn't think it was possible to install a camera in such a place.
             The guy who recently robbed a laptop from someone's pg even looked in the camera. People get caught and are let off after some time. No one paid much heed to the fact that there might be
cameras watching their every move.