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?“We Are the Saviours” A Process Drama by Indra Wilson “We Are the Saviours”Learning Question: ‘Can charity actually give a long-term fix for poverty?’Concepts and images from “We Are the Saviours” can be used as starting points for developing a sustained drama which simulates how the British entrainment industry thrive from depicting poverty and working-class culture but frames it as charity. Within this fiction, the group become charity CEO’s who get tricked into a glittery, show business format instead of an intention to care. “We Are the Saviours” is also inspired by “Red Nose day” and “Child in Need” and how the poverty shown on those tv shows must appeal to a middle-class audience to feel good about themselves once donating. The Main focus of Red Nose day is to entertain an audience enough to make them donate money but why can’t we already have the empathy to want to make a chance without the show business nature. This may also lead to how the working class are depicted in the media (such as Jeremy Kyle, People just do nothing) for people to laugh at and feel better about their own lives.By the end of this workshop participants should have:Explored if money can be a long-term fix for poverty Identified how their own privilege benefits their life in our current society compared to others Questioned the morals of charities such as red nose day and Children in need and debate if we didn’t have a capitalist society then would there be a need for them? Debated the fine line between savour complex and wanting to help someone in need. Explore the way in which charity adverts reach out for people to give money to them.Materials· TV· Flowers with notes for invite· Cushions · Flowery head bands · 25 Name tags · ITV CEO badge· Gold glittery white board marking system Outline PlanEntrance 5minsMeeting the savoursRank me5 mins10 minsThe Big BidWhat makes a good advert?AdvertsEmail of disappointment15 mins10 mins15 mins15 minsBlue Toes Day Show time30 mins5 minsHow did that make us feel?15minsTotal time2 hrsDetailed Plan?Lure: Entrance ?Convention: Teacher in roleWorkshop leader will come outside and allow the group to come in and greet them in this fashionable hippie attire and be simulating the popular influencers that use charities events or activism as a trend. The WL will introduce themselves and give a slide show of all their work and why they have been asked to lead Blue Toes Day with everyone here at the meeting. (5 mins)?Building Belief: Meeting the savours?Convention: Teacher in Role The WL will invite the group to take a seat on the cushions whilst we explain that we are charities CEO’s who are meeting for the planning of Blue Toes Day. We will go around the room and say their names and explain:What the charity is called?Who are the people the charity is set out to help? How did you set up this new charity? (5 mins)?Building Belief: Rank me?Convention: GameAs a physical warm up, the workshop leader will ask the group to order themselves in silence in a line to answer questions the WL has asked. For example, “order yourself in a line from the oldest to the youngest” and “order yourself in alphabetical order of first names” and then “order yourself in a line from the most important charity to the least important charity ran in the room” After this, I will pick people to answer why they think they got placed in the line in that order. (.e.g. why do you think you run the most important charity)This game will be to explore how we can’t rank who need more help from a charity over others and the difficulty in ranking societal issues. (10 mins)Into Action: The Big BidConvention: VoteThe group will be played videos from families who are in poverty who need the money the charity will raise. However, the group will be handed some golden slivery score boards, so they can score each family with. The highest vote will be the family we pick to help and create a typical charity advertisement for to raise as much money as possible. (10 mins)?Into Action: What makes a good advert??Convention: list Once the game has ended, The Charities CEO’s will discuss what is needed to create a good charity advert to get people to give as much money as they can. The WL will section the class into groups of four. They will be given different questions about charity advertising to answer such as-how is music used in Charity advertising to get us to donate more money?How does a celebrity voice over help a Charity advertisement to get us to donate more money?who are the target audience is and how do we want them to feel?What should a good Charity advertisement look like?Once they have had 5 minutes to collect this information between themselves, the group will get back into a circle and share each of the answer and create a big spider diagram together. (10 mins) ?Into Action: Adverts?Convention: Simulation Once this discussion is done, the WL will ask them to get into new groups of threes and rehearse an advert for their charity which cover all the rituals that we discussed as a group. This will be shown to the group one at a time. (15 mins) ?Development: Email of disappointment ?Convention: Teacher in role Once the group has shown their adverts, the WL will receive an email from s tv producer addressing the irony of having millionaires asking us to donate money and the way in which our charity advert exploited the issues at hand instead of trying to help the situation. As a group we all come up with way on how to make our charity event more respectable and more human ways to help people in need. (10 mins)Into Action: Blue Toes DayConvention: Role PlayNow we know as a collective we messed up and exploited people's lives to make money, the group will all go back into role to help the WL create a new big tv charity show just like Red Nose Day called Blue Toes Day but more fair, human, honest and actually gives long term help to all people in need. We have to make an invite list, live performers/singer (maybe a community choir), host and a more accessible way for people of more privilege lives to have an insight on the lives of people under the poverty line. (25 mins) ?Into Action: Show Time ?Convention: PerformanceThe Group will performer the Blue Toes day show and try and raise as much money as possible. (5 minutes)Reflection: How did that make us feel?Convention: DebateOnce the performance is done, we will sit down and chat about how we felt as Charites CEO’s, Representation of the working-class culture, Their knowledge of poverty, the morals of charities and much more. The WL will signal that they are coming out of role and open a discussion which will reveal that all the videos they saw was from real people in Glasgow and around the UK as well as my own mother and how our option about a situation can change now, we know someone’s identity. (15 minutes)Workshop ends. ................
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