E.D PRETEXT Week 3 Lesson 3

Pretext - Stimuli
            - (What it is in E.D) The hint/clues of going to another drama world
It will hint to the participant what kind of world we are going into.

(WORDS IN RED) The pretext is always incomplete, it suggests a lot of things. That is the beauty of process drama because of this ambiguity and possibility of time place role and possibility of tension.

The pretext could frame the participants so that they know what they are in for.
The pretext will also give some task, it may be asking the participants to do something in a role.
Examples ... from the book "Structure and Spontaneity"
It will hint will hint something from the previous event or something will happen after. (Give unclear clues)
Can be recalled and repeated and could generate a narrative which could move in many directions.

Many people know text as the written word. It need not be but can be.

Introduce text that can be in a form of a written word.
- blog, diary, Facebook, twitter, myth and legends, poems, literary works, advertisement, notices
- Written by you (create your own)
- local bogs for pretext will result in a law suit.
Eg. taking a blog from a girl who is suicidal and use in your workshop. The safe space will not exist anymore. Please be careful of who your target audience is.
Do have a think through again if the workshop plan is relevant, useful and easy to identify.
Solutions: Adapt the blog.

Pretext - generate questions
Eg. What is this girl like? How does she dress?
The ranting teenager (blog name) - person is angry, bias
What can be explored - teacher, teacher's response, sexual harassment, what kind of school
Cecily O'Neill example from "Structure and Spontaneity".
Start workshop: $100 offered to anyone to spend the night at a DARK WOOD house.
-Why would someone offer $100 to spend the night there?
There is a lot of open possibilities.

Pretext - portrait, images, drawing, new clips, documentary clips that you watch, objects (can be compiled by you as facilitator), introduce context by being in the role.
-Photographs are always open to an invitation! (What is your story given to this photograph)
- (repeated) Pretext can be a before or after. (Pretext is the current situation. Explore before and after)

Today's focus - B & C

Workshop
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The structure of workshop.
Episode 1:  Discuss possible conflicts that could happen on the bus (20 mins)
- This 2 picture of a crowded bus.
Participants are in the picture.
Participants are prepared for the dramatic world.
Context
Role: we are all passengers except one who was the driver
Frame (of mind): What is going to happen (practitioner makes you wonder - stop participant there and brief them about what is going to happen next and then they stop there)
- Meeting police representative: Practitioner giving participants the information.
WHY? To build context and a sense of student's view of the situation (Who do they think was at fault?)
What did you do? Participants were the broadcast journalist. Practitioner takes on police role and takes on questions. Participants produce a video of how it might have happened. (They gave practitioner their version) And instead of going through a discussion, participants are places as a journalist (different frame).
Possible neutral frame: Journalist (participants) tells facts.
Bias frame: Journalist (participants) decide who is at fault.

Episode 2: What is our view of right and wrong? What are our sources of biasses
Question: What is justice to you. Sometimes our own concept of justice is very different from the rest. We think we are very justice but sometimes we are very mean. We need to be aware of that.

Framing: Letting the participant do something in the role.
- Participants had to make a decision.
- The driver had to write a letter to the kid. (Aim: see emotions)
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