London Riots - Consiquences Starter

Today we started to work on a new scene, the “consequence” scene. In this we each have a character who demonstrates consequences due to the London Riots. We either have a partner or do this solo.  To get an idea of what kind of events happened in the riots, we watched two music videos one was Dizee Rascal – Love this city which shows Dizee and some other people dressed up as rioters but instead of vandalising or tormenting anyone, they helped their community and cleaned up stuff, they wiped windows and took any rubbish to any bins they could find. The purpose of the video is to say that maybe as people we shouldn’t discriminate because we could gain something positive from those who may not look like they’re going to help. The second Video that we watched was “ill manors” by ill manors.  In this video we see the opposite side, we see crime and we see the way that many people who live in dodgy areas see politics and say about how corrupt the political system is in the UK.  These 2 were our stimulus.

After watching these videos, we spoke about what we thought about the 2 videos and what the consequences might have been for some of the people affected in the riots. I feel that as a class we were more influenced by the ill manor video as there was more to create and more ideas with it where as with the Dizee Rascal video, I highly doubt many people would just go and clean up shops and streets.

• Tom and Lewis are in a group together and they demonstrate justice in the community as they portray a rioter being arrested.
• Lorna and Rhiannon were demonstrating a mourning process, maybe loosing someone in the riots or even Mark Dougen.
• Dan’s portraying a student who’s being expelled from university as he took part and was influenced by the riots.
• Ashley is representing guilt, it could be anything but personally I would think that it’s something to do with looting.
• Finally, my character is a working class man who has lost his house and his job. He’s now relying on alcohol and lives on the streets as he has hit a bad state of depression and wants to be alone.