Author: Olivia

Characters:
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Servant

Location:
Macbeth’s Castle

Time:
Morning

Summary:
In a room  in Macbeth’s castle, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are sitting together and reading a letter from her husband about a meeting with the witches. She believes everything the witches say is true. A servant comes into the scene and says that king Duncan will be staying the night and leave tomorrow. Lady Macbeth plans to carry out the murder that night. Lady Macbeth  said her husband is weak and doesn’t have the courage to kill Duncan. When Macbeth arrives back from Duncan’s Court, she reveals his plans to him.

” MACBETH

Characters:
Duncan
Malcolm
Banquo
Macbeth

Summary:
In the palace courtroom, King Duncan asks if the execution is done. Malcolm answers his father’s question. ‘I have spoke With one that saw him die.’ King Duncan gives thanks to Macbeth and Banquo for their part in the battle. Then, to the private astonishment of Macbeth, Duncan announces that his successor as king, when that may be, will be his son Malcolm.

Quote:
” DUNCAN

Characters:

First Witch
Second Witch
Third Witch

In this scene, the Witches have gathered apon the heath- as they said they would, and the first witch is telling how she was disrespected by a sailors wife so they plan to cause mischief on them. She says she has a pilots thumb so Macbeth has come.
Macbeth and Banquo are together and Macbeth says how his day has not been so good and bad at the same time. The Witches come before them and Banquo he askes Macbeth how far “these creatures” have come. He says they look like they should not belong on earth. He turns to them and askes if they can answer questions, they seem to understand him. He says they look women but their beards keep him from believing that they really are. Macbeth asks the witches what kind of creatures they are but they ignore him and give him all these praises.

” FIRST WITCH
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
SECOND WITCH
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!
THIRD WITCH
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
BANQUO
Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear
Things that do sound so fair? (to the WITCHES) I’ th‘ name of truth,
Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not.
If you can look into the seeds of time
And say which grain will grow and which will not,
Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate. ”

Characters:
King Duncan
Malcolm
Donalbain
Lennox
Attendants with a bleeding Sergeant

Location: A camp near Forres

Scene Summary:
At a military camp near King Duncan’s palace near Forres the scene begins with Malcolm, who is the kings son, introduces the captain who saved him in the battle against Scotland and the Irish invaders who are led by Macdonwald. The captain was wounded helping Duncan’s son Malcom who was captured by the Irish. Captain is covered in blood and explains to king that the Scottish generals Macbeth and Banquo fought with great courage and violence. He then describes how Macbeth killed the rebelling traitor Macdonwald. As the captain is taken to get himself fixed up, the thane of Ross, a Scottish nobelman enters the scene and tells the king that the traitorous thane of Cawdor has been defeated and the Norwegian army repelled. Duncan says that the thane of Cawdor be put to death and that Macbeth, the hero of the victorious army be given the Cawdors title – though Macbeth does not know it yet.

Quote by Captain:

” For brave Macbeth – Destaining fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution.”

Macbeth is seen as a hero because of killing the traitorous Macdonwald. They are unaware of what this small action would later spark in the near future in Macbeth.

Characters:
First Witch
Second Witch
Third Witch

Location:
A desert place

Scene Summary:
The Witches gather together and talk about when they will meet again. They decide to meet in an open field or hill before sunset, once the battle is over and someone has lost and won. There, they will meet Macbeth.

Quote:
“First Witch
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won.”

How could the people you are brought up and the people you hang out with influence you in the way you text and speak? (Cultural aspect)
20 years ago, how would the English language be then, compared to now?
Could your beliefs or morals influence you in any way?

Task: Determine a hypothesis and use it to head a new entry on your blog.

Is text language ruining the English language? English has been spoken for more than 80,000 years but over the course of the last 1000 years, it is developing constantly, with new words and expressions being developed to replace particular words.  With texting, we have created new words and developed them into new meanings, then making them into short abbreviations. For example, the abbreviation “lol” used to mean lots of love. Now, in our day it age it means “laugh out loud”. Are small things like these ruining the English language?

As shown above, when used out of context, the term ‘lol’ can come across in the wrong way, more so for adults who have not come across the ‘new’ meaning. The most common example would be:
Mum: G-ma has just gone into hospital. Not sure if it is serious yet. See you soon. Lol.

Text language has modernised the English language. Here in New Zealand, in an NCEA English exam, text abbreviations have been approved as long as the marker can see that the required paper “clearly shows the required understanding” .  Mr Bali Haque, who is the deputy chief executive of NZQA said, “Students should aim to make their answers as clear as possible. Markers involved in assessing NCEA exams are trained professionals, experienced in interpreting the variety of writing styles and language uses encountered during the marking process,”. This clearly shows how much text abbreviations are preferred. While writing in text abbreviations are not recommended in exams, it depends on how the students choose to write. Whether they think it is helpful- a time saver, or could portray that the student is lazy or sloppy in their writing.

(Not finished)

1) Yeah?

2) Oh fanks for answering geezer, you know what I mean?

3) Give me that! Where you been fool? Make us rinse out our credit leaving you messages and that.

2) Mr doors is well on the war path with you, bruv, yeah?

1) Cos of the bag and that?

2) What bag? Cos you missed the lesson you cheat!

3) Give me that! The bag wasn’t the problem, teggsy never mentioned it, he bottled it. You coming over to mine later to play computer?

1) Nah man, I’m at home now, I got business I gotta run.

3) What business?!

1) Business that minds it own, im out.

Diegetic (in the scene) at the beginning applause, bang, shooting, talking

Non-diegetic- music, music sounds added, Over the shoulder, level angle, Mid shot, low angle, long shot level angle, behind shot, zoom into mid shot, close up mid shot, High angle, low-level angle, low angle zoom, over the shoulder, establishing shot, level angle

CAMERA ANGLES USED

Close up, Over the shoulder, level angle, Mid shot, Long sustained shot, low angle, long shot level angle, behind shot, zoom into mid shot, close up mid shot, High angle, low level angle, low angle zoom, over the shoulder, establishing shot, level angle mid shot from the left side, level zoom angle, level zoom, tracking shot, level angle mid shot from the right side, level angle, zoom low angle from the left side, tilt, crane, over the shoulder, low angle, close up, flash back sequence, tracking shot, low angle, mid shot, cutting between scene twice, mid shot, over the shoulder close up, close up, zoom, zoom, close up, close up, mid shot, mid shot, cross cut x8, cross cut over the shoulder, mid shot, low to mid shot angle, pan follow shot, zoom, the camera is on tripod as scene progresses, over the shoulder, level over the shoulder, low to level mid shot

Most shots in time with music

If you’ve picked up this story, don’t bother reading it. Just put it down and go about your day, reading books, or playing games. Go and do something while you still can, when someone won’t control you and watch you do it.

The worn down clock in the middle of the town struck 4 as the small girl walked down the middle of the deserted road. Above her, the air wore a blanket of black fog and she wrapped her ragged coat around her legs as the breeze whipped her tiny figure. She recited the alphabet as she walked around streets toward her apartment, careful not to stand on the glass and rubbish that painted the streets.
“Lucy?” Her mother called to her.
“Yes, Mum?” She said.
“How was school?” She replied as she ran out to meet her.
In response, Lucy told her mother about her day at school.

Rats, Flea’s and other six-legged insects made themselves at home along with Lucy and her mother in their small apartment. Its ceilings were stripped of paint and the ugly khaki wallpaper was peeling. The only room that Lucy could feel comfortable in was the cupboard with the light on doing her homework, but every now and then, she felt as if the walls were getting smaller and smaller, trapping her inside with nowhere else to go.
“It isn’t easy, but it will have to do for the time being Luc, just till everything’s okay again and it fits the pair of us nicely, it is more than most have.” Lucy’s mother always said.

Lucy crept down the dimly lit hallway and sat in her mother’s room and switched the light on. A rat scuttered away as she propped herself up against the wall, with her knees up against her chest and began to read. After a few hours of reading, Lucy heard faint sounds of steps coming down the hallway and the voices of men. She immediately switched the light off and made herself hidden in the cupboard so she couldn’t be seen through the crack in the door. Voices and steps came closer and closer and she held her breath. She stayed as still as a statue until they walked out of the apartment. Lucy walked out of the cupboard and heard beeping. She realized she had been under surveillance from the moment she switched the light on. She checked her watch, it had been 4 hours and her mother should have been home. The men…They must have looked for her to take her away too. Lucy’s knees gave way to the floor and she sunk into a pool of misery.

Lucy had hidden in their apartment for days on end without going to school. Her mother hadn’t come home, and she didn’t know how to survive without her- it was like learning to breathe without air. There was still hope that she would come home and her arms would bring her to a tight embrace and give her the hug she gave Lucy every night but every day that hope faded away and she hoped her mother wouldn’t be at the camps.

You might be confused, so let me explain. Last year in May 2099 the Government said the population was too large so they said there was only one option. The camps were for the ‘less fortunate” and the others were ‘educated and gifted well enough to stay, ‘Nihil nisi optimum’ – Nothing but the best’ The government said. So that is why Lucy and her mother stayed in the half-hearted city hoping each and every day something better would happen and the city would become alive again like it did 5 years ago.

(To be continued)