2.3 Performance - Our Mime Show

We performed at the Oscars Ceremony at our school Central Foundation Girls' School in front of the Event audiences last year (2010).

3.4 Artefact - Story for Pot

A Struggle of Friendship - Part 1 (To Be Continued)

“Our Pot!...it will hold so many memories, Our Pot.” The exact words that Jaebeom and Taecyeon said the day they bought an unusual old pot home to join their families. It was a present they said from the old woman, Mrs Jung next door to stop them from arguing over a shiny Aqua blue marble they had both fought to own. Who would have thought this pot would go through so much in the future. They didn’t really argue, infact they were the exact opposites: best friends, but more like twin brothers - far more inseperable than blood could ever make anyone, since being born a few hours apart in the MyungDong Hospital. Since finding this pot, they would run about with it all day in the shops filling it with all the guilty pleasures you can think of; Gobstoppers, Rainbow Strips, Magic Stick Sherbet, Mints, Maltesers minis, you name it, and then all evening they would spend playing ‘Hide and Seek’ and ‘Grandma’s Footsteps’, devouring the precious, hidden contents of their pot on the way. It was a sweet life for these innocent angels, and so they watched each other grow, even till this day where they lay on the cracked grey pavements of Busan; one hauling his stomach, his face scrunched up in the pain, the other looking like he’d faint any second, but even through the endless agony, the ends of their mouth turned and slowly reached their smiling eyes as they reminisced about the lifetime they had spent standing by each other like SpongeBob and Patrick (‘SpongeBob Square Pants’), while a dark, fearful fluid dripped, dropped, dripped..till blackout.

Let’s Rewind a little earlier…
24th March 2009 - 2:00pm
Jaebeom and Taecyeon are picked after extensive research by a secret South Korean spy organisation called IRIS, to become professional, undercover agents and work to secure the countries safety from dangers such as terrorism. They are harshly trained with cruel methods such as shock therapy tests, to stop political assassinations and to protect South Korea from any harm, almost like invisible super heroes. However they later find that this “protecting” is all a huge façade and the company’s officials are completely corrupt, as Jaebeom is sent on an individual mission to assassinate the North Korean Politician Jun Young Joo. After hours of going over and over it so repetitively that it drives him half insane, and strong hesitation against it from Jaebeom, he is then blackmailed to give in to it, as the Director of the company blackmails him, saying he’d be abandoned at the foreign location of the assassination and framed for countless pending cases of murder if he fails to follow the exact plan. In fear of losing everything important to him in his life: his freedom, his girlfriend, Seung Li and his best friend, Taecyeon, he goes on with the plan and the mission is accomplished.

He wiped away the trickle of sweat that fell from his forehead which was as hot as a radiator about to explode, while he ran from Young Joo’s guards, a splitting pain cracking through his thighs, crawling all the way from his toes to his head. He panted repetitively, aching to stop to catch a breath..Even for a second. A combination of millions of emotions and words ran through his head, round and round; Fear, Anger, Betrayal, Revenge, Happiness for the fact that he was still alive, and Overwhelming Relief that spread over every inch of his body. He escapes through a gap he finds in a rusty metal gate which was falling apart, but the relief is short lived as dark gushes of fear flow from his waist. He looks down, panic layering his eyes, to find a bullet wound in his right hip.

3.4 Artefact - Draft Self Evaluation for Clay pots (Finished and edited version to be put up after I am able to take a photograph of it!)

Self Evaluation (Draft -Unfinished First Version)

Artefact: Clay Pots
In order for us to get an idea of what kind of pot we wanted to create as our artefact, we had to carry out individual research on pots. Here we found out about various pot designs, forms, materials, colours and artists etc. This was very useful for our planning process of our pot, as it helped us decide how we wanted our pots to be and how we would design them. We also were given magazines and newspapers and told to bring in things that represent our identity e.g. maps, tube tickets to somewhere that holds a memory, childhood/ baby pictures etc. From those magazines etc, we were told to cut out things which we could use to design and stick on to or trace onto our pots. After we had completed our research and made cuttings out, we had to fill out a planning sheet for our pot where we sketched on our actual pot designs and thought about the materials and equipment which could be used etc.

In our making process we were first given a chunk of clay which we had to use to create our small pot. I decided that my pot would have handles on each side and a small lid with a tiny clay ball at the end, to hold the lid with. At the bottom of the small pot I had to make lots of clay rings of different sizes and thickness, and use water to stick them together firmly. As I glued down all the rings together, the shape of the pot started to form slowly and so it was easier to smooth down the joints of the clay rings and create a real pot shape.