Monday, 9 November 2015

Taking Simon's advice with splitting up the piece, creating them separately and stitching them together afterwards, I summed each of the passages from the refugees up by one word or phrase. By summing my 4 passages I'm going to use for the verbatim aspect of my piece with one word, I'm able to give myself more detail to work off of. Though it arguably makes my job of creating the piece simpler, it also gives me a single word to build my objectives around which I feel will help me devise and create more effectively.

My passage of taken from HONY is a Iraqi refugee from Mosul in Salzburg, Austria. They talk about how they tried to avoid trouble but were reported by their neighbour "for shaving my beard" which caused them to be labelled as an atheist and lashed in the city centre. My obvious aim for this section of my piece to portray to the best of my ability someone possibly being trapped and punished for something so trivial - working off of the objective to be free and escape.

My second passage taken from HONY is from a refugee with unknown origins in Hegyeshalom, Austria. They explain how the war has impact his children and how it's changed their psychology - their normality is war. My aim with this second part is to discuss how the normality of war can impact people's psychologies in such a way that is irreparable - specifically with children.

My third passage taken from HONY is a refugee from Afghanistan - in Kos, Greece - who's family had to flee due to the Taliban. He explains how when the police found him and his family in Turkey, "they treated us like animals...like we weren't human." This third section I want to use animalistic movements to highlight the treatment of refugees and their experiences. We're discussing their lives as if they're a problem, as if they're sub human. They're not a problem. They're humans who are in need of grave help.  

My final passage taken from is refugee from Baghdad, in Salzburg, Austria, who had to leave as they heard "the militas was planning to kill me" - They had leave without their family, "I'm all alone here". In the final part, I want to explore the loneliness felt by the refugees. Though thousands may have travelled with their family, there are still thousands who didn't. Thousands split from their family and their homeland due to conflict. Though there are millions travelling to and through Europe, they've all had different experiences - experiences no one else will ever have to go through like they did - that can be in no doubt, extremely lonely.

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