Month: January 2023

My two main writers that i will be focusing on mainly for my creative writing that i would like to do for next year.

the project proposal- pdf

This is the final essay , however i didnt like the layout of how it looked and i wanted it to look more presentable .

This is the final essay outcome.

What is PTSD?

Ptsd as also known as  post-traumatic stress disorder, is known to have symptoms of Aggressive outbursts, panic attacks, depression and night terrors . Which then were known as shell-shock. 

The question lies on how does peaky blinders tackle these symptoms ? And how do they portray it through one single character?

The main points:

• the series was set based after the First World War 
• Depression and other mental diseases may be very taboo subjects, especially among men. which is what Steven Knight had to tackle.
• It can be difficult to talk about mental illnesses like depression, especially among men.  
• The way it had to be portrayed was for it to not be cliche or too dramatic since then it will lose its purpose.

My main two characters that i wanted to focus on was Arthur Shelby (Paul Anderson) and Thomas Shelby ( Cillian Murphy) since they both represent some type of mental health in their own way which is indeed different , showing the contrast of two different sides and what things would affect each individual person.

These are the websites i used for more research and analysis on the two characters and what mental illness they both represent. I found more research on Arthur then Thomas since his one was rather more family based and also war based.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mental-illness/symptoms-causes/syc-20374968#:~:text=Mental%20illness%2C%20also%20called%20mental,eating%20disorders%20and%20addictive%20behaviors.

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/peaky-blinders-ptsd/#:~:text=Peaky%20Blinders%20revolves%20around%20World,partially%20because%20of%20social%20stigmas.

https://peaky-blinders.fandom.com/wiki/Oswald_Mosley

https://www.quora.com/Whats-wrong-with-Arthur-Peaky-Blinders (Enola murphy – 2021)

https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/tv/peaky-blinders-tommy-shelby-struggle-mental-health-1215407.html ( 24 October 2019- Joseph Holgate)

Based on the essay that i wanted to write about, at first i had no ideas.

I didn’t know what films, series, animations or games to write about and analyse. But then i thought of a series i had finished recently which was peaky blinders.

that made me want to do something about peaky blinders, but the question for me was what would the essay be about if i do do it about peaky blinders?

Then i realised a pattern within the visual representation. And it was the way the actors were portraying mental illness , which in this case mainly is PTSD.

My idea sparked from another idea that was meant for another task. This is from the video essay and i wanted to make a plan to recreate it when i had time , however i then used peaky blinders to analyse for my actual essay because there is a lot more depth in the visuals and the actors behaviours that would be really amazing to work on.

we were given as an activity ( by choice if we wanted to) to make a video essay about any animation, film , story and or video games focusing on any subject criteria we wanted.

i managed to understand it wrong and finished the work really badly, however my intention for the video was that how we react when we get work from our tutors and how we feel when our teammate doesn’t do their work on time. The above picture was my script/plan.

My mistake was that mine was also short compared to everyone else’s work when they presented.

i tried using an anime called Naruto shippuden to showcase my idea.

These are a few essays we were given to analyse and breakdown to make a final presenation of . the one i was given mainly was crazy cameras done by shane denison.

This is my analysis of the crazy cameras , the colour code and what it stands for is at the bottom.

This is the final analysis , however for our final presentation we went with the children of compost written by Donna harraway.