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College of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Purposive Communication

PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION
GROUP 5:“THE CHRONICLES”

ACTIVITY 5 GROUP VIDEO PRESENTATION_CULTURE_PHYSICAL GAME

MEMBERS:
CARLOS, James Rock
CRISOSTOMO, Railey
DE LEON, Ceena
MAGCALAS, Hendrich

FLOW OF SCRIPT:

INTRO
[ Animation of logo, effects, whatever… ]

*APPEAR

● PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION
GROUP 5
ACTIVITY 5: CULTURE PHYSICAL GAME

- MEMBERS
…
BS ARCHITECTURE 2-4

OPENING PART [TRAILER]

[ Cinematic History, culture, and civilization of Ancient Egypt ]

TRANSLATION IS ARABIC FOR EFFECTS

VOICEOVER: Today, We’ll give you a glimpse

*close up eyes opening
VOICEOVER: Of the past
*past cinematography of history (kahit di egypt basta videos from the past)
VOICEOVER: A country rich with culture
*Flashes egyptian architecture

VOICEOVER: Cultivated by the ancient civilization

*Flashes civilization in egypt

VOICEOVER: Now as its story further unfolds

*cinematography of egypt or pyramids

VOICEOVER: we’ll bring you back

* Flashes cinematography of Egypt

VOICEOVER: to History

*Flashes sun rising

VOICEOVER: Presenting

*Flashes “THE CHRONICLES” logo

PRESENTATION PROPER

NAME OF THE GAME, HISTORY AND ORIGIN (CEENA)

RAILEY: Masa el Khair [MASE OULHAYR (good evening). Today, we’ll give you one of the
prominent cultural games of ancient Egypt. From around 3100 B.C.E to 30 B.C., Ancient Egypt
in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region. While this
period’s language, writing, climate, religion, and borders have all changed over the millennia,
the country called the land of civilization still exists today.

One of their cultural and popular games is called Senet.

Senet is a board game from ancient Egypt. Its full ancient name was senet net hab, which
translates to "game of passing through," because the goal of the game is to get from one end of
the board to the other. The earliest representation of senet is from the Mastaba of Hesy-Re,
around c. 2620 BCE, though similar boards and hieroglyphic signs can be found even earlier.

CEENA: Fragmentary boards that could be senet have been discovered in Egyptian First
Dynasty burials around c. 3100 BCE. By the time of the New Kingdom in Egypt (1550–1077
BCE), senet was conceived as a representation of the journey of the ka (the vital spark) to the
afterlife.

The game was a pastime for commoners and nobles. There are different materials used for this
board game. An Egyptian king, Tutankhamun was buried with four senet boards made with
ebony wood and ivory. Thus, making senet an important symbol of their past.

Initially, it was just a fun game, but from the 19th Dynasty (c.1292 BCE) it took on religious
significance. The ancient Egyptians thought that the pieces journeying across the board was like
the soul passing through the underworld to get to the afterlife. Many actual boards have
survived intact, along with their counters and throw sticks (or "knucklebones"), but the original
rules of the game are not fully understood, and there have been several attempts to reconstruct
the game, which is the rule we are using today.

CULTURAL MEANINGS OR SYMBOLISMS (HENDRICH)

[Meaning of symbols in the board of the game]

[What culture or belief created/ started the game]

HENDRICH: Thirty squares were laid out in three rows of ten on the game board. Some of the
squares had symbols on them, and the counters' path across the board most likely followed a
reversed S. The symbols in the Ancient Egyptian Game of Senet represented either good or
bad fortune, and the game was affected accordingly.

Throwing four two-sided sticks or, in some cases, knucklebones determined the movement of
the counters. Senet had a religious significance, with each player's goal being to move their
pieces around the board while avoiding hazards.

Egyptians Believe that Good fortune was a gift from the gods, and the winner was the first to
enter the afterlife by clearing all of their pieces from the board.

MECHANICS OF THE GAME (JAMES)

RAILEY: Senet is an ancient Egyptian board game designed for two players. Consisting of 30
squares, referred to as houses. The houses are arranged in 3 rows, with 10 houses in each row.
The goal of the game is to move through the board, eventually getting all your pieces off the
board before the other player.
 To play, you will need a senet board, senet sticks - which work like traditional dice - and
four or five color-coded pieces for each player. Usually, you can also use rocks, pennies, or
coins as an alternative.

To set up, start by placing all of the pieces in the first row in an alternating pattern so that
no player has two pieces sitting next to one another.

Players take turns by throwing the Senet sticks down to see how many spaces they can
move. The sticks are color coded or marked in some way with the blank or light side counting as
face up. Usually, popsicle sticks can be used as an alternative. If zero sticks are face up, you
can move five spaces and get to toss again. For one face up stick, you move one space and get
an extra turn. The two or three allows you to move two or three spaces respectively and lose
your turn. If all four of the sticks land face up, you can move four places and get an extra turn.

JAMES: Pieces move around the board in a serpentine pattern. And a player can move
any piece they’d like. If you move a piece to a square occupied by the other player’s piece, you
send the opponent’s piece back to the square you just moved from. However, if a player has
more than one of their pieces in an adjacent row, you cannot land on their pieces. Players may
jump pieces though. If a player cannot move on their turn, it automatically moves on to the next
player.

There are five special spaces on the board. There are two safe squares where the
opponent cannot send your piece back - the power of life and the house of beauty - which are
located near the center of the board. Below that, there is the house of water. If you land there,
you go back to the power of life square. And if that’s occupied, you roll again. There is also the
house of three spirits which is a safe square that requires a roll of a three to get out of it. Finally,
there is the house of twos which requires a roll of two to get out of.

Play continues until the game ends whenever a player gets all of their pieces off of the
board and that player is declared the winner.

[Needed materials and equipment]

[Number of Players]
[Rules]
[How to play]

ENDING:
[Whisper voice then fades out]

VOICEOVER: 'salamo alaikum' ('peace be with you')

REFERENCES:

https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/metkids/2017/ancient-egypt-board-games#:~:text=Senet%20
was%20a%20very%20popular,So%20did%20the%20ancient%20Egyptians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTyF79EGp5A

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Senet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet

https://discoveringegypt.com/ancient-egyptian-game-senet/