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UNIT 1 - 12th September 2019


Practical Lesson 1:
Task One
The first thing we did were warm ups for the body, voice and tongue exercise
We were given a sheet of paper with five different tongue twisters. We were able to read them but we then had to go up one by one in front of each other. Instead of picking our own tongue twisters, we had to choose one for each other. This was scary as you did not know which one was going to be picked for you to do.

Task Two
We were given another sheet of paper where it had a spider diagram with the title 'Identity' in the middle. We were then told to write things we thought of when we heard or read the word 'Identity'.

I wrote:
  • Name
  • Where you were born (hospital, country, city)
  • When you were born
  • How you dress
  • How you act
  • What type of education you have or had
After writing our thoughts we went round and shared three of the things we wrote. This was helpful as we were able to see if people had similar thoughts.

Task Three
We got into threes and then picked one idea from each persons spider diagram. We had to do a freeze image of each of them. In my group we did freeze statues of:
  • How you dress
  • Social Media
  • Favourite film/Show
Practical Lesson 2:
Task One
We got back into our groups of three and picked one of our freeze frames and made it into a scene. My group picked 'How you dress'. We decided to do a fashion shoot. One of us was the photographer and the other two (including me) were the models. After rehearsing, we all had to watch each others scenes.

Task Two
We had to then stand at the back of the room and one of us would stand in front of us and we would walk to them and do a pose that represented us. This was to help us with the topic 'Identity'
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