UNIT 1 - 17th September 2019

Practical Lesson 1:

We started with a body warm up:

• Roll shoulders at the same time in the same direction but then roll in the opposite directions. e.g. one shoulder goes left backwards and the other goes right forwards and then switch shoulders.
• Roll body to the ground starting with head rolling down body leading with the shoulders all the way to the floor and try to touch your toes. Then to slowly roll back up (you can bend your knees a little to make it easier)

Task One
We then got into pairs, named ourselves A and B. The exercise was to breathe in and let your tummy out. Person A would do the breathing and Person B would put their right hand on As shoulder and left hand on As stomach. We were supposed to say if the stomach was going in or out and I found this difficult as I didn't know how to really do it.

Task Two
With the same partner we had to get a chair and one of us sit in it and lean forward with your chest on your legs with your arms dropped to the sides. The other person would put their hands on the persons lower back and the person sitting down would breathe slowly and the other person would try and feel the breathing in and out from their hands being placed on their lower back.

Task Three
We were shown five tongue twisters and we went through them as a class but then had to go in turns to say the tongue twister in front of everyone else.

Task Four
In got in groups of three and one group of four. The teacher would pick some objects and in our groups we would have to build that object with our bodies. The teacher chose:

A fridge, The Statue of Liberty, a Racing Car and things you would see in a front room.

We had to do it separately and then do a performance of it.

Task Five
We got into a circle and we did a one worded story where we would go around the circle and each person could only say one word that would make the story.

Our story was about:

• Going to the cinema
• Seeing an ugly, fat but cute cat
• Going to a party and getting cider and coke
• Throwing up
• Going home and smoking

We then had to get back into the groups and perform this story. It was difficult to do. We then had to perform it to the whole class.

The teacher then wanted to give us notes on our performances. Whilst he was telling us what he wrote, we had to write it down so we could remember what he said:

• Have Courage to take your time
• Don't apologise for your performance if it’s too short or if you have to restart it
• Go for it! Don't feel nervous to go over the top
• Use big performance energy
• Speak louder and use the whole space instead of performing in a corner or one space
• Don't talk over each other
• You don't have to be the best so don't be hard on yourself
• Don't try to be in groups with your friends. Go with people you haven't work with before.

Tech Work - unit 2:

We watched videos about:

• Costumes, make up and wigs for people who are going to study costumes, makeup and wigs.
• People studying lighting and set design.

We were given five questions:

• Who are they?
• What they do?
• How do they train?
• Who they work with?
• How much can they earn?

I decided to do costume design as I am interested in fashion and this would be a fun and interesting essay. By the end of the lesson the teacher wanted us to be able to answer the first two questions and by the end of the lesson we had to keep a record of the websites we were researching on.