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UNIT 1 - 24th September 2019


Practical Lesson 1:
Today in practical work the first thing we did was warm ups for the body.

We then got into pairs and named ourselves A and B.
A’s would control B’s with their finger.
A’s would have their finger a couple of places away from B’s nose and A’s would move their finger in different directions and B’s would have to follow it.
We then had to switch roles.

We then developed our piece for identity.

I think I’m developing:
  1. How to exaggerate my roles/ characters.
  2. Staying in role/character
  3. Eye contact
  4. Staying in position- be aware of stage position
  5. Positive mind-set
  6. Self confidence

Afterwards we practised our piece for identity and how we would start. We were only able to:
  1. Do poses that identify as us and who were are as a person
  2. Someone talked about what our performance and what we have been doing
  3. Did our freeze frames from yesterday about women, men and what the older generation think of young people
  4. We went into a semi-circle and Hanna went in the outside and stood in the middle of the semi-circle and did 5 lines of her interview.
  5. Some People from the semi-circle would go to Hanna and say a nice comment about her as her character and when they leave they would laugh or shake their head as what the said is not actually true. I said “you’re so pretty”
  6. Then another student Simon was a doctor and the rest of the class was talking about how we feel like we don’t fit in and no one likes us and the doctor said that we should just be ourselves and not care what people think.

Tech Work - unit 2:
Today I continued writing my essay on costume design. The task for that lesson was to answer two of the following questions:
  • What they do?
  • How do they train?
  • Who they work with?
We then had to partner up with someone that hadn’t picked the same essay subject as me. We then had to discuss why these two subjects would be working together. I partnered up with someone who was doing make-up and hair so we would be working together because the costume designer would need to know what make-up will be used on the actor and would also know what colours would suit the make-up and the costume. For the hair, the hair designer might make the actor wear a big wig which would shows high status. The costume designer would then need to find another way to put the costume on as the wig would be too big to fit through the collar.

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