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UNIT 1 - 26th September 2019


Practical Lesson 1:
Today in practical work the first thing we did was musical chairs. 

We then went over the beginning for our piece for identity. We added a scene where class mate mark did his verbatim. The rest of us were in a semi-circle behind him. The people in the semi-circle would go to someone on the opposite side and pretend to talk with them but mouthing without speaking. 

I thought whilst doing this it was silly but had a laugh.

Practical Lesson 2:
In the second practical, we went over what we did in the first practical lesson. The next person to do their verbatim was Simon. Whilst he was saying his we got Dee to be a lost student who couldn’t find her class. She would ask help from the people in the semi-circle but no one would help. She then went to Simon but he refuses to help her. When he leaves her the rest of us would start to circle her saying “you got no friends”. Every time we said the line the volume would get louder. We would repeat this line 7 times and when we finished one of our class mates Taija would tell everyone to stop being mean to Dee as we wouldn’t like it if people were doing it to us. Taija and Dee would then leave with the rest of us on the stage. We would then one by one leave the space for me to be the last one left. This is when I then did my verbatim.

My verbaim: 

"Urm well as a young person depending on where I was. I studied at secondary school in Fulham. I urr then went to hounslow brough college as to study graphic design. From there, I then got to the university of westminster urr did a degree in graphic information design. But urm mainly as a young person whilst studying as well, go out every know and then on Friday to nigh clubs. That kinda thing with student friends and that kinda thing"


I thought that doing this was fun and we were able to work as a team.

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