Skip to main content

UNIT 1 - 8th October 2019


Practical work 1:
For the first half of the lesson we played games:
  1. Splat
  2. One worded game - 2 people go in front of the class and were only allowed to say 1 word each. This was a challenge as we didn't know what word our partner was going to say. So it was all improvisation. 
  3. The next game, 2 people went on stage, Rob gave a line each but neither of them knew what the other person was going to say. This improvisation game was quite difficult as we had to try and say the line at the right time. 

After doing the games we went over our performances for Identity. We were only allowed to rehearse it once. It was a success as we didn’t stop, we were all able to stay in character except at the end when Dee had to do an introduction for the dance. She was supposed to say “and this is us” but she forgot to say it, so we had to remind her. But overall this was the most successful run through we have ever rehearsed.

We then had to fill out a form about what we wanted Rob and Shenagh to watch and test us on when doing our performance on Wednesday. 

 I wrote:
  1. Confidence
  2. Facial expression
  3. Clear voice
  4. Social awareness - being aware of everyone around you so you don’t bump into anyone

Practical work 2:
The second lesson was practical work. 
We went to the theatre to practice our performance with the music and lights. At the beginning it took  a while for the lights and music to be ready for certain scenes. Afterwards we were able to run through the whole performance with the music and lights set in the right place. For me this was a fun experience to see how theatre works behind the scenes and what it takes to make a performance perfect. We were a good team, we all felt proud of how well the performance went. This made me feel excited for my first ever performance at college tomorrow.

Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

Week Beginning the 13th January

On Monday 13th January, we had to search for context about the play “Citizenship”.  The two questions we were given were:  1. Ways to research  2. What will we research?  This was what I got from answering these questions:  National Theatre Mark Ravenhill I was put in a group with Hanna, Henok, Louis and Aso. In our groups we would have to make a presentation about the context of “citizenship”. We decided that Hanna and Henok would make the slide show. Myself and Louis would do the research as Aso would find photos. This showed teamwork, we decided and agreed our roles quickly as it was the end of the lesson.  We then went into our groups for “Citizenship” and rehearsed our lines. I helped Ashleigh, we worked well as a team.  Underplay  = Making something less important than it is. E.g breaking your leg and saying it does not hurt. Overplay  = To make something bigger than it is. E.g If someone got a pap...
Read more

Week Beginning the 16th March

On Monday 16 th  March,  we got into pairs and read our monologues to each other. I partnered with Louis. His monologue is about a group of teenagers who bully someone to their death, but later find out he is still alive . I thought Louis should say his monologue in a slower and clearer voice because I felt he had rushed his speech. This also showed that he was not in character. We were then given these four emotions: Happy Sad Confused Joyous We took turns to perform, the class choose the emotion for each of us to do. With my monologue, I was told to perform in a confused way. After performing Rob believed that I should talk from my stomach as I was talking from my throat. Talking from your stomach helps your voice become clearer and louder, the audience will be able to hear and see a better performance from you. I will learn from that when rehearsing at home. On Tuesday 17 th March, we made a profile for our monologues character. We wrote about who are ...
Read more

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 thi...
Read more