UAL Level 2 Performing Arts: October 2015

Monday 5th to 8th Friday Oct 2015. Week 4 of lessons at College.

On Monday we had Drama with Rob so the other groups got an idea about the plays context, style and what is about (the first or opening scene) so we went to the theatre and rehearsed until it was fully polished and neat to be performed to the class and we edited parts of the play we were told to improve and made it better every time until the day of the performance which will be on a Thursday.

Also we rehearsed in spare time and after schools some days with our or my group. We did rehearsals in our groups and rehearsed it with Jacob as our extra actor when Darnel was not able to perform or if he could not attend the actual performance and performed the first or last scene to the class in the drama room which went really well.

Also we did our ''star now'' CV's online in tutorial for our interviews with Charlie soon in our college who has a important role in the college and were asked to select categories of things we want to do such as Drama and many more which I still need to finish off at home. Another thing I had on the same day was ASL support on spelling and Handwriting with Arlette my support worker and she corrected a piece of work we were set in drama to do which was research on a backstage role.

On Tuesday we rehearsed and performed opening scenes to the other groups in our class and our Teacher Rob which went really good and I really enjoyed the lesson as we all participated in our groups.

Later in the afternoon we had Mandy with her we did warm up exercises to relax our bodies and make us more flexible, then she discussed/ showed us the safety poster h/w and what we have to do in depth and said the best one gets a prize and is put it all around the college walls. Towards the last few minutes of the lesson we rehearsed the dances in our plays, the other drama work and scenes in our groups until the end.

In the evening some of the people in our class including me had English GCSE and Functional skills but I had GCSE and when we continued the lesson we started planning the essays in the booklets given to us by our teacher Haley and were asked to finish it for h/w for next week and write a practice film review on our chosen film.

On Wednesday I rehearsed with my group in College and Jacob our extra actor in case the other person in our group Darnel could not come and he played the role of Carmon's Husband which we rehearsed for a few hours by showing him our Dance routine and the acting side of the play and he participated in the play and started slowly learning his lines and we continued rehearsing ours.

On Thursday We had Maths in the morning were we did worksheets on money problems and telling the time using a harder technique in our groups. Then we had Drama and in the first lesson we rehearsed and later a bit again and then took a break after the second lesson finished, in tutorial we did more work on our presentations on the backstage roles by editing it and breaking it down into chunks and started or finished our essays.

On Friday we did more Maths and worked again on the same things but did different money problem type questions. In the tutorial lesson with Becca we continued to work on our blogs and were given a bit of information by our tutor.

Then I had Maths with Imishka on the Lowest Common Multiples (LCM), then I rehearsed with my group on our Drama performance and Lucas our new extra character who is now in our play as well as in his own group stayed with us for a few hours and then Sarah, Jessica B. and Me were editing the play/ scenes and how the characters act and react in the scenes new lines etc. experimenting and discussing what music and lighting to use and adding extra lines to the script, editing and changing until perfect from beginning to end and we will continue to rehearse before, in Drama lessons and after drama lessons college until Thursday when it is polished and performed to an audience, also the day we rehearsed we filmed one or some videos of the some of the scenes when the 3 of us we rehearsing together and performed again and again until we were confident and happy, pleased with the scenes now the next step is remembering lines.

Monday to Friday 21st to 25th Sep 2015

What happened in lessons on week 3: Rehearsing

After/ during the lessons throughout the week where we were practicing and changing around scenes in the performance improving and putting more emotion in what we are doing and the characters or shall I say editing it to the next level which it should reach by the actual day we perform our 5 minute pieces as part of the induction process.

Also we were told after watching each others performances or first scenes by our drama teacher Rob what to improve or exaggerate even more bigger: for our group we were told to project our voices, Do not hint anything to the audience earlier on in the performance, my character should be a ticket collector on the train by saying ''Tickets please'' and also don't block other characters while on stage. Towards the end = announce to the family (daughter, Grandsons) before they arrive at the door which is ''there here''.

Vocal= we did tounge twisters to help us pronounce our words clearly with confidence and were told to also find other chairs? for the performance so it looks more original for that time/ era of the play and setting of our scene and look were we put the chairs to be aware of how much space we can use as other groups need to use the space and to be more angled not the other way.

1st activity= Devising Physically in a circle as a group (class) and 2nd activity= Physically clear activity (in pairs). Last exercise, where we were in pairs and then did a freeze frame, was to look at how we can make pieces physical and less verbal.

Blog: why we devised what we devised? We devised what we devised because we thought it would be interesting to create a picture to a live piece of drama from a picture which meant something rather than a dance and short piece of drama which takes more dedication but is shorter than a real play improvised with made up on the spot characters. What was it with the stimulus that was good? The thing that was good with the stimulus was it stood out to us and showed some emotions in the picture which made us enthusiastic to use the images and incorporate our own ideas into it to come up with a nice idea. Did we devise it collaboratively? I think as a group and individuals we get on well and work really nicely together and I am happy with who I am working with and am sure it will turn out good. To improve maybe we need to have a bit more confidence to project our lines to the audience.

A freeze frame in Physical theatre

Tutorial with Becca and a other teacher:

For one tutorial we did a lesson on safety in the college building and around the college building as well and what goes on in society e.g. crime and domestic violence. The next tutorial we did presentations on a website called ''Prezi'' were we all created an account and designed and did research/answered the questions on the board about our individual roles which went well but couldn't complete it in the time set so had to finish it at home but I did it at home and in the college library.
We were also notified who was in our group and in which order to complete it and we would say it by discussing those things together. Our tutor said the date of the presentation will be on the 18th October at 10:45am in context.
Each person in the group must speak for 3 minutes. We all must talk about our roles, who we work closely with, why our role is vital in a production and when we would work on a production. (This is to complete unit 2). As part of our presentation I used websites for information and put it in my own words as references for example a good website was: ''www.inputyouth.co.uk'' which had good info on set design.

My maths support/lesson:

Imishka and me started the session by doing worksheets on prime factors and the highest common factors and in our morning maths lesson from 09:15-10:30 we did a entry level test so the teacher could see what level we are at but we all found it a bit easier than we thought it would be and then we did a functional skills test and a question on ducks on the board which was easy and was a problem solving question with help from people in our group, Jessica answered the question correctly on the board and the teacher repeated it so we all understood it.

My English Lesson:

In English we learnt how to do a film review on a film that deserves a reward or writing a creative story on a films title. Also on a sheet of paper we did a list like ingredients for recipe on which key things you should be added in the writing piece like quotations and adjectives/adverbs.
We also had to read several good and a bad piece of writing to see the difference in quantity and quality of writing and their were many differences and a wider vocabulary range in one than the other.
We had to correct one piece of short writing by editing the punctuation and grammar so it made more sense also their was no balance or variety of vocab such as adjectives (doing words) and we had to fill the register in each lesson and fill out sheets from a booklet were we read 3 good film reviews and answer questions and were told we have a assignment in 2 and half weeks.

Dance Diagram which we did in groups before doing a dance from words circled on a sheet:

Safe Practice

be aware of the space around you, no socks, accurate exercise of movement, don't chew gum, don't slide, no phones, wear comfortable clothes, don't leave things lying around (=========

======) no hats, dancing, moving, watch out for the other people don't stand to close to others, enough sleep, headphones, no wired cables dangling from pockets or around the neck, no MacDonald's before dance lesson, no eating or drinking, good posture and alignment, tie hair back, no shoes, warm up, no running (dance studio), don't wear jellewery (no earing's)