Monday 28th September 2015

Early morning with Rob we did various amounts of work, but of course we started off with the usual warm ups saying Oo Ar Or loud strong and clear to get our articulation going. Half the class got separated and we had a face off with tongue twisters the two different groups had to say them as loud as we can and the loudest group wins it was funny because it was something you would see on a Tv show but after that we started to Rehearse our lines but this time with a bit of a twist to it.. we had to say it in as many emotions we could for example sad , happy , with grief and it is interesting to see how a Greek play can be used in different emotions and still mange to be good. Then we all did a fun exercise in which we had to go over our lines and rob would shout out a theme for us to do while we act for example romantic comedy in which we would sort of flirt or 1940's French and put an accent or something french people would do in that time, it was funny watching everyone do it and it was quite fun acting it out as well. When we finished that we all sat down and Rob got people who wanted to be in the next exercise to go in a hat and pick out the emotions and the actors would have to say their part in the script and when an emotion gets called out quickly change into it and act as the way it is suited to what was being said. We had a short 15 minute break and when we got back we did a questionnaire about Greek plays and where put into the different groups that we are doing our plays on we marked each others groups score and my group had a total of 11/ 17 which was not too bad. Later on at 2 we had Sharon and we had to do our monologues, for what reason? I have no clue but it was not as bad as it seemed i was not as shy as i thought i would be which a good thing and everyone acted        out their monologues brilliantly,my monologue was Medea written by Euripides and is about a woman who got cheated on her husband and wanted to take serious revenge on him so she decides to kill her sons.

Friday 22nd september 2015

Friday morning i had English with Carolyn and we were reading through a film review and had to underline words we weren't so familiar with and match the words in the review to the meaning. We got told that we had to write a film review of our choice for one of our controlled assessments so when i went home i managed to write one up about ' Step up 2 the streets' as she set this for our homework and  that was a very enjoyable film to watch.  In the lesson we  were looking at different types of good English and words that are different in a few  languages for example love is in English but in Spanish its Amor and french Amour and in Italian its Amare.

 

When we finished our English lesson we had a little lunch break then went to drama but we did not have a drama lesson as the class were going to the trip to the national theatre but before we left Rob gave us our scripts and who is playing who I have the lead role of Antigone, there will be a bit of pressure on me as I am a main character and I will need to know my lines but it will be a first because I have never had a lead role before.

Afterwards,the class went to the national theatre , but the ex level 2's could not go as we went last year but we still decided to follow them to the building and wait so we could go back to the college and watch a musical theatre company do their performance. We waited for nearly two hours for them to finish.. but when we got back to college we watched the little performance, I did not enjoy it to be honest i found it boring and some scenes did not make sense to me for example when they were dancing on the bed. At the beginning of the play they told us that it was about love , friendship and how one of the men got his heart broken by another man and some scenes were split into two so the person was talking to the camera while the other half of the screen he was singing and playing his guitar.

Wednesday 20th september

No blog for Tuesday as it was my day off.

Wednesday morning we had Sharon and we had to fill in some forms and did a questionnaire on moodle, one of the papers she gave out was about what we want to achieve after completing the course and what our goals for the future are and many more questions similar to that which was all for that lesson and 5 minutes later we had Rob in the same room. We were sorting out our blogs , writing  down notes on the Greek theatre and have to write about the playwrights, the dates and times when it was created in total has to be 1,500 words.

 

This is the picture of the Greek theatre course work we have to start working on. 

After Sharons lesson we had Rob in the same room and started to create our blogs which failed for most of us as there is something wrong with the Internet connection in the college so when I went home I decided to make a blog there.  Robs lesson was mainly about trying to get our blogs up and running and him telling us about the different Greek plays such as Medea , antigone and Oedipus. After all of that we had a lunch break and all headed off to our enrichment course we had chosen to do. I chose to do singing as it's been a passion of mine since I was young , we all had a choice if we wanted to do technical theatre, music production , singing, computer science ,photography and dance. My singing teacher is Phillip and at the beginning of the lesson we had to play a game and choose a song but not say the name of it we had to describe it until the class guessed what it was. Afterwards we had to warm up our voices by humming and standing up straight then we sang a song by Stevie Wonder together. 

 That's the lyrics to the song we got given.

As it was our first lesson Philip needed to see our vocal ranges so we had to sing to him one by one I got told I'm a F sharp which he said is pretty good. He also gave us a sheet telling us when we will have performances etc.

Phillip said we have to prepare a song for next week to sing solo and have a backing track basically an instrumental but at the moment I'm not so sure what i want to sing. It's either between Paloma faith - only love can hurt like this , Amy Winehouse- you know im no good or break even by the script.

Monday 18th september.

Monday morning with Rob we played a few games to warm us up such as 'it' and musical chairs it was strange to me though because those are primary school games but after that we got into small groups and had to brainstorm the different types of acting skills an actor would need which you'll see below.

When we were finished with that we got told to go in a circle placing our hand on our stomach breathing in and out to feel the way it feels when air comes in and out through the nose/mouth. Then we got giving tongue twisters to get our mouth ready for tricky pronunciations and vowels which we had to go up and say one by one in a deep voice, it was slightly awkward because he wanted us to look at everyone in the eyes as we said it but we managed to do it.

Over here is the vowels and tongue twisters we had to use during the lesson. 

Afterwards,we went for our lunch break and headed off to Sharon's lesson in the dance studio.We sat in a circle and read a Shakespeare poem together out loud then we all had to pick a word which we thought stood out to us and gave a gesture when we said it. When we did that for a good half an hour we paired up and took turns to read the poem to each other as if we were the character.

This is the Shakespeare poem we were working on today and from it we devised a little drama piece.We got put in groups and each group had different paragraphs to say / act out my group used the middle verse and we performed it group by group then at the end put each piece together as one.

At the end of the lesson Sharon gave us all this sheet to fill out which is basically summing up what we did the whole lesson, she said we will be given sheets like this in some of the lessons to be completed.