Greek theatre Evaluation

My performance for the Greek theatre  piece was overall great I said my lines correctly at the right pace and so did the two people that I was working with, we all had our body faced appropriately so that the audience could see what was going on and or voices were projected loudly The strength of my my performance has to most likely be my stillness on the stage, I had a good posture and did not dance on the spot when I was saying my lines. If there was any weakness in my performance I would say it would be lack of emotion because I did not really show so much sadness as i could have in my personal view.

The other drama class had an amazing performance it was emotional but also had a good moral as well. The first one had a good point that they were trying to get across because it was mainly about discrimination and in every scene they did they showed how people in this modern day acted towards others they hardly know just by looking at their appearance and at the end of their performance they put up signs that they made. The music performance had a few good singers and it was good how one of them told us to clap our hands to the song but as a whole could have been way better because some songs that were played did not really suit everyone's voice.

Overall the performance that stood out to me was the level 2 drama piece it was amazing. The moment that got to me was when the two men had to go to war and left their wives with no choice and one of them was pregnant but luckily her husband did not die but unfortunately her friends husband did and they showed the scene of him dying.

The audience conventions differ from each other because as a audience for watching a drama role play you have to be silent so you do not distract the actors and so you can hear what is being said but as a audience for a music performance you are able to sing along with them and to clap along as it can give the singers more confidence and it helps to ignite the performance.

12th - 16 th October

Monday we had rehearsals from 10 -1 and we were rehearsing for the last time we also had the musical theatre to join us and they needed a few actors to help them with their improvisational dance but we didn't dance we just did a improve as well. I had to call out names of what I wanted the people I'm working with to act out for example if I said you have ten seconds to make a TV they would have to form a shape of a TV with their bodies. When that was done we had a lunch break then went to Sharons lesson to rehearse a bit more. Our performance is tomorrow so Sharon let us use that time to practice we also had to say our lines using gibberish no words what so ever which was funny but at the same time hard because many of us lost track of where we were in the script.


Wednesday
Instead of us having tutorials with Rob and Sharon they let us use that time to rehearse before we were going to perform on stage. After that we went down to the theatre and got ready , I was for some reason calm compared to everyone else but as soon as I saw the amount of people that were coming to watch I was terrified and could not stop shaking at all but when it was my groups turn to act it went amazing I said all my lines correctly loud and clear and was very proud of my self.

Thursday
In the morning i had Hayley for English and we were looking at our final draft that we did for our creative writing. I need to add paragraphs for for my story though  because I was so into what I writing that I forgot to do so. Later we had Rob but we didn't do much as we finished what we needed to finish so we just watched our performance. After that we had lunch then went to the theatre in the college to watch the other performing arts students perform and I must say the level 2 actors were really good.

    Friday 

I had English at 9 : 15 today and we were writing up our 150 words for our controlled assessment that we have on Tuesday, I didn't write as much words but I made sure to put the ones I know ill definitely need and to put smilies and personification aswell. After that we had to go to a trip to the theatre in Piccadilly to see a director called Mark Gatiss he's most known for doctor who.

Friday 9th October 2015

At 9:15 we had English and was looking at how to start our stories. Hayley gave us a booklet and we had to fill some bits in which helps us to have an understanding of what we are expected to do for our controlled assessments.

This  is what I got given by my teacher to help me to plan out my story from the introduction to the end.

 

This was what I used to help me start off my story it has sentence starters. 

After we finished  planing everything we had 5 minutes left at the end to start writing our introduction and then we had a 30 minute break until lunch started. 

When we had Rob went went to the recording studio to record our letters that we wrote in the other lesson and then later on did some improvisation with our play that we are currently working on and after that we had to reflect on how we thought what we just did helped us.

Thursday 8th October

Today in the morning i had Hayley and we got told how we are not doing a film review anymore which was a bit annoying because I spent time writing out my first draft for the film I was planning on doing but it did not bother me too much because we are going to be writing a story any one we want it to be but it has to be something completely different from the title of the original film for example pursuit of happiness is about a man who has a child and everything goes down hill to the fact they sleep in toilets because they have no where else to go but if I wanted to use that title of the film I can't keep the story line. After that we had a break and headed off to drama but it was mainly about fine tuning our pieces.

Wednesday 7th October 2015

Today we had Sharon at 10:00 for tutorial and we had to sort our paper things to make sure we gave in our consent forms. Then we got into groups and started discuss what we think would make a good study group and this is what my group came up with below. We mentioned how its good to be encouraging to other people in the group who may not be to confident to speak out , hardworking in order to get stuff done and many more. After that we were meant to have Rob but he was not in for the lesson so Sharon told us to start our Greek theatre essay.  
                                                  
                                                Later on i had music with Phillip and we started to rehearse the blue moon song we are going to be singing in two weeks plus a song by Michael Jackson called Butterfly, i do not really like the song though because it is kind of boring but we had practice it anyway. Then we went to the computer room to listen to other singers that are from back in the day and then we did a bit of solos before we left. I sang a song called lost & found by Lianne la havas and he really liked it and wants me to sing it again in another lesson.

National theatre review.

As I was not at the national theatre last year I was not able to write a review about it but today Sharon told me to go on the website and look at a few videos to get some ideas about what they are about, the first video I looked at was the Cottesloe theatre and it was basically talking about how its one of the smallest of three of the national theatres. They normally use the theatre to show new plays and it can accommodate a different amount of numbers of seats.
This is the view from the Cottesloe theatre it may be  small but it is still amazing.




The Olivier theatre is five storeys high and contains several elevators for many effects such as objects disappearing from the room or boats rising up into the stage. Its a big public theatre but for some reason it doesn't really get used as much as people think it may, it is named after the director of the national Laurence Oliver. 
                                                                            This is the view of the Olivier theatre.




Another theatre is the Lyttelton, it is a contemporary arch theatre and is known for its wide stage. The Lyttelton Theatre is named after Oliver Lyttelton who was the first chairman of the National Theatre, his  parents were among the earliest of its campaigners.

Monday 5th October 2015

In the morning with Rob we first started off playing a game of netball as a quick exercise to warm us up, at first we were all confused because he never said what we were going to do he just picked us at random and told some of us to stand at one side of the room and for two people to sit down on the opposite side then he told us after we did that. My group lost unfortunately because none of us where really sport fans but after we finished playing that we got split up in our groups to start rehearsing our scripts but also so he could help our groups individually to fix anything we are not exactly acting right or if we are over acting a character. So my group went to 226 and had the room to ourselves to practice we are all almost of script well I am but the two other people in my group are not quite there yet but they know some of their lines  he never got the chance to help my group with our so next lesson that we have him he will do it then. We were rehearsing from 10 till 1 then had lunch and went to Sharon's lesson. When we had Sharon today we had give her our monologues that we auditioned with and annotate it on how we feel our character is feeling etc. We also had to go in pairs and tell each other what our monologue was about then go around the class telling other people what someone else monologue was about which made us use a lot of thinking because we had to use our memories to remember what was said to us. After that we had to write our own monologue about anything we wanted it to be about. Mine was about death and how i do not want to exist anymore because no body loves me and the world would not suffer as much if i was gone i also mentioned how i want to be buried with skeletons and skulls with roses wrapped around my body, it is a very dark monologue but it was also  fun to write about.

Friday 2nd October 2015

I had English at 9:15 today and we were looking at the different camera shot views and how they can give the character a certain amount of power if they are at a certain view. We also carried on looking at film reviews and wrote our introduction today and for home work we have to complete our first draft.

 

This is what can help us to structure our reviews and the different paragraphs. 

Later on we had Rob and did a few exercises as usual before we started the actual lesson.  We did tounge twisters and leg stretches and humming all the voice work you could think of. After that we had to write a letter in the voice of the character we are playing to anyone we wanted I'm Antigone so I decided to write a letter to my sister ismene telling her how sorry I was for killing myself and hoping she was doing fine. 

 

The letter I wrote was not long at all but it was still heart touching and full of emotions. We had an hour break after doing that then went back to do our rehearsals and i am finally off script which is so good I'm very proud of myself considering we have only done it for three weeks now.

Thursday 1st October 2015

Wednesday I was not in as I had stomach pains.

Thursday morning I had English with Helen my my new English teacher and she is so lovely! We started to look at film reviews and how to begin our introduction for our own one , afterwards we looked at other people's film reviews that were not so good and ones that were good enough to pass and had a sheet that we needed to look at the different bands. 5 is the best most likely an A then it's band 4 which is a B and band 3 which is a C. Later on we had our lunch break then headed off too drama at 12:15 , we did something in drama that we have never done before which is lying down on the floor and breathing In and out working with our respiration , we did that for about 10 long minutes and then started to do the usual tounge twisters. Some of us at random and had to make up one and I got chosen and I made one which was ' little long lovely legs' it is nice and easy to pronounce. Then we got given a sheet full of sentences we had to read out and in a circle each one of us read it out but had to take our time saying it.