unit 1 identity

Unit 1- Identity

Thursday 22th September
Started with a Drama lesson, where we worked in the theater to get used to our surrounding for the upcoming performance of "Identity" , as well as gave us a overview of where our voices need to be for the live performance. We played different games such as It! as well as a new game for me called Famous person which consisted of someone leaving the room acknowledging that they are a famous person but they don't know what famous person they are yet, once returning into the room all the other members of the room begin going up to the now famous person and either complimenting them or giving horrible comments to then the person has to guess who it is.

Friday 23rd September
Day began with another blog session to continue our blogs as well as improve them, after a hour of doing that we went to our drama lesson where we spent the rest of the lesson doing activities such as describing our partners facial features without looking as well as when both partners talk about what they are going to do for the weekend and who ever stops first to listen losses, we finally played a game called mafia which helped our improv skills.

Monday 26th September

Continued writing our blogs, drama next where we began working on our piece of identity. We started this by everyone getting into three groups and then someone from those groups would pick a piece of paper which had a one of the ideas for identity written on it, next we would do a scene based off of that idea, for example my group had background so we decided to do a detention scene and a really smart girl who everyone calls the "nerd" shows up so all the other kids are shocked and surprise as she's meant to be really good and so someone asks her and then we go into another scene showing her background i.e. her life at outside of school at home. Unfortunately we ran out of time we improve the scene and add the other characters backgrounds.

Tuesday 27th September
In drama we began with the opening of the production by all sitting in chairs but hey were lined up side by side and we each had to write what identity meant to us we then swapped the papers around and had to read them all out individually. Next we got back into the groups we did the background work with and improved it by linking another school scene with our one, making it into one big whole detention scene.

After drama we then moved onto a movement class, which included us first dancing with a partner like ball room as well as working on developing our movement skills, next we had to do a activity of portraying a famous character and replicating their known actions for example I did Charlie Chaplin so then me and my partner would then portray Chaplin's movements. After that we then went on to do some stretching exercises allowing us to improve our flexibility, we then moved on to do some core workouts.

For the production lesson I missed out as a accident occurred involving my head which got my sent home.

Thursday 29th September
In drama we continued to work on our identity pieces, where each got the chance to work with our teacher to link all of our plays together to link it all together to make one whole play of 'Identity', we also confirmed how we are going to put the set all together in a quick but none messy way.

Friday 30th September
Continued on our blogs.

Monday 3rd October

Advanced on our blogs as well as improved them, had a tutorial lesson where we got taught the different rights and conventions of the European Union and had to pick 4 rights which stood out to us a person, next we got into groups of 4 and had to pick 4 rights out of 12 which stood out to all of us, we then had to explain the rights we picked and the reasoning behind it.

After those two periods we had Drama where we worked on our Identity piece, we mainly worked on the beginning of the play like the cues to go into the next scene or for someone to talk etc. For the ending of the play we had decided for everyone to say "I am human none the lesson" in English as well as in different languages like German, Spanish and Italian. This was decided as a way to promote culture and equality as well as diversity into the name of Identity.

Tuesday 4th October
We did two run through of 'Identity' whilst advancing it whilst going through it such as movement, voice exaggeration and gestures. We decided to exaggerate the whole of the play as before it was too naturalistic i.e. like Eastenders so we needed to make it something different too amaze the audience. After doing those two run through we performed it in front of the Level 3 second year students of what we had done so far, when the performance finished we all got really good feedback as well as told us how we could improve it.

Next we had a movement class, where we continued to rehearse our performance expect Mandy helped us do the exaggeration part as she would stop us throughout and tell us to make our movements bigger and bigger which I liked as it helped me know how to exaggerate better, we also looked at a scene where it showed sexist stereotypical views on the male and female gender such as for girls we had portray us putting on makeup thoroughly and for boys cheering at a football game we then linked them together with a happy ending.

In production lesson we developed our essays about our roles in the theater.

Thursday 6th October
In drama we focused on improving the finale bits to our pieces for 'Identity', we finally got to the stage of a run through where we included our bodily movements and language as well as spacing from the help of Mandy.

Friday 14th October

Today we had our performance for Identity and it went really well and I think everyone did good. Before we performed the play though I did have a lot of issues during the rehearsals as some people would lead the class which I didn't like as there was a teacher there to help us get through it not that person but I worked through it by ignoring that person and their comments. My strengths during the performance was my voice as I am a naturally loud person I didn't have a problem with projecting my voice so the whole audience  could hear me but I did have a problem with my exaggerated gestures as I am used to doing naturalistic acting that I forgot to exaggerated.

 

UAL L2 unit 1 week 1

Monday 12th September   ~

 It was my official first day of having a full day of lessons so I went in at 13:00 where we spoke about our timetables and the rules in Westminster Kingsway and then we had Drama at 15:30 until 17;00 where we focused mainly on new games and group focus concentration activities such as ZAP.


Tuesday 13th September

I had Drama from 11:15 untill 13:00 where we  practiced voice warm  ups e.g.

• C,G
• L,N,D,T
• M,P,B, (BAH)

 This exercise was to make us pronounce words properly whilst performing and to get used to speaking proper. We also did movement activity activities and improvisation work in which partners were given a sheet on paper and had to improve work off a few lines of their own choosing. WE also did our first production lesson with Becca greenwood where we watched videos of Diversity, the blue man group, cirque de sole and the play bouncers (only the first 10 minutes), below is a image of what we learnt.

Wednesday 14th September ~ No Lessons all day


#Thursday 15th September ~

From this lesson, we began with doing voice warm-ups such as C,G,L,N,D,T,M,P,B than BAH. This activity enabled our voices to be become more confident and to pronounce our words more clearer. We then did some group games such as postcard where our teacher had to give us the names of countries and we had to do actions to portray the country and then freeze frame it like a postcard. We then moved on improv which included us being given a piece of music that sounded like a lullaby, so the aim of the pieces were to make a scene based around the music, my group and I decided to do the scene about a girl who has horrible parents but once she goes to sleep and the music starts playing she wakes up with loving parents and a happy home but when she falls back asleep shes back to reality. 

Friday 16th September~

My first lesson was a blog lesson where we continued writing up our blogs which we do every Monday and Friday.

We then had a drama lesson where we went over our voice warm ups as well as began to explore our production play on the theme of "identity".

With this mind map,our drama teacher then asked us to go away and think about ideas for the play but to base it around the theme of identity as well as to include those ideas.

Monday 19th September

Staring off this day we began with a production lesson with Becca where we mainly concentrate on our blogs, we next had a acting lesson where we did more vocal warm ups  and exercises for the diaphragm in order to advance our speech, this would then help enable our voices to become louder so if we were in a play the audience on the back row could us clearly like the audience on the front row. We then had to do improvisation activity on the homework we did for identity over the weekend, ,my partner Nerissa and I decided to do a scene based off the book "Noughts and Crosses" .

Tuesday 20th September
We had our first movement lesson with Mandy today and in this lesson we learnt how to expand on our flexibility and our stretching ability, which included stretching out  our abdominal and core muscles to develop our strength through movement. in this lesson we began with doing a clapping exercise where we would be split into four different groups, two groups would be given a clapping rhythm to rehearse with and the other two groups would add different dances moves to the beat.

In our production lesson we began talking about our essay roles (mine was Sound technician), we mainly spoke about information about our roles i.e. where they work, how much they earn as well as other parts to their job. We also discussed how to organise our essay and from there we began writing up our essay until the end of the lesson.