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.