UAL L2 Unit 5

March -



Thursday 2nd March

In Drama we continued on our #immigrants project where we were given a sheet which had small improvisional pieces, my group and I picked with the story of a Romanian women named Alexa where she gets rejected from taking a loan from the bank as well as a form from a GP's office. The scene begins with Alexa (played by me) walking into the bank and 2 members of the public making racist remarks towards her nationality behind her back, the bank manager finally calls Alexa in for a meeting which then outrages the other members of public as they apparently have been waiting for longer. Once Alexa goes into the room with the Manager he asks her questions like her name, age and nationality, this then causes the manager to decline any requests she was willing to make as well as making her leave the room because she came from Romania, Alexa then leaves the bank unwillingly where she then passes the two other members where they then continue to say malicious comments about her, the scene then ends.


Friday 3rd March

Blog session was the same as normal, then in drama we began brainstorm noticeable food from around the world.

Monday 6th March

Blog session stayed the same, in Drama we began to give ideas towards our #weareimmigrants performance in separate groups, we next started to piece together the performance with it beginning with Bruno sitting in a chair in the middle of the stage going through all the 'legends' about Immigration.



Monday 13th March

Began by carrying on with blog from Friday, next we spent most of our drama lesson practising our #weareimmigrants through a couple of times changing different things each time we went through it



Tuesday 14th March

In Drama we spent the majority going through the performance and trying to improve them. Next in Mandys lesson we began going through our monologues that we have been learning, once we have gone through them a couple of times and in front of our teacher we were then allowed to leave.

Friday 16th March

In blog we continued with updating it, next we did not have drama as our teacher was not present so we got to go home early.




Monday 20th March
Began updating our blogs from our new unit that were handed to us in class.




Tuesday 21st March

To begin our drama lesson in the theatre we started with a warm up game of playing musical statues where the aim was to get us focused for the on going lesson, where we then moved onto doing the bad breath exercise as well the pen in the centre of the room. Next we moved onto continuing our #weareallimmigrants performance, after a couple of run throughs our teacher gave us back some feedback which then helped to improve our play to then make it better.

In Beccas blog lesson we began working on our self publicity posters, I choose to go along the theme of the Wizard of Oz where I will be portraying Dorothy in my audition.


Thursday 23rd March

Our Drama lesson began by us going through some tounge twisters as a warm up for example "Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry", "She Sells SeaShells at the SeaShore " and "Roberta Ran Rings Around the Roman Ruins". Next we went onto doing around 3-5 improve excercises where the opening line had to be " She/he was here last night" my partner and I created scenes where we played sisters and we found out our dad had come back to just get money off our mum and did not bother to see his daughters, after that we watched our groups performances as well as gave them feedback on how to improve for future references.



Friday 24th March

Began catching up on our blogs in beccas lesson next we went on to continue rehearsals for the #weareallimmigrants performance including feedback from not just our teacher but also our peers, due to not that man people attending the lesson we had to feel in for them on their scenes.



Monday 27th March

Instead of continuing on our blogs we decided to create a cv and a letter for our Self  publicity project.

February-



Thursday 2nd February

Due to it being the last rehearsal before our actual performance in drama, the lesson plan was set that my partner and I were to go out with Rob one last time to make sure everything looked okay by tomorrow where all we had to do was go through our lines overnight for it to be perfect, we did multiple run-throughs, where at each run-through we would try and include a new action or facial expression that we haven't added before to make it look believable as well as our scene's much better.

Friday 3rd February

Today was the actual day of our performance for the Dumb Waiter to our audience which was also recorded by Rob.

Monday 6th February

Began the day with Blog catching up from any days I didn't write about last week, then after everyone still went to Rob like a normal lesson where we watched our performances from the Dumb Waiter and was then given a task to write an evaluation about how we thought we performed and how it went. Next everyone went back to Beccas class where each of us went outside and spoke to Abi where we were given information about the courses for next year and if we had an idea of that to do in the future as well as what we need to do to achieve getting into those courses.

Tuesday 7th February

Instead of Robs drama lesson today we had Beccas production lesson instead which resulted in everyone learning early, the materials had arrived for our stages so everyone worked on their own stage.

*From the 7th February until the 20th February it was half term*

Monday 20th February

As it was the begin of arriving after half term, the day began with a blog session where we continued on any blogs trying to add as much detail as we could into them from the previous term

Tuesday 21st February

In Drama we started with our new assignment of "#Weareallimmigrants", we began by writing any words that we knew associated with the word immigrants and what we define it as. Next we began working on the Silent Movie we did last term, we ran through it a couple of times in order to make it better.

In Mandy's lesson we began learning 'Tai Chi' which is a form of Chinese martial arts, we began researching it for examples of where it originated as well as the physically and mental benefits for actors, we began watching videos on YouTube of someone demonstrating the movements including defense as well as attack forms, after watching it we began practicing it for ourselves to later demonstrate to the class,

Thursday 23rd February

In Drama we continued practicing for the silent movies, this included the Cops and Robbers silent movie as well as the others that my classmates created.

Friday 24th February

Blog lesson stayed the same where next for Drama we stayed focused on the #weareallimmigrants project where in todays lesson we got given a sheet with all words and definitions where we then had to come up with three different freeze frames improvising the pros of immigration, the three freeze frames my group and I came up with were along the lines of Asylum, safety as well as Jobs.

Monday 27th February

Just Blogged for this session.

Tuesday 28th February

Today was the day of our Silent movie project piece where we practiced before half term and recently, we spent the best part of our day at the theatre running through it to prepare ourselves for the show later in the evening, at the start of the evening performance when the audience began to arrive a selected few were asked to go outside and be in their characters to then speak to the audience and try and get them to participate, this was then tried out where the audience was asked to join a dance routine, if they knew about stolen goods as well as a guessing game.

unit 4 & 6 clash of the concerts

January -

Thursday 5th January

Due to it being our first week back wet started the day with drama where we began our new project of "The Dumb Waiter" (Written by Harold Pinter in 1957 and is a Comedy/drama) where we looked through the script and discovered that the play was about two assassin's, Gus and Ben and were living under a restaurant and were waiting for a signal from someone to kill someone and we explore the relationship between both men during that time where it starts as a normal relationship when they both begin to get annoyed with each other when finally at the end the phone rings and we see Ben being told through the phone to kill Gus and then it ends so we don't know what happens to both characters. 

Friday 6th January

We were given the choice to either continue our blogs or work on our duologue for "The Dumb Waiter".


Monday 9th January

The day started with a lesson with Becca where we started a project on the costume for our chosen celebrity which was Jennifer Lopez. I finished the design by the end of the lesson by looking at her past performances and how it would also match the chosen song my group have chosen for her.

Tuesday 10th January

I started the day by having a Drama lesson with Rob where we went down to give a first look at the script of "Dumb waiter". We were next given the task of being paired up with someone who would work well with one another for the end of term performance. We both were then give the assignment to rehearse certain sections with our chosen partners, this was very effective as it gave us a sense of getting use to stage directions and using them for performances as well as characterising our characters. The next activity was to perform our part of the piece which was done in chronological order, this was effective so we knew the array of what scene was next and when to go on stage and perform. There were 4 rules we were told to consider while performing and that was 1) Why am I there? Think about why the character we are playing is there and try and continue the story and narrative one. 2) Describe the environment while learning the script we should describe the environment in our heads, for example why is this character pacing up and down and where is he acing up and down, is there stuff on the floor? 3) What's the relationship? What is the relationship between this character and that character, are they best friends, are they siblings, do they hate each other? If they do then we should portray that through our characters so that the audience identifies that clearly. 4) Play so > PLAY.  (Rob wrote this down to remind that this is a play so that we should 'play' the character fully so that we portray the character that we meant to)

Next I had Mandy's movements lesson where the lesson began with a drawing of a circle on the whiteboard done by Mandy and a few movements in the sections were it was set out like a pie chart. The first task of the lesson was to give an example of each movement for example 'Flick'.





After this task we were asked to perform one of the movements 1 by 1 in a random order without using our hands, once we had done this the class was spilt into two groups and we were told to create a mini performance associating with the movements but with various awareness to make it a completely different order than the original one, by the next lesson these performances will be elaborated. Next we had a blog lesson with Becca where we continued to work on our blogs except my group and I continued to work on our Jennifer Lopez concert outfit.


Thursday 12th January

In Robs Drama lesson today we didn't do any practical work where instead we watched the second years 15 minutes performances that was split into 3 sections after each performance for example one of the performances was about a murder case and we were given clues throughout the piece that were not obvious about who commited the murder, I liked this piece as it gave the actors a chance to interact with the audience to see what they really believe happened, at the end we were asked to vote who the killer was and the majority of the audience voted the right killer. Next in the same lesson the seconds years led a workshop that involved the whole audience where the aim behind it was to help up in the future when it comes to acting.

Monday 16th January
The day started with a blog lesson where we continued with our blogs where we next had Drama and began rehearsing with our partners with "The Dumb waiter" script. We were trying to merge the characterization skills we were discussing last session that included about why our characters were there as well as their motive. When our 15 minutes of rehearsal time was over we were asked to perform in chronological order with our partners this was essential as it could help us get use to the running order for the actual performance day. The summery for the whole lesson what we were told from Rob was that we needed to work on our use of characterisation more as well as to begin to practice the use of the magic 'if' which involved us as actors to portray that character for the full extent i.e. "What IF we were this character would our walk change, the way we speak or even our posture.

Tuesday 17th January

In drama we began by rehearsing our lines as well as practicing with our partners where we then got taken each other one at a time with Rob to another room to go through it in front of him so he could help us improve e.g. with our pronunciation and posture etc but he mainly helped me and my partner on our body movements as well as our facial expression. After each group had been seen to we all assembled around the main classroom computer and started analysing key points about what we have inferred about Ben and Gus i.e. each their statuses and which one of the two had a higher one.

After this lesson we had Mandy where the lesson began with warm up exercises where mandy wrote down 1-8 where each number included an action we had to perform e.g.

1. Walk
2. Run
3. Stop
4. Drop
5. Turn
6. Pose
7. Jump
8. Gesture!

The context of this activity was that Mandy would shout out these certain numbers while walking around the dance room and do the activity at hand i.e. if she shouted 4 then we would all have to drop to the floor and come back up, half way through the exercise we would begin to change the speed we were walking in as well as changing direction occasionally, one of the main activities that were involved with this exercise was that we would have to walk in slow motion from one corner of the room to another to "win a bar of chocolate", this exercise worked well as everyone wanted to get they're quickly to receive this chocolate. Next we worked on our core by doing core exercises, one of these exercises involved a sweeping exercise where we would have to sit with our legs stretched out straight and then sweep with both arms halfway off the floor with our heads up as well after doing this a couple of times we then had to life both our arms and legs into the air with only our backs on the floor.

In the next lesson we had Becca's production lesson where we finished off our concert costumes by adding colour to mine where I decided I preferred it grey to symbolise the diamonds that will shimmer upon Jennifer's body when she dances. After my group and I had to do a presentation explaining the choices behind our outfits

Thursday 19th January
In Rob's Drama lesson we began by doing a full body warm up which included tounge twisters, stretching and other different vocal warm ups as well as it helped to focus us as well as relax for the on going lesson, next we continued practicing our Dumb Waiter scenes with our partners to later on perform them which we then got feedback on.

Friday 20th January

Blog continued the same where we updated them, next in Drama we continued the practice for the Dumb Waiter like in our previous lessons after we did this for half an hour we started practice on a new piece for our upcoming Silent Movie project which included all of us into the Cops and Robbers production.


Monday 23rd January

In this Blog session I mainly added some more work to my Blog that I did not add from Friday. In drama we began by doing a full body warm up involving a vocal warm up then after we continued on rehearsing for the Dumb Waiter.

Tuesday 24th January

To begin the day we had Drama so while everyone else was rehearsing my partner and I were taken out to do another 1 and 1 practice in front of Rob, this then designated to concentrate more on our section of the performance and working with Rob was an advantage as we got to practice more on our facial actions in detail to make sure the piece runs smoothly, after this we went back to the drama room to carry on rehearsing. In Mandy's Lesson we continued using the board number warm up which then continued to a full body warm up along with stretches and various muscle workouts. In Beccas lesson we began working on our concert layouts, we looked at various examples before being told to give a shopping list of the materials we would need to create our own model boxes for our concert that we were creating.

Thursday 26th January

This morning in the drama session a photographer came by and took our photos doing our warm ups as well as group activities, when the photographer left we carried on with on practicing the Dumb Waiter.

Friday 27th January

This afternoon we continued our blogs to then to go to Robs room and do more run throughs with our Dumb waiter piece where we did a full run through in the classroom in front of our peers where we also received feedback from them as well as Rob which would then apply to our next lesson to then use that feedback and work on it in order for our piece to go smoothly.

Monday 30th January

Drama was not on today so everyone went in for Blog

Tuesday 31st January

In Drama to make up for the lesson that we missed yesterday we began with our usual warm up of stretches and vocal warm ups that included tongue twisters, humming and the use of repetition of the letters C,G,L,N,D,T,B. We did this so that we could be better with our pronunciation as well as articulation of letters so that every word came out pronounced correctly and be heard clearly. After this warm up we moved onto another run through of the piece. In Mandy's class we began with a small warm up by walking around the room in different directions and doing different muscle workouts. Once the warm up and our usual exercise's were done we then got into different groups from the last lesson and began to join all the pieces together to create a whole piece of different sports mixed together this then got recorded. In Becca's lesson we continued working on our concert layout using model boxes, this was usual as my group had a visual imagination of our dream stage so all we needed next was the materials for our stage.

December-



Thursday 1st December

For this drama lesson I wasn't in as I had a medical appointment.

Friday 2nd December

I began the day with some blog and then we went to drama where we started with some vocal and body warm up which we do every lesson, after the warm up we moved onto a exercise involving different lines for example we would say a few lines and then involve that chosen sentence or finish it or start it with that line.

 Monday 5th December

We updated our blogs as well on things we did the previous week, next in the pastoral lesson we continued on our blogs which we did in the previous lesson whereas some had to speak to our teacher about our academical choices for next year.

Tuesday 6th December

We watched a Peter Pan pantomime done by the Level 3 drama group, the performance itself was amazing I liked how they customize it to make it a drama as well as a comedy but to also keep to the main story of it. My favourite character in this version was Tinkerbell as she portrayed a lot of body movement as well as Mr Smee was a very comedic character who would make me laugh with doing the smallest thing but would exaggerate it to be funny.

Friday 9th December

We had to complete the rest of our blogs from the term of 2016 before we moved onto our next unit/project.

 

*Christmas Holidays*

clash of the concerts - Unit 4

Unit 4- Clash of the concerts

Monday 7th November

In Becca's production lesson we completed a worksheet about the set up for Britney Spears concert in Las Vegas which was meant for Tuesday lessons but the internet wasn't working, next lesson we went onto blog. Drama was next. for the warm up we each did a small dance to the music, three groups had been given three titles, my group who included Bruno, Pedro and Nerrisa was given "Why cant I do that" where we based the play in a gym and Pedro is the manager and Bruno is a personal trainer and so Nerissa and myself go to that certain gym but we get told we cant stay as we are both female which we ignore and still enter, the boys decide to give us three challenges to do in the gym and if we pass every single one of them and if we don't we leave, the first challenge is on a running machine which we complete, the second one is a plank which gets the boys annoyed as we pass that one as well and finally they give us a challenge that they couldn't even complete including a weight, we both complete the tasks meaning that our characters could stay in the gym and we end the piece with Pedro being frustrated and saying "Why can't I do that".

 

Tuesday 15th November

We began our Drama lesson with a warm up which helps us to focus throughout the rest of the lesson and there, as well as helps our voice to become louder as well as we are developing our improve skills by also taking risks. We also started with a improve game called "This is not a book" where we used a glasses case instead of a book to portray any object or situation, I used the glasses case a phone where I was on the "phone" saying to my mum how I wanted MAC makeup that instant, I went up a second time portraying the case as a jewellery case opening up the case to find a beautiful necklace, for the third time I portrayed the opened case as a compact mirror where I was doing the finishing touches of my makeup. For our main exercise we used a script and as the script ended in ..... we had to carry on the scene from there, my partner Mya and I did a scene where we see two girls both sister and one of them finds out how her mum is in hospital in a coma and that her dad has left her family to marry someone else. For Mandy's lesson, my drama group and I went to the gym to continue on filming for our drama piece, we then had some free time before beccas lesson where we got a laptop and continued on our blogs.

In beccas lesson we began to start making posters to advertise our celebrities for our assesment for 'Clash of the Concerts', my group decided to pick Jennifer Lopez and this was what we started with.

unit 3 silent movie

November

Friday 4th November

Began by having a production lesson with Becca where we took part in doing student surveys for our college. After this session we did our usual drama warm up t get us focused and prepared as well as to build an awareness of our bodies. Next we did a mime based on cleaning our teeth/morning routine in the bathroom which was kind of weird for me as I do my morning routine in a specific way and then having to mime it differently was strange for me. We then did another short exercise with the theme of comedy, my partner Brad and I decided to do the piece on a rude waiter and a customer, kind of like the piece I did with Caliyah except different as my characters and Brads got into a fight but we developed it to kind of be like a Tom and Jerry fight where one of us gets punched in the face and then imaginary birds would fly around the head of the person that was punched.

Tuesday 8th November

Due to our piece being what our Drama teacher, Rob wanted we decided to do a script with pictures on our play. In Mandy's lesson we recapped a dance we did before the half term which I enjoyed as I like dance, next we had Beccas production lyrics which I missed out due to a orthodontist appointment.

Thursday 10th November

Our Drama lesson was cancelled today as Rob had a appointment he had attend to.

Friday 11th November

Thursday 17th November 

Drama began with our usual warm up which began with us walking around a room and then we advanced it by if we walk into something either turn left or right, next we did script work again where me and my partner Jordan based the scene on two friends, boy and girl and the boy is madly in love with the girl and the girl is getting married for the third time as the boy killed her last two husbands to be with her on her, on the day of her marriage he confesses that he killed them to her and that shes going to be with her forever.

Friday 18th November

 We mainly worked on our blogs in production class and then I continued on my poster, for drama I got to go on lunch a bit earlier as our teacher was filming another group for our drama group. 

Monday 21st November

 Worked on improving and updating my blog, next I had drama where I didn't have to go to the lesson due to everyone doing their filming.

Tuesday 22nd November

In drama, we had the task of getting into partners and to tell our partners about our morning until we got to school, next our partners do the same thing by telling us their morning in the space of 1 minute. After both partners told each other their stories we had to fine new partners and tell them their previous partners story. After we got into new partners and then got into larger groups of 4 and 5, as before we had to tell everyone the stories that we had heard, then to create a silent piece of acting, my group and I decided to do the piece base on my morning. In Mandy's lesson we started the lesson off with a full body warm up to relax our bodies as well as to improve our movement capability. Next we moved onto improving certain dance moves we had been working on before, afterwards we had to perform this to the class. In our production lesson we worked more on the posters that we had created for our concert, I decided to complete the whole concert which was a success involving positive feedback from my group and other groups.

Thursday 24th November

In Drama we continued on our Silent Movie Project by working and recapping ourselves on our scenarios when we then had to go the music room and meet with the music group to start creating background music for our pieces. I found this really helpful as it showed me the timing of the music for different movement

Friday 25th November

We had a choice on whether to work on our posters or continue with blog so I decided to continue with my blog as I was a little bit behind. In drama we got into small groups and began doing some improvisation exercise's such as 'Postcard' where we were given a country and had to create a still image based around the countries famous features. Next we moved onto trying to recreate scenes from famous films such as the Godfather and Avatar and Star Wars and used to portray scenes.

Monday 28th November

In Blog we focused on refreshing them for what we've done so far as well as completing more tests on PropPortal for our person achievements page. In Drama I did have a lesson as one of three silent movie groups including my group was recording so we didn't have a lesson so instead I went home.

Tuesday 29th November

In Drama we started the lesson with a vocal warm up involving the repetition of the letters C, G, L, N, D, T, M, P, B and then BAH, this activity would then improve our speech confidence and pronunciation, we also kept a low constant hum which helped us clear our diaphragm. After completing our vocal and bodily warm up we moved onto doing an activity where it was based in an art gallery and there was two people playing 2 spies and they had to make contact before a police officer had to try and see who the spies is and to catch them before the spies make contact. The next activity we had to do was based at an Awards Ceremony and we were given a card rated from 1 to 7 (e.g. 1 being the highest and would be the highest paid actor or actress and anything from 5 to 7 was an ace or an waiter) I had the card numbered 4 so I acted very nice towards everyone in their role. Finally the last activity we did involved a table, chair and a water bottle and we had to arrange it so the water bottle was the highest, after we had to arrange it so ourselves was the most important thing or the main focus. In Mandy's lesson we started an activity that involved doing exercises from a white board i.e. 1. Run, 2. Walk etc, this helped to warm up our bodies as well to increase our movement capability in our bodies which was then followed up with more activities and the lesson. Next we moved onto doing full complete body warm up which constituted of different stretches and different core strengths exercises. After doing the warm up we went into groups and started working on creating a new walking piece which we has to complete as one big group as well as everyone in the class, after presenting it we separated we had to adapt it and include new movements to the walking sequence that went along with the beat. In Beccas production lesson we were allowed to go early as we did not have a lesson for that day.

unit 3 silent movie

Unit 3- Silent Movie Project



Thursday 3rd November
We began our first Drama lesson after half term by talking about our upcoming assignment "Silent Film" project, we started by practicing miming a pole and holding it as well as turning it round in a circle or up and down. Next we did a mime with the scene based on a waiter serving a customer a beverage, my partner Caliyah and I based the scene in a restaurant and she played an elderly customers whereas I played a cheeky waiter and I get her order wrong 3 times as well as doing mistakes 2 times. We then did a scene with a piece of music (The Stranglers-Turn the centuries, turn) and my group based it on a robbery gone wrong.

Monday 7th November

In Becca's production lesson we completed a worksheet about the set up for Britney Spears concert in Las Vegas which was meant for Tuesday lessons but the internet wasn't working, next lesson we went onto blog. Drama was next. for the warm up we each did a small dance to the music, three groups had been given three titles, my group who included Bruno, Pedro and Nerrisa was given "Why cant I do that" where we based the play in a gym and Pedro is the manager and Bruno is a personal trainer and so Nerissa and myself go to that certain gym but we get told we cant stay as we are both female which we ignore and still enter, the boys decide to give us three challenges to do in the gym and if we pass every single one of them and if we don't we leave, the first challenge is on a running machine which we complete, the second one is a plank which gets the boys annoyed as we pass that one as well and finally they give us a challenge that they couldn't even complete including a weight, we both complete the tasks meaning that our characters could stay in the gym and we end the piece with Pedro being frustrated and saying "Why can't I do that".

 

Monday 14th November

Started the day with completing a blog session for two hours, then going to Drama where the music students met us and our teachers told us how they would be doing our pieces music, my group and I for the Silent Film project then went down to the college's gym after the discussion and we filmed some of our scenes with the media group, this was my first time doing this and I felt in a happy place as I'm not camera shy and so I felt more than happy to do it.