Monday 13th April 2015

Multimedia lesson

This lesson we started off the lesson by doing our usual warm ups (which included voice warm ups as well as physical warm ups; such as walking around the room and speaking as a group) to get us ready for the active lesson we had set in front of us. It's always good to warm up before we start theatre because it helps us to become focused, calmed, disciplined, young actors.

Later in this lesson we focused on the Chorus work of our play. Later on in the lesson we joined all together in room 413 and Mr Crowthe introduced us to a chorus piece we will all be performing together. Mr Crowthe had already prepared our actions for the Chorus text and he taught us what to do. We worked as a whole class which helped us to develop communication skills and helped us to become disciplined and connected as a class. This was interesting to work as a whole company as we had to move at the same time which was quite hard but I learnt that you have to make sure you are aware of the whole classes movements not just your own or one other persons. In groups we had to create our own repetitive piece which was relevant to our line we were given. My group's line had the words "wild animals" in and so we decided to create a piece around animals. This was a good chance to let out our creativity and create a section of our own. It helped us develop communication, listening and group skills.

We kept the actions subtle to the text so the we are not likely to forget our movements and so that there is not too much going on for the audience to take in. We were informed that we would be having the recording of the script coming from the speakers outside as our chorus piece will be performed outside. We wouldn't have to talk as a whole whilst doing our group actions, instead we took a voice recording  of the text and Ms Goodall will edit it on garage band so it can be played loudly outside.

Later on- after the break- we were given another section of chorus work from our script. Ms Ballam helped us with setting this. We were spilt into three groups in the class. I was group two. However we were mixed together so a part of every group was scattered around the room. We were given lines to say in our group and as a whole and actions as well. This further improved our group work and visual/social awareness. In one section of the chorus work, we have to connect by any body part to another person in the class. This helped us to become more comfortable with different members of the class.

We practised this chorus parts for a while to try and perfect them however, we are not quite there yet. Next lesson, we will be looking at how to improve working and moving as a group.