Monday 20th April 2015

This lesson we started off 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.

After we finished our warm ups we practiced our small group scenes. (Benji, Jake Roseby and I). This lesson our group focused on learning our lines and shortening part of the script as it was quite long. Our group was a bit smaller this lesson and will be on Thursday as well because Roseby is enjoying a lovely time in Spain with her Spanish exchange student. However without Roseby, we seemed to add to our piece even further and enhanced our characters as well to make it more interesting to the audience so the scene didn't become boring. We also incorporated our background props into our scene to create levels. We used a cabinet, a desk and two chairs. One chair and desk for Jake, and one chair for Roseby, I had the cabinet. I decided to use the cabinet to sit on to include more levels to make the scene look more different and abnormal. Using the locker makes the wall above me look like a t.v screen so it makes me and Roseby look as if we are inside the television, this was a good adaptation to our piece because we are now using and taking advantage of all the area we have allocated. We ran over our scene a for the rest of the time we had. This addition to our piece made our scene more interesting and captivating to the audience. It made the set more dynamic.

After we improved and ran over our small scenes in our groups we went over the chorus work we set.We noticed that some parts we set we could not remember. Therefore we had to go over it again to remember what we had set already. We worked on working in a chorus which is a good way to develop our acting skills. This is because we will be able to trust each other and will work on trying to be in sync with other actors, to do this we need to have a feeling between us where we can connect and know when to speak and move as a whole.

We briefly talked over our multimedia side of the performance and how we will use garage band to edit our speaking for the chorus part out in the courtyard. As mentioned before in a previous blog we have already recorded a dialogue as a group in one of the theatre rooms, which will be edited and played through speakers during the chorus outside. We also discussed when we would film our pieces we needed to film for our small group scenes. As Roseby was away we had to wait until next week to film our piece. We were excited to use multimedia in our lesson because it was something new and different that we hadn't been introduced to before.

This lesson was productive because it helped us not only finish staging our show but it also helped us to develop our acting skills even further to make us even better at acting, which is what we have come to the BRIT School to study.