Thursday 23rd April 2015

This lesson we focused on script learning and walked through what we will be doing next Thursday.

To start off the lesson we began by warming up our voices and bodies. One warm up we included today was chewing toffee where we opened and stretched our mouths and faces as much as we possibly could. This is a good exercise because it helps us to awaken ourselves and our faces so we are ready to use our facial expressions when acting. This is also good because it helps to release tension in your face. We walked around the room saying lines from the chorus section. As a group we had to speak as a whole and start moving and stop moving as a whole. This started off as difficult because there was so many people in the room with so many different minds and at first we found it hard to start talking together and we also found it hard to start moving together. However as the time went on and we kept getting better and better. We realized that not only one person was to try and take charge and be the leader, but we all had to work together and move in sync without waiting for someone to move first, or perhaps moving first yourself because you thought you had the power to move everyone. This was a great exercise to do because it helped us to connect as a group and it helped us to bring each other closer as it was more of a mind connection instead of acting.

After we took part in these warm ups, we split into our small groups and we talked through what we were doing in our scene. My group, Benji Jake and I (only us three because Roseby was away) talked through how we can improve our acting. So we told each other what we thought they could do better to help each other. This was a good thing for me because it helped me to see what other people thought of my acting and i found out what they thought was good and how I can improve. It helped me to see what the audience think of my character, therefore I could improve and make my acting better. After our group talked through this we decided, to look at Jake's big speech because her had a lot to say and didn't know what some of it meant. So us three sat down in our rehearsal space and looked at our scripts together, and help Jake understand his dialogue more. Later, once we had finished studying Jake's monologue, we ran our scene through a couple of times until it was time to go back into class.

When we went back into class, Miss Lee informed us that we will be doing a walk through on our performance. We all got up and headed to where the first scene took place. The foyer. It was Amaia, Louie, Matilda and Aaron's scene. They talked us through what was happening in the scene and what it was about, they also showed us staging and how they were incorporating multimedia. We then moved onto scene two, they talked us through their staging and multimedia. We went to scene 3,4,5 (my scene), 6 etc and learnt about our peers' work and how they had set their pieces. This was a good opportunity to see everybody's work and give them feedback as well as understanding how our play looked and how it was set out.

This lesson was great, I really enjoyed looking at everyone's pieces and what creative things they had created and decided to use in their scene.