day 6 started of with some drama and focus games the first is where you have to point at someone and say your own name if you said the persons name or anybodies besides your own you get labeled the fool till someone else does it. After that we did location, job and death which is a game that focuses on mime work followed by park bench which is an improvisation game of which I managed to invent something of the top of my head in less time than usual.

 We then had Wayne for a bit of vocal and breathing exercises. I learned that its easier to breath whilst lying down we followed it up with singing tunes whilst leaning back on high notes and forward with short ones.

 We then had a look around the college fair and ended the day with more mime work with Tom. We covered moving mime objects like a table during this I learned if you don't focus you could have real difficulty making it believable. We then did my favourite mime THE INVISIBLE SUITCASE named such for the invisible weight (or lack of weight) inside it. We then did a mime where on person tried lifting the heavy case whilst the other comes over picks it up as though its empty and tries to work off with it but the case won't let them then a third person walks in with a don't be an idiots attitude and walks of with it whilst the others are like awww you spoiled are trick.

13/09/2012

day 5 in the morning we did children theartre where we discussed Narritive which is in short the children's stories eg fairy tails and the standard story lines:romance, revenge,quest, ect. in every story we have the 4 main characters :

the hero

the sidekick

the damsel

and the villian

in small groups we devised short play's in which we had to perform whilst thinking at what is suitable for the children to see and hear doing so we learnt:

the use of language/joke suitable for the kids
the clearness and projection of the lines spoken to the audiance
the exaggerated tones and expressions
the importance for the audiance to understand the plot, what's being said and what ever else that's going on
we also learnt that it was harder than we thought to creat a play than improvising lines.

And then we did MIME where we had to use only are hands to create a mime and then build a scene in pairs around whatever mime was devised. the important things to remember about mime is to lock onto the objected your miming to look at and make it believable and clear to the audiance.

Apple task: we had to use our imagination to create the illusion of eatting an invisable apple. how we picked the aplle up eat it and handled the apple is very important.

String task: in this excercise we had to mime picking up the string and tieing a knot in it again it was important to make it clear and believable eg tieing it slowly or clear movements to create the illusion of tieing the knot.

11/9/2012

day 4 finished the personal paperwork at last then physical warm up time with Tom biit of running round then
spiderman posses but after that I almost lost my legs after the second set of excercises my hamstrings are not yet strong enough to take something this intense but im not giving up i did what i could then trust and team building excercises Ty and me we trust each other then it was Chris and me back to back to stand up and then to feel the vibe. of each others breathing through the back. next one i wouldn't be able to do so i sat out then trouble stuck as Kay had an accident I took her to the porters and stayed with her to make sure she was ok I may not really know her or anyone that well but a friends a friend and i don't want to see them upset or cry let alone hurt so i stuck by her side and helped where i could in the end the took her to the hospital and i returned to TT's class where we had a lesson on childrens theatre we did some charactor excercises where we were adults and children Ronnie's was rather disturbing and i went FRED which isn't a good thing at all. All in all a very eventful day full of emotions and feelings i really hope our group will get closer it'll be great if we all hanged out together.

10/9/2012

day three paperwork, paperwork, paperwork all these forms, information, details are really annoying but nessassary

today is filling in the enrolement forms and then intro to friendship by the second years which was important because

we do go into groups even though we stuck as a big group in lvl 1 performing arts most of the time we did divide up

pointlessly if we are going to make are acting and team work well work we are gonna need to not judge by suspicions

and on facts we need to get to know each other and make a bound like a gang of acters whose aim is to do are best and

entertain the audiance.

8/9/2012

Second day not bad half day start from half one warm up excercise followed by more paperwork and a spilling off

emotion and secrets from the lives of my fellow class mates some of the stuff upset me and i struggled to keep calm

but i managed it wouldn't have done so last year but thats not important

we then did my favourite mime excercise THE FAKE TRIP i tried to be funny first time but i failed to do it 'cus i felt

rushed still this is one the begging i have so many more ideas to follow with that task we where set and its gonna be

fun. 6/9/2012

And on the first day so nervous but mostly tired the warm ups didn't help there but they certainly made me feel well stretched .
Follow by YOU as interesting as stand up comedy everyones facial expressions are different, it also shows what kind

of person you are based on the sound and physicality of the emotion displayed. After that came some paperwork we

had to locate a few places and which floor it was on, helps to know where you are I guess and then we had to locate fire

exits, extingusers and the fire assembly point.

Lunch and boy do I need it between warm ups and acting activities I'm left feeling drained but if it means I get

stronger Its all for the best.

The final assiment for the day was mellow dramatics we had to portray the roles of damsel, hero, old man and villian

in 5 groups of 4 it was a creative and interesting series of performances. we then worked on the physical appearence

of each character and walked around the whole room finaly we did a moving picture's excercise which involved half

the class walking from opposite sides of the room as any character in each different frame something would happen in

the first frame nothing the second frame a stabbing and the third frame parametics would run in in each frame would

take 3/4 takes in fast to begin with then slow motion for the rest to music. Each take would have to be done exactly

the same like in action replay.

First show this year is gonna be Robin Hood I think our cast is going to be the best one yet I can see they have

pertenshal and with the right encouragement this is gonna be the best 2 years of shows ever.

posted 4/9/2012