Classical theatre - rob 11/12/13

Today we came into class an hour earlier than usual to rehearse as today was assessment day. Our scene went well although I forgot my line for a split second. I think I could improve this by rehearsing my lines more and adding physical movements to remember I thought I did well on quickly coming back after forgetting and carrying on with the scene perfectly. 

I still need to work on my th's although they have improved they still need abit of work on I could do this by practicing everyday and every night. 

And working particularly on that in vocal classes with rob 

Physical movement - josh 9/10/13

Today was performance day for the movement piece we prepared I two lessons, the piece is Romeo and Juliet African version.. We discovered this through the music josh had choose. 

During the hour rehearsal everyone was focused and determined to get everything spot on for when rob and Sharon arrived to watch. 

Everything went perfectly and the dramatic ending of Mario killing Kurtis(Romeo) and Andrea (Juliet) standing there watching completely heart broken really pulled on everyone's heart strings. 

Vocal - rob 9/12/13

In vocal lesson with rob we went over the script "three sisters" set In the country side of Russia. Were everyone longs to go back to Moscow. 

During the rehearsal I had a brief chat with rob about the show we went to watch the Friday before, and my interpretation on it and how my opinion was certain things didn't match the piece. However talking to rob my opinion slightly changed as some things only a director or reading the script then you would understand. 

While rehearsing we changed a few things to make the scene more realistic. My first line is "don't cry my dear child don't cry, it hurts me" I'm trying to portray the line as 'fake' Olga doesn't really care about irena crying however I would say the line in a 'song like' way not portraying what I was trying to do however rob picked up on this and to me to aim for a different emotion to change the way I say the line. 

Also rob corrected the way Wendy stood whole saying her line about loving vershinin, we decided it was best she came down stage and Olga comes up to her saying the line " nethertheless I don't want to hear it.." Popping masha's bubble. 

Blogging lesson

5/12/13 principles of acting - rob

We just went straight into rehearsals of the three sisters, grace wasn't in to play irena so rob stepped in. After he gave us notes and said I have a few glottals, oooh oooo orrrrrrr exercise will help this. 

4/12/13 - movement -Sharon

Today we went to the roundhouse theatre to do a workshop 'spoken words'

With Kat. 

We started off doing a game moving seats and taking away chairs when our fruit name was called.  

Kat then showed us her spoken word poem about tube rage and puberty 

We then was told to make our own poems in groups of 5 with the titles I remember about childhood memories. 

Our one included food, games, childhood scars. 

It went well when we performed it and Kat came up to me after lesson finished and said it was really good and I have a talent for writing. 

Physical theatre - josh 2/12/13

1.yoga

2.star fish

3. Group war

4. Sam Mario fight 

5.kings cross , Romeo and Juliet left in middle

6.barriers

7. Jumps 

8. Ending dance 

Voice- rob 2/12/13

Today we rehearsed the three sisters going in chronological order to show how our performance would look. 

27/11/13 tutorial rob

We was talking about what drama schools and uni's we could go to after college and gave us a website 

Www.dramauk.co.uk

Principles of acting - rob 26/11/13

We were learning our scripts 

"Three sisters"

Rehearsing with josh and rob receiving notes on how to move and showing our inner characters emotions 

Movement - josh 25/11/13

We came into lesson and was told we are going to perform a movement piece on what we've been doing in movement class. 

We all came up with the idea of doing a tribal style on Romeo and Juliet adding in the starfish jumps yoga flocking and a small dance at the end 

Voice - rob 25/11/13

We started the lesson with voice exercises "oooh ooooo orrrrrr" 

We then had to get our own chosen poems and do an exercise moving to a different person in 3 minutes 

My poem is called " when I wear purple" about an old woman rebelling against society and becoming anti social. 

We then got given noted and mine was to slow down, move the voice and work on glottals. 

Principles of acting - rob 21/11/13

Today we done scripts of the ' three sisters' we got told who we are playing and to understand the script is nothing about nothing but us as actors need to make it something. 

I play Olga. 

Classical - josh 19/11/13

We played a half similar to dodge ball which had two groups who have to dodge the ball in order not to be kicked out. 

We had to know what are the best things in order for our team to work 

-initiative 

- confidence 

- teamwork 

- presersuerance 

- eye contact 

And focus which all links to being on stage 

We also played another game which consisted of 9 squares and the person in the middle was king, we all had to work as a team to get the king out. If the ball bounced once I. Your square you'd have to bounce it out pnto someone else's or your out. 

This game is linked to teamwork like being on stage 

We then done skipping the rope was going and we had to jump in and repeat the line " my name is jade ward McFarlane I am at Westminster kingsway and I am major" in a loud energetic exciting way. This links to being on stage as the longer you wait to jump in the longer your audience is waiting for you the less energetic you are in saying your lines you loose your audience and become a minor. 

Physical movement - josh 18/11/13

We started off the lesson with watching a YouTube clip about flocking birds in the winter month, it's an unexplanatry natural movement they do in unison. They start out in small groups and more join it's a activity they do to warm their body for the cold winter nights when the moment is right they move in a way that is impossible to create an image of a wave it happens everyday in the winter months. We then practiced this movement by getting into partners and two lines facing each other trying to move back and forth in a sinced movement we then got in a big circle and done this all together until each one of us was flocking. 

Voice - rob 18/11/13

We started off the lesson with tongue twisters "Richards wretched rachet wrench" and "a loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule" 

I struggled with the second tongue twister as it was hard to grab the 'w's this is something I need to work on we then done our ooh oo Orr sounds and breathing exercises we then got notes mine was to work on my glottals and slivering s's we then looked at a poem called ozymandias by Percy bysshe Shelley