12.05.14 explicit Polaroids and storytelling

During today's morning lesson we just done short rehearsals, I feel that I'm beginning to understand the play more and what has gone on that Helena my character had caused the whole problem within her life and is trying to run away from something that will always catch up to her. 

During storytelling/physical theatre 

We done war tabloids. My group was sarah, Emma, Mischali and grace. We decided to choose something abit out of the box and to get the audiences mind ticking. Our first tabloid was a woman in a bomb shelter with a hadsdk we demonstrated this by grace emma and Mischali being the bomb shelter pushing against myself on the ground to show a small compressed space with my hands covering my mouth outwards. 

My second tabloid was a son/husband being dragged away from his family showing what actually happened to the men who didn't want to serve the nation 

10.05.14 explicit Polaroids

Today I watched other people do their script analysing and giving feedback on what I thought worked and what could be improved. 

I watched tutu and roni who are doing the same scene in explicit Polaroids the same as Kurtis and myself. Their feedback was to feed off of each other making it quick snappy and naturalistic something a complete contrast to Midsummers night dream. 

After I attended blog catching up and having a chat to Rebecca about my overall attendance and second year. After this talk I took it upon myself to call a meeting with Charlie the head of the department and discuss second year and my targets. 

Storytelling.

Today I finished writing my monologue here is a written copy of it 

Explicit Polaroid 8.05.14

Research. https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/EDG/resume/polaroids/index.html

 Nick was in prison for 15 years because of a politically motivated murder attempt. Free at last, he feels like a stranger in a strange land. Helen, his ex-lover and partner in revolution, is a member of the city council and deals with prosaic matters like street lights and bus schedules. She wants nothing to do with Nick and refuses to take him in. On his journey through the big city jungle, Nick meets the go-go dancer, Nadja, and her two gay friends Tim and Victor.

All three are part of the new apolitical fun generation whose search for the meaning of life means indulging in trash culture, drugs, the fashion and piercing lifestyle and a desperate/aggressive sexuality. Nick is completely bewildered and disorientated as his strict Marxism is at odds with the modern Britain of retail and consumption and by the reigning fun generation‘s lack of interest in “true values”.

Confronted by his erstwhile victim, Jonathan, Nick realises that his old enemy, a global money player, is no longer a worthy adversary...

The images Ravenhill uses to depict social reality are garish and provocative, but genuine. He tantalises us with snapshots of a rapidly changing world in which the old views of society have long since lost their validity. Political utopias and lifestyles collide with the trash and fun culture of modern day Britain and merge disastrously in an abyss of capriciousness.

Here is some research I have found out about the play I am doing. We worked on script today rehearsing and tweaking stuff that needs work on we then perfomed it. My feedback was to really connect to my inner monologue that my world has now been turnt upside down and I have been reminded of all the damage I had caused in the past back to haunt me. 

7.05.14 storytelling

Todays lesson with Sharon we started a new topic about world war 1. 

We had a discussion last week about what we knew about World War One leading knowledge from each other to start to write a monologue this week. 

We had 3 sheets of paper this gathered information about what our character was how is it feeling and each paper would develop more and more until the last paper was a draft to start our monologues at home. My chosen character was the ground. 

This is a difficult character to achieve but however is unique and interesting to understand putting in extra effort to understand through my own understanding and stanislavski's method 'magic if' what if I was a war field what would I be feeling. I feel that the ground would feel quite abused and not thought about I give other people life for them to destroy their own.  

6.05.14 explicit Polaroid

Today's lesson was with josh. 

We started the lesson with a warm up game called 'suspicion' this game consisted of two people in the room having a coin in their hand and the rest of the class had to guess who it was by walking around in the space and analysing each others body language. 

I thought this game was beneficial for both players as it taught the analysers to analyse and unreal hidden emotions and benifted the coin holders by being able to hide emotions in the acting world and develop a fake 'lie' / mask. 

We then split into our groups to rehearse our new given play 'explicit Polaroids' I'm working with Kurtis and Abigail. We decided to rehearse in the park as we thought it was a nice clear atmosphere to start off in.  

We then came back into the class to show what we had rehearsed and come up with. My feedback was to show uneasyness that my ex partner who had just come out of prison has turned up at my door step my world has been turnt upside down and I want him out. My body language should show this by not standing still. 

28.04.14 site reading

We started the lesson with a vocal warm up, this was good as we are now starting to get back into an older routine before Midsummers night dream and begin to train our voices and be more articulated as we grew out of this habit. Akele took the warm up; we did 'oo oh ode' and tongue twisters such as red lorry yellow lorry. 

Rob then introduced us into something we hadn't done before, this was cold sight reading. There were 6 chairs lined and on each chair was a paper we had to pick up and read (cold) the paper could include anything such as history context, advertisement or poems. I had picked up an advertisement. I knew it was a advertisement by the language structure after the first sentence, it was very up beat and the text was selling itself about how to live your life to fill advantage. 

My feedback from the class was to stop moving around, and to slow down. I believe the 'dancing' was due to nerves and also the fast talking too 

We then spoke about how to contain those nerves and what auditioners are looking for when they give you something to cold sight read. 

I thought this lesson was very useful as it gave me the knowledge to prepare myself for upcoming auditions.