Previous Sessions

In the past sessions of acting we have had we have learnt about the technique called "What if" this technique was discovered by constantine stanislavski, and by learning this technique it helps us figure out who our character are and how they relate to ourselves. 

After this we got taught about Objective, Obstacle and tactic, which what we did to relate with this is we got into pairs and we had an object and a piece of paper with a word on it and our partner had to think of convincing sentance to make us give them that object.

From this we got given a Dualogue in different pairs but they were male dualogues, we had to read through them but they were funny dualogues, mine and nicoles dualogue was about a one-legged man going for an audition for tarzan, but we changed it to a one-legged woman auditioning for cinderella. I was the one-legged woman, and when I performed my character, I was hopping to the chair and I fell over and the audience thought it was part of the performance.

In the next lesson we had got given a few monolugues and we got put in two groups, female and male, and we read the monolugue and then spoke the monologue but not in character within our groups, then we chose what monologue we wanted to memorize and then with nicole and lisa who wanted to memorize the same monologue, we had to come up with two scenes of  a before storyline and then an after storyline that didnt relate with the storyline in our monologue.
We got set this our homework and we got given a sheet of paper with questions on it to helps us create a realistic character.

Last Lesson

The previous lessons we had learnt how to block, but also we had a given monolugue, and mine was called Ellen we had to memorize these monolugues and then perform then to the class. Afterwards we got to know our character by creating a profile about them. To create a profile of your character, we got shown 3 sets of questions and we had to make up the answers of the these questions and then, write a paragraph about our character.

Then we got in groups of 3 and then we introduced ourselves individual; we got asked questions but thoughs particular that we got asked, we answered them in our character so we went from plain old us to the new Ellen. After we done this we decided on what Blocking we would to express our emotions, what I mean is what typ of movement we would do. Then we rehearsed and rehearsed over and over and then we finally performed them infront our the class to see if we improved from our previous performances, and quite frankly my performance was much better. I am quite happy for myself.

Todays lesson 3/10/12

In todays lesson we had Charlotte, what we done was to learn how actors warm there selfs up before performing, and how they do this is they mentally prepare there self and set there self into there given character.
Also in today's lesson we had to ly on the floor and mind visulisation, how we do this is we relax, close our eyes and visualize.