Wednesday 30 January 2013

Todays Lesson 30/1/13

In today's lesson, we got got put into partners and we spoke about the main priorities of the voice, which was accent, pronunciation and projection.
 Then we got given a sheet of techniques for acting and along side the techniques was what the technique was. Some of the techniques were accent, pronunciation, projection, expressions and enunciate.

After we got given a choice of duologue of either two girls, two boys or boy and girl duologue, then we read through them in our partners and we decided if we want to use the duologue for our assessment piece, so we heard all the other duologue synopsis to see if we was interested in it, but me and Leanne (my duologue partner) chose "The Garden Monster" which is about two 11 year old girls who are best friends decide to use chemical from her dads Labatory and create a baby monster. Then we read through them again and then we had to write some facts and points down so we could get to know the character.

Sunday 27 January 2013

Acting Assessment 23/01/13

On the 23 of January I had my first acting assessment and for our assessment we had to perform our monologues in our characters and make the monologue look realistic, for this we were allowed to have a costume the give the character personality and we were also allowed to props to make a scene.
To prepare for the assessment we done a relaxation method, which was to lay on the floor with your eyes shut and imagine you were sinking in the floor, then you had to tense your muscles from toe to head and release the tension, then we had to imagine three boats; one red; one blue and one yellow, and then you had to put all you worries an stress on to these three boats and push them away. When we finished our relaxation method we did a physical and vocal warm-up, so to start of we walked around the room in our character in slow or fast paces to warm us up. Then we stood ourselves in a C shape and walked into the center and spoke a line from our monologue as loud as we could. After this we did a vocal warm-up which was to speak these words (pop, pup, pub, bap, bop, thin, than, think, moth, bath, maths).

After getting warmed up we took in register order to perform our monologues in front of a camera with your scene set and in character.
In my performance, My emotions were Anger, Sadness, Sarcasism and Comedy. To show my anger the movement I did was, I stormed into the room with a box full of clothes and then I put them on the table and folded them up, on certain line I changed my emotion to sadness and what I did was I sat down on the chair hugging my scarf and this was on the line "Their fairy God parents were looking for them on the day they were born". When I got to the Line " What half decent prince would ever want to marry a girl who come from a kingdom that smells something like when a cat vomits up a dill pickle" I stood up and walked around the room sarcastically but still quite sad to show the Sarcasism. Then to show the comedy of it all I went straight into laughing from the line "All the fairies hate me because I wouldn't clap for Tinkerbell"  The props I had for my performance was A table, Chair, A box and some clothes. I did work on my speech and My projection of my voice and I did work on that but some parts of the monologue I was supposed to not be loud and be depressed.

Overall I thought my performance went well, It was far more better than my previous performances, because I had alot more emotions in it, and I used the given spaced provided.
The main thing I would improve on would be to speak more loudly and clearer this is because when I perform my monologue I need people at the far back of a theater or room to hear clearly what I'm saying.
If I had the chance to perform my monologue again I would think more deeply into the scenery, because it would help the performance look more realistic but also it would set a much bigger personality for the character. Since my last two monologue that I have been given, I have learnt what sort of emotions fit in well with the story line.


Monday 21 January 2013

last lesson 16/01/13

To start the lesson of we did a physical and vocal warm-up; the vocal warm-up was to speak out 4 short list of words out loud, they were short for example (pip, pop, pub, bap) after this we did a physical warm-up which was to have a partner, and your partner has to shut their eyes while you give them signals on what way your going to turn, so you had to pretend that your was a car. After in our pairs we had to mirror eachother and copy what they did, and it could of been any move. After we walked around the room ignoring eachother then we had to stop and then start but when one person stopped everyone else had to stop.

When we did the warm-up we spoke about our character in pairs, and then shared the information with the group, after we performed our monologue one by one with blocking, and then when it got to mine I performed the monologue well , I projected the words clearer, but I need to work on the emotions of the story for when I next perform it, Overall I thought it was much better and clearer than the previous performances.

Friday 11 January 2013

Last lesson 9/01/13

In this lesson we had to vocally and physically prepare to perform our monologue,  then we had 5 minutes to go over our monologues before we performed them. The monologue I had was called " Where have all the good princes gone" and its about a princess called bruenhilda and that she is depressed because she cant find  
love but the other princesses can, so she gets jealous and tries everything that the other princesses do, but everything fails for her. When I performed my monologue the main thing I need to work on to make it look more clearer is to speak louder and to work on breath control, and then I need to work out on what movements I'm going to perform with the monologue to make it look more realistic for next time when I perform it.

Summary

From the day I started I have currently learnt how to do mind visualization to relax the body and mind, to do this, you lay on the floor and concentrate on your breathing, then you tense every part of your body starting from your foot making your way up to your shoulders and then you imagine all your stress and problems are in a bubble, and that the bubble is drifting away out of the window. After this we got into pairs and stared in their eyes and then we had to give an emotion for the other person to think about, for example Fear, Friendliness, Afraid and Boredom.
We read a poem written from Simon Armitage, called "GIVE" and we had to work in pairs and for every word in the poem we had to communicate with others by moving in the given space we had.

After this we joined in some vocal exercises, and then we got some chairs and placed them one side of the room and we took it in turns to sit the other side of the room and get asked questions, and these questions were; If I ruled the world, My happiest Moment, The job I'd hate to have and why.
We got asked these question to project the volume of our voices to make sure people the other end of the room could hear us.

Then we got given some short monologues to memorize, then we performed them and then we went over different ways on how it would be easier for us to memorize lines, and then we got shown a list of questions that would help us create a character from our monologues. After we learnt about blocking movement and then we decided on what movement we was going to do and then we performed our monologues in front of the class.

We then learnt about the Constantine Stanislavsky technique which was "What If" and this technique is what if i was in that situation, we then compared our characters with ourselves, and that really helped us get into character when we needed to.
We learnt about Objective, Obstacle and tactic, which was we had to get into pairs and one of us picked an object and a sheet of paper with a word on it, then the other person had to give descriptive reason to why they want the object because they were trying to get it, and then we had to fight to stop them getting the object.