last lesson 24th april

For this acting lesson we had another college student take over our warm up for acting, her name was Megan, her warm up was quite interesting, she told us that different parts of our tongue pronounce different words for example the back of your tongues produces the word G, where as the front of your tongue produces D, she then told us that your lips produce your Bs, Ms and Ps. We then moved onto our teeth which produces your Ts along with your tongue. This helped me pronounce my words better, it also warmed up my voice. Then we participated in another warm up but with emotions which was Anxiety, Excitement, Sadness and Anger, What we did was we walked around the room and Megan shouted out an emotion but from a scale of 1-10, 1 being boring and 10 being over dramatic, We acted in that emotion and it helped me realize that every emotion doesn't have to be over dramatic. I found that Megan's warm-up help me out a lot. 

After we got into groups and our task was for all of us to have group meeting about our clubs (bouncers and shakers) were going down under so we had to introduce ourselves one by one and then discuss what our ideas were to keep  the clubs open, this helped me understand my character a lot more because I'm not just reading the script I'm thinking what would I do if that was my club, so it helped me get to know my character  well and it would help me more when it comes to performing the show.

last lesson 17/04/13

in this acting lesson all we did was learn about john gobder, the director of shakers and bouncers and also about his inspirations. John Gobders inspirations was Shakespeare, Brecht, cartoons, soaps etc.

After this we got into our groups and rehearsed our shakers script, and got into our groups, I'm in 2 groups, 1st is Nikita, Jess and Shyanne and the 2nd group is Nadine, Lisa and Nicole. So we went through our script and we then decided on what movement we are going to do alongside the script.

Research on Shakers

Shakers

Shakers is set in a trendy cocktail bar in the town of hull, there are four waitresses named Carol, Mel, Adele and Nicky and they work in a bar called Shakers. During the play they play the character of men in a Pub and shop assistants in a supermarket.

Carol is a student with her A-levels and Art degree but she has no proper job, Adele is a young mother who works to support her 3 year-old child, Nicky is a dreamer and is wanting to become a dancer and Mel who has seen it all before. Each main character has a very distinct personality

The show was written by John Godber and Jane Thornton in 1987, the actually play itself was directed by Tim Taylor, the show is more of a comedy and an enriching drama. Shakers is like Bouncers only in Bouncers you have 4 males and in Shakers you have 4 females.

Character Profile Carol Nickleson

Character Profile

Carol Nickleson is 23 years old she is currently living her mother and two brothers in Hull, Yorkshire. Her relationship with her family is good, she gets along with her brothers well, Her ethnic background is White British but she does love her Italian food. She enjoys DVDs, takeaways and going shopping with her friends.

Carol is more of a positive, down to earth woman, who is confident, loving and caring. When it comes to kindness, she can be generous if their generous back, on the other hand she can be mean when she needs to be. Carol is the type of person who is honest with anyone, if someone lies to her she would never speak to them again, liars make her angry.

Lets talk about who Carol actually is... Carol is the type of person who is very dis-organised, when she sees mess she will leave it until it starts to annoy her. Her stresses and worries are quite basic really, all she worries about is her Family and the future, as she is afraid her family will leave her.