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.

13/03/13 lesson

In this lesson we learnt about melodrama and melodrama is drama, such as a play, film, or television program, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts.

it is the dramatic genre characterized by this treatment. Melodrama come around in the 18th century.

 

In this lesson we was put into 4 group of 3 people called A, B and C we got given a script and in thi script was a hero, villian and damsel. The script characters were called villian, godfree and rose-marie,

I played rose-marie (Damsel) Jamie Glasgow played godfree(hero) and nikita played the villian, and we had to overdramatically perform the show  but without any speech, we then had to perform them to the class. After we then again had to perform the same script but with speech. After we got into 3 groups, two groups of 5 and one group of 4, we had another script and there was parts I was a narrator, jamie was the damsel, ozzie was the villian, Nikita was the hero charlie was just a postman. With this script we had to cross cut which was a explorative Strategy and is used a lot in Drama. Once you have written the script for a couple of scenes you use Cross-cutting to re-order them and create a piece of drama, with this script only the narrator speaks the rest of the cast perform the script without speech, we performed them to the class.

Acting lesson 6/03/13

In this lesson we all participated in a warm-up created by Jamie Glasgow and Leanne Gair, and there warm up was to stand together and one person say a letter beginning with A then the next persons says a letter with B and you carry on through the Alphabet.

After we learnt about mimers and how they work, so we watched two videos of different mimers and how concentrated they were, so we got into pairs and the pairs were labelled A and B and B had to mirror exactly what A were doing we did this twice, then pair B created a mime and I had to follow but I was her shadow. 

Then we stood facing the mirrors and we had to pretend we were in a box, then we had to show the class. We tried different types of mime like climbing a Ladder or Pulling a rope and we then had to show the class,  

We then got into groups of four and then we created a miming scene which ours was double douch.

I got some Research of Mimers

To Become a mime you have to have a lot of practice to become a mime, the skills to become a mime are fairly difficult, you have to have to learn the art of non verbal communication using your body language, sign, symbols and facial expressions to convey your message, its always good to produce your own make-up styles and performance.

The art of mime is going to give you confidence in the body language skills that you would need so that you can during your future performances be able to really show the emotion that's withing the script. so your audience are seeing the emotion through body language and movement as well as hearing it when your trying to portray anger or any other emotions.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0cHCnuNGJc

Here's an Example!

last lesson 27/02/13

In this lesson we learnt about improvisation which is were you make it up on the spot, also improvisation is were you create a scene without any objects. First we all participated in a Warm-up which was a game called shaky and what you do is you shake one part of your body and transfer it to another part of your body and then give to something else by making eye contact. 

After this we got into 3 groups labelled AB and C and we  had to create a scene without talking and using no props and the scene was that we were in a jungle and we had to pretend that there was a log or pond or any jungle props and we had to make to one side of the jungle and back again, After we then again had to create a scene without talking and our scene was a wedding, After this we had to create another scene different from the others which was a surprise party and we were allowed to use props and the other groups had to guess it. 

Then we got into pairs and my pair was Jamie  what we had to do was I sat on the floor and Jamie was standing and Jamie was an artist and I was clay and Jamie had to create a sculpture with the clay (Me) and then the artists (Jamie) had to describe what it was. After the we had to create a scene by one person standing up and pretending to sweep the floor and then everybody got up and it turned out to be a cleaning scene, then we made another scene which was gym, Then we got into two groups and decided on what scene we was going to create and we decided on a party. The other groups scene was bullying. 

We then got into Fours and we had to pretend we were in a car picking up a hitch hiker but the hitch hiker had to either be mad, drunk or a druggy, we had to pick the hitchhiker up and then gradually pick up habbits of the hitchhiker and then become just like him.

Duologue assessment

On Wednesday the 13th on February me and Leanne had our Duologue assessment. To start our lesson we done a Relaxation method which was to lay on the floor and to visualize, we had to tense our muscles starting from our feet through to our head, then we had to imagine all our stress and worries are in a bubble and that you push the bubble away. After this we did a physical warm-up which was to walk around the room pretending we were a old person, prisoner, superstar or our character. Then we did a vocal warm-up which was to stand in a C shape and one of us at a time say a line from our Duologue. and that was our vocal warm up.

I worked with Leanne Gair and her Character was Hazel Brent who was Frances best friend and my CCharacter was Frances Stein who was a Nerd

In our performance I thought I did well compared my last assessment, I mainly thought about my lines so I didnt forget them, but for this assessment I took some thought about my breath control to aim for a distinction, We added movement to the duologue, which made our performance look more realistic. For the assessment I put on a little posh voice to make me sound like a geek but also like a 12 year old and I thought that the posh voice made the characeter stand out. In the last assessment I had to work on the Projection of my voice and within a few lessons I have improved.

Half way through the performance I did say the wrong words and the wrong time but I tried to make it look like I mis-read the notebook. If I had the chance to perform the Duologue again, than I would Re read my lines and I would make sure that I Perform my lines correctly.

The targets I would set my self would be to work more on speaking with an accent or posh voice, so It would add more interest to the scene, also even as I improved a slight bit on my Breath and projection I still would work on that main subject to make sure I perform as best as I can.

Character Profile

Frances Stein

Frances stein is 12 years old, she lives in Lincoln with her Mother, Father and Brother. Her hobbies are to spend time with her best friend Hazel she likes to spend time with her family as well. 

Frances Likes to eat home baked food made from her mother. Frances is very creative, she is colorful and a happy girl.

Her fashion sense is not so good, she likes to wear socks with skirts to keep her legs warm, She only wears clothes that will keep her from catching a cold and she likes to wear appropriate shoes, so like trainers walking boats. 

She earns 5 pound a week if she completes her chores, she saves her 5 pound a week to save up for a Trampoline. 

She doesn't have many friends, but she doesn't care about that.

she is the type of girl who hates cruelty, loves animals.

6/02/13

In this lesson we had to go through our duologues in our pairs my pair was Leanne Gair, we did go through our duologues with script and then we practiced without script and we knew our duologues and we read through them again but this time we got videoed  As Me and Leanne knew our duologues off script we started to plan out our movement.