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.

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.