Lesson 9 homework 9 - 15.01.2015

Q1: You need to write a brief reflection on the work that you did today. How did the scene develop that you have been directing as a group?

A1:  In this lesson, I found it difficult devising our own peice, however I think we spent our time constructivly. I was imputting a lot of ideas into the peice, yet the trouble we had as a group was turning those ideas into a physical peice. This is where we lost time, causing us to have not gotten as far into the text as we should have. I think we worked well as a group to incorparate and listen to all our ideas, however it proved difficult as some people were not as willing to give ideas as others. This mean't group leaders emeged to voice other peoples ideas. The scene in our group developed in terms of creating choregraphed movments in pairs. These should be symoblic and abstrct to represent something. However, we need to develop it further as we are struggling to make it abstrct, therefore it becomes to literal. It also developed as we got more familar with the physical aspect of the peice, making it more fluent and clear. Ideas that had not been put into practise the week before become part of the peice, giving us the chance to play around with these ideas and develop them as a group.


Q2: What action have we added to Tale 5? What do you think the impact of this might be?

A1: We have added the sounds of Jake and Sherene's argument coming from back stage. I think this is so effective as it makes the situation a whole lot realer. Things like abuse are so extreme and difficult that audience members may find it hard to visualise the reality of this event. With these sound effects the reality is clear and it makes it more dramatic and intense. The action of building the door way is also very effective as it adds a bit of movment and dynamic to the play. For the majority of that scene the stools stay in the same place. By moving them to make a door way, it demonstrates creativity and helps the audience see visualy whats happerning and it adds some variation. The making of the cafe also addes a variation. The action in the cafe of looking over at the pram was added. This impacts you as an audience member a lot as it shows how out numbered the lady is. It represents how everyone is watching and noticing yet no action is being taken. I think this is effective as it singles out the lady as not only a victim but someone who doesn't fit in with society. The lifting of Taffy at the end is also something that was added in. While im saying my lines, the rest of the ensamble gather in the corner and lift Taffy up altogether. They then carry here across the stage, this symbolises her being carried in a coffin as she has now died from her abuse. This impacted me a lot as it revisited the idea of a unified group. Only this time they were carrying her dead body. It also again singled out Taffy and made her seem important and significant. To me, it showed how once the event is over, only can the sorrunding people acknolwedge and particpate in her remembrance and bring her abuse to attention. 

Q3: Please upload your REHEARSAL SELF OBSERVATION SHEET

A3: 

Unit 15 Performing Scripted Plays Rehearsal Self Observation

Marking criteria:

P2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal making a positive contribution to the process

M2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal, consistently making a positive contribution and constructive contribution to the process.

D2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal with consistently positive and constructive contributions, engagement, commitment, input and self- reflection.

Set yourself  three rehearsal targets:

1. To be activly more invovled in the rehersal so I can have the best beifits from the lesson. This is because sometimes i find my self lossing energy and therefore i feel a little bit like I'm dragging along the back of this lesson. I need to push that feeling away and get involved. 

2. To develop and focus on my voice and projection, while still mainting the physical aspect.

3. To work more on my lines again so their COMPLETELY LEARN'T. Allowing me to focus on my physical aspects without dropping my lines. 

Reflect on the targets set:  Have they been achieved? How?       
 I have made a promise to myself that next lesson I'm going to lift my energy up snd grab the lesson with enthusiam and  energy.  I have nearly achieve my second target. I have started to try to be aware of my voice at al times so I will be more aware while I'm on stage. I also am going to challange my self my going louder when I think im too loud as normaly im shying away from it an I'm actually quite quiet. However to know weather I have achieved this fully I must see if I continue for a long length of time showing consistency. To improve my voice I have also learn't my cues and lines (linking into my third target) this frees up my mind to focus on things like projection and my voice. For my third target I spent some more time learning my lines and I feels as if I know them, however that could change when I add my physical and vocal aspects to it.
 What would you give yourself for today’s rehearsal? 

Marking criteria:	Why?
P2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal making a positive contribution to the process
M2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal, consistently making a positive contribution and constructive contribution to the process.	I think i achieved a merit today as I worked really hard for most of the lesson. When I was a part of the peice i was activley enganged and giving a lot of effort. However, I spent a lot of time sitting of stage as other people did their lines. I feel that instead of wandering of in my head I could have put that time to better use such as taking notes about how the production is being put together and aspcets of the directing. Or I could have spent that time going over my lines, making sure I knew them.
D2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal with consistently positive and constructive contributions, engagement, commitment, input and self- reflection.

 

Lesson 8 Homework 8 - 08.01.2015

Q1: Make some notes of what you need to do better within each tale.

A1: 

• I have learn't my line for TALE 1 however my cue lines are still a bit shaky. I find that I'm so focused on my phone acting that i lose my awareness of the lines going on around me and I therefore miss my cue line. 
• I also think my character could do with some work as I find it quite hard to play an east end teenager. The line 'doesn't see them any more' I find particularly hard to do as Im not entirely sure of the context of the line. In order to improve, I must work out the context of this line and my objective.
• My projection is also something that has slipped over this term. Therefore i have realised that I need to work on it constantly for it to sustain it ability and improve. 

Q2: You then started working in two groups on Tale 6. Write some notes on the creative choices that were made. Write about the work that you need to develop further.

A2: 

• We made the creative choice to include the aspect of torch light in our piece. This would be represented by a silhouette of the scene were describing. However, we made the choice to have a contrast in light. The main lights would not be off through out the whole piece. We decided to turn them off as soon as the fight scene starts which is at the line 'shit'. 
• We also chose to use a pint glass to represent the same character. This cup would be passed from actor to actor as they spoke their lines. The pint glass is relevant as were are all in a pub.
• We also chose to say the line 'she looks like your fucking mum' all together too represent the pub all thinking the same thing as a unit. However, we took the line 'Like one big creature' as a stimulus to come together and form the creature they are talking about. We use our bodes to morph together and create a deformed creature. This is were we speak our line from. 
• We need to develop the rest of the tale to complete it. We were thinking about some choreographed actions that carry on through out the piece. These would be abstract and representative. These actions need to be developed into a polished set of actions relevant to the scene.
• We also need to clarify our devised scene as some people are unclear on what we're doing. Once we have clarified this with the whole group, the movement will become smoother.
• I think we need to develop the physical aspect as well because at the moment it isn't every abstract or physical. This is will come from our choreographed movements.  

Unit 15 Performing Scripted Plays Rehearsal Self Observation

Marking criteria:

P2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal making a positive contribution to the process

M2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal, consistently making a positive contribution and constructive contribution to the process.

D2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal with consistently positive and constructive contributions, engagement, commitment, input and self- reflection.

Set yourself  three rehearsal targets:

1.  To learn all cue lines and lines, for next week so i can focus on the physical element of the play and not on what lines or cues I have.

2. To be constantly focused throughout rehersals and give 100% effort in all my lessons.

3. To go over all the blocking we have done so far, so its all engrained in my mind, allowing me to not have to focus on the blocking and move on to other aspects of the play.

Reflect on the targets set:  Have they been achieved? How?          

My first target has been mostly met. I've spent some work on going over my lines and trying to remember them. I feel I do know them however their not as solid as I would like. I do occasionally forget my lines showing I haven't learn't them to best that I can. My cues are just about there however I find that I consontrate so much on the physical aspect of the play that i lose track of the lines going around the room. I need to find the balance between being aware of the lines and of the physical aspect. I think I have fufiled my second target. In order to meet this target I think about it as if every preformance that I do is my last, so I make it the best I can. My final target was partly fufiled in class, as we did an exersice where we went over all the blokcing we've done so far in our head. I did this activity is a lot of detail to get the best result. However, I think I need to do this exersice for frequently for me to really know the blocking propaly as I can easily forget it.
What would you give yourself for today’s rehearsal? 

Marking criteria:	Why?
P2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal making a positive contribution to the process
M2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal, consistently making a positive contribution and constructive contribution to the process.	I think i achieved a merit today as although I was focused most of the time their were times where i drifted of. However, for that time that I was focused I was imputting my ideas and thinking constructivaly about the peice we were devising. I was commited to the peice we were preforming, although towards the end I felt my energy drop causing me put in less effort and commitment.
D2 Demonstrate personal and technical skills in rehearsal with consistently positive and constructive contributions, engagement, commitment, input and self- reflection.

 

Lesson 7 Homework 7 - 18.12.2014

Q1: Go through your script tale by tale and work out the character that you are. Write about each character briefly. 

A1:  Tale 1: In tale 1 I play a typical east end teenage girl who is describing a boy. What I am saying seems to be gossip as you also have the element of being on her phone. One line is said on the phone as if you are talking to your friend about someone you know and the others are said as if I am texing my friends. Her social life is extremly important to her and therefore these convosations, both by text and by calling, are significant to her life and make up who she is as a person. 

Tale 3: In Tale we are again talking about who the east end would be if it was a person or my friend. In this Tale I am describing a character that doesn't exsist yet a lot of the idea must come from people within my characters life. I would say my character is middle agaed women as some of the points mentioned in the Tale are too mature for a teenager. In Tale 3 I also play a person who fixes boilers. This character has been expanded upon in my previous blogs.

Tale 4: In Tale 4 I am an narrator onto this Tale. From the lines I have like 'her eyes' and 'she looks up slowly' I can see that my character sympathises with the old lady. This leads me to think that maybe she can relate to it. For example, she may have an eldarly grandma in her family that is very frail and eldarly.

Tale 5: In tale 5 we all more or less play the same character, the boy next door who witnesses and hears abuse to a young women. He seems quiet aware of what is happerning next door and gets extremly annoyed when his father turns up the volume on electronical devices and pretends its not happerning. He seems to want to help this women although he doesn't have theconfidence or the knowledge to do so.

 

Tale 6: In Tale 6 I play the character of the young boy who is in a pub waiting for his brother. He clearly feels uncomftable in the pub environment but seems to be more at ease once the hard sly man and tired lady sit down and talk. From the play I think the hard sly man is his brother. The line ' cos my proor trembaling brother cant hold the glas straight' made me think this. 

Q2: Next, write out some of your lines from each tale and next to the line write your objective for saying the line. Think about why are you saying the line and this will help you with finding how you might say this.

A2: 
Tale 1-
"So eighteen" - Here I'am talking to one of my friends, about a new boy at her school that she likes. From what she's saying it sounds like he's very interesting. As my character is a typical rude girl from the east end, I'am trying my very best to gather as much information from her that could be used as gossip or influence over someone. The whole midset is very bitchy and selfish.
"Doesn't see them any more" -  This lines is used to explain a characteristic of a boy to someone else. My intention is to pass infomation to my friends which is essentially gossip. However, I think there is a small hit of concern  and interest into this boys line. Yet these emotions are covered by the loud fake rude personatlity that this character has.

Tale 3 - 
"A long time ago" - This line is telling the story of this particular man. My objective is to convay this story truthfully to an audience. It doesn't seem like the type of line where your delivering it to friends in an informal manner. It is more the type of line where your explaining it to someone of status like the police and therefore are telling the story with as muhc empathsise as possible on the events that happened. 

Tale 4 - 
"And she looks up slowly" - Here im witnessing this event, so even though im still telling the story its in the moment not a recollection. My objection is to help this lady as I can see her pain and relate to the lonleness she must feel. When I see this old lady, it reminds me of my own life and so although im descirbing her, theres a part of me that feels the same way. So im expressing my own feelings at the same time. The word 'slowly' connotes to her being vunrable and frail.
"And her eyes" - Im saying this line out of recongnition of the emotions that I see in her eyes. I'm not descibing her eys very much which suggests I can understand and relate to what I see meaning there is no need to descibe something that I'm completley aware of. I think my object is just stating what she sees. This brings attention to this aspect. I seems like shes just voicing her mind and not quiet aware of what shes saying.

Tale 5 - 
"Mum cried when they took her away" - Here my objection is to voice the aftermath of her death and to show how it effects everybody. Im very upset about seeing my mum so upset about her death and knowing that we could have probaly prevented it. Theres a lot of guilt and regret in this line, and a sudden relisation of what just happened. The whole situation from the shouting next door to her death just sunk in and became real to him. 

Tale 6 - 

"The go and sit down, and drink together! Serious!" My objective here is to convay how suprising this is and also to allow the recent event to sink in.This is because while my character was sitting in the pub he was convinced that they were going to have a fight. However when he discovers that they're actually going to sit down and drink togther he not only has to express his shock to the pub but also to himself. As saying it aloud makes it more real. So when he says 'serious' hes not only telling the pub that this actually happened but he's also telling himself 'seriously!' because he can't believe it either.