7th June 2011

This weeks lesson were simple.
We started a new stimulus which will upgrade our marks and even if the students in my class were at a pass they would be able to get higher marks and also get be able to improve on other stuff such as group work, voice projection and other skills.

Each group of 3 chose a envelope which had a different stimulus in it. It could of consisted of images, writing, newspaper cut outs and information about a different topic.
In my group were Georgee and Shakelun and our stimulus was to do with a piece of writing, a story. About a girl called Matilda who lived with her aunt and always lied about stuff. She rang out for an emergency fire brigade while her aunt was out and there wasn't even any fire. They came and there was non. So the fire brigade left, then there started a real fire which blazed and she cried for help but neighbours did not believe her. Her aunt had come back and the house was burning while Matilda was still inside burning with it.

In our group we discussed ideas about what to create a performance, inspiring from the piece of writing. We all decided on a family of 2 sisters and a mother. One of the sisters always lied (Stephanii) about things the other sister did (Bonnie) when she actually didn't. One day Stephanii blamed Bonnie on dumping her own boyfriend on purpose, yet the mother didn't believe her of course. Then the mother realized and saw a text on Bonnie's phone. Stephanii got a phonecall and the mother over heard and realized, then Bonnie was punished by being grounded for a year and Stephanii got all of Bonnie's pocket money.

Bonnie still persisted and still denied it although she had a smirk on her face the whole time.
These stimuluses also give morals and its a very good way to put the ideas across.

In the second half of the lesson we went to the computer room to complete parts of the checklist we were obeyed to complete for the 1st of July.

Amy's Lesson 2.

• In Amy's 2nd lesson she did more excersises with us involving team work and noises.
• For example in one excersise we had to pretend to make a machine in groups using people as parts on the machine with sound effects.
• We also worked in opposing groups to see which team worked better.
• I think the lessons with Amy are more fun and entertaining. That we explore in depth about things not that we dont normally learn about. Such as small things that may help us alot in our performance, for example ways to help increase projection without hurting our throats and damaging them.
• The warm up excersises are different and fun such as different sound excersises using the bases of our imagination and also covering more specific things. These were things like movement, stage gestures, facial expressions when we talk.

26th April 2011

We missed the first hour of our 2 sessions.

• We continued practising our devised pieces, in my group were Georgee & Shakelun
• In our group we decided upon the short play 'Class' in the book 'Forty Short Plays'
• We worked on improvising & using gestures.We did this by instead of remembering our lines exact we added some if we forgot and used gestures to keep the audience focused and entertained.
• We also performed a few pieces in each group. Pieces of the play were were performing. I also noticed that many groups had an individual play, different topics and i gave feedback to other groups to help them improve. 

10th May 2011

In this weeks lesson, we did a few things.
In the first hour session we continued working on our devised performances in our groups however in my group of Georgee & Shakelun miss did change it to another play called 'Auditions'. Where it involved a young lady going to audition for a play piece however she acted very enthusiastic although she was very nervous and tripped up a few times.The director sends the next one in but this one is actually the young ladies aunty who is 'fake auditioning' to make her niece look good. So the aunt looks super bad and messes up big time so the audition role goes to the young lady. We suggested this change because the lines in our previous choice in play did not include enough lines & performance for each character to get a grade on. 


In our group we realized that this is much longer and would be harder to remember the lines, however i got the hang of the script very intellectually without even knowing and we acted it out to the whole class and i got good feedback, i was very happy with my performance. The feedback we got were good, and improvements were for Georgee to be more enthusiastic in her performance. 


In the next hour we went to the ict room to complete Career Guide Presentations which is about a chosen career which is involved in the Drama Guide. We included features on what to do in the job, what does the application require and the qualifications etc.