16/10/14

Unit 3 Acting Skills: DATE: 18/09/14

MY LONG TERM TARGET IS…

To use more physicality 

To be more confident in myself

Improve my use of space

My long term targets of using physicality has been improved by putting my self in real life situations and thinking what my character would do, how they might behave and their unusual mannerism. Furthermore, I have improved in my confidence by the whole class run through and also the exercises ran by the teacher as this helped me to get used to performing in front of an audience. Finally this links back to how I improved my confidence by the exercises ran by the teacher because I had to be spatially aware of my surroundings.

For the evaluation:

What were the strengths of your performance? Why? One of the strengths of the performance was my tone because I really emphasised Sephy's emotions by using a panicked tone when it was needed and a demanding one to show her strong mindedness. I was able to show control because as in my scene I had to run around, I had to control my voice effectively so the audience do not loose my lines, also everyone was walking on at the same time as me so I had to project and control my voice so I could be heard over the shuffle of people

How did the overall performance go? The overall performance was really focused and good because we were all able to project our voices so the audience can understand us in the large space, it helped a lot because it showed how hard we worked on our articulation, we were also able to stay in role this made us portray a believable character because we were all focused. Generally, although we worked hard on our characterization, I felt that we could of worked more on our use of body language to show our characters more.

What did another actor do that was effective?  Oliver really used his range of voically skills effectively according to his mood, you could really tell the characters variation of emotions by the tones he used.

What would you have changed/developed if you had to do the performance again? (About your performance) I think I would spend more time on my use of pause because I felt as if I rushed my lines and the audience struggled to hear everything I was saying. 

9/10/14

Dear Diary,

This morning was average, simply average like most of my life has been. Mum had been drinking, Minerva was sucking up to dad, and I was stuck in my room trying to distance from it all.It wasn’t until that faint tapping sound started that I dared to move off my bed. At first I struggled to believe that it was actually him at the bottom of my balcony, I had to blink a few times to see if I was imagining things, but secretly I wanted it to be Callum and at the sight of him, along with shiny little pebbles at the bottom of my feet, I knew he had come to see me. I asked him how he got past security but he wasn’t giving me straight answers and at that point I knew Callum was scared. His answers were rushed and he didn’t hesitate to climb up to my room, no matter the danger of him falling. I don’t know why I expected us to stay in the comfortable silence for more than a minute. Before I knew it Callum and I were arguing and he was shouting, I was shouting. I admit when he said he hated me, my heart split but I still felt something for him that I never acknowledged before. I didn’t even refrain when the sweet words tumbled out my mouth.‘because I love you’I really wanted him to say it back, but instead he hit me with the harsh reality ‘love could never happen between a nought and a cross’, I didn’t want to believe it but, the way Callum said it made my head spin in a frenzy of different emotions. As soon as he laid next to me, his arms wrapped around my waist hugging me closer to his body, I knew I didn’t regret my words I loved Callum McGregor.

Unit 3 Acting Skills Audit: DATE: 9/10/14

Throughout your blog you will be marked on:

P2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop

M2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop, setting achievable targets for improvement and reviewing progress

D2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop, setting achievable targets for improvement and evaluating progress

Workshop and rehearsal observations:

Which acting strengths have you been able to demonstrate today? How?
projection because my scene has a lot of movement and in order for my lines to be heard I have learnt to speak from my diaphragm.

Some key words: 

articulation      

projection      

breath control      

learning lines   

pitch, inflection and modulation 

tone and vocal colour        

phrasing             

pace                

use of pause              

gesture  

facial expressions     

characterisation         

staying in role             

balance                   

coordination 

movement memory       

spatial awareness       

weight placement        

focus and control 

relaxation                              

pace, energy and dynamics 

Which acting skills do you need to develop based on the workshop today? Why?
pitch, inflection and modulation because my scene is very dramatic and if I don't create the atmosphere properly with the ranges of my voice, the audience will struggle to believe the scene, also body language because I tend to just use my voice to do the acting instead of showing it in my body as well.

Set yourself  three targets:

1. Use a range of pitch

2.  Use body language more

3. Use of gesture 

Reflect on the targets set:  Have they been achieved? How?
I managed to achieve target 1 by using different pitches for different emotions in my voice and 2 because I was able to display my emotions more by my body language  but not 3 because my gesture was not that clear
       

Date of review: 13/10/14

13/10/14

In the lesson, we started of by doing an exercise we firstly had to get into the character of someone being late, while the teacher said commands. Furthermore, we had to respond and to accomplish that we had to really focus and listen, this helped me because it got me focus into the mindset of Sephy's character, we then progressed into doing a debate activity by splitting the class up and making one half against segregation and the other for segregation (the half I was in) we made many different points towards each other, out of the activity I developed an understanding of the political world and what's actually going on and how serious it is. I then took on board what I learnt from that activity and portrayed that in my character by remembering some of the view points that was said and thinking about if Sephy would agree, the activity also helped me to understand the play in depth and to be more knowledgeable about it as well, knowing the background of the play.

When we ran through the whole performance, it helped me to acknowledge other people's  interpretation of the different characters and I was able to evaluate them and use their ideas to shape my own scene.

Upon reading last weeks peer assessment, I have improved on my lack of energy by taking more risks during the scene to enhance the level of drama seen by the audience, because the scene is quite dramatic I chosen to use a bit of melodrama. Also to improve the over use of pauses, I used Miss. Goodall's technique by making my lines into a monologue, which helped because not only does it allow me not to rely on the other person but it also helps me with my improvisation skills.

2/10/14

Another group that watched mine and my partners scene evaluated our work and this was our feedback:

As they did for mine I evaluated their work as well:

Unit 3 Acting Skills Audit: DATE: 2/10/14

Throughout your blog you will be marked on:

P2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop

M2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop, setting achievable targets for improvement and reviewing progress

D2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop, setting achievable targets for improvement and evaluating progress

Workshop and rehearsal observations:

Which acting strengths have you been able to demonstrate today? How?
Today I was able to demonstrate staying in role so even when I messed up I continued like nothing happened, and I demonstrated imagination as I had to pretend I was holding a carton even though it hard trying to get the shape of it right I was still able to do it.

Some key words: 

articulation      

projection      

breath control      

learning lines   

pitch, inflection and modulation 

tone and vocal colour        

phrasing             

pace                

use of pause              

gesture  

facial expressions     

characterisation         

staying in role             

balance                   

coordination 

movement memory       

spatial awareness       

weight placement        

focus and control 

relaxation                              

pace, energy and dynamics 

Which acting skills do you need to develop based on the workshop today? Why?
Coordination because it doesn't look like the scene flows because of so many pauses which leads to relaxation that I shouldn't rush or panic if I mess up a line.

Set yourself  three targets:

1. Learn more about the character 

2.  More energy

3. try not to mess up any of my lines

Reflect on the targets set:  Have they been achieved? How?  In my other lesson I managed to met all my targets by relaxing and practising more so I make sure I'm confident with my lines so I won't mess up, and also putting much more energy in the performance so it doesn't drag.               

Date of review: 6/10/14

25/09/14

• What is subtext? We were asked in the lesson to do write subtexts for our character that's for the scene, most of use didn't understand the task, so in the lesson we began to understand that it meant that what is the emotion, the true meaning behind our words for example someone could say to someone that they hate them but actually they mean they love them, so we had to write what the character actually was thinking and meant for what they were saying. most of the groups had loads of subtext most didn't such as mine. My scene was very literal from mine and my partners perception as we thought what the character was saying is actually what they thought except from one line where Callum speaks, but overall it was really hard to find subtext in my scene as i said it was really literate. as our lines were basically the same to what the character was thinking it didn't really change the scene in any way as we thought.

Unit 3 Acting Skills Audit: DATE: 25/09/14

Throughout your blog you will be marked on:

P2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop

M2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop, setting achievable targets for improvement and reviewing progress

D2 Present an on-going review of acting skills, describing strengths and areas to develop, setting achievable targets for improvement and evaluating progress

Workshop and rehearsal observations:

Which acting strengths have you been able to demonstrate today? How?
i demonstrated a lot on characterisation so actually being the character and trying to think like her and act like she would also knowing the blocking helped so i could work more on the character and make my character realistic. I learnt all my lines so this was an advantage and this meant we could do more rehearsal and i could develop and teak more on my scene to make it better. also i did well on movement memory but remembering all the blocking and thinking ahead before i make the movement  so i wouldn't need to stutter on my words just to remember movement. Finally i think i demonstrated my pace well and not rushing any of my lines

Some key words: 

articulation      

projection      

breath control      

learning lines   

pitch, inflection and modulation 

tone and vocal colour        

phrasing             

pace                

use of pause              

gesture  

facial expressions     

characterisation         

staying in role             

balance                   

coordination 

movement memory       

spatial awareness       

weight placement        

focus and control 

relaxation                              

pace, energy and dynamics 

Which acting skills do you need to develop based on the workshop today? Why?
I need to work a lot on energy because i will build up with energy but then I'll start to loose it and the character won't become believable and the audience won't start to enjoy it because it'll look really fake, furthermore i need to work more on gesture and not just standing still but using body language to go with the facial expressions i do, last of all i need to improve in staying in character because sometimes when i muck up a line i come straight out of character and apologise when i should carry on and at like there isn't a mistake 

Set yourself  three targets:

1. use energy throughout the scene 

2. relax more when performing 

3. use gesture to go with facial expression

Reflect on the targets set:  Have they been achieved? How?  
I have reflected on some of my targets, the only target i did not meet was relax when performing, as i was panicking and i was thinking of my lines before i said them which made me mess up my lines or forget what i was saying. so it wasn't really a listen and response tasks.           

Date of review: 29/09/14