17th almost colplet

17th
in today's lesson we looked at how we could improve our tie performance we looked at the the  structure of our performance we soon came upon a problem it was difficult to work out how we were going to fit in the quests/riddles and what they were going to be so we looked up ways wich mythological  produced quest and found that riddles would bee a good ideas so we then we  listed the three objects we needed to make the old lady beautiful . we chose a hairbrush a mirror and fake tan . from this we found a riddle for a mirror "You gaze at me and see the world backwards
,
you relize who you are, but its only superficial...

what am I?" 

we then thought it would be fun to make our own riddles 

"healthy glow i will show fetch me quick dont be slow" 

giving the performance originality 
 we then settled on whether making  it cheesy or just funny we decided to make the riddles for each quest for example the hair brush the fake tan and the mirror.
we also had the problem how we were going to incorporate the riddles into the modern story so we decide on using the text then we had the problem of how were were going to show the riddles to the audience so i suggested a back drop with a clip  with the texts being on there but we agreed this wasn't different and we wanted to try something different so we are going to use posts on boeds with the riddles in text style held up by the step mum . i think this will work well because it is something different and it will be easy for the audience to see and we can also see the back drop.

good parts of the lesson 
we worked well as a group and managed to set the structure and story line wich was very important with not a lot of time left.

weak parts of the lesson 
we didn't progress with the scenes themselves wich we really need to.


my strengths of the lesson 
i worked well in the group i questioned ideas like the backdrop and how we were going to inc-operate the riddles i also created the riddles themselves and worked them in .i kept the group asking why .

my weakness of the lesson 
i need to let other people take control and relax when in the group.

24th

24th



today we looked at the frantics assembly performance techniques  and looked at how we could use them in our own performance. I am a trained dancer and i have done lot of different styles and worked with many dfferent choryographers but for me this was completly different and i had to open myself up to different ideas and foget the rulles of dance and look at it ore as a acting peice 

we started of in our pairs i was paired with josh and we looked at what theme and message we would like to carry with out acting peice so we descided to have two friends sittig with each other secretly attracted to one anothetr and by the end of the peice coming to realise this . we started of with 3/3 counts and then we did some counts in unison and then in cannon again and we used these techniques to build the tensiion of the scene. we then kept building the peice with more counts and added more levels and turns typical to the frantics work.

we then worked at linking it to the group beofre us to make a chain of scenes and then we filmed im really looking foward to watching this and seeing what worked well and what didnt. 
i think we could use this in our dinner scene and instead of having the table in use we will block it so we are on a sofa with me in he middle as a block between the evil step mum and my son and we will use part of the frntics work .


next week we should look at how we will finish this sofa routine and how to make it conect to the scene. 

10th oct

today we went over tie (Theartre in education) our main focus for todays rehersal was structuring  and agreeing on the important parts of the scene.
today i sugested the idea of a freeze frame  for the first scene with the narrator coming out of the scene to speake and then joining the freese frame again The narator establishes the scene and story before joining the scnene her self  i then wanted  dylan and the fox. (i put in the idea that the fox should infact be a human companion) and keeps the blance of young versus old. this goes into the idea that  we should modernise the play but keep the oldy worldy fairytales charerteristics like the boy falling in love with the beutiful girl and the evil step mum.  i blocked the scene by having the table in the centre and the  step mum and dad either side of the table like king and queen  intimidating dylan in the middle and showing his lower status (bottem of the food chain).

we sorted out our production commitments to-
media ie the back drop i will be in charge of the back scenary like superdrug and the castle they infact live in.
music /sound - i will be trying to get somthing scary like halloween music and somthing with violins and chellos

 i have also researched schools that can be used for our performance ie  i have looked at portslade aldridge community acadmy . here would be perfect as they have a strong performing arts department and the school is in a underprivliged area it would also benifit form this tie of learning in other subjects as not all children are acedmic and many have dyslaexa and dyscalucla me included. i think the family issues in our play will be relevant to there age to.

4th singing audit with lena

lena called us in for our singin audit

where she did some singing scales and tested us basic on our strange as this is what i need to improve

singing

lena lesson
we did routines to help with our vowles
do you do blue poo this helped with our oos
aww theres pars fast cars this helped with out arrs
we three flees need trees this helped with our eess
tom stoped rons long song this helped with our oms
we then did alpegios
and scalea and octave jumps
this helped me get my vocal range to improve i now i need to increase by chest voice range.

we did these for are vowels 

clare rare bear snare 

do you do blue poos 

aww pars fast cars 

tom stops ron long song 

we then did some alpegiosa and scales and we jumped octaves  this will help with our vocals and increas our range and diction wich is ver important for the up and coming shows .

4th of october

We looked at improvisation in out hour lesson and we were thrown into making different objects with our body and scenes. We startred of with making a animal of some sort each taking a different body part we decided to make a snail.
this then progressed into a assault course then into putting up a tent and sitting in it  to then somthing scary happening outside to going to a party then having a massive brain storm to all staying in one tent to then getting in a airballon and going a supermarket.

i think this helped our overall understanding of space  it helped as we could imagine the space we had and picture ourselves in those scenes i noticed by changing the scene it change the way we moved our bodys and how we spoke this will come in handy for when we do we will rock you and the national theartre peice as both will be in different sixe spaces with a different feel to them  we will also be able to use this technique to imagine a scene say in we will rock you and imagine in our heads like a picture what our charecters would have been like and how they would have moved,

i use this in the dinner scene with our tie performance  i used tv scenes and other real life examples and then brought it in to the peice but starting of with a blank canvas alows this. i think this makes the scene look more realistic and contrasts to out pantomime feel. and shows that we could easily adapt it into somthinng else like a tv diner 

3rd of octobre auditon

for my audition for we will rock you and chicago and nattional theartre we had to choose 2 songs contrasing each other. i choose popular from wicked and you must love me from evita . i was originally going to do "i deamed a dream" but voice was still not strong enough after loosing it the week before and i didnt want to make this a problem so i changed the song to somthing i could sing with out showing my voice loss on the higer notes that i can hit.
i pared with grace to do a dueloge we took it in turns in reherdals together to see who would be better at wich part and i felt comfortable with my charecter.

i feel my confidence in this audition for my singing as improved hugy and i only hope this progress will continue though the year im finally starting to enjoy singing. instead of just dance and acting however i still feel my singing could improve and i need to work on not going flat and my volume.

audition techniques

today we looked at whats needed when in a audition and how to get a audition.

- agency
it is very important to hvae a good head shot typically in black and white like this
http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/17/F115285.html i persoanlly have both coloured and black and white. on my agency it consists of my previous paid work of wich i need to update.
i also belong to double l
http://www.doublel.co.uk/
and i also belong to goldmans manegment.
there is also a contact book you can apply for online on amazon with all agents and agencys known.

auditions for musical theartre-
auditions for musical theartre are differet for those for tv work.
i usually wear all black and have my hair down unless i am dancing wich is tied back with no jewlery and leotard and leggings with a tight top to show fitness and correct foot wear i wear minimal makeup as its bad to look like  drag queen. i usually take change of clothes aswell as you should always expect the unexpected by this i mean i take a range of songs i know suited to the style of play im going to i take food and plenty to drink.

auditions for tv -
as i have said expect the unexpected tv auditions can either be a personal short interview and quick shots with a brief act of a scene or can be entirely done infront of a camra for this i give my profile my side view and then say my name and begin. i have been to auditions were i have been cuing for hours and in some cases never to be seen. i have learnt that tv is more about how you look and may fit the role than your actual talent theres no point going for a indian charecter if your white with blue eyes i have aslo found if they ask you to bring your own material its better to pick somthing around your age and gender.for a tv aiditon i usualy wear somthing comfortale but pretty and i wear my hair down with highlighting makeup.

dos and donts in a audition-

dos - always be polite and patient in a audition or interwiew
     -    expect the unexpected come preapred
     - always research the peice you are auditioning for
     -   always look enthusiastic and easily aproachable
 donts
  -   dont be bitchy or over intimidating directors want someon who can work in a group
  -   dont wear somthing over the top and to much makeup
  -   dont have a out of date head shot
  -    dotn  think you already have the part