12-16 October 2015 level 3 performing arts

On Monday we had Rob as usual for 4 hours ,in this lesson we just rehearsed for the whole 4 hours then performed them to Rob. Rob again gave us improvements he gave me a different improvement was to not pause on some lines , as I did on a few lines and you lose the emotion if you pause.  Then after the dance students joined us because they needed some sort of interactions with people so they came to our class and we did some activity. Which was we had to make scenes from someone telling us what to do and we had ten seconds to do it while the  dancer were dancing around us  . This was really good and helped us with interacting with other sector performers. After we had Sharon's lesson , in this lesson we rehearsed is well for a good 30 minutes then Sharon asked us to do our scenes but this time mumbling our lines rather then speaking in the language the play was set in. This helped us to really see if we knew our plays that well and what comes next without speaking English. The tricky part was keeping the emotions of the characters the same as if we were speaking English.

Tuesday  we didn't have college as it  was our day and as usual I worked Tuesday. 

On Wednesday was our big day it was me and my class mates first performance of the year. First Rob gave us rehearsal time for about 45 minutes this was very helpful, then it came our big first performance. Everything did great it was an enjoyable day, I was very nervous I don't know why . I thought I did well it was my first performance since Don Juan  last June so I was a bit shaky. A couple of things I need to work on is slowing down a bit I said some of my lines very fast, my last improvement was my arms were out a lot I was to still at times. I was very nervous this is one of the reasons ,next time I know not to be so nervous and relax lets hope for my next performance I'm relaxed. 

On Thursday we had Rob but we didn't really have a lesson as Rob was busy with the level 2's ,it was there performance day so he just explained our trip for friday to the Haymarket which looks like great fun. After this I went to watch the levels 2acting , music and year one level 3  , this was very good I was impressed with the whole show I had fun well done to the level 2's great work. 

On Friday we didn't do much due to the fact we went on a trip , a Q&A session with Mark Gatiss. Which was good some interesting questions were asked , it was good knowledge this should help in my future for acting. 

5th-9th of october level 3 performing arts 2015

On Monday we had Rob as usual for 4 hours today, all we did was rehearse and rehearse. Rob did group by group in the theatre while the me and the others rehearsed in another room waiting for Rob. When Rob called our group we just had to perform to Rob while he was giving us directions just really to tune our piece and get 100 per cent performance ready for next week the big day which I'm looking forward to. Rob mainly directed me to look in the corner of the room to show I'm a blind character , he also told me to talk in riddles to show how I think I'm right and my characters knows everything but the man on stage doesn't have a clue what's he's on about. Rob directions to me really helped to really understand even more about my character which was very helpful. After Robs lesson we had Sharon ,in this lesson we did more monologue work this included joining pairs and explaining our back story of our monologues we did last week. Furthermore after this exercise we were asked to write our own monologues. And join a partner and they would perform our written monologues to the class. This was very helpful hopefully all of this should help me and my classmates in the bright future to come. My monologue I wrote was about love, describing the women in my life I picked love because I knew I could make a monologue easily out of it. This exercise was fun ,it gave us good experience to play around  with speeches which helps us a lot.

On Tuesday we didn't have college a usual as its our day off. On Tuesday I just worked.

On Wednesday I had Sharon first thing at 10 O'clock for tutorial, in this tutorial Sharon explained a few things that's expected of us to stay on this course after October. After this she asked us to go into groups and make a list of things we need for behaviour. We had examples like focus ,because if your focused you don't want to mess round. That was about it in Sharon's lesson just to remind us what they expect of us some people. Need to be told more then once. Furthermore after tutorial we were supposed to have Rob but he was not available. We were set a task to do by Rob writing an essay on Greek theatre. 

My final lesson was my certificate lesson Photography I just realised I haven't mentioned. Basically what I have been doing is using strips of paper and putting objects on top , exposing it to light which creates the outlines of the object. For this process you expose the piece of power then put them into chemicals and he image comes out its really cool at the end of the day its a new experience for me.

On Thursday I had my English lesson in the morning, news came to us that instead of writing a film review ,we would have to write our own creative writing piece. We had to take a name of a movie and make up a story with a title of a movie, I picked shutter island.    After we had Rob, Rob was still finding tuning for the other groups. So we didn't have a lesson with Rob he just opened rooms for us to do self directed learning. In self directed learning I rehearsed my lines over and over again , just to see if I could add more emphasis on my behalf. Furthermore even though I knew all my lines I kept saying them out loud just to make sure I was ready for a performance next Wednesday which is very exciting to me. 

On Friday I had my English lesson in the morning in this lesson we just practised writing our own creative writing pieces. Hayley our English teacher gave us English packs to help us with vocabulary and ingredients needed in our creative writing pieces for good marks. After my English lesson we had Rob for the rest of that day in this lesson we recorded letters we wrote last week in character of our Greek theatre scripts. I'm Tryisisias a blind prophet accusing Oedipus of being a murdered. My letter was a written to his wife to Jocasta to give him to me to face justice for the crimes he has done. This was a good exercise to see how we really know the background of our characters and play. Help us smash the shapes of out characters the best we can. After this  we did something very interesting doing our Scenes in our play Oedipus but converting our lines to modern language. This really helped me to understand my character fully and see if I know the character as well as I say I do. This exercise also really helped to see if I could use the emotions of my character in the modern error we live in.