UAL Level 2 Week 1 

Monday 12th September

Blog Lesson:

• Set up our timetables 
• Looked at ProPortal

We then moved onto an Acting lesson in which we:

• Did voice warm ups including things such as things like repetition of the letters C, G, L, N, D ,T, M ,P, B, then BAH, doing this activity helps with speech confidence and pronunciation.
• Focused mainly on name games and group concentration activities such as Zap
• With a partner did a hand-leading exercise in which Partner A led partner B by the hand for a few minutes and then vice versa.

Tuesday 13th September

Beginning with a Functional Maths lesson where we focused on:

• Recapping and revisiting what we learnt previously at GCSE level with things such as Addition, Subtraction and Division techniques, for example the Japanese Lacross method and the Boxing Out method.
• We were then given various different practice questions in order to consolidate and practice the methods we just recapped.

We moved onto an Acting lesson where we:

• Voice warm ups,
• Movement acting  
• Improvisation work in which  my partner and I were given a sheet with a few lines of dialogue which ended with the lines "Sorry, it's just...", we then had to make a small improvisation piece, we did this to get used to performing in front an audience and acting with the people in our group.

Moved onto a Movement lesson with Mandy in which we:

• Wrote on a sheet of paper how to be safe in the dance studio including things such as appropriate clothing and no distinctive items such as phones
• Started doing stretches to improve flexibility and movement and also did various abdominal exercises in order to improve core strength.
• Tried to replicate clapping rhythms 
• Worked in groups trying to make a movement sequence to the beat of one group clapping and the other moving to it.

Went to a Production lesson which consisted of:

• Learning different Production qualities and techniques and how they are worked and how they operate.
• Watching different performance acts such as Cirque de Soleil and Blue-man Group and had to write down the different forms of production that would be required to make it happen, such as lighting, choreography and sound.

Wednesday (No Lessons)

Thursday 15th September

Starting off with an Acting lesson we:

• Did voice warm ups (as before) such as things like repetition of the letters C, G, L, N, D ,T, M ,P, B, then BAH, doing this activity helps with speech confidence and pronunciation.
• Group acting
• A group improvisation piece in which we were given a piece of music and had to make a scene based around that music, my group and I decided to take the music as being in a sort of dream state and then created the perfect hotel world. This helped to improve our movement skills as we created a near silent scene so we expressed emotion mainly through movement and facial features, this helps because it allows us to adapt to not only having to use our voices, we can also make creative pieces from movement.

Moved on to a Functional Maths Lesson where we:

• Learnt about Highest Common Factors, Lowest Common Multiples and Prime Numbers
• Learnt the definitions of HCF, LCM and Prime Numbers
• Worked out how to make various different numbers products of their factors

Friday 16th September

Blog Lesson:

• Started the creation of our Blogs, first posts and edits where we spoke about work and what we did in the previous lessons.

Had an Acting lesson where we: 

• Did voice warm ups (as before) such as things like repetition of the letters C, G, L, N, D ,T, M ,P, B, then BAH, doing this activity helps with speech confidence and pronunciation.
• We then moved on to an improvisation piece of acting where we had to make a scene based on the 3 lines we chose from the screen, my group and I chose the lines, "If I've told them once, I've told them a thousand times", "He sat there" and "I didn't think you would be here". After choosing our lines we thought it would be best to make the adaptation a scene about seating places on a bus and took references from the black and white seating rule from the white racism of early Pentecostalism in the USA.
• Started to begin our work on 'Identity' which gets us used to working in front of audiences and better helps our ability on improvisation work, 'Identity' is our first theatrical production of our level 2 course. We started off the lesson by brainstorming what 'Identity' meant to each of us or what it could mean to another person, so for example my group and I described how 'Identity' could be identified, so we wrote down words like Religion, Background, Wealth, Fashion, Family and Friends as these were the words we thought Identity was associated with.