UAL Level 2 Week 2

Monday 19th September

Blog Lesson:

• Just mainly focused on the continuation of the blogs.

Moved on to another Acting lesson where we:

• Focused on doing more vocal warm ups and exercise of diaphragm muscle in order to further develop our speech, helping us with things like depth and ability to make our voice reach further places, for example if we were doing a scene between 2 people, the use of our diaphragm muscle would help us to make it louder so even the people in the back rows could hear it.
• Worked more on our improvisation work on our ideas of identity and had to make scenes of our work based on the ideas we had come up with over the weekend, for example I came up with an idea based around the themes of the film 'The Truman Show' and acted out my idea with my partner Benedict.

Tuesday 20th September

Movement lesson in which we:

• Further developed our flexibility and our ability to stretch
• Worked more on the abdominal muscles and core workouts continuing to improve strength through movement
• Continued the clapping rhythm and tried to further adapt it by adding different dance moves into it, this proved difficult as it was hard to incorporate the dance moves immediately to the pace of the beat required.

Production lesson which we:

• Talked about our essay roles and what they meant and how they work with the other parts of the production team, for example we were talking about where they work, how much they earn and other parts of their job role.
• Spoke about how best to structure an essay
• Began the writing of the essay till the end of the lesson

Wednesday (No Lessons)

Thursday 22th September

Drama Lesson where we:

• Worked in the school's theater, this is good because it helps us to get used to the space that we are going to be performing in for our first full theatrical production. It also helps us to know how and where to project our voices to when we are actually acting out with the live audience there.
• Played various games such as It! which helped us to warm up our bodies so that we could move more freely, Famous Person which helped with our improvisation skills as we had to subtly give away clues whilst thinking of things to say on the spot to that person. Improvisation alphabet which further developed our improv skills as we had to try and make conversation out of the letters of the alphabet.

Friday 23rd September

Blog Lesson:

• Worked more on our blogs 

Moved onto an Acting lesson where we:

Spent the majority of the time playing games with our group where the 1st part we had to look at our partner's face and body then close our eyes and try to describe as much about them as we can, then moved onto a different game where we had to challenge our partners speaking by talking at the same time as then and had to force the other person to stop by talking over them, then for the final part of the lesson we played a game called mafia which helped our improvisation skills.