UAL Level 2 Performing and Production Arts

UAL Level 2 Week 4

Monday (3rd October)

Blog Lesson:

Moved onto a tutorial lesson where we:

Looked at different rights and conventions of the European Union and had to pick 4 which stood out most to us as individuals. Then we had to get into groups and pick 4 rights out of 12 which meant the most to us as a group. We then had to explain the reasons for why we chose those rights, for example choosing the 'Right to Liberty' was good because as a group we all believed in the right to have our own personal well being safe guarded and protected by empowering bodies such as the government and the want to feel secure as a person.

Acting lesson where we:

Worked in the theater further developing our piece on 'Identity'. We worked on the beginning of the play where most of the group are sitting on chairs and the rest are standing up. At the start of the production we decided to have us all speak about what identity meant to us, but then we shortened it down to 6 people who took ideas from other people as well as themselves.
We then worked more on linking the school scene in with the detention scene by looking more at actor placement on stage and the position the scenes will mainly be directed at the audience. Doing this is good as it allows us to develop on weaker parts that the audience would maybe not have been able to hear or see.
After this we worked more on the further development of the scenes then at the end when the housing scene is happening at the end, a foreign person comes in looking for a house then the housing agent who is racist tells her to go away as she does not want the likes of her in the country, then after that the foreign person looks toward the audience and says "I'm a human none the less", then after that the whole of the group come and and speak that line in different languages, for example German, Spanish and Italian and many others, this helps to promote cultural diversity, fairness and equality and also helps to give the audience a better understanding of individuality and an insight to the possible abuse that certain foreign people may get when going to somewhere looking for help.

Tuesday (4th October)

Acting lesson where we:

Acted out the production of 'Identity' twice, whilst making improvement to various different things such as movement, voice exaggeration and gestures. Overall we decided that it would be best if we over exaggerated the whole of the play as before it was basic and too naturalistic so it needed something else to create emphasis and to excite the audience all the way throughout.

After running through twice, the group had to perform to the Level 3 second year students what we had come up with so far. I found this extremely useful as because they are far more experienced. They also gave us a deeper insight on things that we could improve on such as things like certain people in the group were not acting as if they were a character they were playing it as if they were just reading lines from a script, so from hearing this it allows us to better our performance and make our scenes better and not so realistic but more enjoyable and fun to watch.

Movement lesson in which we:

Began to incorporate themes of musical theatre in our production which allows us to develop and build more on our body movement and gestures towards the audience while the play is going on, for example, we looked at the scene where we show the audience the sexist stereotypical views on the male and female gender such as make-up for girls and football for boys. We worked on these by adding better movements to signalise the different stereotypes and how to better link them with what we are trying to show the audience. After this we did multiple run through with changes to the whole performance base on the new movement actions and gestures we created in the movement lesson.

Production lesson which had us:

Wednesday (No Lessons)

Thursday (6th October)

Acting lesson where we:

Worked in room 226 focusing on improving our piece on 'Identity'. Room 226 is very small compared to the theater which made it hard to do the play run-through as it was difficult to do the chair lay out with all the scene movements as the space was very tight.
After running through the play a few times, we were able to improve on the ending scenes such as the housing agent scene, where we were able to improve on bodily movements, language and spacing in relation to the audience, I also had to fill in for a person because they weren't in which was good as it allowed us to continue working without problems.

Friday (7th October)

Acting lesson which had us:

Still working on our 'Identity' piece in room 222, it was a bigger space for us to work in which made it easier for the layout of the chairs to be placed. We were able to further improve on our work. Which makes it better ad more 'cleaner' when we actually perform it to the audience.

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