UAL Level 2 Week 8

Monday 14th November

Blog Lesson:

• We worked on our blogs, updating them on the things we did recently in lessons.

Acting Lesson:

• My group and I were allowed to go home early as the teacher was working with another group.

Tuesday 15th November

Acting Lesson:

• At the start of the lesson we did a full body and vocal warm-up, this helped to relax ourselves and to be better focused on the work.
• After doing this, we moved onto an improvisation game called 'This is not a book', as a class we had to all pretend that the glasses case was anything but a glasses case, for example we used the glasses case as a phone, a remote and a gun. This improved our improvisation skills as we had to think this up on the spot, use our body to make it a thing to watch and think of a small piece to go along with it.
• Finishing off the lesson, we completed a small set of lines from a script, we had to learn the scrip, add some improvisation and then act it out to the rest of the class once it was time to perform. In order to make the script work we had to adapt it and add a story to it. 

Movement Lesson:

• Began the lesson with a warm up, as before with the board number activity for example 1. Run, 2. Walk etc. After that we did more core strength exercises including a plank in a circle, crunches and leg-raises. 
• After we were done with this we carried on improving our dance routines and began working in a group to develop it into an actual piece. After we had worked on it for quite some time in the lesson, we then had to perform it to the rest of the class

Production Lesson:

Where we worked on the creation of a poster for our chosen celebrity, for example my group chose Rihanna. Instead of working on the full poster I decided to create a teaser poster as the start instead. 

(This is the teaser poster)

After we were done creating the posters, everyone in the class walked around looking at each others, assessing them, giving negatives and positives about how they could improve it to make it look more appealing to certain audiences, or how to improve the look overall.

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday 17th November

Acting Lesson:

• Worked in the dance studio rather than an acting classroom. We were given a script and had to act it out and add on more at the end decided what to create from the original text. My partner and I decided to go with a story about the dangers of smoking and how his friend tried to entice him into it after knowing his father died cancer from smoking cigarettes. 
• Once all groups were done rehearsing, we took turns performing them to the class.

Friday 18th November

Blog Lesson:

• Focusing mainly on the continuation and improvement of our blogs.
• Also worked slightly on my teaser poster.

Acting Lesson:

• I was allowed to go home early as the teacher was mainly working with other students in the class.