UAL Level 2 Week 10

Monday 28th November

Blog Lesson:

• Focused on working on our blogs updating them to the work we have been doing so far.
• Completed more tests and updated our personal achievements page on ProPortal.

Acting Lesson:

• Recording our scenes for our silent movie for the first time, it went very well as we had only rehearsed a few times before this. Overall the recording went very well as we managed to get it all done at once with only a few mess ups during recording. Certain thing such as body continuity for example remaining in the same place whilst we were changing scenes or ending each clip.
• After we were done with all of the recording, we watched it back to see if there was anything that we missed out or could've improved on.

Tuesday 29th November

Acting Lesson:

• Vocal warm-up including repetition of the letters C, G, L, N, D ,T, M ,P, B, then BAH, doing this activity helps with speech confidence and pronunciation. Also kept a constant low hum which helped with the use of our diaphragm which allowed us to be clearer with our speech and put more emphasis into certain words.
• After completing our vocal and bodily warm up we moved onto an activity based in a art gallery where there were 2 spies that had to make contact and one police officer that ad to try and catch them before they made contact. I played the part of the police officer but was unsuccessful in catching the spies but they were also not able to make contact with each other.
• We then moved onto another activity that was based a the Oscars Awards Ceremony where we were given a playing card that had our rating on so for example number number 1 would be the highest rated and would be a high paid famous actor and anything from 5 to 1 or an ace would be a waiter. 
• Finally we did another activity where there was a table, a chair and a water bottle and we had to arrange it in a way that made the water bottle the most important thing. Then we had to go to the table and make ourselves the main focus or the most important thing.

Movement Lesson:

• As our starting activity we used the  the board number activity for example 1. Run, 2. Walk etc. this helped to warm-up our bodies and help to increase our bodies movement capability for the follow up activities and the lesson itself. Moved onto doing a complete full body warm up which included different stretches and different core strength exercises.
• We then had to work with a partner of equal high and then had to use each others strength to pull on each other and get up, this cause some problems as it would not work if one person was stronger or was putting more effort than the other person as it would just end with one person dragging the other person on the floor towards them.
• After doing the warm up we moved onto working in groups  and creating a new walking piece which we had to do as one big group including everyone in class. After that we separated and had to adapt on it and add new moves onto the walking sequence in accordance to the beat.

Production Lesson:

• We were allowed to go home early which meant that we did not have a production lesson at all that day.

Wednesday (No Lesson)


Thursday 1st December

Acting Lesson:

• As a warm-up to the lesson we did a tongue twister that goes "Which switch miss is the right switch for Ipswich miss" we did this in order to improve our pronunciation of certain words and help the fluidity of our voices.
• After completing the warm-up we then moved onto an improvisation activity where a number from 1-10 was called out which had an environment based on it. The way it worked was that 2 people were called up at a time and had to make a small improv scene based in the setting and always saying yes to whatever the other person said. For example me and my partner were given the setting of a jungle which was number 4, after being given our number we then adapted it into looking for treasure on the ground, the scene ended with me walking away with all the treasure after using that my partner had to say yes to everything.

Friday 2nd December:

Blog Lesson: 

Continued updating and working on our blogs.

Acting Lesson:

We did a vocal and body warm up as we usually do in the previous lessons. 
After the warm up we moved onto working with various different partners starting with different lines, for example a few lines that we had to start or finish the short scene with was "Mum said what", "I love you" and "Here?". The final one which was I love you was adapted by my partner and I by proposing a marriage to the other person. We did this activity for the majority of the lesson.