UAL Level 2 Week 13

Monday 9th January

Blog session:

• We blogged for the entirety of the time we were in school which was good as it allowed me time to catch up on the blog weeks that I had been missing previously.

• (Might not be this day, check for previous days Thursday and Friday to see if its them instead)

Tuesday 10th January

Acting lesson:

• At the start of the lesson we were given 2 questions to consider while we were rehearsing and after when we would have to perform, they were 'Why am I there?', 'What's the relationship?'. 
• During this lesson me and my partner ran through the scene that we were going to perform multiple times in order to remind our self of what we have to say and to gain a better understanding of how to play the scene itself. At first I found the script very repetitive overall with reoccurring themes of food and petty small talk for example the phrases "Put the kettle on" and "Light the kettle" causes a small dispute between the 2 characters on the correct terminology.
• After we were done practicing we then had to perform our scenes to the rest of the class one group at a time, this was useful as it allowed us to gain an insight of how other people depict the scenes and how they believe its supposed to be played, this allows us to to adapt our play to better suit it for the whole play overall.

Movement Lesson:

• At the start of the lesson we went through the movement wheel and how it would be incorporated into our next unit.
• We also looked at BEST in relation to dance and movement learning and definition
• Then we moved onto practicing our step routine and trying to add new moves to it. We also worked with another group using their dance moves as well as ours. This was good as it allowed us to have a more developed piece with better ideas and actions as they were developed with both groups.

Production Lesson:

• Finished our group poster which was difficult as we could only use ideas from 2 people rather than the whole group having an input on what should be on the poster.
• We got given our new assignment which was to design a clothing outfit which we would then have to present to the class next week, I managed to draw the outline but had difficulty thinking of the clothing and colors to use on the outfit itself.

Wednesday (No Lessons)


Thursday 12th January

Watched plays from the Level 3 Second Years which I found to be very enjoyable to watch as they were created by themselves in a short amount of time. After we watched their performances they held multiple workshops which included various different games such as still image games, number games and group exercises where someone would have to be led around a human obstacle course. These games were fun but also helped to focus us and further develop our ability as actors to perform to large amounts of people.

Friday 13th January

Acting Lesson:

• Practiced our Dumb Waiter scenes with people who weren't our partners which was good as it allowed us to get new ideas about how the scenes should be played out as they would've been ideas from people who've never seen that part of the script before so the ideas were entirely new.
• Performed our scenes to the rest of the class and received good peer feedback which was useful to improve on our work.