UAL Level 2 Week 27

Monday 8th May

Blog Session:

Some of the people in our class were chosen to go to an audition for actor Idris Elba, the company was looking for dark skinned people to play certain roles in their show. I could not go as I am white. So instead I worked more on my blog.

Tuesday 9th May

Acting Lesson:

In this lesson we continued working on our performance and was given advice as we were practicing. The main piece of advice that we were given was to try and play off each other as the way it is now is dull and not very interesting to watch as it is slow, it is better we were given the advice during practice as it means we can apply the changes at that point in time and then improve it more for the next lesson.

Movement Lesson:

At the start of the lesson we practiced our soundscape ability. We were given a train station location and we had to think of all the different sounds that would be surrounding it. After we had completed that activity we then returned to practicing the Tai Chi movements that we had been working on the previous weeks.

Production Lesson:

We did not have a production lesson, instead we engaged in different activities such as a pop quiz about theater and actors. 

Then towards the end of the lesson we moved onto playing hangman with names of actors such as Shailene Woodley and Grant Gustin.

Wednesday (No Lesson)


Thursday 11th May

Acting Lesson:

In this lesson we continued working on our 'Burn' performance going through the script and fine tuning each scene. Going through the scenes and then having call outs from the teacher for ways to improve both my acting and the scenes is more useful as it allows us to make it better then and there.

Friday 12th May

Blog Session:

For this time we were told to work more on the Unit 9 part of our blog as it is our most recent piece of work.

Acting Lesson:

This lesson was less productive than others as instead of practicing our piece we spent the majority of the lesson talking about how our blogs are supposed to be and the way we can improve on it. This means that we had less time to practice our piece as blog had to be the top priority.

UAL Level 2 Week 26

Monday 1st May

Blog Session:

In this session I tried using my time to improve on some of the work I did before to make it as best as I possibly could.
Tuesday 2nd May

Acting Lesson:

In order to get us more focused and prepared for the lesson we began with some word games such as tongue twisters, the ones we did are, Seth at Sainsbury's sells thick socks, Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins, If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?. We then completed a full-body warm up to songs like Despacitio and Justin Bieber, we also had to do dance movements to the music in the background.

After that we picked up where we left off on the last lesson's scene on Friday and worked more with the script for line refrence to know it better in the future, this would then mean that further down the line we would be more focused and in role as we would not have the script with us. We practiced the scene with me (Birdman) and my classmate Nerissa (Linda) where she is put inside the fridge for 2 minutes. I think this scene is effective as Linda does not have trust in anyone so when she allows Birdman to close her in a fridge it shows that she feels somewhat safe around him, this then opens up more to her charcater and why she acts the way she does. The lesson was then ended after we finished the rest of the scenes after Birdman and Linda's duo scene.

Movement Lesson:

Continued practicing our Tai Chi 24-form movement we had been practicinng the week before, I felt more prepared though this week as over the weekend I had been watching the clip to try and learn it more for when I would be in class. We practiced in small groups to recap as best as we could the movements from the week before and tehn try to perform it fluidly. After a short reheasral period we moved got into groups of 3's to be recorded whilst we were performing it, this would then mean that next week we would then watch it back and then be able to improve on it after watching. The lesson then ended afte the final group was filmed.

This is the video that was recorded:

Production Lesson:

To begin with I had everyone sit around the table so that I could have a meeting wiht eveyrone about how their roles were going and if they had any ideas that they wanted to put forward to improve on anything for the produciton. Making this suggestion was a useful idea as many people had ideas such as initial ideas for hair adn make-up, costume, lighting and sound, prop and set. The main thing that people wanted to put forward were the lists of products that they would need bought in order for the produciton, for example from hair and make-up the list of cosmetics needed to transform actors into their characters and from props things such as a rubber fish and fishing rods to make the scnes seem more realistic as well as many other suggestions form other groups. 

After the meeting I individually went round to the groups to clarify on any ideas that they missed out on and to check up on the work that they had been doing for their production roles.

Wednesday (No Lesson)


Thursday 4th May

This lesson was not began with a warm-up of any kind, instead we delved right into rehearsing our scenes in order to fine tune them and make it better. Then we went back and discussed the objectives that we had for our characters which led to us defining an objective as either your aim or goal, purpose, target and intention. We then later thought more into the cause and effect of certain lines to make sure that there was reasoning behind the lines we were sayhing to give it more life than just words off a page, this would interest the audience more and make it better to perform overall. The teacher told the actors around the poeple saying their lines to improvise things to do such as talking between them or messong around with the props around them to give it a more real feeling.
Friday 5th May

Blog Lesson:

After completing some blog entries I looked over some of the work printed off for me by other produciton roles so that I look ove them and see if there was anyting that needed to be changed or anyting that could be improved on.


(We did not have an Acting Lesson)

UAL Level 2 Week 25

Monday 24th April

Blog Session 

I spent my time on the weekend reading through the rest of the script and practicing all my lines for Birdman, then after that I thought more deeply into the character and the way that I think he should be portrayed. 


Tutorial Session:

In this session we had a 1-1 meeting with our pastoral tutor about what we would be looking to do next year. I told them that I was planning to continue onto Level 3 next year and was the guided on the best way to do so.

Tuesday 25th April

Acting Lesson:

Completed moer script work such as helping people learn lines and also practicing the scenes more without the script as much as possible, this would help me to learn the lines faster and be able to fpcus more on the physical parts of the role.

Movement Lesson:

In this lesson we were told that we would be doing a new assignment based around the chinese martial art form, Tai Chi. To follow that we had to then do research aboutir, for example after research we worked out that it originated in china but it is unkniwn when exactly it first began but has been practiced for over hundreds of years. After we sat down to watch a video of someone practicing 24-form style we had been told we were going to do.

This is a link to one of the demonstraion videos we were following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvF6r6DOvc

















Production Lesson:

I was given my Production Role as Porudction Mnager which is a large role as I am going to be overseeing the work that everyone does and will have to assess it as the weeks go by. Then after everyone else was given their production roles they began researching what would be required of them in their role then it was my job to walk around and assess everything that they were doing and to give my help the best I could.

Wednesday (No Lesson)


Thursday 27th April

Today we had to show the monologues we had been practicing over the week, mine was Liv's monologue from 'Dreams in Captivity'. My name is last on the register which means that I would be the last person to have to do it, this was useful as it allowed me to practice right up to the final moment which meant that I would perform it to the best of my ability. After performing my monologue to Charlie who is the head of the Performing Arts he asked me questions such as why I wanted to do the course next year and what I thought I could bring to the table for Level 3 rather than someone esle applying from outside the course, I was prepared for this though as a few weeks ago me and a classate helped eachother by rehearsing that exact same interview.
Friday 28th April

Blog Session:

In this time we wrote what we thought about the new assignments we had been given in the week passed. Overall I feel like the assignments will be fun as they are different and something I have not done before.

Acting Lesson:

To begin with we all had to hand in the CV for our character and the letter that we had written up before about seeking acting work as our character. After that we continued practicing certain scenes from our play.

UAL Level 2 Week 24

Monday (No Lesson)

Tuesday (No Lesson)

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday 20th April

Acting Lesson:

• We began the new term lessons by reading the play that we will be performing in a few short weeks. We took turns reading each of the characters lines so that we could get a better feel of the characters and see which one we would want to play. At the end of the lesson we told our teacher the characters that we wanted to play and then spent the time after this practicing the lines for that chosen character.

Friday 21st April

Blog Session:

In this session we wrote up what we thought of the play Burn and our initial ideas for our characters. After reading further in I felt more comfortable with the role of Birdman as I had seen more of his lines and would have a better idea on how to play his character.

Acting Lesson:

Instead of having an acting lesson we stayed inside our current classroom to continue working on our blogs. We also spoke about what would be required of us to achieve either a distinction, merit or a pass.

UAL Level 2 Week 23

Monday 27th March

Tutorial Session:

• In this lesson, instead of working on blog, we were given the choice to instead create a CV and a letter for our Acting self publicity project. This was useful as the extra time made it less stressful and without having to be rushed meaning it would've been to poorer quality. I managed to complete the CV but not the letter but I plan to complete that on Friday.

Acting Lesson:

Tuesday 28th March


Wednesday (No Lesson)


Thursday 30th March



Friday 31st March 

Blog Session:

In this lesson I spent my time working on my letter that I needed for my acting part of the course, I managed to get it all done on time.

UAL Level 2 Week 22

Monday 20th March

Blog Session:

• Updated our blogs with he new units that we have been given in our classes.

Tuesday 21st March

Acting:

• Before working further on our performance, we played musical statues to warm up and get focused, worked in the theatre doing the bad breath exercises and the pen in the centre of the room then we went onto practices the #weareallimmigrants performance. After we ran through the performance we were then given feedback from our teacher, this then helped us to improve on our play and make it better.

Blog Lesson

In this production lesson we worked further on our posters for our self publicity, I managed to finish it in the lesson and had this as my final product.

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday 23rd March

• Bodily warm-up including tongue twisters such as "Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry", "She Sells Seashells at the Seashore" and "Roberta Ran Rings Around the Roman Ruins"
• Then moved onto multiple 3-5 minute improv scenes which had to be started with the opening line "She/he was here last night" my partner and I created a scene where we were boyfriend and girlfriend and she had cheated on me, she then tried to turn it back around on me accusing me of not paying her enough attention, the scene ends with a call from the person she cheated on me with and ends the scene with "Oh sorry, that's him, byeee". After that we then watched the rest of our groups scenes and gave them feedback on how to improve for the next time.
• After that we then continued to practice our #weareallimmigrants production for the remainder of the lesson.

Friday 24th March

Blog Session: 

In this session I used my time to look over any work I had missed previously and complete it if it was unfinished.

Acting Lesson:

Multiple start to finish rehearsals of the #weareallimmigrants performance with feedback from both peers and the teacher throughout, this made it easier to improve on the scenes as we went through them. It was made more difficult as some people were not present so others had to fill in for them, this meant that next lesson we would have to spend more time showing the absent people what we worked on.

UAL Level 2 Week 21

Monday 13 March

Blog Session:

• Updated our blogs with the work we had done in the lesson of the previous weeks.

Acting Lesson:

• During this lesson we spent all of the time practicing our #weareallimmigrants production we ran through it multiple times changing small things, we changed some of the scenes around and moved them to different places throughout the performance. We also decided what the scene order would be for the production which was as follows, Nerissa's opening monologue playing the daughter in Abdul's grandfathers immigration story, the hospital appointment scene, yam scene, trafficking scene, deported scene, food/countries names. Then after that we did scene rehearsals for the remainder of our time in the lesson.

Tuesday 14th March

Acting Lesson:

Like on Monday, we spent the majority of the lesson just going through our performance practicing the scenes and trying to improve on them.

Movement Lesson:

This lesson was different as we were speaking the monologues of our choice that we had been learning, this due to the waiting time took the majority of the lesson and were allowed to leave when finished. 

Production Lesson:

We did not have a production lesson today as we were allowed to go home at the end of our previous lesson.

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday (No Lesson)

Friday 16th March

Blog Session:

• In this blog session I wrote up all the stuff that I had been working on and improving in my lessons during that week.

Acting Lesson

• We did not have an acting lesson as the teacher was not present.

UAL Level 2 Week 20

Monday 6th March

Blog Session:

• Worked on our blogs and spoke about the new assignment.

Acting Lesson:

• In this lesson we said our ideas for the #weareallimmigrants performance pieces that we had come up with in our separate groups. We the started to run through the whole performance putting which bits where, for example the beginning where Bruno is sitting in the chair going through all the myths about immigration, then moving onto the next part where everyone sings " Ring a Ring O' Roses".

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Tuesday 7th March

Acting Lesson:

In this lesson we spoke about the monologues and stimulus that we had chosen for our audition pieces if we decided to progress onto Level 3 next year. One of my monologues that I had chosen was from a play called Dreams in Captivity written by Gabriel Davis and the other was The Dream Play by August Strindberg.

Movement Lesson:

Instead of having a Movement Lesson we had to practice our audition pieces for the start of the new personal projects. The 2 pieces that I decided to put forward for audition are:

• Dreams in Captivity by Gabriel Davis
• The Dream Play by August Strindberg

Production Lesson:

• In this lesson we wrote about the pieces we had just performed. We had to give an insight to why we chose the pieces and also give a description of what it is about and the implications of the piece.

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday 9th March

Acting Lesson:

• In this lesson we performed our initial ideas that we had created in our groups for our #weareallimmigrants piece. We did this so that people would have general knowledge on what scenes had been created, the characters that we would need, to see if they all fit in with the idea of immigration and to see if they would work in the scene order throughout the production, for example what scenes would go before what and so forth.

Friday 10th March

Blog Session:

Worked on our blogs.

Acting Lesson:

• In this lesson we watched a devised piece from people in my class such as Bruno, Nerissa and Makenzie, their piece was about an American immigrant who for injury reason had been sent to a hospital in England to be treated for a gunshot wound he received in the army. After watching their scene multiple times and giving feedback on multiple accounts it did not leave the rest of the class anytime to perform the pieces that my group or the other groups had come up with.