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)