UAL Level 2 Week 28

Monday 15th May

Blog Session:

I spent my time making my blog more visually pleasing, for example I added pictures where i could in reference to the work  I was doing at this point in time, this is better as then there is more evidence of quality work.


Tuesday 16th May

Acting Lesson:

Most of the people in the class were either late or absent which made it harder to work as we required people to play other roles in scenes where the aren't supposed to be. This meant more time juggling actors around to do parts rather than the people we actually need practicing their set roles. I had to make a note of this due to my production role as Production Manager.

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday 18th May

At the beginning of the lesson a majority of classmates were missing which meant we had to start practicing our performance later meaning we had less time to work on it. As more time passed and still not enough people showing up we decided to do an activity called hot-seating, this is where an actor sits in a chair in their character tole, for example it started with Nerissa who plays Linda, to start with she was asked question like "What do you think of Birdman", "What happened down the allotments?" and "What do you think of your friends". This is a good activity as it allows to you delve deeper into the thoughts of your character which means you then have better ideas on how to play that role.

Then it was my turn to hot-seat in my role of Birdman and was asked questions like "Why are you so interested in Linda?" "What do you think of everyone?" and "Why are you in care". All of these questions were very useful as they were things I had never considered for my character before. Soon after my hot-seating more people turned up and we then continued practicing the scenes with the feedback from the teachers as we were going along, my feed back was to speakup towards the back of the room to better direct my voice and make it more clearer to hear.

Friday 19th May

Production Lesson:

A Level 3 production performing arts student came into our class and each department had to sit down with her and go through their initial ideas for what they had come up with for the production so for example for me I had made portfolios for everyones work and had gotten everyone to print me out paper copies of their work so that I would have them there ready for anyone who needed to use them, which was convinient as they needed them.

Acting Lesson:

The main focus in this lesson was to do with our voices with things such as articulation and pronunciation, both of these should be well practiced as it is important that the audience can hear everything clearly no matter where they would be sitting, it is also good to practice as we will remember it for the actual performance.

Upon finishing going through certain scens our teacher gave us feedback that people needed to practice their cues as they were not on time and needed to be sharp so that they scenes flow continuously. Then after that we were told to play more in the moment and to see the poeple we are acting with as their characters rather than them, this would then help to stay in role which would mean better focus in the scenes as you would already be in character. To finish the lesson we were reminded by our teacher that next week we would be working completely off-script so the people who do not know their lines would have to work especially hard over the weekend to learn them.