UAL Level 2 Week 30

Monday 29th May 

Blog Session:

Spent this time updating our blogs on the most recent work I had done in class.

(No Acting Lessson)

Tuesday 30th May 

Acting Lesson:

Our regular teacher was absent today which meant that a woman training to be an acting teacher oversaw our lesson, this was useful as it was a new person coming in to give ideas on how they thought it could be improved as an outside perspective is always good to have. Unfortunately this was let down due to a lack of people turning up for the lesson which meant that present actors either had to fill in or line read for actors that were not present. This also meant that we could not practice scenes 8 & 10 which was the main focus of what that time was supposed to be used for. Even though more actors showed up later into the lesson they were not focused which meantthat they did not work as much and the work that they did do had little effort put in. Overall this lesson was a waste of time due to the lack of dedication and focus from some of the other actors in the class.

Movement Lesson:

In this movement lesson we spent the time trying to imrpove the physical side of the performance, for example the movements and body expressions used by the charcaters, for example Sal (palyed by Carla) is 9 years old so we spent time thinking of ways to get her to stand and move about in that character role, we did this for as many people as we could until the end of the lesson.

Production Lesson:

To begin with we had another Production Manager meeting around the table and to make it fun I thought it would be a good idea to play a few games of Hangman which got eveyone engaged, focused and ready for the lesson. Ater we were done playing games I asked everyone for more of their work that they wer supposed to have updated, only a few people gave me their updated ideas and I told the rest of the people that if they did not put the effort in now then further dow nthe line there won't be tiem to change anything so it would be best to give it to me as soon as possible. After this I worked more as Manager and walked around offering help as best as I could.

Wednesday (No Lesson)

Thursday 1st June

Acting Lesson:

In this lesson we had to work on scenes 8 and 10 due to the failure of peole attedning and being dedicated for the allocated time on Tuesday. This meant more time wasted practicng scenes that should've been perfected weeks ago rather than spending time fine tuning the whole performance. The main concern is that a majority of the actors in the class still do not know their lines and it is getting clsoe to when we actually have to perform it.

Friday 2nd June

Blog Session:

I used this time to look over the most recent work I was given on tuesday for my Production Manager role, this was good as I managed to get copies of the updated work.

Acting Lesson:

We tried to do a full run through off all the scenes without using a script but this did not work as many people did not spend their time learning their lines, this meant that we were still behind as people were not supposed to have a script at all. The lesson instead was spent with call-outs missed cues and lack of dedication again. I feel at this stage that then performance will not end to going well if the other actors do not spend their free time working on their scripts. We then did practiced scenes that were not as strong as the other for example yet again the ensemble scenes, scene 8 and 10.