Beginning with our second week, we had our second Acting Skills and Techniques lesson, which was the date our first homework was due in. Our homework was to learn a monologue. But it couldn't be any random monologue; the main point of this homework was for each of us to perform a monologue where the characteristics of the character giving the monologue in the script was to be similar to our own characteristics in real life. My monologue was from a TV Drama I had been watching since the previous year called 'A Touch Of Cloth'. I chose this monologue as I had seen this program so many times and the monologue was similar to the language i would use in everyday life, and I had also performed it before in front of many people I commune with. As I performed this as practice, I realized that there were a lot of similarities in both the language given and the way of movement as I watched the real thing before, since they were sort of similar to my own movements. But before we were all to volunteer to perform, our teacher gave 2 pieces of blank paper to each student in the class room and she instructed to review 2 students using both papers, just like I was to review two students after my own performance. The purpose of this was to show what the students’ performance was like through an audience member’s point of view; as well as give each student understands of performance techniques.
Our second lesson of singing had us handing in a second piece of homework given on the previous week. This homework was to look at techniques
of singing. The purpose of this homework
was for each student to come up or find a technique which allowed a singer’s
vocals to be prepared before a singing performance. For example, mine was very basic but it was to sing the words 'La La La La La' and the method was that you were to
sing it in rising octaves, so the first time you sing it, you sing it in a deep
note, and the next time a bit higher, and the vocals increase as you repeat the
phrase. This brings your vocals up so they're
prepared for a performance with both deep and high notes.
Each student had to give their techniques amongst themselves in pairs, and then they
were to share it with the whole class and the teacher after a few minutes introduction to said vocal warm up.
Our final lesson of the day was our second Art Industry lesson;
these lessons allow us to take a look deeper into the industry of the art
within Acting and Drama. For this lesson we were to
focus on individual skill, skill
which may help in understanding ourselves a little better, within this subject. We
listed many skills which we kept expanding endlessly, this clearly showed that we know what we are all capable of.
On our second day, we had our lesson for The Development of Drama, where we were looking at the history of Acting and Dramatic Arts and where and when it originated. To start off, we looked at a documentary of its origins in Ancient Greece and it was showing how it became so popular and where the main three genres of performance came from and how they expanded. This gave us all better knowledge of the history of Acting and Dramatic Arts and it may be looked back on for future projects in this unit.
Our final lesson of the day in Movement was very much near the same as our first lesson, only this time we were given the task of learning a warm up
strategy, which our teacher said should be done before the movement lesson begins. After we went through all the basic dance
moves that we learnt on the previous week again, we ended our day.
The next day, was our second lesson of Physical Theatre. We pretty much spent the lesson working on stage movements and techniques similar to the ones we learnt last week. Again, same as the previous week, it was very basic and easy to grasp but the idea was to get a good understanding of an actor’s physicality on stage for when we get into different practical work for the weeks to come.
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