Wednesday 10th February 2016
Today was a
positive day as we could to work independent /with the director/with my peers.
In our
independent session I work with 2 members of the teacher’s scene. We practice
our signing. I also find the more I do it the quicker and better I am but when
I stop for a day I lose all of the work I put it in to so maybe if I film me
doing it I could watch it back and it could remind me. I think I need to do it
everyday to help me with remembering as well speed. I need to work on my characterisation
but it could be a bit too early for me to learn it as I haven’t got all the
signs learnt, the signs I do know I do it with confidence as well as characterisation.
I find that practicing with one person they are reading all the line is so much
more difficult as it practices with different for different character because
the one person reads it more like a monologue so it hard to keep up.
Working with
our director help me so much as I wasn’t here last week. I now know the layout
which helps me as I know where I’m walking to and standing. I now have a better
understanding of how fast the scene is and when the speaker for my character is
talking that sometimes I not need to listen as my signing is different. I started off well and was proud of myself but
as we were doing it over and over I start to lose my confidence so think I need
to work on everything to the deliver to the signs to improve.
My
strengths are that I practise on signing for the first hour of the session, so
I was confidence when I went to practise with the director.
My weakness
from this session would be that when I was getting feedback I became panicked
because I was remembering the feedback as well and remembering my signs. I
think when I become more confidence with my signs I will be calmer in the
session with the director.
Physical Theatre
We watched
a piece of physical theatre called “Time
of Your Life” by Gecko, as their
use gestures.
“an
ordinary man at its heart. Desperate to feel different and to find a real human
connection in a world consumed by social networks and mass advertising, the man
embarks on a journey through rooms representing different milestones in his
life. The rooms are transformed using the powerful visual effects of theatre to
create an increasingly vivid world for the viewer that disintegrates just as
quickly as it appears.”
I
understand the first part of the piece but it really confusing after he “Die” I find it got really confusing as
he keeps going back stage on the set as it didn’t make sense. I find that the why the use the gestures and
voices. Their used this one section to shows every day life and how days just
mould in to one.
The section
part of this lessons we work on the words
fraudulent/secretive/selfish/wanting/supportive. They were slit in to
two different groups. My group worked on support/want/survival. Within our
groups we worked in small group to come up with a set of movement that shows
those words. I was partnered up with someone who is the same ability in
movement so it made it easier to work with. I find that working with her I find
it was easier to come up with ideas. When we join back with our group. We find
it really hard to link all the piece as we had to create a piece that would go
though the audience and was 2 persons deep, I find the ideas we came up were
just touching the surface of what we could do. The ground itself I thought we
had a good range of ability so it would be something interesting on what we
could come up with, but we just have strong characters and people who will just
let other people lead. I find this is where the problem is for our group and I
think we will run in to this problem thought out whole time with doing our FMP.
My
strengths from this session would be that I came up with some strong work and
my weakness would be that I didn’t contribute to the group as much as I
should.
Friday 12th February
The morning
spilt in to two parts for me. The first part morning was learning a section of
movement which it based on spoken word poem about teenage pregnant. We had 9
steps of the piece as we are doing simple but powerful movements.
Steps
1. First time getting drunk – 15/16
teenage.
2. Getting told you pregnant
3. Having family and friends abounding
you
4. Look at objects Blane/stairs/lamp
5. Kneeing position as intake of breath
suddenly
6. Laying in a “foetal” position
7. On the word “Yell” hand slaps on the
floor
8. Stands up and look at the baby
9. Walk off stage.
I find this
part of the morning very emotionally draining as it needed to be performed with
such conviction. I find that I got really in to the character of the girl which
I enjoy because it felt I was performing at my best.
The second
half of the morning was spent with sally. I felt this benefited me hugely as I
got to work on cleaning it up as well as getting some answers to the question
like what way to do a sign? I also find I had go to extra as it made more sense
to the audience.
My
strengths from today would be getting in to the spoken word poem and I am proud
of my improvement of signing.
I feel I
didn’t I have any weakness from this lesson, that stood out.
