FMP - Post 3- 5th and 7th February

Friday 5^th February 2016

This week as I had one session on Friday as I wasn’t in school as I had an interview. The lesson was focus on out ending movement piece we started with working individually on a small movement section that relates to kind gestures. We need to pick 5 gestures for a movement section, I find it hard to begin with as I am not that confidence with my movement. I used “giving up your seat”, “giving someone money”, “returning something someone drop” and “given a seat.” I thought that using these would feel more natural to me as Its something I would and have done. I start very naturalise as it was easier and then I developed it in to more abstract as it did I became more confidence with it and was really pleased with the final piece.

We then look as group work, where we were split in to our scene which mean I was in the teachers group. We had to do 3 still images that related to our character so we choose marking, telling off, reading. I find that coming up the ideas easy but trying work out the details were hard as the group was made up with someone who I struggle to work with as they not like me.  I like the idea we came up with and the transitions as they all seem to going in to one other very well.

My strengths are that I came up with good section of movement that I’m proud of. I also proud that I am learning to work with the different people in my group.

My weakness is that at first I let that person get to me that I lost focus on my task.

This week we had our first signing lesson. We first when though the scene so sally (signing teacher) could have a better understanding of the scene, the majority of the lesson was to focus on what signs the signers need to do for the deaf audience to understand. I feel I pick it up very quickly because the way my mind works the more visually I can learn and the more times I go over it I became stronger in delivery as well as remembering it. I find that for that session I already know good majority of the signs.

I loved having this session as it gave me a better understanding of signing and as well as a better understand of what needs to be signed and what doesn’t. I find that in this lesson one of the members who wasn’t signing was very loud and didn’t help when we ask the speakers to slow down so it was hard to work with this member but I think the more practice I get the better I will find signing for someone talking.

My strengths from this session would be the speed I picked the signs up and the understanding I had of what was needed and what wasn’t needed signing.

My weakness would be the speed in which I sign as I find I got panicked at how fast my partner was speaking, which I will need to work on and how as a team we work and we need to be in time with each other.