23/10/2015

We got set to write up our own ideas for the play on our research. This photo is the idea which was from one of our classmate. Her idea was about how the world began. And how giants lives and aliens invaded and mixed with our genes. My idea was about how a child's father died and after his mother got married to another man year later, the little kid said to his mother that his dad never hit him. I suggested that we could use the dad's character a bit more as we hardly see him. A way we could see him is maybe get parts when his with his child spending time with him and the family. I personally believe that we as a class got to listen to everyone's ideas and we effectively started to put these ideas into our play by deciding what we could and not use. For our next lesson we will try some of the ideas we came up with.  

22/10/2015

For this lesson we first of all set out three targets to what our aims would be for today's lesson. Our first was to update everyone who missed lessons previously and let them them know where we got up to according to acting. Our second aim was to create a storyline, this was so we could be clear on what the story would be about which would make it much easier for us to progress our acting and know exactly what is coming up next. And finally our last aim was to develop ideas, we all agreed to give ideas and try them out. We then got straight into acting and we went through what we had already from last lesson. We also wanted to develop some scenes. The scene when the neighbour comes to see if the character of the mother is fine because she runs into her in panic. Our teacher suggested that the characters in this scene goes through what they have and us as the audience stops them at any point and suggests an idea and the characters try it out to see if it's better or not. I believe that this exercise was a very useful idea because in my idea we gave really good ideas and we made this scene look better than it was before. I believe that we achieved more than our aims for this lesson. For next lesson I think that our aims should be to polish our other scenes and keep adding ideas to make them look better.

14/10/12015

For today's lesson we all went around and gave ideas to what our storyline should be and what we are basing our performance on. The main idea we had was that a the mother character sees a bad dream about her son dying and this really plays up on her mind so she goes to see a fortune teller. The fortune tellers tells her that she needs to be very careful with her son in the future something bad could happen to him. I believe for this lesson we all contributed and gave ideas. However, I believe that we could have gotten a lot more ideas or even started to get acting and try some of the ideas we came up with. Next lesson I believe that we should start to put the acting together a little bit, and also contribute in giving ideas without blocking other peoples ideas, trying them out to see if they work. 

07/10/2015

For this lesson we gave the ideas to what we wanted to base out performance on. I was not present in this lesson but I have been informed that we are going to base it on supernatural. For our next lesson we need to bring in some case studies and some research on the theme supernatural.