28/01/2016

Today we learnt our lines and also looked at our characters. This helped us to understand more about our character. We started to use the IF strategy and put ourselves in the character's position. See what they wanted in the scene and why.

Joyce is very angry at her sister Marlene for leaving her child to her and never showing up till now. She doesn't like that Marlene is trying to come back in Angie's life after leaving her for her career. Joyce is very sympathetic women she cares a lot about Angie because she has brought her up till the age of 16. Joyce is a working class women, I believe that she does not work she stays at home. I can imagine her as a messy type women as in she does not care about her physical appearance. She is very mad that Marlene has a better life than her.

27/01/2016

This lesson we decided to change the script. Our teacher gave us the same play 'Top Girls' but another scene. This scene is between Marlene which we are already very familiar with her character and also her sister Joyce. We decided that I'll be Joyce which is the sister of Marlene. She is older than her and she is also the one that Marlene left her baby Angie at. So my character Joyce is the women that brought up her sister's baby for Marlene benefit to go on with her career. This scene is a argument between the sisters. The are arguing about their mother and also how Marlene left her baby to her sister.

I believe that this scene is going to be better to do. Next lesson we'll learn the new script and get started with the scene.

22/01/2016

Unfortunately, my partner was not in lesson today as well. Our teacher gave us some sheets which included the characteristics, the who, what, when, why, where was writen. This helped get a better understanding of the character. I went through my lines and acted in character thinking about the five w's.

Next lesson we will decide if we want to carry on with this script or not because we find it difficult to do this scene.

21/01/2016

Due to not being in on Wednesday's lesson today my partner was also not in today's lesson which made it very hard for me to get the scene done. So I researched my character and also Angies and Marlene's characters and see their characteristics together in this scene. I also learnt some of my lines.

Next lesson if my partner comes in we will get some parts of the scene done.

18/01/2016

Today's Monday's lesson we started the scene and we didn't know how we could make the scene look natural. I feel like Tayo as Angies character struggled a bit to get her character feeling realistic. Also we struggled to learn a lot of the lines which made it difficult to do a lot this lesson.

For our next lesson we will learn the lines and started to get into character a bit more.

15/01/2016

For today's lesson my partner was not in. We was told to show a part in the scene which we have been working on. Due to my partner not being in lesson my character as Marlene was hot seated. I was asked some questions by my classmates and I answered it in my full Marlene character. I was asked questions such as 'how old am I' 'what do I do for living' 'am I married' 'do I have kids' and I felt like I have answered it just like my character would have answered as an educated businesswoman.

We watched some of the other groups and I really thought that they were making a lot of progress with the scenes. I really liked Lenrick's character, his character is very opposite to how he is like.

For next lesson we will start the scene properly.

14/01/2016

Today we looked at the play 'Top Girl' this gave us a better understanding of the play and what the play is about. We also looked at our characters and what kind of a person they are shown as in the play. This gave us a better understanding of both the play and the character. It gave us a background information. However, we still felt like we was not comfortable this this scene, this was mainly because we did not like the scene pertucurlary to how we link both the characters.

My character Marlene loves her work, this is the only thing she enjoys doing, being powerful and successful. She is a 40 year-old working class women that has worked her way up from nothing to something very successful. Marlene mainly spends her day at her office doing a lot of work. In the play she wants to start to become a good mother to Angie. In the scene she is trying to talk to Angie without making it obvious she is her mother. I imagine Marlene as a strong physically and mentally women, she is a businesswoman so she is clean and neat. I also imagine her as a brunet hair up in a neat bun with a class style. This is because she is a managing director of a very big business.

13/01/2016

For today's lesson we as a whole group exercise which was to get into character. We thought of moments such as happy times, sad times and even angry times. We then had to remember the emotions that was happening when these moments. This then allowed us to link with our characters emotions and feelings. 

We looked at our characters motifs and what they were trying to get out in the scene. Then we looked at the emotions and we tried to link our personal emotions which could have happened to our character. This was called the magic IF. 

11/01/2016

Today Tayo and I started with reading the script again. I went through the script at home and looked more into my character Marlene. As I was reading my characters lines I felt a connection with myself and Marlene's character. Her character is a hard working and career based women and I felt like I could understand why she has left her baby to her sister. She wanted to do the best for herself and not ruin her life at a young age because of a baby. I felt like I would have done the same as her. The connection I felt with my character was a good thing as it would have my action much more realistic. When we went through the script again we realised that we don't understand the moral of the scene. We found it a bit more difficult to link the two characters. We tried to go through a section of the scene but we felt like we couldn't link our characters to the scene. 

For our next lesson we are hoping to get a better understanding to the scene and link it with the characters.  

08/01/2016

Today we was introduced to our new topic which was Stanislavski's naturalism approach. We got put into our groups of two. I was put with Tayo and given the script from Top Girls which was written in 1982. The scene we was given was between Angie and Marlene. We first of all looked at the script and read through it to get a better understanding of the scene. After looking through the script we chose which of us is going to be either Marlene or Angie. I decided to be Marlene, she is a 40 year-old highly career based women, she is the managing director of the Top Girls employment agency. Angie is a 16 year-old female who is an unintelligent girl who is not doing well in her school. In this scene it is between Angie and Marlene. We looked at the 5 w's; who, what, where, when and why. When we looked at the 5 w's it gave us a better understanding of both the character and the scene.

Who:
Angie
Marlene
Where: London, in Marlene's office
When: 1982
What: Angie believes Marlene (Angie's aunty) is her mother
Why: Angie wants to get answers and also spend time with Marlene.

Next lesson we would go through the scene and start to look at our characterisations.