Lesson 4 Sephy's Facebook Profile

Here is the first stage of Sephy's Facebook profile there will be more stuff added on as we continue to research her personality.

Lesson 4 my long term target is...

Lesson 2 post 4

In the last part of the lesson we were put in pairs (mainly boys with girls) and we had to explore a scene between the two main characters Sephy and Callum. We were all given the task to act out this scene and see who has the high status and who has the lower status. We also had to use the skills we have learnt in the workshop to bring the scene to life and to show each characters personality status. 

My partner (Roary) and myself acted this scene out as if Callum had the higher status and Sephy had the lower status, because in this scene Sephy is trying to explain herself to Callum who is obviously angry at her. We also showed status by their body language and the way they positioned theirselves. For example we had Sephy's body facing towards Callam, however, Callum has his body facing away from her. 

Each pairs were asked to perform their scenes and the rest of the class were expected to take notes on what they thought was good about theirs scenes and what they could do to improve. Here are some of my thoughts: 

-Benji and Roseby- this scene was pretty much different from the others. Most of the other scene showed Sephy as a guilty and vulnerable person, however, in this piece they showed Sephy as really aggressive as well as Callum. You could tell they both wanted to be right so they argued until one of them gave up. It was original.

A pair that I thought could of improved was:

-Tim and Anya- their voices were very good and their emotions were dry strong as well but they should work on the staging a by more since they were everywhere it was a bit hard to keep forcus on what they were doing. 

I managed to develop skills in how to show status other than saying certain words that would make you sound like a particular person. 

Sherene Jordan.

Lesson 2 post 3

At the start of the three hour workshop, we warmed up our bodies and voices. This excersise was called 'Clear The Space' and it was an amazing way how to warm up your body, because we had to stay forcused at all times and only concentrate on the teachers voice and the instructions that she gave us I follow. It helped us mentally and got our minds working . It helped us physically because it helped drain all the existing tension that was in our bodies and made us feel way more relaxed. 

As actors we need to physically warm up because it makes us become more focused and relaxed. We are able to develop self control and can easily get into character. 

When warming up our voices we also developed self controll and it helps us loosen our mouths in order to be able to articulate every word we speak. Our voices are one of the most important features we have as an actor because without our voices we wouldn't be able to say our line.

After the vocal warm ups my voice felt loose an very powerful because I was able to pronounciate and speak out loud clear enough for people to hear and understand me.

Sherene Jordan. 

Lesson 3 post 01

This was my chosen scene in the play: scene 1.

Lesson 02 Post 01

In our second lesson of theatre unit 3 acting skills, we got assigned to get into pairs and try and work on how we could turn these few lines into a scene with status. My partner Roseby and myself read through the lines and discussed how status could be applied to it. As we observed other discussions, our class mates were having, we realised most ideas were based around stereotypical high school children (popular kids and not popular kids) and general high status people (rich and famous) and average people. 

We talked about different ways people can have high statuses and low statuses without having lots of money and be very popular in higher stage primary school/ high school etc.

I later suggested that status can occur in different people at all ages. For example, this can be shown in little children. We agreed that children can be very happy and hyper and also very sensitive and quiet. The happier and hyper child can represent high status because of his/hers confidence and joy as for the sensitive and quiet one can represent low status as for this character might not know many people and they might have a sad life. 

Later we performed to the group our little improve and contributed our ideas about status and received positive and agreeable feedback. Our classmates understood how the childish characters showed status. 

Sherene Jordan.

Noughts and crosses- Picture 01

Here is a little cheeky picture of the script we are working on for noughts and crosses.

Homework 01 Lesson 01

Hello there,
Welcome to my blog on Theatre- Unit3 Acting Skills. I will be posting and discussing topics and tasks that I did in theatre; also completing and posting homework or any pieces of coursework that is relatable to this subject.

My first piece I would like to discuss are my acting skills audicts. I believe that my acting skills are good, with the way I can briefly study a character and somehow bring it to life. I would put emotion into it and make the lines of the character mean something to the audience, however, this could be massively improved if I focus on different techniques of how I can study a character and make it come to life, with more than just emotions and lines. To be honest, I believe one of my weaknesses is that I am not great at showing a character's side of a story as well as I most probably could. This is most probably because I concentrate on the character only and not how this character fits in the story line, what is the characters backstory etc.

What I am aiming for this unit is to develop my acting skills to a further extent to make a piece of work more interesting and get the highest possible grade I can possibly get in this unit.

Target: Distinction

Thanks for reading,
Sherene Jordan  x