Tuesday 15th February Lesson

On Tuesday 15th February, The drama lesson was on a brand new topic! All the class was very excited, including me. We learned a lot about how to express and show your 'Status' in how you act without saying what you are. At the start of the lesson we did a warm up excersise which was called 'The Sun Shines On' which is basically about someone in the middle announces something for example 'The sun shines on if you've got hair' and the people who have move seats with another person and so forth. We also played a really fun excersise where a few students stood on the front and Miss Williams gave us a number to hold on our foreheads, we weren't allowed to see.
The numbers 1-10, 1 was the lowest status (Poor) and 10 was the highest status (rich) and only the people around you could see your number and the way people reacted to us, signalled how we were to react to them and others. This showed me that the way people act towards you, can also show what status THEY are at and what status they think YOU are at.
We also got parts of the script 'Blood Brothers' to read between our partners. Everyone got different parts, and it was very fun acting between each and understanding the given circumstances just by that small piece of script.
I worked with Georgee Frost and we both were women in our part of the script. Georgee was a higher status (Mrs Lyons), and i acted as a lower status (Mrs Johnstone) We discovered this through the text and the language the script used for each person. Also the fact that Mrs Johnstone WORKED for Mrs Lyons as a house servant or some other.
We also created our own little status acts. I worked with Georgee and Shakelun in this and it was based around The 3 P's. People/Place/Problem. Ours was taken place in a shopping store and it was very full. Shakelun (Business Lady) bumped into two other people Me and Georgee (Higher status stuck up little girl and stuck up mother) and we talk in very stuck up voices and the business lady starts calling us rude and the scene goes on.

Questions & Answering Hot Seats!

Questions;
Are You Interested In Men Or Women?
Answers; Men
Questions;
What Is Your Nationality?
Answers; English
Questions;
How Long Have You Been In The Police Industry?
Answers; 18 Years
Questions;
Do You Have Any Children?
Answers; Yes, A Child Called Zara
Questions;
Whats Your Name?
Answers; PC Jane Laura Herrings
Questions;
How Long Have You Known PC Williams?
Answers; I Have Known Her For 3 Years Since She Has Started In Our Section After 15 Years.
Questions;
How Do You Feel About The Kidnap?
Answers; I Felt Very Shocked That Such People Would Do Such A Thing To Such An Elderly Man, It Is Terrible And I Got Straight To The Job On Stopping Them!

Character Profile [Crime and Punishment]

Name: PC Jane Laura Herrings
Age: 24  D.O.B: 29/03/1987
Place Of Birth: Derbishire Cross Hospital
Place Of Residency: Derbishire Central City
Place Of Work: Police Station Center Of Derbishire
Job Description: Works As Co Chief Police Officer. Does Late Night Shifts.
Family Members: John (Father) Kate (Mother) Sady ( Younger Sister) Brad ( Older Brother) Zara (Daughter) Bob (Husband)
Favourite Colour: Purple
Favourtie Sport & Team: Swimming, No Team
Favourite Food: Vegetables & Chips
Hobbies: Facebook, Swimming, Reading, Writing
Friends: Lacy, Paula, Mary, Janice and Haden
Personality Description: Very strong lady, confident and strict, believes that a crime is a crime. She loves to hang around with mates and has great nights out, loves her family and is a friendly lady! Thinks about others before herself and is a serious woman. Even though she is annoyed easily she has a high self patience for others. Helps alot and is very calm.

Updated Tuesday 23RD November 2010.

On Tuesday the 23rd of November, The Drama lesson was very interesting. The learning objectives were to 'Participate in a series of relaxation exercises' Also 'Develop an understanding of why it is important for an actor to relax' and also 'Why trust is important in performances'.


I learnt that trust and relaxation is important in acting, for example 'Trust' is important when acting in a stunt or particular scene, where trust is needed to be able to co-operate with the other actor or actress. For example 'Relaxation' is important because stress may be caused and this can cause a problem because it will affect the actor or actresses career or mental health.


During the two lessons, we also did some excercises on creativity. As a group (Tia, Georgee, Suleman, Mohammed, Shakeel and Connor) we had to create a story and also characters based on a particular crime. This performance will be assessed and performed infront of an audience. Our story is about a kidnapping of elderly man, whom is innocent and was sitting in his home, watching TV as normal when 3 men come barging through his window and kidnap him. The police are alerted by the man hitting the 'Emergency Button' for the elderly before being dragged away. [Characters mentioned in newer entries]


We also did a mind map on things in our devised performance such as explorative strategies, storyline and the performance. Every lesson up until the dated performance we will work on the devised piece in our groups. This will be interesting for me because i will be able to see how team work is shown in my group and i can also learn many new things about being co-operative with others. 


In our group, we have made new decisions about scenes, layout and characteristics of the emotions in our acting. We easily develop our characters by expressing the character in our vocal and movement skills and also by using imagination to feel how the character's personality would be, especially on the topic type. 

Tuesday 18TH January.

Tuesday the 18TH of January's Drama Lesson was really good.

I liked the activities we did.

At the start of the lesson we discussed the ways we can add to character profiles by doing more research on a similar character out of such movie/program that is related to the character we play in the assessment performance.

In our groups (Tia, Georgee, Suleman, Mohammed Jahed, Shakeel, and Connor) we hot seated each character.

Hot seating is where we sit in a seat and ask the person in the seat questions to learn more about their character role in the performance. Questions such as 'Are you gay?' or 'What do you look like?' were really inappropriate and disturbed the concentration of the group alot. I was very annoyed that we didn't go through each character properly and did not learn much about each character because of some inappropriate questions in the hot seating.

Appropriate questions such as 'How do you feel about the kidnap?' and 'What are your interests?' were more likely to get responsive answer.

Then after break, we rehearsed our performances again and thought about the characters actions and emotions we used in the rehearsal. Miss Williams also told us to make a list of any Props, Costumes & Music we would like to include in our performance for next week. This gave us many ideas and included unique items on the list.
Such as:
Police Hat
Police Baton
Plastic Gun
Balaclava
Walking Stick
Driving Wheel
Music; 
Game Over by Tine Tempah
Breakage Hard
Mission Impossible

We learnt more about the concept of hot seating.

Tuesday 11th January 2011

Drama on Tuesday the 11th of January 2011 was a well taught lesson. 

Mostly, We rehearsed our assessment performances which was very simple because we knew alot about it.

We also had to create another scene.

In my group which members were Mohammed Jahed, Tia Williams, Connor Brookes, Georgee Frost, Shakeel, Suleman Miah, created a scene in a judges court where we planned a scene of where we put the 2 kidnappers into jail for LIFE. However, characters have switched which instead of Mohammed Jahed being the 'Old Man', Connor Brookes is now playing that part. 

There were 3 people in the kidnapping group but one did not turn up to court. I was playing the court 'typewriter', typing up the scene as evidence.

Then in that scene we did a flashback (Miss William's Advice) of when the kidnap happened, also evidence to the audience that the two present kidnappers are either lying or telling the truth. and then that shows the audience how the kidnap happened and

Tia Williams: Kidnap Witeness gives her opinion and witness report on the kidnap.

Georgee Frost: Old Man's Lawyer gives her judging and back up on the kidnap.

Mohammed Jahed: Judge controls the court.

Shakeel: Kidnapper in section being questioned.

Suleman Miah; Kidnapper in section being questioned.

Megan Fan: Typewriter, Reporting the court trial in live evidence.

Connor Brookes: 3rd Kidnapper that could not be present, in hospital from shot wounding.

I am showing my character, as the 'Typewriter' by sitting in a chair, near the Judge's table, looking very serious and typing. Although, i am unable to clearly show this because i do not have a proper typewriter. Perhaps, we could decide to write instead, however this is not realistic because in a real court scene they use a type writer because writing would be an un-reliable source because the handwriting could be messy and illegible or they could change the scene easily.