UAL level 3 performing arts 

Monday 18th September 2017

For our first lesson we had a drama lesson with Rob where we worked on our play Romeo and Juliet. For our starter we got told to stand in a circle and do a warm up to get us ready for our rehearsal. We  started with a quick vocal warm up of (c,g). We walked around the theatre and when Rob clapped his hands we what to go into groups and make shapes. The shapes that was made in the exercise was mountains wall and aeroplane and coat stand. This helps us with our articulation when we pronounce our words for our play. This is helpful for us young actors to wake us up when we come in feeling tired.

For our second lesson we had another drama lesson with Sharon. We started choreographing the canon scene where we were told to work on different fighting scenes. We did this by working in pairs and started working on fighting moves for our canon scene. She then told us to go onto a line to create the canon scene with the Capulet and Montague's at each side. This is effective as it helps us to understand what character of the play is fighting and to understand the feud between them.

Tuesday 19th September 2017

For our first lesson, we had a blog session with Rob where we had to blog about what we did in each of our performing arts lessons.

For our second lesson we had a drama lesson with Sharon. We did a quick vocal warm up and stretches to get us ready for the rehearsal. We then went straight into the rehearsal from the beginning where Sampson and Gregory see the Montague's for the very first time. As we went through the play we started to try and follow the cues and we worked on the cannon scene where the two sides (Montague and Capulet) had their feud and we showed this by practicing the canon scene where we are fighting each-other in slow motion. This is effective as it shows the audience the feud that they have between both families.This is even more effective as u can see what both sides are doing to each-other.

Wednesday 20th September 2017

For our first lesson, we started off with a quick warm up game of wink murder. This works by someone going out of the room and we all decide who is going to be the murderer by winking at everyone. We told that person to come back in and we formed a circle and slowly the murderer started winking and everyone slowly died very dramatically. Our first exercise was called "yes lets go .....". The game was based on someone in your group or pair stating what to do. For example lets go swimming". We then had to act out as if we was going to swim. We then got told to change partners and do the same exercise with them but changing what we were going to do. For example, "yes lets go boxing". Then for the very last time we got told to do it again but instead of doing it in pairs or in trios, we got split into two groups and was given numbers in order for each of us to take part in the exercise.

After the first exercise, we got split into two lines to work on the cannon scene. The two lines represent both families (Montague's and Capulet's). This shows the rivalry between both families. The cannon started off with Jeremy and Kenia throwing their first punch/ move towards j-chel. Then as they did that j-chel had to react back. After their trio it went into a line of war with each person retaliating back at each other. This shows the feud that both families have against each other.

As we got closer to each other, we separated into our pairs or trios and started to work on our separate fights. I was working with khamal and was told to do our fight in slow motion, several times to fight in our stances as it will show a dramatic effect. We done this by going one by one in the cannon to make it more effective. We done this several times to ensure it was perfect. Also, i think its useful for us to do this several times to make sure that everything goes to plan.

Thursday 21st September 2017

For our first lesson, we had a tutorial lesson with Sharon. We were told to log into a computer, go on blog and blog about what we did in our previous lessons.

For our next lesson we had a drama lesson with Rob. We got told to go in a circle so we can go through a quick warm up. We did some vocal warm ups to help us with our voices. This helps us because as we are doing the warm ups it is relaxing our jaw muscles and it is helping us to project our voices. Then after that we did some stretches, for example, rolling down the spine and moving our heads left and right to stretch out out neck muscles. Then when we finished the warm ups we went straight into the rehearsal from scene 1 to the party scene. As we was acting out the scene rob was stopping and starting it several times to ensure that it was right. This helps us to maintain our role whilst there are  between each scene. As we was doing this we tried to incorporate each character into each scene so we can all be doing something instead of standing around.

For our last lesson we had another drama lesson with Sharon where we worked on the rehearsal of our play romeo and Juliet. Sharon told us that she wanted to see what we did with rob so we showed her what we did with rob to see what changes she would like to make. After we showed her what we did she instantly told us to start again and run through it so she can change some stuff. Sharon helped us with the fighting scene with our still images at the beginning where j-chel comes in as the chorus and everyone else is surrounding her which resembles the two sides of Montague and Capulet. This helped us come in character more and it helped us understand our characters more.

Friday 22nd September 2017

(day off)