Monday 6th November 2017

For our first lesson we had a drama lesson with Rob. We done quick warm ups, such as, everyone taking in turns to do a warm up and then everyone had to copy. This is effective as it helps everyone to warm up and get ready for the lesson. We then started to rehearse through the party scene to see how it looks and what we need to ad in to make it better.  We then rehearsed the scene again but this time Rob made us develop a dance for the party scene to make it look better rather than us just walking in. This effective as it helps us and the audience to understand that its a party and we came to have a good time.  We then went straight into the party scene and started drinking and having fun but in the background no one realised romeo noticing Juliet and it is love at first sight for them. Then Tybalt notices Romeo and goes on a big strop to his father telling him that a Montague came to their party. We then was told to work on the fighting scene because it did not look realistic. Rob told Tybalt to underplay it due to him being serious and to stiff and he was not very calm.

For our second lesson we had a drama lesson with Sharon. We were first told to warm up as everyone was quite tired and not focused. So we did some vocal warm ups and stretches to help us get ready for the play. We were then told to rehearse from scene 1 to the end so Sharon could give us notes about what we done. After we performed our play to her she gave us a couple notes, which were, Scene 1:
The strong scenes that looked good was the
1:balcony scene, Fighting scene and Marriage scene.
The responses that we got from them were

• Feel confident when on stage
• Be passionate
• inner monologue
• Response to princess speech
• Make sounds during the fighting scene

Scene 2:

• Their was good energy with Capulet and Paris.

Scene 3:

• Everyone should leave the scenes at the same time as it makes it more effective and easier to understand.

Party scene:

• Do not forget the dancing and freezes when the scene is going on as when them two are added in it makes it more effective. 
• Avoid the kiss and kill position. 
• End of scene gets smaller due to people leaving.

Tuesday 7th November 2017

(was not in because i was ill)

Wednesday 8th November 2017

For our first lesson we had a drama lesson with Sharon. For our starter we were told to sit down in a circle and list up everything that we need from now until the performance. This is effective as it gets us prepared for the performance due to us having a timetable for what we are going to do for each of the days. Most of it was rehearsal due to us wanting it to be perfect. But the one most important thing that we need to do is the dress rehearsal on 15th November for our play as it will help us all see what each person is wearing and to see how it will look with costumes. We then started from the fighting scene and incorporated everything we had in to it to make sure that it was up to date. We then worked on scene 21 where romeo and Juliet die and then both families come out from each side and see what their feud has put both and Juliet through due to their love for each other.

Thursday 9th November 2017

For our first lesson we had a tutorial lesson with Sharon where we was told to blog about what we did in each of our lessons.

For our second lesson, we had a drama lesson with Rob. For our starter we followed on from what we did with Sharon. This helps us as it gets us more familiar with the play. We started working from the party scene to wards the ending of the play as them scenes needed the most work on them. This helps us to understand the rest of the play a bit more as we have been working from the first scene to the party scene. We started to act it out with Rob stopping and starting us to change little bits.

For our last lesson, We had a drama lesson with Sharon. For our starter she told us to stand in a circle so we can do a warm up. We started off with a vocal- warm up. This helps us as it gets us ready for our rehearsal due to it helping with our projection if our voices and our articulation. We then went straight into rehearsal but this time we started from the first scene as we wanted everything to be good in the first scene. We kept on the first scene as it helped us remember the first scene very well and learn the new cues that we was getting. We also stayed on this first scene for quite a while as it was effective to watch and it had an effect on the audience.

Friday 10th November 2017

(day off)