weekly blog 2

Weekly blog 2

In Thursdays lesson we started of with many exercises using our bodies as well as articulation. We all stood in a circle and did mouth exercises and then we laid on the floor and thought about our characters. Doing this helps because it changes how I think and it puts my head in a completely different place such as I will start thinking about why the character is moving in that sort of way or why she say what she does. 

Next we changed our position, Tucking in all our skills and keeping them safe. We also turned on our backs and chose a spot on the wall and projected our voices to it. 

One of main tasks was to use a tongue twister and in groups pick a genre of music and change it in a musical way. In my group we took quite long to do this but we ended up picking rap and 'how much wood could a wood chop chop if wood chop could chop wood'. I didn’t really enjoy this task as I get quite nervous when it comes to anything musical or singing but it turns out everyone quite enjoyed it and they gave my group a distinction. After we performed we went into practising our pieces. 

In Monday’s session, we got assigned our roles and what scenes were playing. I’m playing my favourite character Lynette who had a bad attack with her cross boyfriend. She went into her own world into her own world but now she’s realised it wasn’t realistic. Later in the play she kills herself which is interesting because im thinking to put a ghost like effect on my character and thats how she comes across. I’m working with Jake who plays callum. I quite like the scene because its short sentences which i normally dislike but i need to get used to doing things i dont really like to do because being an actor varies in what you get picked for.