Thursday, October 15, 2020

Ola Blogs/ Identity

 

                                                    Identity 


Our class has been working on a project called Identity and it is a play about finding yourself and embracing who you are, also is about accepting yourself and your differences, This play is like every character tells a story about themselves inside their head, that story makes you what you are at the end. This is a play done by everyone and it includes important information about racism and feminism that everyone needs to talk about. All of us had to work on our characters that describe our personality and at first, we have worked on monologues and do so some researchers about identity. Our teacher showed us a video of identity that shows how all of us hide from the world by wearing a mask and that is acceptable to be different. As a class, we have started to work on our play by discussing with each other about our identity and interviewing one another with questions for example '' Where do you come from ?'' and Do you have any siblings?. Identity is about who you are as a person and your race, as a group we have understood the knowledge about identity so we have started to bring the whole play into action by learning the monologues that we have wrote and discussing with the teacher how we are going to represent it to the world. Subsequently, we have started putting everything together and rehearsing the play step by step every single day to perfection, we had made some changes to this play which is our positions and our lines of monologue but also we had to add a part to the play which was my interview as part of my monologue, this play has helped everyone to work as a team and boost up our confidence.


Identity



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Monday 5th October - Today was my first day in college and at first we were doing some breathing exercises, we sat on the floor and started to breathe in and breath out in 4 or 8 counts then we stand in a wide circle and started to breathe in and breath out but this time we were humming and saying words such as mu.mi.ma. Afterwards, we got into a group of 4 and started to work on our scrip, practising and learning the lines, after that everyone was supposed to perform it in front of the class, my group went first and we had to do it again as someone from our group got out of the character and started to laughing but on the second try, it went great. After lunch, we had to continue working on our essays.


Overall I think that everyone did work really well as a team and were full of focus in the lessons. I really did enjoy my first day in college, I have made some friends and had good progress in the lessons. The thing that most of us had to work on would be staying in the character as I think that sometimes we get lost in time and forget to focus. 


In the lesson Im developing my confidence by saying lines out loud in front of the audience and staying in the character.


Tuesday 6th October - On this day, we were in the theatre and we were practising our play for the performance with Rob with lights to know what is like to perform on the stage with the full effects. After lunch, we continued with our play in the lesson but it didn't go really well as the students were not behaving and someone had a panic attack. 


Overall I think that the lesson with Rob was good as everyone was On their best behaviour and did everything they could. I think that all of us have to stay concentrated more in the lessons and listen to the teacher because we will have a performance and I wouldn't want anyone to fall behind. 


In today's lesson, I have worked on my imagination and character, also I was full of energy and have maintained my focus throughout the play.


Thursday 8th October - On this day, we were having a meeting with Rob on Google meet. We were practising tongue twisters and after that, we were discussing dialogue and that we need to write 6 lines for each character A and B. I wrote a story about a stranger kidnapping both people named Isobel and Mark, others wrote about drama, friends, and a party.

Monday 12th October - On this day, at first we were doing some breathing exercises, we stand in a circle and started to count to 4 breath in and at 8 breath out. After that, we were rehearsing our play over and over again but this time we have added an extra piece to the play which I and the student have to ask each other where do we come from and etc because she is part of the private school and I'm part of the staged school. In the next lesson, we are in the theatre and we were practising again our play.

Overall I think that the students were much more focused and full of energy than they were before but the students have to get better at delivering the lines in the right way and while performing not to look tried. The one thing that I definitely have to improve would be facing the audience while saying my lines.

Tuesday 13th October - On this day, we were rehearsing a choreography that I have made for everyone to a song called This Is Me. I was teaching every student of the movements step by step over and over again till they will remember it, after that we were rehearsing our whole play with the dance routine this time and in between the rehearsal we were being recorded by our teacher. In the next lesson, we were in the theatre practising our play for 15 minutes.

Overall I think that the students were on good behaviour and some of the students that did the choreography did well following every step and learning it. I think as our performance is on Monday, our rehearsal was bad because it was too rushed and everyone looked really tired like they didn't want to do it, some students were focused and some weren't. I think that on our last rehearsal and our final performance we have to give our best and shine on the stage. I think that I will have to improve on facing the audience while saying my lines and give more energy.

Thursday 15th October - On this day, we had an online meeting with our teacher and we were just talking about our performance and discussing what went well and what didn't about the rehearsal that the teacher has recorded with her phone. Overall I'm so excited about the performance and I really do believe everyone is going to be amazing on the stage.


Monday 19th October - On this day, we were rehearsing for the last time our whole play as it was the day of the performance, on our first rehearsal we were trying to get everything right as it should be and figured out what lights effects work great. On the second rehearsal, we were learning the choreography over and over again so every student that took the part get it right and remember every step before the performance. On the third rehearsal, we run through the whole play again for perfection. After lunch, we have run through the play again so that we are ready and prepared for our performance. Afterwards, we have sat down in the theatre and have watched level 3 Performing Arts play at first and it was really interesting the way they have done it in pairs individually and after them, it was our turn to perform and it was really exciting performing in front of the audience, I felt so confident when I have stepped on the stage.

Overall I think that the rehearsals were good and everyone knew what they were doing, we have really put our heads together for the rehearsals and our energy was much better. I think the performance went really well because everyone has worked so great as a team and all of us was full of energy while performing. The part that did go well about the rehearsals was the concentration and about the performance was definitely the energy. The part that didn't go so well about the rehearsals was lack of energy and with the performance was that some of us really looked like they just have walked on the stage with no ambition towards acting.



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