Friday, 19 November 2010

my activity is drama

Today in drama we are going to be carrying on with blood brothers.
In the theater the two brothers are played by two adults. So we will be observing how to act like little children.
First we watched a film about little children in primarey school, getting ready for a nativity play. The chilren were played by adults. The set was designed to be much bigger that it would be realisticly, to make the tall adults look smaller, like children. I dont think the actors played children very well because they said some rude words like it was normal. small children do not do that. They also didnt use anough child like characteristics for example...  fideling with anything in reach. It wasnt very convincing
AT ALL!!!
The second film we watched was so much better. The two men who played old fashioned school boys in a woods, whilst playing airoplanes. The outfits were cute and made them look naughty and little. The way one boy held his body posture was really good for he sulked his frame and bowded his head a lot. There was a rude boy who wasnt that nice. He was convincing in the way he spat and pushed the other. The reaction from the boy who was the victim was well acted. He looked perfetic and helpless. The film really made you think they were actd by little boys.
Todays lesson was useful because it showed you how much effort it takes to make sure you use all your body, speach and emotions to convince the audiance you are playing a little child.
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Thursday, 11 November 2010

my lesson is drama

In drama we are focusing on BLOOD BROTHERS.
Today when we took the register i had to say i was here in a liverpool acient. "ooorrrttttiiigggghhhhtttt" (alright) Then we got into groups. I was in a 5. We had to make freeze frames of the mums (miss lions) song. My group and I were given the first paragraph. I played the dad. Once we had rehearsed it a couple of times we performed in front of the class. What worked well in my group was that we thought about timeing. there for it ran smoothly. Todays lesson was another fun performing art lesson.
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my lesson is music

Today we are going to get into our band to start organising and practising our song.
Today we used two keyboards and an electric guitar. Maddy the guitarist already new the first part of the song, so i practised singing up to what she could play. However because the guitar was so loud and deap, you couldnt hear me. Hopefully Ruby and I will have microphones on the day of the performance. We all helped Flora and Maryam on the keyboard, by working out the chords. Todays lesson was fun because we all helped eachother well and got to practise with instruments, which we dont really do!!!!!!!
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Saturday, 6 November 2010

my lesson is music

Today in music i am going to be put in groups to form a band.
We could choose our groups, im with Maddy, Flora, Maryam and Ruby. Then in our group, we had to think of a song that we would play at the end of the term. Our decision was Muse - "supermassive black hole". I had never heard of it before but Maddy humed me the tune. We also had to decide who was going to do what in the band. Maddy is going to be guitarist, Ruby is going to be drumest, Flora and Maryam are going to play the keyboard  and im going to sing solo. I think our song is going to be a challenge because it has lots of key in instruments that need to be played together, we will have to practise timing alot. A steady drum beat will help.