drama-week 2

character

ok, so as for my character i am 15 year old typical high school student trying to get through school with passing grades. this character is for the school scenes of the play.
i also have a second character, i think i will call her Jessica or something, but it doesn't really matter that much because her name is not mentioned in the play, but just in case and so i can develop on my character more, i will give her a name. oh yer she also has an age, she is 27 and her aim in life is to succeed in her job and be noticed for the hard work she puts into it.

drama- week 2

yet again this week was spent chatting, and making little progress in our play. i look around at the other people's plays and they look as though they have done so much. Although our group did agree to stay after school on Tuesday, and i was planing to go, but my grandparents came down to pick me up at school so i had to go with them, because i don't often see them, it wasn't an excuse, honest. It turned out that the after school time was progressive, my other group members but together a plan of how the play could go and decided that it might be best if we had two main characters. i fully agreed with this decision after it was explained to me.

drama-week one

This week was spent running through our plays. so far we have a basic outline of the plot we want. the play seems like it is so far away, but when i think about it, there is only a few more class lessons, so i think our group will have to do some after school sessions if want a decent play (i know i do). i have noticed that by the time the end of a lesson comes we have not accomplished alot in our time, we seem to talk alot and get of task, it can be very annoying but i knew it would happen. sometimes i wish i was the timer so i could say 'time' so that maybe we would get a little more done in our lessons, not that being the recorder is bad (although sometimes it seems i am the only one doing anything).
well thats all from me this week, i hope next week will be more progressive than this week was. cya!

Drama-PLOT

well so far as for developing a plot for our group production this is what we have got:

There is a 15 year old high school student who disregards her peers and teachers in the effort to look 'cool' through her teenage years. things like throwing objects at the 'nerds' and calling people/ even teachers names behind their back is a daily routine for her day at school.
When she grows up and gets a job, using some of her old ways like she did in school to gain respect will know longer work for her anymore.
this will be to show the INSIGNIFICANT'S of fitting in.

NOTICE

Ms Mace, well i have been having some trouble with my blog so the next few blogs you read, some will be from what i have written down. ok bye bye oxox

the holiday lesson!!!

During the holidays i went to the school to work on our group production, fortunately, my group had the most people there that day which made it easier to work on our production. unfortunately i could not stay for the whole day , but while i was there we had a previous drama student, kane, come in to teach us for the first half we were there. we did some character building activities, but first our group had to come up with our characters, my character was the doctor. so far the plot of the play is about a girl who goes out drinking alot and one night has a car crash and is critically hurt, possibly affecting the rest of her life. this is to show how she thought drinking was insignificant in her life, when it really changed her life.
what i thought to be really good character building game we did was a game when we had one person sitting in a chair facing us in a character another class mate had picked for them, and their audience (me) had to ask them questions. everybody in the class had to keep in character. i think the exercise worked really well at the start, and people kept very focused, but because there were so many people to go through i have to admit i got a little of focus and I'm sure other people in the class did as well.
i also got my backstage folio back, i got 80/100 which is a B, i personally thought i put alot of work into, and was very pleased with my mark, although i could have of done better. well know that i know what to do i think i if i did another one i would go much better in that.
bye bye Beth ox ox

term reflection

well its finally the holidays.i think i have done really well this term, i have met alot of new people and become really settled in my class. we have started our group production and i am really happy with the group i am in, although they do seem to chat alot, but there is not much i can do as i feel its not my job in the group, but i do tell them that we should get back to work at times. but because its so close to holidays, and we actually have a really good idea i think there is not much i can do , so hopefully the holiday lesson will be productive and we will be focused.

drama week 9

MY BIRTHDAY THURSDAY YEY!!!! sorry bout that had to let you know..this week was very busy for me, i was in the performance of The Little Shop Of Horrors and unfortunately was sick! so i missed some drama lessons. i do know on Tuesdays lessons we were meant to bring a puppet or sock, to start doing some puppetry, but i heard that basically know body brought anything. that was a little disappointing to hear because it makes my class not seem to be very interested in doing drama, and if thats it then why do it? so this week we did mask work, i know Ms Mace likes mask work to be taken seriously, so i really tried this week to make the whole mask thing work, and i think i got it. when i but the mask on the person i became was a lazy , tired old fat man who when it came to running and walking fast in this character, was very hard because i didn't know if ,because he didn't really have much to live for, if he could be like in a hurry and stuff, i dunno if that makes sense, its hard to run like a lazy guy is what i found out though.

drama-week9- politely savage

Grrr, these blogs can be frustrating at times. i hope this blog works. ok well week 9... we went to see the production 'Politely Savage' on the weekend(Sunday night). i found the play was very difficult to understand. it was set in the 50's, there were 3 lady's dressed very stylish- like they were rich? 2 lady's were wearing orange and one was wearing red, i don't know if thats meant to mean something. maybe they were all meant to be orange but they couldn't get them all the same for some reason.
i really enjoyed how they had the puppet, that was done extremely well, it was even kind of creepy. the puppet was a little bit creepy. the puppet was a little bot and was at one stage tormented by one of the lady's. i found this section with the puppet to be very interesting. i also noticed the lighting, at the start it was focused on the party spot it was very bright, but when they took us through the journey of the girls life's, the light's were very dim. i think it will be hard but interesting to write a review on. bye bye

week 8

I think this was the week for people to come out of there shells and i know i was beginning to feel alot more comfortable within the group.this week we played a game called 'the manner of the word', it was a great game to play i think, when i got the chance to go outside then come back inside and pick people to do something 'in the manner of the word' i wanted to make the things i did really different to what the other people had done, it didn't seem to help though, because i think i was one of the only people who dint guess what the manner of the word was. Friday we had to design a silly walk to do in front of the class, i had to admit i was not doing to well so Sam helped me out with it. i have to say if i didn't have Sam in my class i don't think i would have of done as well as i have this year, she has been a great friend and great support in everything thing this year, and my usual drama friends i had last year may have been a distraction as Sam is so focused in everything she does it helps me to also keep focused if that makes any sence. anyway moving on..... yer so we did the silly walks and we also did.. well thats about it so yer cya!!