drama reflection- 'dead white males'

Drama reflection
‘Dead white males'
By Bethany George

On Wednesday 31st of October the year 11 drama classes presented their group performances to the public audience. It was along and exhausting process, but we all got their in the end.

The play I was in was called ‘dead white males’. It was a contemporary piece that looked at the place of patriarchal ideology in today’s society. My character was Melissa, a 19 year old university student. when i first heard of my character i was a little suprised that i got the character. In class everybody called melissa the 'slut'! this was something i had never played before, so i knew this was going to be a challenge for me, i think mrs mace knew this as well, and it was. when we went throught the play in class i found it really dificult at first to stay away from playing a steriotypical character.

The process in getting to charater i found it hard to get into charater because i don't see myself as a sluty person. i dont hang around sluty people, so i had to go find some examples of it. to get into my character i watched movies such as mean girls and coyote ugly (and the north yr 10s, jks) to get into my character. This help in some ways to get a walk and the way they present themselves. the ideas i got for costume was, well not alot. the people in the movies didnt ware much so for my costume i wore short shorts, and i didnt feel comfortable wearing anything too revealing so i chose a singlet top. matt linn loved it he said "best costume ever".

On the night of the performance, I was definitely nervous but more excited. I knew all my lines, so I was pretty confident with them, I just didn’t want to stuff up. Probably having to wait so long to perform was the worst part of the night; it just gave me longer to work up my nerves. When I finally got on stage, it was so much fun. In the first scene I was in, I was surprised because for the first time the audience laughed at my character. I was so happy I got a reaction from the crowd; it gave me confidence that I had developed my character as I was supposed to.

There was one scene where i noticed i blocked the audience. This was when said a line but put my back to the audience. the sets were very basic so it was easy to have scene changes, and the scenes were shown clearly. As for the lighting, from what i noticed it was just a general wash the whole way through because we did not have alot of time to play with the lights.

Their was only one scene we stuffed up that I was in, I was a bit stumped as what I should do, but I figured my character was the type of person that wanted the attention so I kept trying to say stuff and the other people in my scene cut me of, I think it worked really well, well I hope we covered we well. The only thing I can personally say that would have of improved the play for me, would have of been if I understood it more.

Overall, I think all the hard work and effort we put into the play payed off. I can’t wait to see the video of it.

drama performance-wednesday, week 3

today was our big performance. well not that big. it is quite eciting for me. i have never had such a big role in a play. even though my role aint that bit but eh. i think it was quite a succesful night, alothough there were a few stuff ups. it was funny and yer, nothing we could do about it, so we just covered it as best as we could. i think if people had learned thir lines then i think it would have of gone along alot more smoother.

drama,week 3,monday+tuesday

these days we spent focusing on perfecting our plays.

drama-week 2,friday,term 4

today was our dress rehursal. im wasnt really nervous, more because im sick and thats messing with my head and i cant think strait. also because we are performing it to my sisters drama class, which means when i go home she will give me feedback on it, maybe unwanted feedback.
nah but it was all good. the play went actually really well i think. i thought we were so unprepared that we would have to be prompted the whole way through, but we actually did pretty good, minus the last two scenes which we stuffed up a little. but oh well, luckily we still have till wednesday to polish it of as much as possible. im excited WOOT.

drama-week 2,term 4

For monday and tuesday we were going through our play. we have our dress rehursal friday so everybody is kind of freaking out. i know most of my lines, there is only one scene i am a little unsure of my ques. and it doesnt help that i am feeling sick, i just hope i get better by friday.

drama- week one, term 4

hello again,
another exciting term of drama ahead of us. this week we got straight into our play. we went through scenes of the play, learning them and our movements on stage. i found this useful, but its funny because sometimes when we did scenes i was the only person not in one, so i would have to just watch and help as much as possible, but this also helped because i got a better understanding of the play.
i also got my 'prayer to an iron god' Review draft back. there were alot of corrections on it. but i kind of expected it becuase it was a rushed job. it is due monday now, i plan to do it over the weekend, i wanna get a good mark cos i want an A in drama hehe and one of those blue's things they give to students who are involvened in drama lots. it seems if i set higher goals to achieve i have more enthusiasm to do the work, well it seems to be working for drama, not so much for my other subjects.
bye bye

drama-holidays

hmmm...soo the drama play...yersss...not much happened in the school holidays rehursals, we spent the first day doing character building activities, they were good, but not really useful. the second day was spent going through our plays, in our groyups. half the people wernt there so it was hard for me to work of other people that were just reading the lines out and not actually acting it. i thought the time could have of been spent doing more productive stuff on the first day. like going through our plays, because i think alot of us needed to and we have not had enough to do that. it also would ahve been good to spend some time learnign our lines maybe. the second day was spent alot more productive it think, i found alot more things out about my character when Ms Mace came and helped us with our play. like how to pronounce some of my lines and stuff. i think we might not do very good cos we dont have much time, and some people dont have the enthusiasm for it.

drama-week10- tuesday

the lessons today were about character development. starting at our stereotypical characters and breaking them down from there. my stereotype character is a skank/slut, this made it easier in some ways to answer the questions we were given, becaused mine ahd a very defined stereotype.
the types of questions we were given as our stereotypical characters were things like name 3 physical features of your character?..........g2g finish l8r

drama-week 10-monday

today we went through more of the script, and i found a whole other scene im in hehe. more lines!! oh well ill be able to do it.
i like doing this process building up to the performance, its great to see people develop in their characters, but most of all myself. now we only have this week, the holidays and then 2 and half weeks when we come back from holidays to have this perfect. to me it doesn't seem like alot of time, but i know Ms Mace knows what she is doing. i hope people in the class put the effort in to make this play as good as i know it can be.

drama- week 9- friday

after having some time to look over my role, i have become more confident that i can do this role. i think maybe putting attitude into Mellisa's character will probably be one of the hardest things for me. i like to believe i am not a person with alot of attitude, so putting on the attitude may be difficult, but we will just see how i go. i think it will be fun though. but now that i have been thinking more about the play, i realize in the other group production i was in last semester i wasn't nervous because i barely had any lines it was mostly improvised stuff so it felt more natural and relaxed, but now that i do have a fair few line, im scared my nerves will get to me once again and i will let the class down or embarrass myself. i really hope this doesn't happen, i think if i get confident with my lines then i will be ok, ill just have to practice lots and lots in the holidays, but i know it will still really worry me. ahh

drama-week 9- tuesday

i was excited today because i knew we were going to be getting our characters. i wanted the character of Jessica, 46 year old aunt of the main character Angela. my main motives for wanting the character of Jessica was because she had a reasonably small part, and i wasn't really interested in getting like a main part or something, because i am not good at memorizing lines and i wouldn't want to let the class down.
to my complete suprise i got picked to play the part of Melissa - 19 year old friend of angela and fellow student. the only thing i had heard about this character was that she was some kind of slut! i am totally opposite in personality and well everything to this, i kind of thought it was strange to pick me for this type of character. i went home and read through the play a few times and have actually come to really like the character i have been given. i think she has alot of personality to work with and should be a fun challenge for me.
I'm kind of glad i wasn't set on getting any character, like Jessica, because i have done this in the past and have been let down when i didn't get the character.
but yes, it sounds interesting, im excited. most of all i cant wait to develop my character further as this will probably be the most challenging thing for me.

ok thats all

from me..beth

drama-week 9- monday

we went through the script one last time today before Mrs Mace choses our characters. i have tried to think of who should get the parts, and i have a fair idea of who i think would best suit the male roles, but as for the female roles, i have no idea, i think it will be really hard for Mrs Mace to choose, but i cant wait to find out tomorrow my role.

beth

drama-week 8 , friday

Mrs Mace was away today so we had a relief teacher.
we got work to do in groups that Mrs Mace assigned us in. i was with Erin and Matt.l. i liked my group, i think we were probably the only group on task the whole time, and just managed to get if finished within the lesson, so i assume the other groups didn't. and it wasn't like one person was doing all the work, we all had our input into the questions on our play.
i think the exercise helped to give a wider range of thought about the play and its elements. it also was good to hear other peoples opinions on it and how they thought it should be set and done.
the only thing we had trouble with was explaining the key theme's for the play, none of us really new this so we left this question and decided to tell the teacher tomorrow. i think this proves we have to research into the theme's of the play a little more.

drama- week 8 monday

we got the second part of our group production script today. im a bit scared because i don't want to get a bit part because it looks long. but im excited to start acting it though. the character i would most like to be is jessica because:

-she has a small part
-her character is very diverse compared to other characters i have played in the past.
-i think it will be a good challenge for me
-i want a small part to be able to remember the lines better and to develop it more.

drama- week 7

today, we just went to the computer room to work on our blogs.
i have to say i was a little distracted as the ball is tomorrow and yarr excited!!
but yer ... got lots of my review done though, but i dont think i will be able to send it too Mrs Mace till monday cos the email is down.
oh well will have to see.
i do think that it has been much easier to write this review though.

beth

drama week 7- tuesday.

Today was a pretty basic day.
Mrs Mace is away on camp so we had a relief teacher. i was surprised at how much work i got done, i got my plan done and half my review!
see, i told you sam makes me more focused on my work lol. she is like my little roll model i look up to her. sam you my hero!!hehehe but its true, as lame as it sounds.
well, must be off.
bye bye

drama week 7- monday

what a long day. this day has gone so slow. anyway today we got the requirements for our reviews. Mrs Mace went through what was to be expected from us and what we should include in our reviews and how it should be structured etc. i thought this was alot of help, as i struggled last term when i had to write one, hopefully i can do better than last time as i believe i know what i am doing, and will actually be able to get a draft in!(i did last time, but never got it back because everybody was so busy, i didn't mind, but i think i could have of done better if i got some feed back on it).
the play we are reviewing is alot easier to understand from last semesters play we went to see, so this too should make it a bit more easy.
this is all we did today, and we ended the lesson with some fun rounds of SPACE JUMP.

luv beth

PS: and sam got her braces off, cant wait to see her!

drama week 6

This week we started script work. learning the process in which to follow when receiving your script. i found this a little helpful, as i sometimes freak out when i see a script because that means i will have to memorize lines which scares me, cos i don't have a good memory. but i don't want that to put me off because i know i can do it if i just apply myself to it. taking it in steps will hopefully help me to memorize it and not be so afraid of it.
i read through the script a few times, and i have to say i am leaning toward one character more than others, but i shouldn't this because i don't want to be let down if i don't get it. so i am keeping open minded. i actually like alot of the characters in this play, they are all so diverse and interesting and all add something different to the play. if our class is commited, i think we can produce a spectacular performance.
fingers crossed.
beth

drama- week 6 monday

not alot happened today, mrs mace wasn't feeling well, and i wasn't really either :-(
so Lisa taught us! well that was very exciting for the 10 minutes it lasted. and also when she was trying to prove she could be a tree for our group production that is coming up! interesting.exciting.i think it will be very fun, im curious as to what it will be like to work with scripts. im hoping to learn something from it.

oh my goodness but the most awesome thing of all is that SAM'S BACK!!!!!!!
yeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyey.
this is very swell, as i missed her lots and lots and need her support back cos she is awesome.
love you sam oxoxoxo.

beth.

drama- week 5 friday

yo, i was not here friday

Drama- Tuesday, week 4, Prayer to an Iron God

Hi,

Well, today we went on an excursion to see the performance of ‘Prayer to an Iron God’, performed by the ‘club’ (as they refer to themselves as), Urban Myth. We went to a theatre in Adelaide where we sat for an hour and a half and watched the appealing performance.

The performance was about abuse. Possibly to make us more aware of it? I was a little side tracked about getting down notes in the performance so I didn’t get to focus on the performance as much as I would have of liked to.

I did like the performance, although it was a little too stereotypical. I know the typical ‘Bogan’ characters tried to be perceived as individuals more, but I found it was a little stereotypical, which didn’t make it as good as I thought it could have been.

There were four performers throughout the entire play. My favourite character was Skunk. Mainly because he had a really fun character to work with. He had a lot of cool characteristics, like, having an infected ear, a hilarious laugh, and just being able to play a typical Bogan Aussie with a humorous twist.

It was a little awkward at times though. With violence scenes, a sex scene, and a lot swearing. But these elements did give it a more realistic vibe. It was also a little distracting having another school there, as they seemed to mimic a bit through it which was annoying.

Overall I think the play was good, but maybe I was just expecting more. It had a lot of high points and a few low points and I think will be easier to write a review on, than the last play I reviewed. Well, let’s hope J

Goodbye, Beth

drama- monday 20th, week 4

today we had a change of scenery and spent to lesson outside. we talked about this homework sheet we were given, about this play called Prayer To An Iron God, that we are going to see tomorrow.
we didn't get through the whole sheet, but we did go through what we thought the title meant, and how most people said about religion, but when we looked into it deeper we found it could have of been idolized or looked up to, hence iron god!
but yers i guess we will have to wait until the performance tomorrow!

week 4-tuesday and friday

Tuesday and today were spent doing monologues. i did mine Monday so i just got to sit back and enjoy the shows. we have to fill out these green forms on them as we go, on how their performance went to us. i found this hard to fill out in some cases, because one of the questions was what have you learned about this performance, and well practically everybody wrote about Stanislavski, and this made it hard to discover something new about everybody's performance.
i very impressed with the monologues. i don't know if i am allowed to say this, but heck who cares. my favorite monologue was lana's. i think she was very focused, and presented her research excellently, and this was all with a sleepless night with a baby. well done lana.
im excited about starting the group production, but from the sounds of it, my class may not be organized to even do it. if i can do my drama hw i think everybody should be able too. its not that hard. i think my class just needs a little more motivation in the right direction.
i also chose today not do do drama as a subject next year. i have found it a little stressful this year, but still rewarding. i just couldn't fit it in my subject choices, i ummed and aahhred over it for ages. sorry Miss Mace, im going to miss not having you as a teacher heaps!!

week 4,monday-monologue reflection

WOW i was the only person to perform my monologue today! quite proud of myself i am.
i was very nervous, but not as much as i thought i would be. i had my big wakakirri performance friday night, so i used up all my nerves on that hehe. u should have seen me i was a mess... anyway...moving on.
i started my monologue of fine, but then my nerves got to me and i said one line at the wrong time and lost focus, i was so embarrassed. oh well, but i kept going and all ended well.

drama- week 3- tuesday

today we played park bench and hot seat in our characters. when we tried to play park bench i don't think it worked so well. know body had gone into that much depth to perform on the spot like that.
although when we did hot seat, i think was really effective. when Megan was having her turn, i think she was really in depth with her character and to get all emotional like she did was really something. i enjoyed watching it, although it did get a little awkward, just like if somebody real was crying you don't know what to say or do, so i think that shows how in depth she was.
i hope i can get that in depth with mine.
although i do think i did a good job with my hot spot time. i thought i was going to be really bad at it, but i think i did ok because when you get up there you just become the character, and the answers just come to you.

cya

drama- week 3- monday

Ahoi Hoi!

today was just a single lesson for us. we were told to memories our lines. i am finding breaking down the script has really helped me in this aspect as the parts i have broken down are the only section i can now memories. hopefully i can finish breaking down the script tonight so i can practice with my voice a bit more.
i also showed Ms Mace my script today and was pleasantly surprised that she said i was doing well, by like having everything organized and stuff. i spent all weekend doing it, so im glad she noticed.

bye bye

drama- sunday 5th

i just thought i would add this thought to my blog.

today i had a big performance at starplex for this thing i am involved in called wakakirri.
wakakirri is where you tell a story through dance.
i have discovered i cannot dance and shall never again try to.
i was extremely nervous, to the point where i gave myself a stomach ach and almost threw up.

it reminded me of something ms mace said the other day, where you will get really nervous before you do a performance, but the feeling after you do it is worth it.
i have to say i felt pretty good after the performance today. and all the hard work and worrying was worth every bit, to have the feeling i did after it finished. i felt like i accomplished something today! w00t
i don't feel like i have anything i should worry about anymore, because i know know body i judging me, they are just there to watch and see me do things to the best of my ability.although i know i will still be nervous. hehe

drama- friday wk 2

today we sat as a group and went through how to break up a monologue. i thought this was really useful, because now i can get it done on the weekend.
i got a post card from sam yesterday, telling me how much of a good time she was having. it just made me miss her even more than i already do. i cant wait until she comes back. in these types of situations in drama, she is really good support and i really miss that.

cya

drama- tuesday wk 2

Hello,

Today we worked on our drama ISP’s.
I sat by myself because I want to be able to not get distracted in class and get as much work as possible done.
I think I am making progress, I just have to get over my nerves.

Bye

drama- friday, week 1

Friday (yesterday) i was home sick. today is Saturday am i am going through my script, trying to memorize it step by step , im really worried that i wont be able to memorize it.

ok that is the end of my complaining for now, i am now going have a move positive attitude to this, and see how that works for me! ok yey im excited! :-)

goodbye

drama tuesday, week 1

hello,
today was spent researching our ISP's in the computer room.
i made the final, but reluctant decision, to do a monologue and act a play called invisible friends. my character's name is Lucy. she leads an interesting life, this is why i mainly chose to do this play. Lucy is a young teenager who has been neglected by her family and has created her own "invisible friend" to give her the support and attention she does not get from her family. i am excited about being able to create this character, but it also really scares me, as i am terrified to perform in front of audiences. i though i had conquered some of this fear last term, but as another challenge approaches, all the feelings i get when having to do a performance have re-surfaced. i don't like it. but i really really want to do good in this. so i shall try my hardest.

thats all from me for today.

ciao

drama 23 july,week 1

today was spent in the computing room working on our ISP's. i still have not fully decided on what to do. i though for sure i should do the costume design, but now im thinking i should do the monologue. i guess because the monologue sounds more challenging and difficult, i don't want to attempt it. but maybe i should take the challenge....I dont know. i just hope i can figure it out by tomorrow because i have to make my mind up by then.

tata

friday, 6, july

6/7/07

hello,

this has to be one of the hardest decisions i have had to make about a subject in ages. i could not decide on what to do for my ISP today. i sat through half of lunch just sitting there trying to decide. i finally convinced myself i should do the backstage element, and chose costume, and to do it on a monologue called invisible friend.i have done this before, but didnt get the best mark, so i want to proove to myself that i have grown this year and hopefully get a better mark. but now i am thinking maybe i should have of taken the challenge and done the monologue. IM SO CONFUSED. i have to say not the best start to drama this semester. i get myself worked up about the most stupid things.
i just know that i will have to work really hard on this and hopefully i will be ok when it comes to having to present it in front of the class.

beth

tuesday 3, july.

3/7/07
second and third lesson of drama for semester two. our first lesson Monday was just spent playing games and getting to know any new people in our class. i like my class, because it is practically the same as last semester, which i feel makes it a little more comfortable. and Sam is still in it which is awesome!!

ok well, third a fourth lesson of drama were pretty normal. we spent the whole two lessons talking about our first major assignment, so we could start it over the holidays. this semester we have to do an ISP which i am fretting about because i don't like doing presentations. as much as i feel i have developed in self confidence this year, when i hear the word oral my stomach always turns.
for the ISP we have to choose weather to do a monologue or choose to research a backstage roll (e.g. set, costume, lighting, sound) and put it to play we choose. i have no idea what i am going to do. i am leaning more towards doing the backstage thing, because i have done it before and i will probably stuff up if i do a monologue because i have near to ZERO memory capacity, im terrible at remembering things. although it sounds so fun to do, i just don't think i can do it. Grrrrr im angry with myself.
i didnt do great in this when i did it last term, and got most my marks through the backstage folio. so this will be a challenge for me! but first i have to decide. i have a feeling im going to be like the only person not doing a momologue, and will look stupid, eh i should stop complaining. ill shut up now.

ok bye ya!

SEMESTER TWO- DRAMA

drama- friday-week 4- Reflection

today was the double lesson after our performance. we all dat together and debreafed about our performances. i think our class did verry well, and im not just saying this because its my class and i dont want to sound cocky, but i think out of the two classes ours had maybe worked our better.eh? it was a really fun performance. everybody seemed to have of enjoyed it. i was happy to hear that they thought mine and lisa's lighting job was done well, but wasnt done so well for the other class. this was probobly because kate wasnt there the whole day and i had to do our classes lighting for her,and i understood everything they wanted but since kate wasnt there to do it herself, doing it for the first time on the performance night may have of been a little confusing for her. but we all managed and i think it was a successful nigh.
as for what the other people in my class said about our performace....well they didnt say that much about our's, but that we had our message portreyed very good, and that our scene changes were also good because they were short and not very noisy because there wasnt alot to move really. it was well organised i think and thats what made us excell in that part i think.
overall it was fun, i want to do it again some time, and thanx to Ms Mace for not chucking the towel in on us when it looked hopeless that anything was going to be ready for the night.

performace day!

today is the big day we have all been waiting for. tonight is the performance and i am very excited. we have had a minor delemor, as erin has not been at school lately, so we dont know if we will have to perform without her or not, hopefull she will make it.
this is like the biggest roll i have ever had in a performance that is being shown to the public, it isnt as nervracking as i thought it would be, but maybe when the actual time comes to perform and do the lighting i will be alot more nervous. we shall see!!

drama-week 4

yey! tomorrow is the performance day and im so excited. lesson five today we went through our play and we have finnaly got it all done. I like our set, i think it was a good use of props. we have the blocks as our packground wall thing in the school scenes, then when we change to our office scenes the wall turns into desks, then when we go to the final scene it changes into a stage, i thought this was a very clever thing that our group all came up with.
i have all that is needed for my character. i will be wearing plack pants with a green top, trying to look cashual school type girl.

drama- week 3- friday night

I just got home from school. Our group has been rehearsing for the past hour and a half. We have done three rehearsals this week and I think we are getting quite close to our finished product. I volunteered yesterday to do the lighting for the other classes drama performances with Lisa, I think I know what I am doing but I really don’t want to stuff it up. Thinking about previous performances I have done, usually I would be really nervous the few days coming up to the performance, but strangely enough I am quite calm about it, more excited. Maybe this is a good thing and I am finally learning not to freak out about things and just have fun. I have noted for myself that my homework is to develop more on my character, its been hard but I am positive I will get it!

drama- week 3

hello,

well it is like a week to the performance. Im a little worried we wont have our play polished to the best it could be. it is becoming harder and harder to sit every lesson listening to the people in my group talk away our class lessons. i wish i could say it was my fault to but the truth is i rarely talk with the other people in my group because i hardly know them, and we don't have alot in common. i think they are all great people but it is beginning to be more and more noticeable of the little work we have been doing in class. we have organized lots of after school rehearsals and hopefully that will help (if everybody will come). I'm also having trouble with my character for the school scenes. She is a 15 year old high school student. i think it makes it easier, with this kind of situation, to know the status of your character, Lisa and Erin are 'popular' and Ben is a 'nerd' and i am kind of in the middle. this is hard because i cant develop a character of somebody being popular in a school or a nerd. so i am trying my best to develop a character that can fit..well....just being normal i guess, but i keep thinking if i do this it will be to boring, well i am confusing myself now so i will stop rambling on. i hope you can sort of understand what i am saying Ms Mace.

bye bye

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!!

drama-week 7

ok this week was very nerve racking for me. i am not great at doing orals so i was very nervous which you could probably tell in my oral. i think i did ok in my oral although all the other people in my class's orals were great. most were really interesting to watch.i haven't been able to get onto my blog much lately because i have been busy with the musical i am involved with.

drama- week 6

ok, now this week was very progressive for me in drama. we had alot of time to work on our backstage folio, and now i have pretty much finished my backstage folio. its not as hard as people are saying it is, i think alot of people in my class just need to get on with it, because asking questions all the time takes up alot of time when there are so many other things you can do. oh well, i got alot done in the Friday lesson i wrote out 2 pages of stuff for my backstage folio. and thats about it for this week, wait no, we got the chance to be able to go see this play at the beginning of week 9 but only ten spots are left, i think i would really like to go so i am goin to try and get my form in as quick as possible.
ok bye bye

drama - week 5

This week was pretty boring. we were in the computer room Monday doing our back stage folio's. Tuesday we missed a lesson because we had sports day trials, and we had a releaf teacher(he was extremely odd) for the lesson after lunch, and i looked up lighting and found a good book to use for my backstage folio summary on lighting.
this week i think i have done the most progress on my backstage folio, i have gotten alot of it done, so i thought, until today(we are in the computer room again), friday, when Miss Mace was going through sam's backstage folio and man there is still alot more to go. oh well im not worried i shall get it in the end.i hope!!!!!!

Drama- week 4

hello,

This week we mostly sat in class and did theory on our back stage folio. i get what we have to do but yet again i don't. but i have now seen sam's and it is really good, but looks like alot of work, even though most of it already done from class work, but it makes alot more sense now, i think. At the moment i have only done the costume summary part, i shall do makeup tonight. Anyway....moving on...... on Friday this week we worked on makeup and a little on lighting. I was in the first group to try make up things, we had to make people look old by using the technique of lines across the face horizontal-to widen he face, angling in or out at the end of a horizontal line- to make face longer or sorter, verticle- lengthen face. Emma did my face, it looked pretty good i think, and then i did some of Megan's face with the new girl Jackie. we then moved onto lighting,we went up to the top where the sound box was and messed around in there, but i didn't get alot of time in there because i was washiing the makeup from my face, which was really hard may i add. and thats about all for this week!!!! ciao people!!!

Drama-week 3

ok today was Tuesday,
we had alot of theory today on stage concepts and stage set design. The theory part was boring, but i learn't some things i had forgotten about last year, i guess that was good. in our second lesson of the double we had today we played a game called ............(i shall find out i cant remember the name of it at the moment). With this game you had one person doing an activity in the middle of the class, and then the teacher said to freeze, somebody else was to come in and pick up from there last actions and start doing another activity using the the other persons freeze position. this would go on and on and more people would keep being added. The aim of this activity was to see how well us students could use the use of an open sort of stage (forgot the name of it-with no backstage), so we had to not try to block anybody from the audience. i think this activity was fun, i enjoyed it alot, mainly because i knew what i was doing because i had done it before. and because i actually did it right!!!!!yey go me!

drama-week 3

hello again,

mondays lesson this week was quite fun i think. we had to go in groups of three (me,Sam, Emma) and create a caracter and make a costume for somebody to wear using newspaper. We chose to do the costume of Aerial on Emma, because Emma had red hair and was the shortest in our group so we didn't have to use as much newspaper and stuff. this activity was done so that we could get a better concept of creating and building a character.

Drama Blog-week 2

Ok........well today we had a double lesson of drama. we learned about Directorial Concepts. in groups of three, had to make a short skit demonstrating Directorial Concepts. i was with Emma and Sam and we decided to do this through the play, the three little pigs. we used me and Sam as two pigs, one fat one skinny (to be blunt), and Emma was the 'wolf'. we then used our characters and took the theme of bullying from the three little pigs and to produce a short skit for the class. i think we did ok in this skit considering we didn't have much time to practice it because Emma had a blood noise. Our homework for this lesson was to find a picture of somebody in costume and create a character/costume for them. my characters name is Emily Thatcher. She is 13 years old. She is a competitive ballet dancer. Her hobbies include reading, writing poems and to dancing. she is home schooled because of the level of dancing she does leaves her not much time for school work. this leaves her not much time for friends, although she looks like a bright happy kid, inside she sometimes just wants to be like a normal teenager and be able to go shopping and to a regular school and get homework. and this is my character i made up!!!!!!!!

Drama-week 2

yey! i finally got back into my account!(i couldn't before). ok well yesterdays drama lesson the 5/2/07, we were setting up our blog accounts. this activity was good. i enjoyed learning how to work a blog space since i am not all that skilled at using computers. i think i am yet to make a few adjustments to it yet!although we shall see. so far..good start to the week.

Introduction-first week

hello!!! my name is Bethany George and this is my blog. i have a bird named Tobey. Drama is good.............yes very good. Emma and Sam are sitting next to me at the moment, too my left. Emma has red hair and Sam has brown hair. Emma has red eyes and Sam has hazel\brown eyes with a blue line around the edge. next lesson i have science. the only good thing about science is that Aimee and Katherine are in it. they r funny.
Anyway...moving on.....my first week of drama is over, and i think overall it has been pretty good.I was a little scared walking into the first lesson of drama, and seeing all these new faces for the first time. but everybody seemed really nice and i even made a new friend in our very first lesson. w00t go me. we played a marathon game our first lesson, and i really liked that game, it showed how willing other people were ready to be in front of others. i also liked my group, even though i only know like two of the other people in it. and we won so that was also good! he he. the rest of the week pretty much went the same way. no complaints.....so far.