Week w/c Activities (what have you What went well?

ent well? What challenges have you What do you need to

done?)
1. 4/9/23 We went to the theatre to It was fun to see a play in
see the play 2:22 which is the theatre royal again.
a horror play. We also While the play was a
prepared new Weebly mixed bag, I found it to
websites to act as our be an enjoyable watch.
digital portfolios. It was good to do some
ensembles work to
refamiliarize ourselves
with each other.
2. 11/9/23 We preformed our My monologue selection
classical and casted me in a good light
contemporary as an actor so I was told
monologues in a mock to keep it.
audition.
3. 18/9/23 We got to perform our I got some excellent
Shakespeare and feedback on my
contemporary Shakespeare monologue
monologues' as well as from Alice Barcley. She
devising for our suggested that I try to hit
shakeslam. the pronunciation of the
consonants more
particularly in words like
Contempt and clamour.
faced?
It was hard to come back
to the college routine after
being off all summer and
college was hard to
navigate without any ID.
Memorizing my
monologue.
It was harder to balance
my work and college and
social life I just need to
adjust to the new schedule
better.
It was quite challenging to
write my script analysis
this week as writing a
graph up took a while as I
had not done one for a
year.
prepare for the next
week?
I need to prepare my
Weebly website so that I
can access it on my home
computer. Run through
both my monologues.
I need to complete my
baseline assessment and
start completing my
college work. And upload
my baseline assessments
to my Weebly website.
Got some good general
tips to further my
monologues
Upload all my
assignment's to Weebly as
well as submit a recording
of my Shakespeare
monologue to Kris Hallet
for feedback.
4. 25/9/23 We started our devising It was incredibly fun to It was hard to find sources Finnish my character
for shakeslam. Angle and I experience the backstage for my character analysis development work and
choreographed our dance sound designer's on Leontes as I had not submit everything on my
number as well as cut, perspective when we had finished the book yet so I Weebly website. Including
translated and added bits our sounding lesson. It is was not sure how his tidying up my website and
onto our scene which is something I have not character arc would finish uploading various bits of
Titania and Oberon’s thought much about in in the play. The Winter's work. Finishing my
argument scene from the past much but is tale reads like a poem and industry analysis of Jack
Midsommer Night's useful to understand as it is written in blank verse Black.
Dream. will help me collaborate making it line up weirdly
with sound designers sometimes. This gave me
better in the future as I trouble as understanding
understand more about his full development is
how they think. critical to writing his
character analysis.
5. 2/10/23 In classical monologues we I got some promising The industry tasks were I need to figure out how
looked at obstacles and ideas on cutting down my great at providing insight to market myself as an
intentions with Alice. We contemporary into the industry. I got a actor.
had a movement that monologue while keeping grand idea of how
looked at separating the flow of it intact for celebrities' market
people in the ensemble by my east 15 audition. themselves and movies. It
movement. Looked at was fun to look back on
some plays and got into previous projects I had
drama online with Kris. been a part of before and
during BTA.
6. 9/10/23 This week I was ill for the Got all my theory work It was hard being ill for this It was challenging to both
shakeslam session. For done. It was good to week. Applying for drama sing and dance during my
contemporary revisit our Artu piece as it schools is a huge leap of shakeslam piece. It was
monologues we had a lady is a very out their piece of faith and a barrier I still weird to have to do both
from guildhall come in. theatre that boggles the need to overcome. rather than just focusing
 She helped me find out mind. on one at a time.
who I was talking to within
the monologue which was
useful. She did this by
making me talk to my
course mates by
establishing awkward eye
contact.
7. 16/10/23 This Monday we The performance was It was challenging to sing I will now start to unit my
rehearsed shakeslam well received our while also dancing as you monologues
running an independent choreography was funny need to focus on your core
rehearsal where we and gave our piece a for both.
incorporated our outfits unique feel among the
and props. Angle and I other shakeslam pieces.
finished our dance. Then
we did tech in chapel arts
running the whole show so
we could get our cues
right.
8. 30/10/23 We walked around the I enjoyed incorporating I was challenging to I will now film my self tape
room to embody tension the feedback given to me connect with the panel as auditions for drama
and help build spatial by practitioners as well as lots of my monologue was school.
relationships. We also preforming it. to do with gaging an
preformed our audience's reaction and
contemporary monologue playing of that.
for the panel in an
assessment.
9. 6/11/23 We created characters and Getting to play a different It was challenging to get Prepare the necessary
everything about them character from myself started in our pdf sessions materials for PDF like
including name, age and was fun and I got to as it always is starting a making an Instagram
 core personality traits. we
then took part in improve
scenes where two
characters interacted. we
then had a dramaturgy
session where we wrote
stories inspired by our
name's origin.
10. 13/11/23 I pitched my idea for my
independent film project
and my top one got
selected which meant I am
now doing a sort of fly on
the wall documentary
about a group rehearsing a
panto.
We also looked at theatre
in the medieval era and
how it was adapted into
the modern era.
11. 20/11/23 We had a workshop with
Anne where she told us
about the industry, and we
had a crack at planning
our own movie.
12. 27/11/23 Work Experience
This week was work
experience week and i
inhabit a world that new writing. account and posters.
wasn’t my own.
I have a concept that I It was hard to come up I will write my script for
like and am excited to with a concept for my my film project.
work on. project
I found it interesting to
look at the history of
theatre.
I enjoyed creating a It was hard to stay focused I will complete all my work
movie although it wasn’t as I had lots on my mind and applications to drama
all that well thought out with drama school schools over the
it was fun to brainstorm, auditions round the Christmas break.
and the idea may be corner.
useful for a future
project.
I understand the role that I feel that i could have Complete all my targets
actors should play in a done more to assist with and log all my hours on
production as a whole the acting side of things Grofar.
 went back to my old now that I have seen a
school Wells Cathedral to production from a
help out on their upper backstage perspective.
school production of
treasure island. I was a
stagehand on the
production.
13. 4/12/23 Christmas Break
14. 1/1/2024 Christmas Break

15. 8/1/2024 We started our acting for I always enjoy talking It was hard to get my head Finnish all the filming for
screen project. about what kind of films around all the different my independent project
During our first session and tv shows I'm screen angles as well as
with Archie, we wrote interested in as well as the nuisances and
down all the things we hearing what other subtleties of screen acting
already knew about film. people are into in general
Next, we looked at how
different camera angles
can affect the tone of a
scene.
Then in the afternoon we
talked with Matt about
what kind of films we were
interested in and liked.
We also saw
metamorphosis at the
Bristol old Vic

16. 15/1/2024 We experimented with the I enjoyed stage combat I am still apprehensive Find a script for my group
different circles of and learning the routine about trying screen acting to work on we all agree
 attention during screen was fun. Analysing the something about it is off with.
acting with matt and it was screen acting putting to me.
interesting to see as I performances was
recognised them from interesting as well
different films, I had seen because we got to see
we also talked about how the different circles used
an actor should interact on each other.
with the camera (the
camera sees everything).
Then we talked about the
difference between stage
and screen acting. We also
had stage combat where
we learned a sequence of
punches.
17. 22/1/2024 We watched a video Learning how to take I am struggling to come up Practise my stage combat
explaining the different notes from directors will with an idea for the PDF routine.
directing styles and how be useful for me in the poster.
they can affect a future. I enjoyed the
production. A key thing we mindfulness aspect of the
learned today was voice lesson.
responding to directors'
notes. We then watched a
short film and talked
about the production
logistics of it like locations,
filming, casting etc. In
stage combat we learned a
grappling routine then
devised a fight in a group
 of four. In our voice lesson
with Julia, we went over
warmups and stretches.
18. 29/1/2024 We performed an It was good to do the I found it hard to create a Create a shot list and find
improvisation of our scene in a theatre setting fresh backstory for my all the props for filming.
scripted scenes as though for me because I character as he is very well
we were preforming for struggled to do it for established in my mind.
stage and picked out key screen.
events that worked and
analysing why they
worked. We then dove
deep into our characters
by making profiles for
them this helped me get
into character.in stage
combat we started to
figure out which shots we
wanted in our film. In
voice we learned about
the larynx and the effect it
has on your voice which is
useful for projection.
19. 5/2/2024 It was the first day of FMP I enjoyed experiencing I would like to see the Learn my acting for screen
rehearsals for different roles on the film script we are working with script.
metamorphosis. As our set for stage combat. This for the actual FMP.
director wasn't here, we helped me see the role an
were working with Nat to actor has on set similar to
modernise the Greek what I had during work
tragedy, Madea. We experience.
analysed the text and
identified the key themes
and events we then
preformed short scenes
we created devised from
it. We filmed our stage
combat scenes which was
awesome as we each got
to have a go at different
jobs on set. In voice we
got to preform extracts of
our monologues Julia then
would help us with
supporting our voices
more by giving us
exercises to do.