Still drama related, but not arts award related.
I got back the results from my end of year practise GCSE's; 2 A*s (in History and Science) 4 As (in English Language, Maths, German and Citizenship) and 1 B (in RE). Strangely, my English Literature result wasn't on there (but as I've got A*s in al my coursework I'll assume its that) and also to my annoyance my drama result was missing. I'll have to hunt those down on Monday. Overall I am quite pleased with my results, especially German and English as so far we have only done half of the course. I was disappointed, but not surprised, with my RE result as I only found out we had a test on the day so I couldn't revise. And we do still have a year before the actual GCSE's, so hopefully these results will get me into the courses I want to do at the local sixth form college.
For my final drama assessment I have to do a performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby'. I'm not sure how I feel about this, as I have done really well so far in drama so I cannot really understand why Mr Sibley had given my a play in which all the speaking is pre-recorded and all I have to do is sit in a rocking chair for a while. Some people have got really challenging ones that look really exciting. I'm alsoon my own as opposed to in a group, which I suppose when I think about it I'm quite pleased about, although the only other two people on their own are people who normally rely on others to do work, whereas I am much more committed.
But on the otherhand, I'm terrified that this might be Mr Sibley's favourite Beckett play, and he gave it to me because he thought I could do it best (not that there's much to do best) it's tearing me apart trying to think of what his intentions were for giving me that play. Maybe I should just ask him, but that's not really done.
I'm going to see Spiderman 3 tonight, which I'm loking forward too. I've seen Spiderman 1 but not Spiderman 2, so I'm going to have to try and figure out what's going on it.
I watched an episode from the new series of NCIS last night, and I could swear that I've seen it before. I can't think where though, and I can't work out why as this is the first time the series has been broadcast on Channel 5 and I don't have FX (the other channel whic shows more recent series). This is now also bugging me.
Saturday, 12 May 2007
Arts Award Update
OK, so its a few days late, but I've been very busy so I'm going to pretend that that's a valid excuse.
On Tuesday, we began to look at scripts that we are going to perform for the final performance at the end of te year. About half the class (including me) looked at a script called 'Palach' which was written to be performed on four seperate stages at the Open Space Theatre in London. It says that it can be performed on one stage if some adaptions, but I think we are planning on doing it on four stages.
Different scenes are performed similtaniously on the seperate stages, which means the audience stand in the middle and can choose where to look at different points in the ply (I am of the view that the audience should be placed on spinny-chairs as that would be far more comfortable). This has the result that, although the script is very thick, the play is actually not as long as you would imagine, due to the fact that much of it is going on at the same time.
On Tuesday, I was playing the part A Mum, and I looked at two scenes. One scene included A Mum, A Dad, A Boy, A Girl and A Priest, all standing in a line and having a converstaion with themseves. Only one person would speak at a time, which would mean that it sounded as if they were having a strange conversation.
The other scene I looked at just involved me and Pete (A Dad) doing a repetetive morning routine whilst repeating what we are doing (eg saying coffee coffee coffee whilst I give him his coffee) we would repeat this morning routine for about seven minutes. Every third time the routine had been repeated, Pete would sing a funny song and do a funny dance. This scene then changed into going through the normal arguments and reconcilliations of a married couple, but we were only speaking in advertising slogans (albeit very out of date slogans) which resulted in me and Pete (and everyone else!) translating it as inuendo.
Other scenes include A Priest singing the lord's prayer whilst performing a striptease and A Girl and A Boy performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet. It should be good when we perform it, especially when we get to throw the juggling balls over the heads of the audience.
Although I was acting the part of A Mum on Tuesday, that more more to assess our suitabilities for roles, and I'll be finding out who I'll actually be playing on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it very much. I would quite like to be given the part of A Girl, but as I haven't really read much of A Girl's script, I'm not sure why I made that decision. I don't really mind which part I get as long as the end result is brilliant!
One group were looking at a play called 'Between Mouthfulls' which was about two couples that attend a restaurant (set on two seperate stages) and a waiter who has to serve their food. WE didn't get to see all of it, as the group had not finished blocking it (it's quite a long play) but Mr Sibley has told us that it conspires that the couple's lives are intertwined (I can't remember the details, something to do with affairs and colleagues) so I'm looking forward to finding out more on Tuesday. Emma was really funny in that!
The final group was looking at a play called 'Mother Figure'. Becky was a mother, obsessed with caring for her children, and when her bickering neighbours pay her a visit, she treats them like children. This had some very funny results, most notably when Becky asked Ophelia if she's like a drink, when Ophelia says yes, Becky asks if she's prefer 'Orange Juice or Milk'. Although the neighbours find her strange at first, as the play progresses they become more and more immature. They had blocked the whole pay, and it was very well done.
On Tuesday, we began to look at scripts that we are going to perform for the final performance at the end of te year. About half the class (including me) looked at a script called 'Palach' which was written to be performed on four seperate stages at the Open Space Theatre in London. It says that it can be performed on one stage if some adaptions, but I think we are planning on doing it on four stages.
Different scenes are performed similtaniously on the seperate stages, which means the audience stand in the middle and can choose where to look at different points in the ply (I am of the view that the audience should be placed on spinny-chairs as that would be far more comfortable). This has the result that, although the script is very thick, the play is actually not as long as you would imagine, due to the fact that much of it is going on at the same time.
On Tuesday, I was playing the part A Mum, and I looked at two scenes. One scene included A Mum, A Dad, A Boy, A Girl and A Priest, all standing in a line and having a converstaion with themseves. Only one person would speak at a time, which would mean that it sounded as if they were having a strange conversation.
The other scene I looked at just involved me and Pete (A Dad) doing a repetetive morning routine whilst repeating what we are doing (eg saying coffee coffee coffee whilst I give him his coffee) we would repeat this morning routine for about seven minutes. Every third time the routine had been repeated, Pete would sing a funny song and do a funny dance. This scene then changed into going through the normal arguments and reconcilliations of a married couple, but we were only speaking in advertising slogans (albeit very out of date slogans) which resulted in me and Pete (and everyone else!) translating it as inuendo.
Other scenes include A Priest singing the lord's prayer whilst performing a striptease and A Girl and A Boy performing a scene from Romeo and Juliet. It should be good when we perform it, especially when we get to throw the juggling balls over the heads of the audience.
Although I was acting the part of A Mum on Tuesday, that more more to assess our suitabilities for roles, and I'll be finding out who I'll actually be playing on Tuesday. I'm looking forward to it very much. I would quite like to be given the part of A Girl, but as I haven't really read much of A Girl's script, I'm not sure why I made that decision. I don't really mind which part I get as long as the end result is brilliant!
One group were looking at a play called 'Between Mouthfulls' which was about two couples that attend a restaurant (set on two seperate stages) and a waiter who has to serve their food. WE didn't get to see all of it, as the group had not finished blocking it (it's quite a long play) but Mr Sibley has told us that it conspires that the couple's lives are intertwined (I can't remember the details, something to do with affairs and colleagues) so I'm looking forward to finding out more on Tuesday. Emma was really funny in that!
The final group was looking at a play called 'Mother Figure'. Becky was a mother, obsessed with caring for her children, and when her bickering neighbours pay her a visit, she treats them like children. This had some very funny results, most notably when Becky asked Ophelia if she's like a drink, when Ophelia says yes, Becky asks if she's prefer 'Orange Juice or Milk'. Although the neighbours find her strange at first, as the play progresses they become more and more immature. They had blocked the whole pay, and it was very well done.
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
Arts Award
I am currently working towards the Duke of Edinburgh Arts Award formy drama at school. And as part of the award, I have to keep a diry style thing of what we do at drama club, as proof of our efforts. I'm just going to type mine up on here, and if that's not ok I cn copy and paste it into a word document!
1st May- Drama Club 6-8pm
Today at drama club, we discussed what we'll be doing performance-wise for the rest of the year. We are no longer going to be peforming at the Brigton Festval, due to the fact that we do not really have anything to show to an audience- let alone 40 minutes worth of stuff. I think everyone was agreed that it would be better to do nothing than to scrape together something that was rubbish. We're planning a performance in July, a mix of our Beckett work as well as stuff from drama club.
The first thing we had to do was to devise a piece of drama that showed the morning routine of a couple who had been married for so long that everything was done automatically, with the husband being dependent on the wife. I was with Sam, and out performance went as follows:
Alice: (As Sam walks in quickly) Morning
Sam: Morning
Alice: Paper (passes him paper as he passes)
Sam: Paper (sits down)
Alice: Toast (passes him toast)
Sam: Toast (eats)
Alice: Butter (passes him butter, then takes it back automatically as he pushes it away)
Sam: No
Alice: Orange juice (puts glass on one side of Sam, then walks past him. He drinks the orange juice as she is passing and then places it on the other side of himself. Alice proceeds to pick up the glass and wash it up)
Alice: Tea?
Sam: Tea
Alice: (She gives him is tea and proceeds to sit down, but he stands just as she is sitting, and she sits on his empty seat) Bye
Sam: Bye (He walks towards door) Bye Kids!
We could only use limited amount of speech and actions.
We then had to put together a performance of a newly married couple, and the only dialogue we could use was slogans from adverts (this should be interesting for Eric- yet more british-ism). This was much more challenging, and required a lot of thought. It was also rather disturbing in parts (Dan and Tashi's for instance, I'll never view the advert for 'Talk to Frank' in quite the same way as long as I live)! I was working with Joe and the sloans we used (In order) were:
Alice: Take a chance on a second chance Sunday
Twinnings
Ba ba ba ba ba
Joe: I'm loving it (spills his tea)
Alice: BANG and the dirt is gone!
Are you a crucnchy nutter?
It's a nine thing
Take a break
Joe: Have a kit-kat
Both: Resistance is futile
Joe: Have it your way (shouting at laptop, Alice turns around, concerned)
The future's bright!
Alice: Try something new today
They took a chance, on that second chance sunday.
We also practised throwing several juggling balls around the circle in a certain pattern, eventually so we were throwing many of them at the same time (with amusing results). Whilst doing this, we also were singing a song:
Pack your troubles in you old kit bag
And Smile, Smile, Smile
While there's a Lucifer to light your fag
Smile boy that's the style.
What's the use of worrying
It never was worthwhile
Pack your troubles in you old kit bag
And Smile, Smile, Smile
This seemed strange at first, but apparantly it is going to be used in the performace, with us throwing the juggling balls over the heads of the audience.
1st May- Drama Club 6-8pm
Today at drama club, we discussed what we'll be doing performance-wise for the rest of the year. We are no longer going to be peforming at the Brigton Festval, due to the fact that we do not really have anything to show to an audience- let alone 40 minutes worth of stuff. I think everyone was agreed that it would be better to do nothing than to scrape together something that was rubbish. We're planning a performance in July, a mix of our Beckett work as well as stuff from drama club.
The first thing we had to do was to devise a piece of drama that showed the morning routine of a couple who had been married for so long that everything was done automatically, with the husband being dependent on the wife. I was with Sam, and out performance went as follows:
Alice: (As Sam walks in quickly) Morning
Sam: Morning
Alice: Paper (passes him paper as he passes)
Sam: Paper (sits down)
Alice: Toast (passes him toast)
Sam: Toast (eats)
Alice: Butter (passes him butter, then takes it back automatically as he pushes it away)
Sam: No
Alice: Orange juice (puts glass on one side of Sam, then walks past him. He drinks the orange juice as she is passing and then places it on the other side of himself. Alice proceeds to pick up the glass and wash it up)
Alice: Tea?
Sam: Tea
Alice: (She gives him is tea and proceeds to sit down, but he stands just as she is sitting, and she sits on his empty seat) Bye
Sam: Bye (He walks towards door) Bye Kids!
We could only use limited amount of speech and actions.
We then had to put together a performance of a newly married couple, and the only dialogue we could use was slogans from adverts (this should be interesting for Eric- yet more british-ism). This was much more challenging, and required a lot of thought. It was also rather disturbing in parts (Dan and Tashi's for instance, I'll never view the advert for 'Talk to Frank' in quite the same way as long as I live)! I was working with Joe and the sloans we used (In order) were:
Alice: Take a chance on a second chance Sunday
Twinnings
Ba ba ba ba ba
Joe: I'm loving it (spills his tea)
Alice: BANG and the dirt is gone!
Are you a crucnchy nutter?
It's a nine thing
Take a break
Joe: Have a kit-kat
Both: Resistance is futile
Joe: Have it your way (shouting at laptop, Alice turns around, concerned)
The future's bright!
Alice: Try something new today
They took a chance, on that second chance sunday.
We also practised throwing several juggling balls around the circle in a certain pattern, eventually so we were throwing many of them at the same time (with amusing results). Whilst doing this, we also were singing a song:
Pack your troubles in you old kit bag
And Smile, Smile, Smile
While there's a Lucifer to light your fag
Smile boy that's the style.
What's the use of worrying
It never was worthwhile
Pack your troubles in you old kit bag
And Smile, Smile, Smile
This seemed strange at first, but apparantly it is going to be used in the performace, with us throwing the juggling balls over the heads of the audience.
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