stereotype students

Monday 16th of June- Today miss stood in front of the class and told us that we could make a performance up or do some singing, dancing or something we had done in the lesson so that we could be apart of the drama showcase so we all decided if we wanted to do it not so me,Phillipa,Joe and Jeremy came up with an idea to make a play called stereotype students.

Wednesday 18th of June- Today me, Phillipa,Joe and Jeremy came up with a script and and stage directions and what we were all going to wear we started practicing what we were going to do and how we were going to put it together i cant wait to perform this piece because it will show that we as a group can come up with some really good ideas.

Aleysha Briggs        

Coriolanus performance week

Monday 2nd of June- it was the week of the performance so all we were doing in the lesson was just going over and over the performance getting ready for Magna. i loved just running over the play because it was really fun just learning lines and understanding what to do.

Wednesday 4th of June- in the lesson we just went over the performance again and again i finally had learnt my lines so i remembered  and i was really happy that i had learnt my lines before Friday so i did the reversal with no script and just remembered my lines. again i just loved going over the performance because i really liked playing my character.

Friday 6th of June- today we went to Magna to perform act 5 of Coriolanus which was really fun, before the performance we had to do a tech rehearsal and a dress rehearsal which was really fun because we got to do the performance over and over again then at 6:00 our parents turned up and we performed in front of them. i think every person in that audience said they really enjoyed the show and could not believe their children had put on an amazing show.

Aleysha Briggs     
  

Monday 12th of May 2014

On Monday karren came and again worked with us on Coriolanus we worked on the script because we needed to make the performance 15 minutes so she was cutting loads of parts and then she would tell us what bit she had cut and we would have to perform it to her. she then started to change the scenes so add bits to them so for example the stone throwing at the beginning she added were the volcian guards came and wounded the Romans.

then we just went through some of the scenes and she would show us what she wanted changing and what bits she had cut on the other scenes and then on our script we would have to put a cross through them so we knew what had been cut.

i really enjoyed it when karren came in because i felt like we all knew what we were doing and what parts karren had cut so i think we all did very well.    

Aleysha Briggs

coriolanus tablaus from monday-friday 31-4

Monday- we were given some photos and we had to work in pairs and come up with word. i found this really and i learnt a lot about different emotions and how they change as the play goes on.

Friday- we had to make pictures of all the emotions and how they change in the pictures i have learnt about emotions and Shakespeare language.

introductory workshop with Karen

 When Karen came in she taught us everything about Coriolanus so for example stage fighting all different types of tableau were she would give us a topic for example Violence and we would have to do a still image of it we also did some play work so for example worked on the start of our scene for Coriolanus were we all throw stones and scream and shout and we run up in lines. We also worked on text speak and sir filmed us doing some text speak. At the start just to get us warmed up we played a game where we had to go in a circle and she would point at us and we would have to shout bob before she finished here sentence if not we had to sit down.

We then did some flocking and then right at the end we had to do some text speak but we also had to do a lift when Coriolanus had been killed I was in the lift so I don’t know how it looked until I looked at the photo on blogger but I truly enjoyed the whole day that we spent with Karen. 

Aleysha Briggs 

17/21- Karen and script editing and portfolio work 


Monday- in this lesson someone called Karen came in what i learnt from this lesson was how to show my angry side a i learnt a lot more about what Shakespeare language was like and also i learnt how to do different freeze frames. 

Wednesday- i learnt how to work on a script and delete different parts of a script and delete any part of the script and we had to get in down to specific minutes.

Friday- on Friday i learnt that i should be doing some more portfolio work and learnt that i can add anything and write about them so i am now going to do a lot of portfolio work.

Here are some things we did on Monday

 Glory                              Violence                       Family                            Loyalty 

Aleysha Briggs 

all this week we have learnt the same thing...

Monday- i have learnt how to say some words from Shakespeare and have had a look at some different speeches that he has wrote and learnt his way of speaking.

Wednesday- We looked at more speeches and what i learnt from this was that they speak very different to what we do know they miss some letters out and say words like hath and so many more so what i have learnt from this is Shakespeare's language.

Friday- Sir gave the boys Hamlet and the girls Othilia and we had to come up with ideas to make a performance so what I learnt from this was that we all had to work as a group and also learnt a lot about all of Shakespeare's play's 

Aleysha Briggs 

we also learnt Eight effect action's these are just two of the effects one is Punch and the other is Float and of course there are lots more.