Philemon Adu Wkc

Sharon put us all into groups of four and I was working with Diamond, Favour, and Anakin. We decided to call ourselves the GY actors. We took inspiration from the drama series The Breakfast Club which is about a group of students who are apart of a school club and at first they don't know each other that well but at the end they all become close friends. In our piece there are 4 characters. Ruby-who is played by Diamond. Ruby is a councillor who helps children through any situation they are going through whether its at home or at school. She also has a slight drug addiction. Marqees-who is played by me. Marqees is a young boy who is obsessed with trying to make money and get girls, he is also known to be very cocky and confident. Marqees is actually quite insecure about himself as he didn't grow up with the same privileges as everyone else as he was neglected by his parents, this is why he feels like he must make money. Athena-who is played by Favour. Athena is a ...

Rob gave us all partners and groups to work in. He gave us the following scripts: Trojan woman, and Antigone. I was given Trojan woman and I was working with Favour. We were giving 2 weeks to learn all of our lines and have everything perfected for our assessment, the Friday before the assessment Rob wanted to see our pieces. Me and Favour showed our piece first and we were given this feedback, 'you need to be off script', 'learn not to walk around too much be comfortable in the position you are in', and 'learn how to pronounce the names of your characters.'

Our third lesson was all about speech and the use of our voices. Articulation-the formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech. In our lesson we tried different warm ups which help with articulation. the 1st warm up consisted of us humming whilst our mouths were closed, after 5 seconds we would open our mouths and let out the sound, we also would hum and chew at the same time. This was very helpful to all of us as actors as it helps our voices become less groggy as it was early in the morning. We then started to focus on produce sound from the bottom of our lungs (diaphragm), so we put our hands on the top of our bellies and performed this same activity from before. We then lied down on the floor and performed a warm up were you breathe in through the nose and then exhale however whilst exhaling we would let out a hum, this helped us actors all relax and also teach us not to force out the sounds we make and that it should feel natural to do it. After those warm ups we ...

In our first lesson we got into groups, and in those groups we discussed about skills you should have as a performer such as: Confidence Awareness (on stage) Collaboration when it comes to group work Discipline Listening as acting mainly consists of listening and not just speaking Enjoying what you actually do as its not fun when your not interested  Clear,loud voice Observation; this is essential as it can help with character development  We also discussed fears that some people might have or might develop and how to overcome them Personal habits can get in the way of acting e.g nail biting can affect the role of a character as it is not a personal trait. The solution for this is to study the character they're playing to gain knowledge of what they do,how they speak etc. This will familiarise themselves ewith their character. Having stage fright could drastically affect an actors peformance as it brings the level of acting down. The solutions for this is are...