Performance Arts UAL Level 2

Today we will start  a new experience in our lives, an experience that will fill our knowledge and will give us skills for get a better development in our future, each person is unknown for me but i know this will change with the time.

I will start to make a resume about all week, what we did, what i learn and how i feel about every experience that i will get every week.

From September 12th until 16th we start the new year in the level 2 performance art.

1- At the beginning in production  (the first class) the teacher started to introduce us to the college, how it works, where are our classrooms then we start to speak about production, look videos and  look all details about them and we start to write our week in our blog.

- We did a conversation where we talked about what is production.

- We got videos and we had to look for the details between each other

 -We started to to make our blog writing down what we did in all week.

 2- In acting class we start to make exercise voice,improvisation,talk about our skills,imagination, team work, interpretation, confident and more.

-We did a small performance creating a short story.

-We did exercise voice using different kind of words this for make clear our pronunciation and get more skills when we will be in front of a public.

-As a team we had to create a story about whatever, using a music as a soundtrack.

-Using one line that each student elected we had to create a conversation and performance, 

    

3- In the performance class (body movements) we had been doing kind of exercises for the body and kind of music with our hands, this working as a team.

-We wrote down what we shouldn't do in the classroom.

-We did a exercise take out the nervous we had and for warm muscles.

- We did music using applause and making sound while another group is dancing our rhythm with.

4- In math we started to review the basic skills about math, then we started to make exercises about them. 

-We review the 4 basic skills in math Addition, substation, multiply and division.

-We did a review in factor, prime number, multiplies.

5- In English we were answering questions that we got in the board 

-We had questions we had to choose one of them, i elected all and i answer one by one.

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From September 19th until 23th we start the new year in the level 2 performance art.

1-In production we saw an interesting class where we talk about the responsibilities that everyone is en charge for.

-Roles and responsibilities in a production

2- In acting class we start to make improvisation talking about identity.

-We spoke about story created for the class getting ideas from them, we put in practice:

Improvisation, interpretation, imagination, articulation, confident, discipline and more.

-We did improvisation about small words we got from the teacher, in a small group of 4 with each body we had to create simple things like: tables, cars, haystack and bridge.

-We did exercises for improvisation and be focus in what we do, we got so much funny doing a game consisting in take someone out the classroom and and the rest of the team inside choose who famous person is it, then we had to say ideas to the chosen and it had to guess who is it, we did improvisation game it consist in 2 people will start sentences in alphabetical order with an environment elected for the team.

-In the theater we did an exercise, it consist in start a conversation with the last word of the sentences that the firs person had said, example:

-Josh: Hey, how are you?

-Lee: Uncle! i'm ok thanks for that

-Josh: The same for you thanks for ask.

-Lee: kisses, see you!

-We did a focus exercise in which it consisted of sitting on a chair with someone in front of you sitting as well, we had to talk each other and try to get the attention from the another person and at the same time understand what it was saying.

 -We had been doing during the class time exercises voice, they consist in say different words for get the right pronunciation and voice tone.    

-We did concentration game where we had to close our eyes and someone had to elect one person called killer, the killer had to kill someone and we were aware about who was killed, after we opened the eyes we had to discovery who was it.

3- In the performance class (body movements) we continue with the last class however we learned a new movements with music as a soundtrack.

-We wrote down what is warm up.

-We danced slowly following the music as a soundtrack.

-Crate music using applause and dance with the rhythm made for it.

4- In math we had been learning about the basic skills needed in it.

For all of the following points we did many simple exercise getting the help from the teacher if we required.

-Subtraction:

-Additions.

-Multiply.

-division.

-How multiply the sing negative and positive if we have the 4 different basics skills in math.

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From September 26th to 30th we start the new year in the level 2 performance art.

1-In production classes we were watching videos about responsibilities that everyone have to develop soon. My responsibility is Stage management.

Stage management is the person in charge to coordinate and organize a theatrical production, it coordinates lights, sets, sounds, dresses, rehearsal, schedule, details making the sets, distributing the information all of the departments, be aware about scripts, movement, acting, make sure about team's wellness and more responsibilities.    

2- In the acting class started to create a play at the theater, there're two of them.

 -The first one is about a guys in detention and we have to act 2 different moment one where we are remembering why 2 of the guys are in detention and 2nd one asking why a smart girl is in detention.

The 2nd play is about people looking for to rent houses to live and the person in charge to make the renting in a horrible and corrupt. 

Basically we are working in details at the set how to make and scene as natural as possible, how to stand, talk and walk in front the public, and the improvisation.

3- In the performance class (body movements) we did a amazing classes where we dance with music as a soundtrack, we had to choose someone and dance with it, then with someone else we had to start to follow it and do the same than it, we thought about any famous character and imitate it.

4- In math we had been learning about equations:

-We were developing some exercises using addition, subtraction, multiply and division.
We got 3 homework where we can put on practice what we have learned in math class.

-We did a special game, it consisted in 2 groups (blue and red) we got operations in the board and we had to calculate and answer then when the teacher give us the opportunity to say what we got.

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from October 3rd  to 7th at the level 2 performance art.

1-In production classes we did a deep conversation talking about the culture that each person could have, we talk about what we have to do as a citizen if we want to keep the respect between the people, we did:

-We got 8 different  people at the board, as a group we had to delete 2 people just looking how they looked, we had to take out 2 people for the name, we delete 2 people more for them sexuality and finally we got the answer at the board, the point was keep deleting people for guess who was an engineer.

-We were got some political options at the boar, as a group of 3 we had to choose which options we thinks should run on the system politic and social for example:

-Should the people vote since 16 years old?
-do you think a people have to get the death penalty?

We continuous the working on our essay on Friday.

2- In the acting class we had been rehearsing about our improvisation made by ourselves, we have been fixing details, adding new things and taking out what we don't need, we had been practicing the motto that we have to say to the public at the end of the play "I am human non the less"  we can say in different languages. 

3- In the performance class (body movements) we did an exercise of concentration using indication from the board (we got run, walk, droop).
We had been practicing a part of our play, with the teacher we rehearsed how to make better and beautiful movements when we'll be playing.  

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from October 10th  to 14th at the level 2 performance art.

1- In production classes we had been talking about the types of violence we can find since physical, psychological, bullying and more. We did a discussion where everyone has to give it opinion and identify which kind of violence at the board.

-2 Performance arts:

We had been practicing for our performance which finally has arrived, on Friday we did our play for members of the college, Identity play, it was amazing all the team we were practicing so much for this, we did and gave the best for the public and i think we got it, we watched singers plays as well and in my opinion all of each were incredible with amazing voices they did the best.

Identity Project

Since the moment i decided to join to the WKC my targets were and are can learn something new, can be around of the word i love, learn about acting, how develop my skills for my future, increase confident in myself, get experience handling what i do, fulfill my responsibilities at 100%.

During this time we had been having issues, What is identity? What is the production?  and some Political phases.

I was trying the do them as well as possible at the beginning was quiet hard for me understand the people but now i am getting it easier. The strengths as a team are the following:

1- We can improvise each other.

2-There are a good connection between all of us.

3-There is a big talent.

4-We are helpful.

-Weaknesses:

1-Many people are not on time.

2-Sometime people are disturbing the classes.

3-Some people doesn't take it seriously

I am personally like to be responsable with what i do, i have talent developing, i do my best and i always listen other and i am friendly and respectful.

Sometimes fore me is hard can understand what the people say because i am learning this language, i am a little distracted and sometimes i took a lot of time for do the blog on time.

For me the play had been really good, we were quiet focus in what we did trying do a good interpretation however the engagement was not the best because some people arrived late or did not come and when the practices some did not take seriously, i think the audience liked the play cause after the play me and many of the team got congratulation from members of the audience, in technical aspects i can say that everything was very organize and clean and we did what we expected that day.

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from November 3rd to 11th at the level 2 performance art.

-2 Performance arts:

                                                        "Silent film"

The new project that our teacher brought is call "Silent film".

What is silent film?

 Is a an acting performance based in do only movement, no script inside, basically the actor has to show a clear idea just using the physical language body.

First starting to do any class we always do warming up using physical and imagination exercises.

We always start doing exercises for ours joints, then we do kind of exercises for the concentrate for example:
-We imagined that we got a tube in our hands and slowly we had to change the positions of it, we did this for work on important things like concentration and imagination to get in in some kind of acting.
-We do a circle, using music as a soundtrack every one has to do a different movement and each person has to imitate, we do this for make a body warming.

At performing arts we started with this project watching a silent video for start developing our knowledge about it also for be aware what we have to do during this period, the videos were Nosferatu and Charlie Chaplin.

After this we did small speeches for the class all of then had to be in silent using our imagination or teacher advises for create our scenes.

1- We did an scene where 2 guys have a meeting, one of then is a spy and gives a phone to the another one, in this one we used music as a background. 

2-We were 2 painter persons, one of them is distracted on the phone and make a mistake using the wrong color for the wall, here we did sound by ourselves.

we did a practice of:

-Imagination

-Exaggeration movements

-concentration (Imagining we had a something in our hands)

-Details and more. 

The teacher gave us 3 title and in 3 groups we had to create an small moment where we use the title, our was 2 "Why can't i do this?

We created a moments where there are 2 boys, they are training in a gym then 2 girls come in and want to get in the gym but this guys say that the can't because this is only for men the girls don't give up and get in, the guys put them some challenger thinking the won't be able to do it but the girls are even stronger than they, finding joining to the gym.

During the week we had been rehearsing about the new project using sheets of paper we had to write in some expressions like about what we are doing in this case "The gym" and when we had to act use them for give the idea for the body.

              In this picture we can have a look about all the class rehearsing for make a performance about the title that the teacher gave us.   


2- We have a new project in production classes, the first day we watched a video about Britney Spears, we had some questions in a sheet for answer them, we must to pay attention to the video because all of the details about them were there.
The reason for this is see how the the stars have a team working behind everything. We've a new task, in a team we have to choose an artist, and we have to start organizing everything as if a n star would come to London.
We got a sheet and each group had to start to create publicity's kind in our case is Beyoce.