Single 10.11.15

during todays lesson we looked at our character profiles for the childrens adults in the show. we all showed our character profiles to the rest of the class and then gave feedback to eachother and said how we could improve. in my profile i had coveredthe following subheadings: name, age, likes, dislikes, hometown, occupation, hobbies, children, wife, children. i think that where this made me think deeper into the character of Ass' Dad.

after this we carried on looking at adults scenes.

Single 05.11.15

In today's lesson we started of by carrying on from where we last looked at in the script in the previous lesson, we ran from this point all the was to the end of scene one whilst stopping at points we thought we could improve and alter a little. Once we had done all of this our teacher then made us go back to the very beginning of the play but instead of acting normally be as over the top as possible. This helped us because it then gave us a new way to look at our characters and also a different way that we could possibly play our character in future preferences or scenes. We did this until the end of the lesson. 

Single 03.11.15 - Character Profile

NAME: Jimmy Atkinson Jr
AGE: 8 in 39 days
FAMILY: Daddy (Jimmy Atinson Sr), Mummy (Darcey Atkinson), Sister (Esther-Mae Atkinson)
LIKES: Donkeys, X-Box, Horse and Carriages
DISLIKES: Esther-Mae, The Yellow Bus, Mushrooms, Brussel Sprouts
BEST FRIENDS: My Doggy Tooth, The Boy With The Lisp

Single 23.10.15

in tdays lesson we carried on looking at the adults section, this time however instead of performing an exercise to help looking into the context, we did an exersize to help us think about how our character would move and how their body languae would change in different situations. what we did was perform the scene but without any dialogue, but instead we would all be silent and just show how we feel through our boddy language. this help me personally because i hadnt really thought about my haracter in that way before then so now i have i can apply that to when we are doing the adults scene with dialogue also.

Single 22.10.15

in todays lesson we ran the adults scene once again to get a better understanding of the layout as we didnt get much time to do that in the last lesson. once we did this we performed and exercise to look a lot close at the context of the adults section. this involved us running the adults scene again but clapping when we wanted to pause the speech and acting and when we did we had to state what our character would have been thinking at that point and once we had said what we thought our character would think we clapped again to start the acting again. in my eyes i think that this exercise helped our group quite a lot as it let us look and think a lot deeper into our character and the context behind our characters, not only this but it gave other ideas of how their character might think about eachother because of their views.

Single 20.10.15

to begin this lesson we sat down and read through the whole of the adult section in characters just without staging it for the first time. we decided to do this as we had not even had a look at the adult section and we thought it would be silly to go staight into the adult section when we didnt actually know any of the context towards it. once we had done this and got all questions out of the way we started looking at it from the beginning of the adults section but staging it also. we started with  row of chairs at the front to signify some sort of buffet table where people would keep on going up to get food and drinks. however, we ended up realising that this wasnt such a great idea as eventhough we were all moving we would all still end up in one straight line and it started to look very basic and unchoreographed. so we then looke at how we could change it so that it could do the same job but stop us from standing in one line, so we then came up with the idea of using 3 square tables, one for alcohol, one for mince pies, and the other for party. we chose alcohol and mince pies for two main sections as during the adult section those 2 things get mentioned quite considerably. this heled because it endec up with the group moving round and then it didnt end up looking too static as everyone is scattered around. once we had all figured out which table was which we ran the adults scene for as long as we could until we ran out of times.

Single 16.10.15

we started this lesson by doing a show and tell with an object that we bought in from home so that it gave us an idea of what its like being a 7/8 year olds is like again. i decided to bring in a plant pot because from my memory people always used to bring in the silliest objects for show and tell and i thought that it was random but not too randm and i could easily back it up to why i had brought it in for show and tell. i said that it was my favourite plant pot at everyone in my family house hold had their own plant plot and they all got to choose what they wanted to put in that very plant pot.

once we had all shown our items to eachother and our teacher we picked our scripts back up and and as we had already read the beginning of act two up to where the adults come in we ended up getting up to that point again but staging it also.