Casting Announcement

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I was so impressed with each and every one of you yesterday. 

Homework:

For next week you need to have:

• highlighted your lines
• re-read your scene 
• made some notes on your character

Scene 1

Jan p9-10 - Mia

Jan p19-26 - Ursula

Mark - Ben

Leah - Romy

Lou - Stevanie

John Tate - Beau

Danny - Kimberly

Richard - Skye

Cathy - Andrea

Phil - Cameron

Scene 2

Jan - Marli

Mark - Tyler

Leah - Eloise

Lou - Lauren

Danny - Alex

Richard - TJ

Cathy - Claudia

Phil - Cameron

Brian - JJ

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Scene 3

Jan - Sonia

Mark - George

Leah - Ella

Phil - Chem

Adam - Daniel

Brian - JJ

Cathy - Tia

Lou - Pakize

Scene 4

Jan - Mia

Mark - Tyler

Phil - Chem

Richard - TJ

Workshop 4 - 28th November

Casting workshop

Today you all observed a casting workshop. People that wanted to play specific characters had the opportunity to read in for scenes to show what they thought of the character and how they might perform in the role.

Q- What was your experience of participating in the workshop? What characters did you read in for? Why do you want to play these roles?

Q- What was your experience of observing the workshop? Who were you most impressed by and why?

Casting will be on here later today!

Workshop 3 - 22nd November 2012

The focus of the workshop was to think about creating TRUTH on stage. 

Q - Why do we want to create truth on stage?

We started the session by playing a game called ‘I don’t believe you!’ 

Q- Why did we play this game?
Q- What did you learn from watching it / being part of it?

Write about one of the people that took part in the game (Chem, Tyler, Kimberley, TJ, Skye, Ursula) - 
Q- What situation were they entering the room from? 
Q- How were they able to show truth? 
Q- What they change each time they entered the room? 
Q- Were they successful in creating a truthful performance? How? Why?

After the break we explored breaking bad news using non-verbal communication.

Q- What is non-verbal communication?
Q- What scene did you create and who did you work with?
Q- How did you make sure the scenes were truthful? 
Q- What other pair did you think were successful and why?

We then looked at SUBTEXT and I introduced you briefly to a theatre practitioner called Stanislavski. He created the theatre genre that we have now called Naturalism. 

Task: Look up Stanislavski, find a picture of what he looks like and create a short fact-file on him. 

You worked on a piece of text. You explored Leah’s first monologue. You worked with a partner to work out the subtext of the monologue. You need to UPLOAD the text you annotated to show what you did.

Q- What is subtext?
Q- Why did we work out the subtext of the monologue? 
Q- Did it help you to have a better understanding of the character? 


Last question...

Q- WHY will a truthful performance be important to our performance of DNA? 

Lesson 2 - 15th November 2012

Today’s lesson focused on creating the history of a character and exploring what we know from the text.

Task 1:

Firstly in groups of 5 you created a 1 minute version of the play ‘DNA’

Answer these questions:

Q - Why did you do this?
Q- How did it help you? 
Q- What did you notice about all of the pieces that were created? Were their moments that were the same?

We discussed the role of the postman - a character that is never seen and doesn’t speak.

Q- What is the importance of this character in the play? 

Task 2:

You created 4 huge ROLE-ON-THE-WALLS for the characters: Phil, Leah, Brian and Adam. 

Answer these questions:

Q- Why did we create these?
Q- Did you find out anything new about the character your group worked on?

Below are videos of the role-on-the-walls you created.
You can copy these onto your blogs...or make a link to here!

 





Logbook task:
Find a piece of music on youtube that you think sums up your character. Put this on your blog. 

Task 3:

You created a scene to show the backstory of the character you worked on.

Answer these questions:

Q- What is a backstory?

Q- Why is it important for actors to understand their character’s backstory?
Q -What did you create as a snapshot of your character’s world? Describe what you did and link you choices to the play.
Q - What did another group create? Was it effective, why? 

Task 4:

We discussed the ideas of Nature V Nurture. Are we a product of our environment? Yes or No? Justify your thoughts.

Check back tomorrow for more questions and videos! 

Lesson 1 - 8th November 2012

--> What an exciting start to our new project with a pleasant interruption by Will Bailey - Silver and Bronze medallist from the Paralympic Games 2012!

Aside from this brilliant experience you all had you do need to complete some important response work for the section of text you read in today's lesson.

Answer the questions below about the scenes we have read so far:

Questions

• What is your first response to reading the play? Do you like it? Discuss your response to the characters and the plot.
• What are the THEMES of the text?
• What are you most looking forward to during this project? 
• What do you think the challenges will be of this project?

Answer the the questions above by Thursday please...I will be checking your blogs...