For me its' a new experience in my life, a experience that will fill our knowledge and will give us skills to get a better development in our future. Each person is unknown for me, but I know this will change with the time, I hope we get along together so we can share more things and good moments.

'Identity' is our new and first project in the year,

UAL Level 2    Week 3- September 2016

On Monday 26th September: 
Blog Lesson: We begin writing in the blogs about what we have done in the previously days.
Acting Lesson: We started the class with our groups. Rob gave us a box with two little papers and each group had to pick one paper. My group pick The Waiting Room  and the other group, The School. After, each group had to create a scene.

On Tuesday 27th September : 
Acting Lesson:  First we started the class lining the chairs up against the wall and everyone had to write what does Identity meant to us, we then swapped to the person next to us and had to read them all out. Later on, we get back in the groups we were in lat time, one group went out to the other class to practice the School scene. meanwhile we stay in the class practicing with our groups.
Movement Lesson:  At the start of the class we had to choose a partner that we wanted to portray then  move, as if we were them, our partner had to try and replicate our chosen character as best to their ability, for example: me and my partner had to choose a famous character, and we had to move as if we were that person. We moved onto various stretching exercises allowing us to improve flexibility and more easy movement skills.
Production Lesson:  We worked in groups at themes of Fairness and Prejudice. We looked at a presentation which made us look at different people in order to see who got the role as the Engineer. Before being allowed to choose who we want, we had to look thought each different aspect of their personality and make an unprejudiced decision about firing each one based of who they are  but also what they could offer to the job, for example someone was bisexual but had no engineering history whereas they had a competitor who was transsexual but had a history of engineering so was the better choice for the job.

On Thursday 29th September:
Acting lesson. We began working on our acting piece called 'Identity'. It started with the chairs being lined up in the centre on the theatre, then people had to speak out about what identity meant to them, but when it got to me I had to say "Identity is me, can't you see, me" but I had to say it in Spanish which helped to promote cultural diversity which links into our piece as it is all about equality between people. We then moved on to setting out the chairs and tables to the correct placement that we would act out the scenes for the audience. My group and I acted out our work after seeing the first groups' scene, our scene started off by having my group in the 'waiting room' for the house letting agency, Dylan was the first to stand up and go over to Brad who was playing the part Housing Agent, he acted as a rich teenager who had been thrown out of his house by his father. He acted as if he didn't care about anything as when he was asking about the re-housing, he was on his phone not paying attention and then he took a picture with the agent, the person then looked at Dylan as if he was crazy. After finding a suitable place , Dylan was disgusted that the housing agent had offered him a flat after coming from such a rich background. After telling him that was all they could offer, he then bribed the housing agent who then took a second glance at the housing book and found a luxurious 4 bedroom house in Cricklewood. Soon, after Dylan left another person came up looking for a house, but after looking at his demeanor, the housing agent, regardless of the person's situation.

On Friday 30th September:
 Blog Lesson. We spent the whole class typing in our blogs and editing. Then, we got Acting Lesson.  We continue practicing the play Identity, we add more things to it and make sure everything it's perfect.


                                        UAL Level 2        Week 4- October 2016

Monday 3rd October:
Blog Lesson: We focused typing in our blogs. Later on, all the class did an activity. We looked at different rights and conventions of the European Union and had to pick 4 which stood out most to us as a drama group. Previously, we had to get into groups of five and pick four rights out of 12 which meant the most to us as a group.After, we have to explain all the reasons for why we chose those rights, For Example: choosing the Right To Liberty was good because as a group we all believed in the right to have our own personal well being safe guarded and protected by overpowering bodies such as the government and the want to feel secure as a person. In my opinion doing those activities is very good because we know each other better in the class.

Acting Lesson: We went through the theater further developing the play 'Identity'. We worked on the beginning of the play until the end. At the start of the play we decided to have us all speak about what identity meant to us, but ten, we prefer to shortened it down to people who took ideas from other people as well as themselves. A few minutes later, we focused more on The School scene, the part of the detention by looking more at actor placement on stage and the position the scenes will mainly be directed at the audience. Then, we worked more on the further development of the scenes at the end when The Housing scene is happening, we did this: A foreign person comes in looking for a house, the housing agent who is racist tells her to go away as she does not want the likes of her in the country. The foreign person looks toward the audience and says "Soy humano no menos" that means "I'm a human none the less", After that, the whole group come and speak that line in different languages, for example: Spanish, German, Italian and French and they keep repeating 3 times slowly and with authority.
This is my favorite scene as a this helps the audience understand about the individuality,fairness and an insight to the possible abuse that certain foreign people may get when they going somewhere looking for help.

Tuesday 4th October:
Acting lesson: Keep on practicing out the production of Identity, we were repeating the scenes repeatedly, whilst making some improvement to various different things such as movement, voice exaggeration and gestures. Overall  we decided that it would be better if we over exaggerated the whole of the play as before it was basic and too naturalistic so it needed something else to create emphasis and to excite the audience all the way throughout.
Later on, Level 3 second year students, came in to the theater and we had to perform what we have done to them. Doing this was extremely useful because they have more experience acting, so they can help us to improve things and add more staff to it. They also gave us a lot of things that we could improve on things like certain people in the group were not acting as if they were  a character they were playing as if they were just reading lines from a book.
Upon hearing this, made us think that every time we have to perform we have to be more into the character.

Movement lesson: At the start of the class, we began to incorporate themes of musical theater in our production which allows us to develop and build more on our gestures and body movements and gestures towards the audience while the play is going on, for example, we looked at the scene where we show the audience the sexist stereotypical views on the male and female gender such as make-up for girls and football for boys. We worked on these by adding better movements to signalize the different stereotypes and how to better link them with what we are trying to show the audience. Then, After this, we did multiple run through with changes to the whole performance base on the new movement actions and gestures we created in the movement lesson.

Production Lesson: Went trough further develop our essay about our certain roles in the theater.

 Thursday 6th October
Acting Lesson:  On Thursday we worked in a different room 226, (drama room) focusing on improving the performing Identity. In my opinion, I think it would be better if we were working in the theater, because that room was too small, so we did not have the space to put the chair lay out with all the scene movements as the space was very tight.
Then, after practicing the scenes few times, we were able to work on the ending scenes such as the housing agent scene, what  we do were improve the bodily movements, language and spacing in relation to the audience, further, we had to fill in for a person because they weren't in which was good as it allowed us to continue working without problems.

Friday 7th October
Acting Lesson: We did  the same as the day before. Work on our Identity piece in a different room 222.  This room was bigger than the other one, so we had more space to work the scene for the layout of the chairs to be placed. Also, we were allow to improve on our work. Which makes it better and more cleaner when we actually performs it to the audience. After we were talking about how we are gonna organized everything for the day of the performance.

                                

UAL Level 2      Week 5-  October  2016

Monday 10th October
Blog session: Just started the lesson where we carried on working and updating our blogs with Rebbecca.We spent the whole class doing the same.
Acting Lesson: Soon, after we he had class with Rob. In the class we just  reviewed the things that we looked at in our previous tutorial lessons and completed a test consolidating our new knowledge on the subjects.

Tuesday 11th October
Acting Lesson:  Had a lesson with Rob where we improve the play Identity in the theater, as we are doing in these last week. Then, we moved the chairs on stage and Rob teach us a few games. One of the games called The Expert, was made to use placement and body language on stage. During this game there was an expert on a topic who spoke in a made-up and a translator who had to work with the expert and look at the body language in order to give replies. Then, we played another game in which we were not allowed to say 'Yes' or 'No'. Basically, we had to reply to the person in the best possible way as the same as try and survive for one minute.
Movement Lesson:  In this lesson we didn't do dance because the teacher wanted to see the play and the guys of musical theater were there so we used concepts from musical to make certain parts more extravagant and less naturalistic which is what was wanted from the acting teacher. Then, after the teacher sees the play, she advice us what we had to improve. I think that helped us a lot, because we could change change some mistakes that we had made.
Production Lesson: In production classes we had been talking  about the types of violence we can find about 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.

Thursday 13th October
Acting Lesson:  We have been practicing for the final touching of the presentation, making sure that every single details was perfect, since we have only one left for the presentation, so we have to make sure that we don't miss anything.

Friday 14th October

• On this day we finally acted our performance on Identity for member of the college: Level 3 Performing Arts class, Level 2 and level 3 Music class. It was amazing for all the people in the team who performed because we spent a really long time practicing for this. We engaged the public during the whole play giving the best of us. This makes me think that they really enjoy every second of the play. After this,we watched a range of musicals; their voices were really powerful and incredible.  I really appreciate every single moment, it was amazing.

                                                        The Identity Project 

Artistic and Technical Targets: 

One of my main targets was to learn how to develop new skills to increase my self-confidence by handling what I do, fulfill my responsibilities at 100% and more.
Another target was being able to get into the character as every character requires different abilities for instants. The character I play had to focus on the tone of voice and non-verbal communication: Body language and facial expression.
My third and last target was being able to improvise, this is essential to perform in stage because every minute counts. It's a way to show cooperation to one to another.

Devising Process Issues:
There were a couple of issues while devising the scenes, this was because all the group had to pick what scene actually do as the overall part in the play, for example: some members of my group and I had various different ideas about what to do or the principal piece at the start of the whole project and as we acted out each little idea we decided which one would best display the idea of the play Identity to the audience and we ended up choosing school and background.

Our Strengths and Weaknesses:
My strengths in this play were:

• Our tone of voice as I am bilingual (I can speak Spanish and English) because the character that I had needed to have an accent of another country. Also, when I stood up I had to talk in Spanish and had to say 'soy humana no menos'. So that was easy for me because I speak Spanish.
• The use of space and movement was effective as I had to be aware of the equipment around in order to get the best positions and gestures to get a good body language.

My weaknesses in this play were:

• I hesitate when I was speaking as while I was speaking I would not take care of my tone when  I was delivering my lines.
• As a character, my visual contact was not good as I felt nervous during the part when I stood up and said my lines. 
• Another weaknesses during the play was my facial expression as at times I would not support it with the lines. For example, when I had to be angry, I smiled a bit instead of getting angry.

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 during the practices some people did not take it seriously. I think the audience liked the play because after the play all of us got congratulations from members of the audience and teachers. In technical aspects, I can say that everything was very organized, clean and we did what we expected to do on that day.

                                    UAL Level 2          Week 6- November 2016

(Monday and Tuesday we didn't have class)

November Thursday 3rd

Silent Film:

• The new project that our teacher brought it's called "Silent Film". What does that mean? Silent Film is a an acting performance based on do only movement, no script in the hand, basically the actor has to show a clear idea just using the physical language body.

Acting Lesson:At the beginning of the lesson all of us sat in a semi-circle and read through the assignment together, making sure we understand correctly every single line of what the assignment consisted of. Further, we also was talking about the main important elements of the assignment as a group such as the way we would need to use body expression and features. After the semi-circle, all of us did a body warm up to get our body relaxed and in order to improve on our isolation of certain body parts. I think doing this is very good, since we get our body relaxed and in order to improve on our isolation of certain body parts. At the end, we did another exercise where all the group had to pretend that we were holding an iron bar and had to move it around. Then, we had to do it by our self and had to show it by one by one.

Friday November 4th
Acting lesson: At the start of the lesson we go through body warm including various different exercises to help us to relax our bodies. After doing this we finally moved onto a teeth cleaning exercise where we had to mime cleaning our teeth as a group, then we had to do it in front of each other one by one with Rob adding more stuff on such as miming popping a spot on our face then going to open the door. I think this helped us a lot because we felt so relaxed after doing the exercises.
After we did some exercise

UAL Level 2      Week 7- November 2016

Monday November 7th:
Blog Lesson: We had a new project in production class. The first day we watched a video about Britney Spears, Rebbecca gave us a shit with some questions to answer them, we must had to pay attention to the video because all of the answer and the details about them were there.
The reason for this is to make us an idea and see how the stars have a team working behind everything. We've as a team had to choose an artist, and had to start organizing everything as if an star is coming to London. We did the questions because it was a test to see how well we can depict answers for questions from watching the video itself and to advanced our ability to understand themes from different production.

Acting Lesson: At the beginning of the lesson we started to go through the introduction to the assignment which is based on the creation of a silent film/movie. Then after that we did a big circle with everyone. we went through the things we would be doing in the assignment and important elements of the production such as 'exaggerated movement' and the use of body language. Then we moved onto a quick body warm up including stretches and exercises such as rolling our ears over to our shoulders and different balance exercises such as standing on one foot and writing out name imagining if there was a pen between our toes. This helps us as it allows us to relax our muscles which then helps us to move more freely that can help us in our production as it means we can then use our bodies to show more emphasis. Subsequently we were practicing the movement with the hands, imagining that it was a iron bar. At the beginning it was kind of difficult, but then we found easier to do it.



Tuesday November 8th:  
Acting lesson: At the start of the lesson we began doing some warm ups, as we normally do in some of the majority of the classes. In my opinion this helped us a lot as it was the same lesson where we started to begin our ideas on the new play. Then, we had to moved in to our groups and make a scene based around each sentence that we were given. My group were given 'The Missing', Firstly, we started to discuss and explore different ideas for the film. Then, we as a group decided to improvise so we did a short play:

During a winter afternoon, a little girl and her mother were going to visit to her mother's friend. After a long time walking they arrived to the house. The woman opened the door and they started to talk but the little girl was really bored so she started to explore the area and she left. She was thinking about what to play while she was walking. She started to dream about candies, witches etc. But all of the sudden a man pop out. He had a strange appearance to her but she did  not mind, she wanted someone to play. He offered her a candy, she did not think about it, immediately she took it. Then, in less than a blink of an eye, she was in the middle of darkness. He kidnapped her.

So that was the history that we made.



Movement Lesson: We started the class with something new, there was a board with numbers from 1 to 8, each number has a exercise for example: 1. Run, 2.Walk, 3.Jump, etc.. Mandy has to say the numbers and we had to do whats the number say. We did this for about 20 minutes until everyone was warmed up. In my opinion doing this is very good as we can relaxed a lot our muscles. After, we moved onto doing our stretches before moving our bodies into our core exercises. I think it took longer than we expected because every time someone didn't know how to do it, we had to start again. After we finished, we move on to our 8-count dance routine to improve it. We did it twice: first time with music and the second time without music in order to remember the steps. Then, we had to find a partner to dance with, however there was a fire alarm so we had to stop.

Production lesson: In this lesson we had a supply teacher who showed us an example of his production in order to create and build on our own work so we could come up with a new outcome.


Thursday 10th November:
Acting Lesson: In this day we just had only one lesson in which my team and I worked on in the new project that we started in this week, as I mention before we were not sure about the main idea of the project since everyone contributed with a lot of ideas. Then, my group and I just did the same as we did before, on Tuesday.

Friday 11th November
Acting Lesson: At the start of the lesson we were told to come up with an idea for a new comedic silent film based around a different idea, it was kind of difficult, since we had the idea of before.

That was the only lesson we had in the day.

UAL Level 2      Week 8- November 2016

Monday 14th November 
Blog Session: We worked straight on our blogs, updating them as we do on the majority of the classes.
Acting Lesson: When we started the lesson, Rob gave us a speech, we had to found a partner. my partner was Bruno and Mackenzie. The speech had three letters: A, B and C. Bruno was A, I was B and Mackenzie was C: each letter had a sentence. So we had to learn our phrase and add more words. our play was about a relationship 'Bruno and  me' who unfortunately we broke up because he was cheating on me with Mackenzie, who supposed to be my best friend. In my opinion our play was marvelous, like others plays.



Tuesday 15th November
Acting Lesson: To relax ourselves, bodies and to get better focused on the work, we started the lesson doing a semi circle and a full body and warm-up as we do sometimes in the class. After we finish to do the exercises, we play a game which is called 'This is not a book'. The game consist: The whole class had to pretend that the glasses case was anything, for example we used the glasses case as a phone, a remote and a gun. I think doing this exercises helped to improved our improvisation skills as we had to think this up on the spot. Almost finishing the lesson, we completed a small set of lines from a script , we had to learn the scrip, add some improvisation and ten act it out.



Movement Lesson:  At the start of the class we did a warm up to relax our muscles, then we did the board number ( 1. Run, "2.Walk, 3.Jump, etc.. After, we did more core strength exercises with a plank in the circle, crunches and leg-raises.
Later on, we continue practicing our dance routines and began working in our group to develop it into an nice actual piece. A few minutes later, we had to perform it for the class.



Production Lesson: We had been doing our project about the artist that we choose for our projects.
Then we had to choose one picture of the artist we had been choose and the kind of publicity they get then we started to create a picture of the own artist, we had to make a publicity of it pictures.
The rest of the week we were working in our blogs.



Thursday 17th November: 
Acting Lesson: We didn't go to the normal class as we always do, we went to the dance studio. Then Rob gave us a script and we had to act it out with the idea of add on more things to the script. After, we sat down and had to see the rest of the groups acting out.



Friday 18th November: 
Blog Session:  In this lesson we were talking about many pictures of some artist and the kind of publicity they get. Then, we continue doing our project about the artist that we choose for our projects.



Acting Lesson: Started the class with some exercises. After some groups were allowed to go as they were almost to finish there Silent Movie. My group and the other group didn't finish the project so we had to stay in the class working on it.

              Week 9- November 2017

This week in performing arts we had been practicing in our silent movie, doing exercises so we can be more confident in what we are doing.

 Monday 21st November:  
Blog Session: Continue doing our blogs and updating improving the poster we had been doing.

Acting Lesson:  We continue practicing the Silent Movie with Rob, he helped us a lot.




Tuesday 22nd November:
Acting Lesson: We started the class with an activity.We had to find a pair and put a chair looking each other. Person A tells a story about what they do in the morning to person B and person B do the same. Then everyone swaps partners and they tell their new partners the story they just heard from their old partner.After that they swap again and do the same, they tells the history they just heard to their new partner (about their old partner' old partner).

Then we had to get into groups of four or five and discuss all our stories. After we had to pick one story or mix the stories into one story and make it into a silent movie piece. In y group was Pedro, Mya and Nerissa. Suddenly, each group did a silent movie. In my group each person acted describing  by itself what they do in the morning.

At the end, we watched all the groups acting their history. It was funny and entertaining to see all the stories.

Movement Lesson: To relax our bodies and to help us to be more focused on the class, we started the class with warm up as we regularly do. Later on, we were finish the exercises, we then did a improving the certain dance of moves that we had been working in the lasts lessons before. As we always do when we create a dance, had to show it to the class and watch the rest of the class.

Production Lesson:   Had to finish the poster as we did the last lesson.

Thursday 24th November:
Acting Lesson: We were practicing about our silent movie. Later on, we went to the music room studio to act for the musician to show them each part of our play, in this way they can  have an idea for created the soundtrack for our play.


November Friday 25th:    
Production Lesson:  Some of us were working on our posters that we had created or to work on our works to finish it.

Acting Lesson:    In this class all of us were doing exercises to work in our imagination. The game consisted in: We had to be in a group of four, the teacher gave us a country or movie and we had to created physical poses, example:
-Australia, we did kangaroo.
-Spain, we did a bull or woman dancing "Flamenco".
-Avatar, someone supposed to be on the floor.
The last thing we did was make a movie of our own and the teacher had to guess which it was.

UAL Level 2         Week 10- November 2017

Monday 28th November
Blog lesson:  We started the lesson doing some blogs. Then, we completed some test and updated our personal achievements in the page of Pro-portal.

Acting Lesson:   Part of the class went to record the scenes for the Silent Movie for the first time. The rest we just went home.

Tuesday 29th November  

Acting Lesson: In this lesson we did some exercises. One of them was the repetition of the letters: C,G, L, N, D, T, M, P, B, the we had to said BAH. This is very good because doing this activity helps us with our speech confidence and pronunciation and helped with the use of our diaphragm which allowed us to be clearer with our speech and put more emphasis into convinced words.  Later on, we finished of completing those activity. We did an activity where there was a water bottle, a chair and a table and we had to arrange it in a way that the water bottle supposed to be the most important thing.  In my opinion I think that doing these exercises helps us to focus better on the class.

Movement Lesson:  Started the class doing the same exercises that we did the last 2 weeks ago. There was a board with activities. 1. Run. 2. Walk, 3.Jump. Then we had to work with  a partner of the same high as us to used each others strength to pull on each other and get up.

Production Lesson:  All of us were allowed to go home early. So we didn't had lesson.



Thursday 1st December

 Acting Lesson: Started the class with a semi circle where we had to do some exercises. The first one was Twister. We did this to improved our pronunciation of certain words.  After this the teacher gave us some white paper to write down any sentence on it, we had to tell him an emotion and an environment this was to make a game at the end of the class. Then, we did a running acting where the other person had to put his foot in front of me with the purposed to make me fall down. 

Friday 2nd December

Blog Lesson: We continued doing our blogs.

Acting Lesson: We had a really enthusiastic class where it consisted in taking a couple and be in front of it, then we had to walk towards it and give a handshake, we did this around 4 times and we had to do it with our close, we did it twice. After that, we did many plays where the teacher gave us a sentence and we had to use it but in each of them we had to change the person who we were acting with. 

UAL Level 2 Week 12 -January 2017

   The Dumb Waiter

• The Dumb Waiter which is play by Harold Pinter is our new project in Acting lesson. This play consist of two men who are assassins hiding in the basement of a restaurant. In the class, Rob gave us a pair, my pair is Mya. We were doing some practice.  We practiced our voices, movement, interpretation, we care a lot about our characters details. I am playing the character of Ben from pages 2-3. He is a bit aggressive, he shouts a lot, every little thing that Gus does, annoys Ben. We can see this, demonstrated through the amount of questions that Gus asks him throughout the play and Ben dependency on him to answer them, which also shows us that Gus is not smart enough on his own. In the scene there are 4 chairs 2 opposite each other. At the start of the scene I am reading from a newspaper, Gus is talking to me all the time and I get annoyed because he is talking things that don't make sense to me, like talking about a cop rim and that things.

UAL Level 2       Week 13-  January 2017

January Thursday 12th: 
Acting lesson: Instead of start doing the lesson we went to the theater to watch Level 3 acting. There was three  groups, in each group there was about 5-6 people. In my opinion all groups did it very well, they caught my attention, I feel the play, everything was understood , they done it so clearly. I amused myself a lot. Also some of the acting make me laugh.
After they finish they performing, all groups of  Performing arts (Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3) did a semi-circle where we did a lot of activities and join people. The first activity was:

•  We had to work with another person that we had not worked with before or we didn't know before. I closed my eyes and my partner had to hold me and walked around the theater meanwhile my eyes are closed.
• All the class sat down on the floor with the head down, someone is up and he made us some questions and we had to answered them when we thought no one was about to do it.
• After that we had to make a group of 5-6 each group had to do a little movie scene and the rest groups could guess what movie was.

And more activities. I really enjoyed doing the games because I knew people that I never seen before, also I learned a lot of things.

January Friday 13th:
Production lesson: Continue doing our blogs making sure we updated everything.

                                                   Week 14  January 16th-20th


On Monday 16th January:
Production Lesson:  We came in to Rebecca's class and did our blogs and that was our only class in the day.

On Tuesday 17th January: our first lesson was with Rob we came in and continue practicing  The Dumb Waiter where we stated reading the script and reading character analysis with our partner. Later on we had Movement lesson with Mandy, what we did was warm-up as we always do, I like to do this because this helped me to release stress and after I feel too relax and much ready to start the lesson.

On Thursday 19th January:  What we did was continue proceeding the play. We spent the majority of the lesson practicing with our partner. After all of the class also made a semi circle where we did several exercises, tongue twister, full body warm-up which included a lot of different stretches. We did this because it helped to relax us and prepare us for rehearsals.
I liked doing this because I felt relaxed and I enjoyed a lot with all my class partners.
Production Lesson: 
On Friday 20th January: We start the lesson doing blogs as we always do

Week 15 January 23th-27th

Production Lesson:

On Monday 23th January
We had Blog Session with Rebecca.  We had to finish to upload our blogs and make sure we wrote everything. Later on we had Acting Lesson, we began with a semi circle doing a full body and warm up. Suddenly, after aforementioned, we moved onto further practicing our piece on the Dumb Waiter. In my opinion, I really enjoyed doing the warm up, we should do more warm up, as a result of  that we would feel more relaxed and calm.

On Tuesday 24th January Our's first class on the day was Acting lesson with Rob, we continue practicing our lines with our partners. We improved a lot in our skills and added more staff to the play. Later, all of us rehearsed together, from the top to the end.
Later on, we had Movement Lesson with Mandy. In this class we began with the Board Number warm-up including stretching and different muscle workouts, we repeat the session a couple of times for 30 minutes. Then we were done with out warm up we spent the lesson creating a new piece which was to performed as slowly as possible. after we were practicing for the lesson we then had to performed to the class by our self.
Afterwards, we had Production Lesson. In this lesson we looked at a few examples of model boxes the were used a bases for concert layouts. We see a few different examples before being given the task of coming up with a shopping list of things that we need to create our own model boxes for our concert that we will be producing in the class.

On Thursday 26th January. 
Acting Lesson. In this class, a photographer came in to take pictures to all of us meanwhile we was practicing and doing group activities. These activities included freeze frames, image making and movie scene recreations. After we have finish the activities we continue practice the scenes on our Dumb Waiter Performance, we continue

On  Friday 27th February At the start of the lesson we went through to Acting Lesson and   we practiced  The Dumb Waiter with our partner to make sure we know correctly our speech. 

Week 16 January 30th-4th February 

On Monday 30th January
 we had Blog Session with Rebecca. We went through worked on our blogs writing what we did in class last weeks.

On Tuesday 31st January 
our first class was Acting Lesson. At the start of the class all of us started with a warm-up combined stretching, vocal-ups such as tongue twisters, humming repetition of letters like: C, G, L, N, D, T, B.  As we did in some lessons before. We did those exercises to have better pronunciation and to improve our articulation of letters, in that way our words are well said and they are heard much better clear. Each time I do these exercises I feel relaxed and better prepared to start the class .
After we finish completed our body and vocal warm up, we then get focused on working on our performance with our partner, we have been practiced a lot until the class ended.

Movement Lesson: At the beginning of the lesson as usual we made a small warm-up, example: moving around the room, walking, running and jump. After we did the warming up and exercising we then go into our groups and began to join all our pieces together that we had been working on the last lesson. What we had to do is mix all the movements that we have been doing with our groups to create one large piece. At the end we had to show it to the examiner.

Production Lesson:

 

Week 17 February  6th-10th

On Monday 

Week 18 February 20th-24th

Blog Seccion:

On Monday
Blog session: all of the class has to focused on working on our blogs trying to add much details as we can. This includes the things that we did on the last term, Acting lesson, Movement lesson and Blog session.

On Tuesday the first class was Acting Lesson. In this lesson we were given

Acting Lesson:

In the class we got into a semi-circle and Naomi went to the computer to write up al of our ideas. We started writing all the different foods that would be stereotyped to a country, for example Spain had Paella and England had Fish and Chips. I said Mangu which is a typical plate of food from the Dominican Republic. Then the next person if they wanted to, spoke about their families history with immigration which could then be used in our performances, but only 2 people in our class had a story to use. The story I liked most was Abdul's grandfathers story which was very sad, we then thought of ways that we could adapt it and use it for our performance.

Movement Lesson:

We started this lesson by talking about our new assignemt which was based around thai chi, we had to research it at the beginning and find out as much as we could about it. I found out that it originated in China but when it was started is unknown. Then after that activity we watched a video of a woman demonstrating different movement styles. So then after that we practiced doing them with the video playing in the background for reference.

Technical Production Lesson:

In this lesson we were given blank outlines of people and had to draw on the costume that we wanted our chosen performer to wear.

                               Week 19- March 6th-10th



On Monday 6th March  we just have 2 lessons, our first class as always was Production lesson, we came in and continue edit our blogs. The second one was Acting Lesson with Rob. We started the class and rehearsed the new topic, is about Immigration and racist.


On Tuesday 7th March our first lesson was Acting Lesson:  We tried to learn our monologue, also, we had to take pic of monologues and explain it and use the four questions.
 Then we had Movement Lesson:  In this class we had to do a monologue to show it to Mandy, she gave us 20-30 minutes to practiced the script. After we have practiced, she called us one by one to tell her the speech. When I did it, she gave me some advice, one of them was to tell someone who speaks English very well and get them to record them saying my monologue so that I could learn it easier and be better with the articulation and pronunciation of the letters and words and to help me with this I chose Brad because he speaks very clear and I can understand what he says perfectly. 
On Thursday 9th March  In the morning we had Acting Lesson

Week 21- March 13th-17th

On Monday 13th
Blog Session: On this week we came In and finish the rest of the blogs as we always do.



Acting Lesson:  All along the class we spent on practising #Weareallimmigrants production. We changed some of the scenes around and moved them to different places throughout the performance. We keep doing this until the lesson finish.


Tuesday 14th March
Acting Lesson: As every Monday, we spent the majority of the lesson just going through our performance practicing the scenes and trying to improve our mistakes and add more things to the play.
Movement Lesson: In this lesson we didn't do any movement lesson as we always do. We just were practicing the monologues of our choice that we had been learning, this due to the waiting time took the majority of the lesson and were allowed to leave when finished.
Production Lesson: Came to the class and talked about the play Burn. Then, continue typing in our blogs as we always do.


Friday 16th March
Blog Session: All of us wrote up all the things that we miss on the blogs.
(We did not have acting lesson because the teacher was not in.)

                                       Week 26- June 2017

Monday 5th June 2017
Today we didn't go to Blog Session because we have to make sure that we know every single line in the play since we just have 10 days left to perform the play Birdman. Some of us didn't know the lines so we continue practicing, specially scene 9, 10 and the last scene.



This is the grass,  this is gonna be in the scene of the park. As you can see, we put some of logs, leaves and a green blanket. In this way we can make it look like a park. Its gonna be difficult to deal with it, since its's a bit small and in some scenes 3/4 people have to be sitting in the same grass, but in the end we will get used to it.

In this image we can see The River. We put large rocks and long trunks with a big blue blanket to represent the water. This will be very necessary for the performance as the majority of the scenes its gonna be in the river.

Tuesday 6th June 2017
Acting lesson: At the beginning of the lesson we started practicing all the scenes. We just practice the scenes that we had to improve. I think we have to improve a lot in some scenes in particular, since some people do not know their lines so that slows us down a lot.



Thursday 8th June 2017

• Today we just saw a play in the theater. Since we didn't had Acting Lesson. 

Friday 9th June 2017:
Blog Session: Starting the lesson writing in our blogs. Becca gave us the poster that we had done before