Lesson logs

On or first lesson back, we looked at acting through our eyes to make our acting much more realistic to the audience on how we feel and how we are able to connect with them more. We had to think of a past experience and then look at a partner and make sure that only our eyes changed and none of our facial expressions has changed. The partner would point out if anything else had changed and you would have to revert back to your original position. We then made sure that we went into a scene with using our eyes the most and noticing that sometimes, the small features like the eyes can be more powerful than moving your whole body.

Next lesson we did speech. This his how you talk. We went into a line and we really emphasised on our vowels. We each had to say a vowel each and keep on doing this until everyone had said every vowel. We then had to say tongue twisters but act like we was saying it to like 10 year olds. We then got back into our line and said this one by one whilst overlapping each other making us think and we had to make sure that we was saying the tongue twisters right as well. We still had to make sure that we weretking like we was talking to 10 year olds. We then had to put an emotion of our choice into it aswell meaning that we had to go over the top to make sure that the audience would stay interested.

The next lesson, we started to act like  objects. We weren't allowed to think of what we were doing, we had to go straight into it. One person was like the feature of the area and the rest had to be parts of the area. Like if the feature was lava, the rest of us had to act like other things in a volcano. We could be like tumbling rocks or other lava or parts of a volcano. Others included being snowflakes, polar bears and penguins. We moved into objects to make it harder to imitate an animal. This helped be as an actor because when you act as an object, it's your interpretation on what you do. You just have to make sure you do it with confidence as nobody can tell you that it's wrong.

We had also looked at examples of storytelling to primary school children like when we watched a clip from the CBeebies where we watched the presenter tell the story. We then discussed the techniques that she used and talked about how we could put certain elements of that performence into ours.