Weekly Log Book - Storytelling Performance - 23rd - 25th Jan

Wednesday 23rd jan -

today in drama my group decided that we would change a few things, like we need to add a song and have more interaction with the audience. and yvonne didnt realy agree with this, all she thought her character shoud do is sit there, far away from the audience, not introduce herself to the kids as the narrator, and refused to the narrator as an old lady. so the rest of us we had enough because it was getting beyond a joke, so she stormed off. so that left me cameron and simone to work by oursleves.

today we didnt get much done, because of the problems we encountered.

Thursday 24th jan -

today in drama was much better, in my opinion. yesterday was all forgotten about and we moved on and made way with the changes that we wanted to make. so to begin with we began work on the narrator and at first yvonne was a little aprehensive, bu she reluctantly moved on. then it came o the end of lesson and i asked the group what song are we going to use. we had a little discussion about it and we al decided that we should the goodbye song from bear in the big blue house. but, it needed to be rewritten because, some of the lyrics were not relevant to our story so. i rewrote it. this is now our song:

(highlighted text is to be spoken)

Mr/H: Hey, this was really fun

MS/H:  We hope you liked it too

The Hare: Seems like we've just begun

Old Woman: When suddenly we're through

Together:  Goodbye, goodbye, good friends, goodbye

Together: Cause now it's time to go

Old woman: But, hey, I say, well, that's OK

MS/H: Cause we'll see you very soon, I know

The Hare: Very soon, I know

Together: Goodbye, goodbye, good friends, goodbye

Mr/H: And tomorrow, just like today

Together:
The hare, the hedgehogs and narrator too,
We'll be waiting for you to come and play
To come and play, to come and play

Together:  Bye now!

and we were told by nick, that the hedgehogs to do some cornish accents but because simone can't do one, we had to drop it because it would just be really silly, if one of us were doing it and the other weren't. its not like it would be silly it was silly enough which it was supposed to be its just felt like it was too out of contrast. just because were doing childrens theatre and we can be silly for the children but it still needs that sense of reality, because it is all about indulging the children into a make belief world.

Friday 25th Jan -

Today in drama we carried on with the rehearsels for our T I E project, and today my group for the hare and the hedgehog decided to try and work the song into the piece, and at first we were having a bit of trouble with it, because our ending was, supposed to be me and mrs hedgehog walk of and the hare runs away. but we had to change a lot of the dialogue, so now the ending is, the hedgehogs win and offer mr hare a peace-offering, the we all freeze then i unfreeze and say my line then simone then cameron then yvonne then we all stamp our feet on the ground and that is our cue to start the song. the we begin, and whilst are singing we go down the side of the kids and hand out flowers which we made, and then we say by, then we walk off leaving yvonne on stage and she does the moral of the story and and finishes and we also decided that the song is going to be done in our characters, so the hedgehogs will sound very silly the hare will sound posh, and the narrator will sound old and cough every now and then during the song.                                                          

Weekly Log Book 1 - Storytelling Performance - 14th Jan - 18th Jan

Monday 14th Jan -

We began with warm up with Nick, and we done the form and lying down on our back's trying to stretch our spine, and in the form we added a new step, so instead of going down and then standing up, we go down straighten our back then lift our head up and then we stand up into the last position.

After warm up we had double drama and we were in our groups and we just kept on going over our fairytale, blocking it and making sure that every movement had a purpose and also making sure that every line we said wasn't chewed and also checking to make sure that all the lines were sensible and had no bad language.

After drama we had gary's lesson and we were just doing our hot seating, and we had to take notes on eachother's hot seating and take notes. Only half of the class done their hot seating yesterday and the rest of us are going tomorrow!

Tuesday 15th Jan -

We began warm up with gary and, we talked about our next drama school mock audition and, we
also done some work on our Storytelling performance pieces. So, we were asked to join to our groups and to make our version of the story a silent piece, and at first it was hard work because we only had like 15 minutes to do it, so first thing was first. we had to block bit by bit in silence, then we performed it, and the idea of this warm up exercise was so that gary could guess what the story was before we told him what it was, and he got it dead on, so, whatever were doing, we are doing it right so we just gotta keep up with it.

then we had tutorial and we just done our online blog entry's, then went to lunch.

after lunch we had jackie's lesson and we learnt some lines from a play, and some vocal warm up exercises. then we had gary's lesson, and we done the hot seating well the final part and it was my turn. and i think i Flopped BIG TIME! he asked a question and he said, " have you ever done any shakespeare before", so i referred to the time when i played Friar Laurence in Romeo And Juliet, but for a second i forgot the name of the character i played, and accidently said Friar Tuck, a character from Robin Hood. a very silly Mistake.

Anyway after Gary Pointed out my mistake it was then end of the day.

Thursday 17th Jan -

today we began warm up with sean, and we learned a song called, Oh Freedom. ad i thought it was an ok song and i dont really know why we are learning this perticular song, to me seem's a little bit pointless, but nevermind. then we decided who are doing the one on one singing lessons with sean, im not one of them so yeah.

then we had double drama with nick and we had to finish blocking the parts and learn the script of by heart, so then in the second lesson of drama we were to perform it to the group. rehearsing it was pretty bad, we didnt get much done purely because Yvonne is refusing to be a team player, she keeps moaning that, she don't want to do it, she feel's silly and she also doesnt project we cant here her, so when we got her to project her voice, she made out that she lost her voice, so if she is refusing to be part of it then, i would like to say here and now that when we have finished i do not want to work with her again. i can't make a good performance if people dont give 100 percent she is only giving 10 percent.

then we performed our piece to the group and, it was alright, probably the worst one, from my point of view simply because of Yvonne. but, Nick made some changes to it, and changed mine and Simone's accent, into cornish. so yep it was alright.

This week altogether could have been better and because i werent well i wasnt in on wednesday and friday. and as for the yvonne issue, well all i can say is, you can lead a horse to water, but cant make it drink.

Weekly Log Book 1 - storytelling performance! 7th january - 11th january!

Monday the 7th jan - Today was the first day back at college and we had tutorial at 12:30 and there nick spoke to us about our next unit which was part of TIE or known as the storytelling performance. And he was talking about how we need to be careful with what we say and how we interact with the children whilst performing. after we spoke for a while we went to the welcome back assembly and then gary's assembly which was him speaking about the acting industry and other things which i cant really remember. then we finished early and went home

Tuesday the 8th jan - Today was the first full day of timetabled lessons and immediately i got straight back into the habbit and we just had tutorial and voice and garys lesson. so in tutorial nick helped us all set up an online blogger for us to do our log books on which i think is a lot more easier than doing on pen and paper. and we also spoke more on our next unit which kind of made me nervous because i didnt know how hard it was to perform in front of 6yr olds.
then we had voice lesson and we were just playing some gaes trying to get back in to using our diaphrams again. and jackie also said to the people that havn't done their part of emotional recall are doing it next week and im one of them, and i dont want to do it because there have been problems in my life that i dont even want to talk about and i dont like talking about them so im not going to do emotional recall. in my opinion, what is personal should stay personal. and in gary's lesson we were just doing some practice hot seating. which was ok. but im not one hundred percent sure on some of my answers so im gonna have to work on them.

Wednesday the 9th jan - Today was a short day in my opinion we didnt really do much. in the morning we had warm up with sean and we just done some improvising games which was fun. and then we had drama, and them lessons were covered by sean and gary because nick had to cover another lesson so this meant that we had to wait yet another day for us to be put into our group. and given our scripts. but in gary's covering lesson he showed us a video of the college he used to work at called pendleton college and he showed us there version of into the woods which is fairytales mixed into one. and in seans part he just showed us some clips of storytelling to a younger audience.

Thursday the 10th jan - Today was a particularly good day. the reson why is that today we got our scripts and we were finally paired into groups. before i go on to say who i am working with and fairytale im doing i must say that i am a little disapointed that i am not working with charles again but i am also happy because it is giving me the chance to work with new people. so in my new group is  - Myself, Simone, Cameron and Yvonne. and i am so excited to be working with this group because from the 10 minute plays i have been really wanting to work with theese three people and the fairytale we are doing is called the hare and the hedgehog. im playing mr hedgehog, simone is mrs. hedgehog cameron of course is playing the hare and yvonne is playing the narrator and we have just decided to make the narrator a squirrel called chutney. simply because we want to keep the children engaged all the time so we thought why not. lets make Yvonne a squirrel.

Friday the 11th jan - Today we only have one session of drama with nick so today we really just went over the script started to roughly block some scenes come up with set idea's and props and costume designing. so that was really it, but because we really had to change most of the script because it just wasn't suitable for children but im excited about the new changes and the blocking and all the props that i made this weekend and the others were finishing there costume ideas.


This video clip from a school in america gave us some idea's for the bit's that we needed to rewrite.