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.