Rofiat Ajisegiri LSC performing Arts 16/17

Explain why your character say certain lines that you feel a bit confused about initially? Ans ;  i think my character says some lines to cover up the fact that she is being laughed at, or maybe she just covers up the fact that she is trying to make conversation but they don't want to have a conversation with her so she just keeps waffling until she gets cut off. And sometimes i feel like she just says it just to be involved in the conversation. Give at least 3 examples? Ans ; the first example is when shulay says to her 'why do girls think it's okay to bum about play football all day and stink up the place' . And then Samantha replies saying ' that Pheromones that's what that is ' -  i think she said this just to hide the fact that she smells because of football just so her classmates don't laugh her. 2; I think when she started waffling about her playing a prank on students is to get her classmates to be interested in what she is saying an...

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i think my character looks like this when she is at school playing football and being herself . i think my character dresses like this on a normal day when she is not in school or when she is going out on an outing. so for the performance i will be dressed like the girl in the sports wear with a signed T-Shirt on because it's leavers day and they all have signed shirts. i think my characters was feeling a bit confident at the beginning of the the play because she feels like everyone likes her and she had a bit of confidence to try and socialise and talk to her classmates.However towards the end when her classmates were picking on her and laughing at her for the annoying / stupid things she was doing, her confidence went down and she was less interactive. this play plays with a lot of status playing; this is when they are giving each other status from high status to low status depending on who they socialise with and how they act / react with others. My characters status i...

It is now almost 15 years since Damilola Taylor died.  Damilola lost his life because of enormous problems in this society. his family moved to  London from Nigeria

the play Fallout by Roy Williams was introduced to us and we read the script to this play for the next few lessons  in order to help us understand the script so that we will know what we were doing before casting the play out. After finishing reading the play, we were casted parts from the play and I was given the part of Ronnie. Getting to know Ronnie I had to do a lot of research and ask myself different type of questions like what are their personality traits etc., as for Ronnie I thought she was a unique girl she was always left out and people didn't really like her much, from the script I knew she was in love with Dwayne and she loved Shanice as well because she was her best friend because people didn't really like her .They called her a troll because they didn't like her , she was a working class girl who was very lazy and she was just 17 years old , she got kicked out of school at the age of 16 . she doesn't believe in god because she doesn't really hav...

From the devising piece the strengths within the performance was when ; we used multimedia to show the audience what the piece was going to be about, at the beginning of the piece  we used the projection to show how police act toward people and what stop and search had led to. we also used multimedia at different parts of the piece. we used sound effects and music to set different atmospheres.  we used proxemics in our piece to communicate the perception of the police as hunters of young people, we did this by moving in large group in unison to show that were trying to intimidate young people. we used the sound effects of us stamping our feet as an ensemble  to show how intimidating the police were, also the music we used was a panic song and it helped build tension and suspense leaving the audience to wonder what was going to happen next. we used projection with our vocal range, body language and facial expressions when we had...

 For the next two lessons we came back and we all had to tell the stories from the assignment given and then we wrote a letter to the person that was involved in our story and we were told to tell them how we felt on that day and what we wished we could have said. After writing the letter we had to read it to the whole class.  the purpose of that lesson was to help us whilst acting, especially when we have to act scared or sad, we were told to think of a time that we felt like that. e.g. when we have to act sad , we need to think of a time we felt sad and a time that makes us feel sad . this helps us whilst acting because we will look sad and more natural because we were thinking of a time we felt sad so it wouldn't be /look exaggerated.

For the second lesson we were introduced to Konstantin Stanislavski and his techniques Naturalism and Stanislavski Constantin Stanislavski was a Russian stage actor and director, he  believed in naturalistic performances that were as realistic as possible, and he developed the naturalistic performance technique known as the "Stanislavsky method". Emotion Memory; requires that an actor think of an event from the past in order to regenerate the feelings they experienced at that time. These feelings that have been regenerated are then used in the current acting for example ; As an assignment we were told to think of a time we felt really upset , frightened or angry. And to come back and describe what happened and also where we were,we had to describe the feel, the surrounding , the sound, the time of day etc. We had to give as much detail as possible. this is linked to emotion memory because it will help us explore having to regenerate emotions in order to used them wh...

For the first lesson we did a couple of warm up exercises and ice brakers to get to know each other, then we did a couple of characterisation excersies which helped us learn how to characterise. we did a master and servant exercise which helped us understand the difference between having power and not having power. this also helped us understand how the characters were feeling. From that lesson I was able to see the difference between how much energy you had to include in the way you act as being the servant because you had to obey every order made by the master. it would be even better if I gave feedbacks to what others did.