26th september

today did not go as well as i hoped.

we started off really well and rehersed the first scene of our workshop. this went really well because we hadnt rehersed in a while but everyone remembered what they had to do.

however the rehersal went down hill when we were discussing the next scene the group split in two and both discussed what they thought should happen. however this was not planned so when we discussed as a group we could mot agree on what should happen. one group wanted jake ( who is playing a child) to be older in the next scene. however not everyone wanted this so the group couldnt agree on that. also one group wanted zach to be the one who wakes up the toys ( all the cast apart from jake and zach) this created confusion as no body knew what to do. we decided tp sit down and talk through what everyone wanted but we couldnt decide on anything. miss had to eventually step in so that we could do something. with only 10 minutes left of lesson we decided to put all the diffrences and argueing aside and come up with a scene. this scene would be one of the final scenes and jake would get turned into a toy. it starts with jake standing on his bed and all the other cast walking around his bed singing a childs song repeatedly 'round and round the garden like a teddy bear, one step two step tiggley under there' we would repeat this 3 times. then jake will fall into our arms. we will lower him down and pull the cover over him. he will then put his make up on and make himself look like a toy. the lesson did not go as well as i would have hoped but im glad we finally got a scene made. 

thurday 19th september

Today we started off by disscussing what we would like to do for our performance work shop, first we were going to do a young girl being scared as she sits and watches a circus performance, but we decided that this would be to difficult to do in such a short space of time so we changed the idea to a young boy who is going to sleep after packing his toys away, after he does this and falls asleep his toys come to life and crowd around his bed. I play one of the toys, at first i couldnt decide what type of toy to be, i was sitting against the wall and thought about a replica revolver handgun and thought i could use it, that gave me the idea of being a cowboy as the costume will be easy to make as I already have most the items needed, we started to create the first scene to our performance, it starts of as a blackout then jake walkes in and turns the light on, he the proceeds to pack away his toys, after he does this he turns the light off and gets into bed. Zack walks across the room and turns on some music, as the music plays all of his toys come to life and slowly crowd around him, Jake then screams and the lights turn on as this happends we all drop to the floor exept Zach who stays standing, this is when the scene ends.

my first post thats a little late

Today in class we had Mr Noble, for the past few weeks we have been focusing on physical theatre, he showed us a video of a dance group who was focused on exhaustion so sir had us do a bunch of exercises to get us tired out such as running around the class room as fast as we can, running up the steps as fast as we can, punching the air for 10 seconds, jumping up and down for 30 seconds etc, this went on for 50 mins, by the end i felt like i was dead, i couldnt breathe properly, my vision was a tad blurry and i couldnt walk straight very well, i had a really bad pain in my throat and mouth that lasted for about 10 mins, all i wanted to do was sit down and rest, i think sir done this so that we knew exactly how someone who was worn out completely would feel so that we could act it better and really connect with our characters also i think he done it to show us our limits and how far our bodies can go, i was able to do this exercise for a lot longer than i thought i would and when sir made it into a contest i was able to go a little longer.