Unit 3 - Lesson 3

Lesson 3 - Overview
In this lesson, in simplified terms, for the most amount of time I rehearsed together with my partner about our specific scene in the Noughts and Crosses production. Moreover, we continued to learn a variety of acting skills such as breath control or articulation, which are both significant in the way of performance and, overall, taking a step closer to my long term goal.

Firstly, as always, our director brought together the actors and actresses for our starting vocal and physical warm ups, of which are very important extremely in our situation. We need every piece of help we can get before our rehearsal's and performances, warming up is just one of the ways we actors achieve this. After our voices have been exercised, we joined together with another pair of eager actors to aid each other in improving our skills. We were able to achieve this in an effective way, while the other pair was performing their scene we judged what went well in their performance and what could be improved on, the other group then did the same to us while we were performing. Together, with both groups evaluated, we decided to conclude each other's performances with a grade for our tasks. Me and my partner were fortunate enough to be awarded a distinction for our scene. This has definitely reassured me with my acting skills and my ability in confidence has surely become stronger.

Taking on board the improvements and details the other pair gave us during our evaluation, we decided to practise and put the positive actions into affect and negate the negatives in our scene. Feeling more confident and with the help from Monday's performance our group discussed our scene and replaced old actions with new and improved versions allowing us to secure a high merit to a possible distinction.

Nearing the end of our Theatre session we were given targets to aid us in finalizing our classes performances. On this sheet included what we improved from the session and what we could improve the next time. My goals were to link my characters feelings with my body language and to make my character's overall "target" in my performance as visible as possible to the audience. Furthermore, I added to the list of improvements eye contact to the audience and sustaining movement throughout my scene.