What you have learnt so far:- 
 
  • Acting skills 
  • Warm ups 
  • Games 
  • Improvisation 
  • Openness 
  • Mind-set  
  • Attitude 
  • Good posture 
  • Punctuality 
  • Time management 
  • Eye contact 
  • Don’t apologise just continue 
  • Facial expressions 
  • Projection 
  • Supporting one another 
  • Speak up 
  • Determination 
  • Take your time  
  • Articulation 
 
Identity Project – Unit 1 
Devising work 
400 WORDS ON THIS 
 
Verbatim theatre  
250 WORDS ON  
 
 
What is it? Verbatim Theatre is a form of documentary theatre which is based on people's spoken words from real people  
  
What is it used for? 
It is used to share specific stories and events to give people a voice to others that would have a platform  
What is good about it? 
Verbatim Theatre is such a great way for all students to be working on a creating  a physical character  to hear and analyse natural dialogue.   
 
 
Why is it used?  
Verbatim Theatre offers the audience some truth and authenticity that even the most well crafted and researched plays couldn't would was said by writer and director Robin Belfield himself who had recently published a book about called ''Telling The Truth: How To Make Verbatim Theatre 
 
 
 
General structure of projects 
 
  1. Research – Interviews, verbatim and monologues 
  1. Planning or development Rehearsals  
  1. - Week one: chewing gun, helped be combortable with our classmates to give us an oppertunity to meet new people and to make new friends. Overall I really enjoyed our first lessons with Rob as it gave me a chance to engage with everybody and because it was basic and simple I felt at ease. Although it was challenging at first getting to know how things work I eventually grasped the routine and now I am comfortable with my surroundings. 
  1. Week 2: The theme Rob gave us was homecoming and we had to make up a scenario in our groups of 3 which included skills such as confidence and projection of our voices. 
  1. Week 3: We played drama games to test our confidence and did a lot improvising like pretending be different kinds of people 
  1. Week 4:  
  1. Part of our lessons included writing in our  
  1. groups  
  1. Performance 
  1. Evaluation of performance and project  
 
E – Evaluation   
  • How was the performance? The performance was great everything went well and according to plan with everything I was having second thoughts at first but remined confident through and through  
  • Were there any acting skills that you felt improved? improvising and eye contact 
  • What went well? improvising  
  • What could have gone better? More commitment to their roles and more action when they are speaking they should say it with pride like they mean it and make every word count for something  
  • What did you learn that you will take forward into the next project? Be more aware with your surroundings when your acting like the audience and know  your movements like centre, back or front stage when performing   
   
Acting Skills 
 
 
 
What were your first impressions of the course? That I love this course I can't wait to get myself into all of it learning new things meeting new people  
 
What exercises are used to improve certain acting skills? Man on a Bus Stop, What Were They Wearing, Mnemonics, The Chair, The Machine of Emotions  
 
How have you worked together? By including everyone's ideas, giving each other confidence and motivation to do more in our performance, being open to others and always preparing ourselves  
 
How successful has it been? Really well we've always stayed in role, doing more eye contact and just improvising making Drama more fun and creative 
 
 
 
The project for UNIT1 – ‘IDENTITY’ 
 
 
 
C – Context 
 
  • What it is? An event, statement or idea from a setting that was formed from circumstances  
  • Is it a devised piece? Devised theatre means a method of theatre in which the script would make you be a character in the play and also multiple character scenes 
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  • What styles of theatre did you look at to create the piece? We looked at themes of identity, what is happening in the real world and different nationalities, genders, personality and social media. 
 
 
 
RE – Research 
 
  • How did you come up with the performance material? Our teacher Rob guided us through and through as we came up with ideas for the performance as when one of our classmates was acting as a girl who thinks everyone truly cares about her but they don't so some of us had to improvise for that scene who had to people who pretend to care and love her but don't and also we had an idea for another particular scene where another one of our classmates had to play a newcomer to a school who was being taumented by others for not knowing what class to go to so we had an idea to walk in a circle as we all say the same thing ''She aint got no friends'' and then someone amongst us realizes whats going on and protects the newcomer from the bullies. 
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  • What did you do to contribute to the performance material? By working with others and following their lead and being the camera man at the start and improvising for some of the performanace material we can up with like when one of our classmates was playing the  girl who thinks everyone likes her but don't I contributed by playing the not-so cheating lover  
  • What methods of research did you use? Observational and experimental 
 
 
 
P- Planning  
 
  • This is the rehearsal period.  What did you personally contribute to rehearsals? Stayed up to do more of the performance and learning the dance steps which was our final piece for our ending and gave some ideas and debated about the performance as a team 
  • How did you work collaboratively during this period? Teamwork in small groups and big groups  
 
 
 
P- Problem Solving 
 
  • What was difficult about rehearsals? getting the dance moves right in time before the performance in that amount time  
  • What problems did you have to overcome during rehearsals? changing the dance steps and trying to learn every move at a time as the music plays  
 

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