THE BIG PERFORMACE - 14th of December

The day we have all been waiting for, our whole 4 month of preparation was all depending on today...

Our performance was set into 4 different parts:

1st) Dance
2nd) Media - Presentation
3rd) Music
4th) Drama

DANCE:

Our dance performance I thought went quite well, better than we actually thought, we all kept our smiley faces and the best thing is that there was no fuss and everyone was reading for their Que. No-one was hurt or dropped, there were one or two slips that other people made but because everyone else was on point, It wasn't noticed. And the best thing no matter what we still continued and everyone put on the hard work and effort after all! Our dance performance was a true success.

MEDIA PRESENTATION:

For this part of the performance, as I mentioned in one of my previous blogs, I volunteered to speak out loud amongst our edits and how we made them, why we made them like that and how every single edit relates to winter wonderland and autumn weather! I spoke in detail enough for their ability and understanding, but at the same time I included advanced words, the advantage of this was that they learnt something new. 

I presented it using the assistance of one of the heads of the Media Department, he used the computer to click through each photograph. I also used a white projecting board enable for them to see the presentation large on screen. The time gap for the children to view the photograph was enough for them to think of their opinion upon it. The presentation lasted about 2 minutes in total. I used my loud and clear speaking skills very well, I only stuttered once. The presentation went well!

MUSIC:

This part of the performance actually went quite well, I feel that our winter wonderland piece sounded lovely and humble. I assumed that we would have messed up, even a tiny bit but in fact it came out nearly perfect. And our own Winter Composition was the best part, I think because we made it up our selfs we are more confident on that song. The primary school audience and teachers was so amused by our Music performance that they asked for an encore, so we agreed to do re-perform it again at the end of our Pantomime performance.

DRAMA:

The last part of the perform ace was a great fit, as they say save the best for last and make it very dramatic ;) We had to get dressed fast after the Music performance, but all the people in the first  scene were all on time for our Que(s).
The performance was going smooth with the help of a student from year 11, not sure of her name but she whispered some lines in the wings to other students and the audience barely noticed. The costumes looked great and I put in a lot of effort especially for the first scene and the gnome scenes, but in scene 2 when I played the part of Humphrey (Queen's Servant) and I had to act out how I felt about the queen requesting me to commit murder to snow white. There was a long pause as I did not know what my lines was, fortunately Shyanne (Narrator) hinted out the beginning of the line and as the lines came back to memory, I continued my scene in the pantomime as if it never happened. So I had to improvise for the time being in which I forgot my lines.

The ending of the pantomime was excellent, we all looked so enthusiastic. We included a funny part of it as well where we would act silly and pretend to break dance as the curtains were closing as they do in typical Pantomimes!

OVERALL:

The performance was a success and all the practise and rehearsing paid off. Thanks to our teachers and especially Miss.Williams for pulling all this together!

Extra Dance Lesson - 13th Of December

Today we were taken out of Science so that we could have a bonus dance lesson, I personally fele as if we're not ready and the performance is TOMOROW! I fele confident, but the only part which isn't going right is the ending part of the dance which we only previously added last lesson or the lesson before that. Our timings are really bad - Again.  Everyone seemed lazy today. as if they had not had enough sleep. Honestly neither did I, but I tried my best to put in as much energy as posssible. Tonight I am making sure I get loads of sleep and eat breakfast in the morning, so that my body is ready for an enthusiastic dance :D

I am trying my best to think positively!

Diploma Friday - 11th Of December

Lesson 1 & 2 Dance:

Today was a massive mess up, our teacher was not here and we were having difficulties trying to find the music CD so in the end we only had about 25 minutes rehearsal time in total of 2 hours, what a waste of time. We went through the dance which we had put together so far and we decided to roughly add on an ending to our days. After the fairy and duet part, we decided to use the dance Miss Scrubb taught us previously before her innocent with her ankle for the ending. which involved us doing the same movement at the same time and then we run off into a line where each at the same time we would strike mighty actions from one side and switch to the other, we switch 4 times and perform the actions, "running, leaning, showing off muscles and mercy", seeing as there was 5 of us we all had to do this in a separate order. We then held the last action for at least 4 seconds and one by one go beside each other in a straight line, hold hands, bow and turn a 90 degree anti-clockwise angle and walk off.

Even though we missed out quite a lot of time from these two lessons, we still managed to come up with an ending although 1 or 2 changes could be made but we have a bit of time to rehearse just before the performance and we were given the soundtrack on copyrighted CD to that we could practise at home. We were also told that if we want our substitute teacher is doing after school practise next Thursday. In which I will be attending!

 

Lesson 3 - Today in music, we typed up some of our blogging and some

 

Lesson 4 & 5 - Drama

 

The last two lessons, Miss.Williams decided to take us over to Brooke (upper site) so that we could rehearse in the hall on stage so that we can get ready for what we are expecting for the performance next week on Tuesday 14th Of December. We were given tips on how to improve our confidence, for some stage-fright, speaking out loud, facial expressions. space and timing. Whilst getting changed for different parts of the performance, we must be very quick or else we will miss our queue. Today was a great refresher for me, considering I have not performed on a stage probably since primary school., we rehearsed through the script many times, some pupils had things to work on so as we went through scene-by-scene, Miss.Williams helped us on our difficulties and told us what we had to improve on and what changes need to be made. My goal for today was to improve my stability of speaking loud enough, because when I'm in the classroom rehearsing it feels so different to being on stage, so I started off loud then quietened as I got into character. Also I still get mixed up with when I stay my lines, I tend to get them mixed up. By the end of the lesson, I managed to overcome this and I believe that I am ready for the performace. Costumes were sorted, props and the safety check list was finished which I had made myself. 

 

I had also volunteered to speak upon the presentation of picture, I have to speak in terms to their ability and understanding but also teach them new things about eiditing. I had nothing prepared, but I was told that the words just have to come to my head, this is very simple if you have an intellegent mind to think on the spot. But, on the day the media department are going to go through it with me before the performance anyways so Im in luck.

 

Today was great!

 

 

 

Dance - 6th Of December

In today lesson, the teacher gave us a choice. We could either start creating the ending part of the dance or we could spent our hour perfecting the current parts of the dance, we decided that before we move on we should get each section right and feel 100 percent confident with it first. The ice skating section was really messy so we spent a good 25 on that part and a good 20 on the fairy part aswell. We struggled a lot for the ice-skating part of the dance, we were all out of time and it was hard keeping pace with everyone else's and the music, it was very difficult but in the end we pulled through, the same with the fairy section of the dance, i found turning from side to side, step by step very hard and by the end of the lesson I just about got it but I still need practise on it .

Today's lesson was normal, nothing special.

Diploma Friday & Media - 4th Of December

Unfortunately there was no school today due to the snow.

Flexible Learning Day Music- 1st Of December

Throughout the whole of the day we were focusing on Non-Stop dance and 2 lessons of Media, but we missed out the last lesson, because we finished at 2'oclock. We added on and learnt a new additional 3rd part to the dance where we had to perform in the role of fairy's which included no cannons, but quite a few jumps and it include a lot a rapid stepping and turning on the spot with one foot over the other. We also included fairy loops. This part of the dance was very complicated to explain, we then got into our positions for the next part of the dance where we have to perform the next part of the dance which we have not created yet, but we are getting there.


 We repeated this at least 8 times and eventually got it correct, today we spent our day well and we really got things together. Next lesson I hope things will be as good and organised as today was! I really broke a sweat today !

For the third and fourh lesson, we were given a chance in Media to finish off the last finishing touches on our Professional Edit's for our post cards which will be given to the primary school children on the day of the performace. We also had time leftover to type up some more of our blogging, but individually because I finished my editing early, our teacher suggested that I made a Safety Check List as only one person can make it. Everyone else created a feed back sheet!
My edit's were uploaded on to the shared area but for some reason could not be found so only one of my edit's will be shown in the slideshow but at least they are in my creative and media diploma.
This flexible learning day was very useful, I really needed the time to catch up on work.