Lesson 1 & 2 - Dance:
This morning in dance we had to put in a lot of work enable for us to create a piece of dance, we spent our time constructively. Demi played the main character of the Snow Queen and Me, Shenell, Aaliyah, Naomi And Shyanne were all iceskaters, fairys and snowflakes for all separate parts of the dance. We had to imagine almost as if the music has painted us into a pretty picture.
The beginning part of our dance was very unexpected, it was very fast and time keeping, we all start in scattered out positions as snow flakes to the furtherest of the right and the Snow Queen was placed in the middle, we had to wait for a sound and this part of the dance included Spinning, Turns, Twirls, Hops, Running, Flashy Jazz Hands and we had to put on exciting over thrilled faces.
For the second part of the dance, this included an ice-skating scene which was very complicated and had a lot of swift movement and repetitive cannons. No jumps or hops were used for this part, we had perform an action where we would tie our shoe laces one by one, as a gradual cannon. We then had to hold eachothers hips and lift our heads high like skaters and skate from side to side 4 then, we would then place our hands down and twirl on the shot, then place hands back onto the hips skate from side to side 4 time more and scatter off into our positions for the next part of the dance, where we would go into our partners in a staggered order and perform our duets, although all of them were the same. We repeated this part especially several times.
We still have the ending bit to made up yet but we got quite a lot of physical work down today with the corporation of the class.
This morning's lesson were really good and we had a lot done, although I should have got more sleep ill remember that for next lesson.
Lesson 3 - Blogging in Music Lesson
Lesson 4 and 5 Drama -
These two lessons were very helpful, because we needed the time to rehearse and go through our lines properly rather than rushing. We managed to go through the script at least 6 times, at first we expressed the script through speech first. Then about the third time around, we decided to rehearse with stage directions. This was quite difficult to pull together as there were a lot of disruptions and laughter happening behind the curtains. We also discussed what kind of costumes and props that we should use for our performance, in the end we came to a decision and we decided to keep it very basic with red baggy tops, black leggings, Christmas hats, plimsolls, head bands and 3 or more extra large brown t shirts for the volunteer kids who are going to go up on the stage and take part in the play. Hopefully all goes well.
Today was a great diploma day!
Friday, 26 November 2010
Music - 25th of November
We had quite a bit of a delay for this week's Music Lesson, unfortunately Wednesday but taken up by flexible learning day. But this lesson we still managed to go through our winter composition and through Winter Wonderland at least once.
For our Winter Composition, at first everyone practised with all the other instruments with Mr.Fox except for the Tenor Players the beginning of the piece. We had to think of two notes that fitted for a quieted drumrolls whilst everyone played their separate ostinatos . Around this bit, the Tenor Players practised along with us. In the end, it sounded great, I had zero difficulties with this task what so ever!
For Winter Wonderland, we worked section by section, first section A & B. We were fully on point for section A, but section B needed a little bit of work. After we fitted everyone's notes together, we then started to work on section C which seemed to be the hardest bit. I found in between section B & C the most difficult, because it involved a various changes of notes, in one bar of section B the notes were very far apart (distanced) and we had to play them very fast. This is difficult for me to remember and I kept messing up quite a lot of the time. I think for next lesson, I should try and keep in time more.
We repeated both tunes several times until we got it perfect, although Demi and Naomi were missing throughout the whole lesson because they had other musical lessons to attend. But overall we got quite a lot done, cant wait till next lesson
For our Winter Composition, at first everyone practised with all the other instruments with Mr.Fox except for the Tenor Players the beginning of the piece. We had to think of two notes that fitted for a quieted drumrolls whilst everyone played their separate ostinatos . Around this bit, the Tenor Players practised along with us. In the end, it sounded great, I had zero difficulties with this task what so ever!
For Winter Wonderland, we worked section by section, first section A & B. We were fully on point for section A, but section B needed a little bit of work. After we fitted everyone's notes together, we then started to work on section C which seemed to be the hardest bit. I found in between section B & C the most difficult, because it involved a various changes of notes, in one bar of section B the notes were very far apart (distanced) and we had to play them very fast. This is difficult for me to remember and I kept messing up quite a lot of the time. I think for next lesson, I should try and keep in time more.
We repeated both tunes several times until we got it perfect, although Demi and Naomi were missing throughout the whole lesson because they had other musical lessons to attend. But overall we got quite a lot done, cant wait till next lesson
* New Dance * - 22th Of November
Today, we were introduced to our new temporary teacher for this term. I cannot remember her name so I will refer her to MISS.
After all getting dressed and sorting out our kit, we all discussed what we can do for a new piece and how we can pull it together at such late notice. Miss explained to us that we had to use contemporary techniques and that it would be a good idea to use the whole ATMOSPHERE of an "Ice-skating Arena" or "Alice and the Wonderland" for a theme. We watched a clip on ice which involved movement connecting with the energy of winter. To be able to create a WINTER dance, you must compare everything you do to it and enthasise it as snow, wind, rain ect. Imagine how WINTER feels like, looks like, sounds like, smells like and even TASTE LIKE! After watching the clip I personally understood more about WINTER WONDERLAND, we saw rapid movement, cannons, duets. The dancers involved props and costumes such as tutu's and leggings. The colours they used, music and the tone of lighting also created an atmosphere.
After discussing Miss showed us an example of a dance she had previously made up, the dance was complicated and involved a lot of tactics & gestures. Facial expressions and potential costumes are childish and hilarious which will crack the kids up and keep them AMUSED !
The introduction to the dance involves us keeping in step and time with the music, One student (Demi) had a solo at the front and then Me and the others had a together-movement which involved keeping in a tight area and then we scattered around after. This was a good example of comparing the movement with the weather, this movement describes snow. I found this part of the dance easy, but then Miss made it more complicated when she added on turns, hops and swirls, I found this difficult, because trying to keep in step is something my mind has to work on. Eventually I will get it !
We continued out this dance to the best of our ability, I felt very energetic today! I also wrote down a few notes aswell just to remind myself how to do it step-by-step. Enable for me to keep with the counts and steps I think I should either ask Miss for some individual help or just focus more and stop getting distracted.
Overall, today was a great lesson ! :)
After all getting dressed and sorting out our kit, we all discussed what we can do for a new piece and how we can pull it together at such late notice. Miss explained to us that we had to use contemporary techniques and that it would be a good idea to use the whole ATMOSPHERE of an "Ice-skating Arena" or "Alice and the Wonderland" for a theme. We watched a clip on ice which involved movement connecting with the energy of winter. To be able to create a WINTER dance, you must compare everything you do to it and enthasise it as snow, wind, rain ect. Imagine how WINTER feels like, looks like, sounds like, smells like and even TASTE LIKE! After watching the clip I personally understood more about WINTER WONDERLAND, we saw rapid movement, cannons, duets. The dancers involved props and costumes such as tutu's and leggings. The colours they used, music and the tone of lighting also created an atmosphere.
After discussing Miss showed us an example of a dance she had previously made up, the dance was complicated and involved a lot of tactics & gestures. Facial expressions and potential costumes are childish and hilarious which will crack the kids up and keep them AMUSED !
The introduction to the dance involves us keeping in step and time with the music, One student (Demi) had a solo at the front and then Me and the others had a together-movement which involved keeping in a tight area and then we scattered around after. This was a good example of comparing the movement with the weather, this movement describes snow. I found this part of the dance easy, but then Miss made it more complicated when she added on turns, hops and swirls, I found this difficult, because trying to keep in step is something my mind has to work on. Eventually I will get it !
We continued out this dance to the best of our ability, I felt very energetic today! I also wrote down a few notes aswell just to remind myself how to do it step-by-step. Enable for me to keep with the counts and steps I think I should either ask Miss for some individual help or just focus more and stop getting distracted.
Overall, today was a great lesson ! :)
Media - 18th and 19th Of November
In both media lessons, we were set a task by our media teacher to take the original photograph's previously taken in the local 'Myatts Field Park' and edit them using a semi-professional software 'Picnik'. But, the trick was that we had to create a minimum of 3 pictures each for winter and autumn edits. We had to use mainly blue, white and grey tone of colours for Winter and orange, green, grey, brown-ish colours for Autumn.
Winter Edits:
Before editing the original photo's into professional-looking edits, I wanted to understand the meaning and aspects of Winter and Autumn first. Enable to do something, you must be able to understand it and know what your looking for!
I related Winter and Autumn to: weather, activity, daylight, mood to the picture.
Winter Edits:Icicles, Snow, Rain, Cold, Sickness, Darkness at early times of the day, Lazy moods, Christmas and ect.
I took the images into my head and start to edit the first 3, I then altered the edited images and I made sure that all my first 3 edit's had a story and a message to it.
With my Winter Images, I had gave it a look so that you can picture a Cold and Freezing atmosphere, I brightened out the main attractions of the picture and left all the blackground blurred but softened out the edges, this effect came out really good. I used mainly blue and white colour's for this edit and made the font of the message very bold. I used messages such as, "Seasons Greeting, Eatings Treatings", "Merry Seasons", "Good Holidays", "Happy New Year" and etc.
Autumn Edits:
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Windy Days, Coughing, Sneezing, Happy Moments, Leaves falling, Beigey sky colour, Cold, Leather jackets , Logs, Soggy Weather. I also took these images into my head and started to edit my second 3 lots of images, I then also altered the edited images and made sure it had a story and message to it.
I used effects such as: Colour Alters, Tint, Symbols, Font Text, Boarders, Frames, Colour Shades, Blur, Softener.
With my Autumn Images, I decided to go different and give it a happy, rather excitable look rather than an depressing one, because although Autumn has lots of rain and horrible foggy days and thrushy wind. It had also have a calm breeze and a calm chill, and I decided to give the Images a happy message for my 3 edits. I used oranges, greens, browns, yellows, beige and some pinks. I brightened out the yellow-y, pink-ish sky and dimmened the colour of the orange, brown leaves on the tree. I gave the ground a sharp, calm grey effect and the background I did made it very clear and basic.
Overall, I believe I done a good job!
Diploma Friday - November the 12th
DANCE:
Today, we had yet again another supply teacher, she was quite supportive and set us a task in which we had to research about different stimulus (activity) based on Winter Dance, Contemporary Dance and how the dance connects with Winter.
We researched the following such as:
- Photographs
- Poems/Quotes
- Pedestrian Movement
- Music
- Props
Photographs: I came across photograph's which just "wow-ed!" me, some of the movements looked very complicated and amusing, it made me want to achieve and try it myself, almost as if they were, "putting me inside the photo".
Poems/Quotes: The poems I found quite boring by my personal opinion, but I found the advantage of the poems were to show how words can connect to winter and how they can use Contemporary dance to lure us into it, creating a story!
An example of a Quote:
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. by Juan Goytisolo
Movement: When it comes down to movement, in contemporary dance, there are so many sections of it and so many different techniques of movement and strategies. Its all to do with what way you feel best suited to move your body. Don't just feel like your dancing, feel like your living, breathing, drinking, eating, moving, walking, running ect. There can be swift, rapid, soft, hard, intense movement and many,many more!
Music & Props:
I discovered that enable for a Contemporary Dance Performance to take place, there has to be Classical Music to go with it. Since 1945 had it been unleashed together as one, but become most popular during mid 1970s. With the props, we use props enable to express the whole point of contemporary dance and the meaning more, it is more effective and grabs peoples attention and as I say again - creates a story.
Props can include: Umbrellas, chairs, sticks ect. But NOT HATS, SCALFS, BAGS - those are costume fittings.
After researching, we then had to make up a quick dance individually using a sweet, soft song or a expressive song. The song I chose was expressive, I included props such as :
An Umberella
A Chair:
And through out the whole time I had the picture of :
Icicle's and snow the whole time
Like I said Snow and Nice connect with Winter, Winter connects with Contemporary dance!
Simple, I had no problems today what so ever!
Today was a great lesson
blogging 3rd period - music
practising play period 4 and 5 - drama
Today, we had yet again another supply teacher, she was quite supportive and set us a task in which we had to research about different stimulus (activity) based on Winter Dance, Contemporary Dance and how the dance connects with Winter.
We researched the following such as:
- Photographs
- Poems/Quotes
- Pedestrian Movement
- Music
- Props
Photographs: I came across photograph's which just "wow-ed!" me, some of the movements looked very complicated and amusing, it made me want to achieve and try it myself, almost as if they were, "putting me inside the photo".
Poems/Quotes: The poems I found quite boring by my personal opinion, but I found the advantage of the poems were to show how words can connect to winter and how they can use Contemporary dance to lure us into it, creating a story!
An example of a Quote:
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. by Juan Goytisolo
Movement: When it comes down to movement, in contemporary dance, there are so many sections of it and so many different techniques of movement and strategies. Its all to do with what way you feel best suited to move your body. Don't just feel like your dancing, feel like your living, breathing, drinking, eating, moving, walking, running ect. There can be swift, rapid, soft, hard, intense movement and many,many more!
Music & Props:
I discovered that enable for a Contemporary Dance Performance to take place, there has to be Classical Music to go with it. Since 1945 had it been unleashed together as one, but become most popular during mid 1970s. With the props, we use props enable to express the whole point of contemporary dance and the meaning more, it is more effective and grabs peoples attention and as I say again - creates a story.
Props can include: Umbrellas, chairs, sticks ect. But NOT HATS, SCALFS, BAGS - those are costume fittings.
After researching, we then had to make up a quick dance individually using a sweet, soft song or a expressive song. The song I chose was expressive, I included props such as :
An Umberella
A Chair:
And through out the whole time I had the picture of :
Icicle's and snow the whole time
Like I said Snow and Nice connect with Winter, Winter connects with Contemporary dance!
Simple, I had no problems today what so ever!
Today was a great lesson
blogging 3rd period - music
practising play period 4 and 5 - drama
Flexible Learning Day Music- November the 10th
We spent the whole of today preparing our music piece for our 2nd project we are going to be working on next year in January. We figured that if we worked on it early, it would saved a lot of time and with this taster day, it helped me to get an understanding on what we are going to be working on in the "Horror-Movie Project".
Before we started to make our own solo music pieces and fiddle around with the software, we first had to view horror movie tailors such as :
- Scream
- The Ring
- Psycho
- Silence of the Lambs
- Halloween
We did this enable to get an understanding of the type of melody we are looking for, horror is usually classed as: scary, frightening, breath-taking and is put under the category of minor. In the trailers, I found that there was many sudden parts of it which were shocking and unexpected. Some of them were even life threatening e.g in the trailer of the movie "Psycho", someone called up Sophie's house phone and was making very strange conversation, the phone went silenced and we all gasped waiting for reaction, when all of a sudden the glass broke and blood was everywhere. Although, some other movies are very boring and not very frightening at all, these movies happened to be one of the best old school horror's ive watched in a long time.
I analysed the technique of the soundtrack from each and every featured trailer and decided to make my own similar soundtrack with my own kick into it. I took my time to make it using an music software which included different effects such as all different types of instruments and ways to play them, sample sounds, voice recording, tone changing and ect. Everyone else was so quick, I took my time and made sure everything was perfect, I use sample sounds such as: a car shriek, screaming and I used a special sound effect to specify a baby's innocence such as a baby's laugh and cry.
I used some unusual instrument sounds such as: a piano, guitar, harp and some others. I used the effect of how a silence can turn into a sudden attack. I added on an instrument one after the other, so it created a rapid frightening beat. With the part of my soundtrack with was involved with a piano I used the trill, drone, chromatic and cluster chord. We had to make the music a minimum of 2 minutes long, but mine was about 3 in a half/4 minutes long. After finishing and editing last minute things on my soundtrack, I then previewed it to the class, everyone thought it was great and our teacher predicted that I will get a good great on it .
Today was good day.
Before we started to make our own solo music pieces and fiddle around with the software, we first had to view horror movie tailors such as :
- Scream
- The Ring
- Psycho
- Silence of the Lambs
- Halloween
We did this enable to get an understanding of the type of melody we are looking for, horror is usually classed as: scary, frightening, breath-taking and is put under the category of minor. In the trailers, I found that there was many sudden parts of it which were shocking and unexpected. Some of them were even life threatening e.g in the trailer of the movie "Psycho", someone called up Sophie's house phone and was making very strange conversation, the phone went silenced and we all gasped waiting for reaction, when all of a sudden the glass broke and blood was everywhere. Although, some other movies are very boring and not very frightening at all, these movies happened to be one of the best old school horror's ive watched in a long time.
I analysed the technique of the soundtrack from each and every featured trailer and decided to make my own similar soundtrack with my own kick into it. I took my time to make it using an music software which included different effects such as all different types of instruments and ways to play them, sample sounds, voice recording, tone changing and ect. Everyone else was so quick, I took my time and made sure everything was perfect, I use sample sounds such as: a car shriek, screaming and I used a special sound effect to specify a baby's innocence such as a baby's laugh and cry.
I used some unusual instrument sounds such as: a piano, guitar, harp and some others. I used the effect of how a silence can turn into a sudden attack. I added on an instrument one after the other, so it created a rapid frightening beat. With the part of my soundtrack with was involved with a piano I used the trill, drone, chromatic and cluster chord. We had to make the music a minimum of 2 minutes long, but mine was about 3 in a half/4 minutes long. After finishing and editing last minute things on my soundtrack, I then previewed it to the class, everyone thought it was great and our teacher predicted that I will get a good great on it .
Today was good day.
Dance Lesson - November the 8th
Today everyone was in for a bit of a surprise, a substitute teacher was sent to teach us for the time being as Miss.Scrubb has unfortunately broken her ankle. This new teacher seemed quite nice and helped us to build our confidence back after not being in a dance session for so long, I felt full of so much energy and enthusiasm today. She started us off with a maximum of a 10 minute warm up which included: Running, stretching, bumping, jumping. I hate it when it strains in an saw way, but today my muscles strained as if my body wanted to and my body didn't pain all that much after. The dance teacher then showed us another dance she had made up the night before to put together with our current winter piece. What she showed us looked great, but it was very complicated to put together. It was just one of those things which appeared easy but were not easy to do at all. We learnt it all by the end of the lesson, but me as an individual found it simple once we I started to learn and repeat it over and over again. For once I didn't find it hard catching up with everyone else's speed.
Today was a good lesson!
Diploma Friday - 5th November
MEDIA: (Period 1)
We then providing the photograph evidence from yesterday used our best top ten to edit them and planned to use them as Christmas Cards for the primary school children whom are due to come and watch our performance on the 17th Of December. We may even use them to create a calender regarding on expenses and money limits. I only managed to finish off about 3 today, but they still came out quite good.
Here are some examples of the work I have produced:
* copy and paste pictures 1, 2 and 3*
I am quite proud of myself through out these last 2 days and what I have achieved, although I find that my difficulty in editing using the software 'picnik' would probably have to be that I cannot find the right colours, blends or editing options for the two specific seasons: winter and autumn. I can't really tell the difference! I was told that winter colours are more based on blue and white, and that Autumn colours are more based on greens and oranges! Next lesson when we are editing, I will try my best to alter these changes.
DRAMA: (Period 2,3 & 4)
We then providing the photograph evidence from yesterday used our best top ten to edit them and planned to use them as Christmas Cards for the primary school children whom are due to come and watch our performance on the 17th Of December. We may even use them to create a calender regarding on expenses and money limits. I only managed to finish off about 3 today, but they still came out quite good.
Here are some examples of the work I have produced:
* copy and paste pictures 1, 2 and 3*
I am quite proud of myself through out these last 2 days and what I have achieved, although I find that my difficulty in editing using the software 'picnik' would probably have to be that I cannot find the right colours, blends or editing options for the two specific seasons: winter and autumn. I can't really tell the difference! I was told that winter colours are more based on blue and white, and that Autumn colours are more based on greens and oranges! Next lesson when we are editing, I will try my best to alter these changes.
DRAMA: (Period 2,3 & 4)
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Media - 18th and 19th Of November
n both media lessons, we were set a task by our media teacher to take the original photograph's previously taken in the local 'Myatts Field Park' and edit them using a semi-professional software 'Picnik'. But, the trick was that we had to create a minimum of 3 pictures each for winter and autumn edits. We had to use mainly blue, white and grey tone of colours for Winter and orange, green, grey, brown-ish colours for Autumn.
Before editing the original photo's into professional-looking edits, I wanted to understand the meaning and aspects of Winter and Autumn first. Enable to do something, you must be able to understand it and know what your looking for!
I related Winter and Autumn to: weather, activity, daylight, mood to the picture
e.g for Winter Edit's I thought of:
Icicles, Snow, Rain, Cold, Sickness, Darkness at early times of the day, Lazy moods, Christmas and ect.
I took the images into my head and start to edit the first 3, I then altered the edited images and I made sure that all my first 3 edit's had a story and a message to it.
e.g for the Autumn Edit's I thought of:
Windy Days, Coughing, Sneezing, Happy Moments, Leaves falling, Beigey sky colour, Cold, Leather jackets , Logs, Soggy Weather. I also took these images into my head and started to edit my second 3 lots of images, I then also altered the edited images and made sure it had a story and message to it.
I used effects such as: Colour Alters, Tint, Symbols, Font Text, Boarders, Frames, Colour Shades, Blur, Softener.
With my Winter Images, I had gave it a look so that you can picture a Cold and Freezing atmosphere, I brightened out the main attractions of the picture and left all the blackground blurred but softened out the edges, this effect came out really good. I used mainly blue and white colour's for this edit and made the font of the message very bold. I used messages such as, "Seasons Greeting, Eatings Treatings", "Merry Seasons", "Good Holidays", "Happy New Year" and etc.
Here are some examples:
* copy and paste pictures*
With my Autumn Images, I decided to go different and give it a happy, rather excitable look rather than an depressing one, because although Autumn has lots of rain and horrible foggy days and thrushy wind. It had also have a calm breeze and a calm chill, and I decided to give the Images a happy message for my 3 edits. I used oranges, greens, browns, yellows, beige and some pinks. I brightened out the yellow-y, pink-ish sky and dimmened the colour of the orange, brown leaves on the tree. I gave the ground a sharp, calm grey effect and the background I did made it very clear and basic.
Here are some examples:
* copy and paste images*
Overall, I believe I done a good job!
Friday, 19 November 2010
Winter Photography In The Park - Thursday 4th & 5th Of November
On the 4th of November, Me and the Diploma Crew took a visit to Myatts Field Park, we were set a task in which we had to use 5.0 - 8.0 mega pixel cameras to take professionally-looking photographs using the frame through frame technique, distances and using the nature as a prop. Today I took quite a lot of good photo's, I used nature lighting from sunlight and the shading of a tree for one photo which really came out fascinating, it created a rebounding affect where it looked as if it was telling a message to say, "where there is darkness, there will always be light!". In another photo I used the square pattern in a gate/fence to show how there is a multiply of dimensions happening in one picture and how everything else in the background is blurred out and that the square pattern is the main focus. I also used a female model to show how humankind reacts against nature regarding the distances. I learnt quite a lot today, If you find every picture to be typical, think outside the box, not in it!
I didn't find it so difficult this time using the flash camera's for the first time properly in the outside world, really helped me catch up on my photography skills :D !
On the 5th of November, we then providing the photograph evidence from yesterday used our best top ten to edit them and planned to use them as Christmas Cards for the primary school children whom are due to come and watch our performance on the 17th Of December. We may even use them to create a calender regarding on expenses and money limits. I only managed to finish off about 3 today, but they still came out quite good.
Here are some examples of the work I have produced:
* copy and paste pictures 1, 2 and 3*
I am quite proud of myself through out these last 2 days and what I have achieved, although I find that my difficulty in editing using the software 'picnik' would probably have to be that I cannot find the right colours, blends or editing options for the two specific seasons: winter and autumn. I can't really tell the difference! I was told that winter colours are more based on blue and white, and that Autumn colours are more based on greens and oranges! Next lesson when we are editing, I will try my best to alter these changes.
Thank you.
I didn't find it so difficult this time using the flash camera's for the first time properly in the outside world, really helped me catch up on my photography skills :D !
On the 5th of November, we then providing the photograph evidence from yesterday used our best top ten to edit them and planned to use them as Christmas Cards for the primary school children whom are due to come and watch our performance on the 17th Of December. We may even use them to create a calender regarding on expenses and money limits. I only managed to finish off about 3 today, but they still came out quite good.
Here are some examples of the work I have produced:
* copy and paste pictures 1, 2 and 3*
I am quite proud of myself through out these last 2 days and what I have achieved, although I find that my difficulty in editing using the software 'picnik' would probably have to be that I cannot find the right colours, blends or editing options for the two specific seasons: winter and autumn. I can't really tell the difference! I was told that winter colours are more based on blue and white, and that Autumn colours are more based on greens and oranges! Next lesson when we are editing, I will try my best to alter these changes.
Thank you.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Music Lesson - 11th Of November
We spent the first half of the lesson working on 'Winter Wonderland' on the steel pans, we went through sections A & B, but spent most of the time finishing off our final section C. We then spent the other half of our lesson just roughly going through our winter solo's and testing out different chords and how we could improve it and fit it all into place. I believe that I was fully focused today and really to learn. Theres not much to say about today's lesson, but over all it was quite good.
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Music Lesson - 3rd Of November
We spent most of this lesson trying to remember our duet idea's from last time, it was a little bit sticky today but we pulled through in the end. We included a silent role on the 'A' and 'F', but this is only for Me and Demi's pan e.g on Shenell's pan, her role is only on the 'A'. We had to decide together as a group where to fit in each duet or for some solo's. After deciding that Me and Demi's duet piece would go first, Shenell's solo second, Aaliyah's solo third and Naomi & Shyanne's duet last. We started playing it slow, then gradually getting faster. By the end of the lesson, it sounded so smooth, it was as if we never had a half term. We spent our last 10 minutes rehearsing a bit of "Winter Wonderland" Every little helps.
Thank you, today was exciting.
Thank you, today was exciting.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Music Lesson - 22nd of October
On the 22th we continued working on Sections A & B and C. These were good lessons, we worked on our remembrance for the song. We went through the whole song after from the ending when it goes back to the chorus.
It was not very basic at all, actually quite complicated and what I found hard was having to catch up with every one elses speed so soon. I'm finding it hard to keep up with the pace. Sections A I am confident with but Sections B I can just about do and sections C and quite easy, but I still get them jumbled up.
We decided to work on our composition, we decided to put together our solo pieces. Our overall tonality was minor, because we decided to go for a mysterious vibe. Our theme was based on winter obviously, but we used to our music to connect with the kind of weather and culture that winter is involved with..
E.g
- Snow Drops
- Wind
- Rain
- Ice
- Water Droplets
- Leaves rustling
- Snow bells
All of these can help us to describe the kind of melody we was looking for in our composed music.
It was not very basic at all, actually quite complicated and what I found hard was having to catch up with every one elses speed so soon. I'm finding it hard to keep up with the pace. Sections A I am confident with but Sections B I can just about do and sections C and quite easy, but I still get them jumbled up.
We decided to work on our composition, we decided to put together our solo pieces. Our overall tonality was minor, because we decided to go for a mysterious vibe. Our theme was based on winter obviously, but we used to our music to connect with the kind of weather and culture that winter is involved with..
E.g
- Snow Drops
- Wind
- Rain
- Ice
- Water Droplets
- Leaves rustling
- Snow bells
All of these can help us to describe the kind of melody we was looking for in our composed music.
Diploma Friday - October the 22nd (Ending of the term)
Today is the last day before the autumn term,
Dance:
This morning I was not feeling very energetic, but I still managed to complete the dance. It was quite exciting we done an exercises warm up which included a lot of stretching, we then continued and improved upon the new contemporary dance we were thought from Monday, we worked and discussed about how we are only to be positioned when we are doing our performances. How we are attending the stage and etc, I improved from Monday, but still did not quite know the timings until the end, the counting is normally 1,2,3,4 but this one is different. I found the beginning of the dance the hardest as there was a a various of steps to learn, the rest of the dance isn't so hard. the 2nd cannon just involves changing from one side to the other, and moving one after the other very snappy. The last part we had to create eight counts with our partner as a duet and then fit it into the dance with the other 2 eight counts done by the other two duets. At first we found it hard to fit all 3 into it, but eventually after 10 minutes it pulled together and we had a good finish to the dance.
Even though I felt lazy today, I still put in as much energy as I could and I enjoyed it, the night befor ethe nxt lesson, I will make sure that I get an early nights sleep.
Drama:
Today we had to do a lot of arrangements and moving around, because Ilenia and Dami decided to leave diploma unfortunately we had to change our play - AGAIN.
After a good 15 minutes of decussing what pantomines we could perform, we decided to go for a typical classic fairytale "Snow White". An advantage of this is that this pantomine is short, but still very exciting which makes it easier for us to memorise lines and for the children to understand. Due to the fact that there are 7 gnomes, the mirror, queen, pigswill, narrator and prince. We decided to cut the dwalfs to 4 gnomes instead, and all of us played two roles, except for Snow White.
Charactors:
SNOW WHITE - Aaliyah Bell
PRINCE - Naomi Mwakomowo
NARRATOR - Shyanne Watson
QUEEN: Demi Bekir
MIRROR - Shenell Poorman
[PIGSWILL CHANGED TO HUMPHREY - Jessica Ellis (Me)
GNOMES: Jessica Ellis (Me) 1,5 and 4(only 4 for One Scene)
A Disadvantage: If everything doesn't pull things together in good enough time, the play might not go very well so we have to focus.
What is the pantomine Snow White?
The pantomine Snow White is basically a story based upon a jelous Queen who wants to be the prettiest, fairest of them all but fortunately Snow White has already taken that role. Queenie very much believes this is true and she does not like what she is hearing when she Mirror tells her different. She can't face the fact that this is true, so she orders her servant Humphrey out to murder Snow White. Humphrey does not want to do so, so instead he warns Snow White and suggests to her that she runs away forever and does not come back, Snow White listens to him and does so. She runs to out into the forest where she is stunned by a small cottage owned by the Gnomes, she comforts herself into their home, the Gnomes then spot her out and start questioning her. They promise to let her stay if she nurses them which she agrees to do and they become friends with her, after a while of geting used to her the Queen finds out that Snow White is living under the Gnomes roof and goes out to kill Snow White herself disguested as a innocent old lady selling fruit to her ;)
She pays Snow White a visit, offers her a apple full of poison, Snow White accepts the apple, eats it and falls into a deep sleep where she is later on awoken by her hansom Prince Charming. They then marry and live happily ever after!!!
From this picture we can tell how the apple looks so innocnet and juicy on the outside, but on the inside it is laced with posion and vicous venom
Dance:
This morning I was not feeling very energetic, but I still managed to complete the dance. It was quite exciting we done an exercises warm up which included a lot of stretching, we then continued and improved upon the new contemporary dance we were thought from Monday, we worked and discussed about how we are only to be positioned when we are doing our performances. How we are attending the stage and etc, I improved from Monday, but still did not quite know the timings until the end, the counting is normally 1,2,3,4 but this one is different. I found the beginning of the dance the hardest as there was a a various of steps to learn, the rest of the dance isn't so hard. the 2nd cannon just involves changing from one side to the other, and moving one after the other very snappy. The last part we had to create eight counts with our partner as a duet and then fit it into the dance with the other 2 eight counts done by the other two duets. At first we found it hard to fit all 3 into it, but eventually after 10 minutes it pulled together and we had a good finish to the dance.
Even though I felt lazy today, I still put in as much energy as I could and I enjoyed it, the night befor ethe nxt lesson, I will make sure that I get an early nights sleep.
Drama:
Today we had to do a lot of arrangements and moving around, because Ilenia and Dami decided to leave diploma unfortunately we had to change our play - AGAIN.
After a good 15 minutes of decussing what pantomines we could perform, we decided to go for a typical classic fairytale "Snow White". An advantage of this is that this pantomine is short, but still very exciting which makes it easier for us to memorise lines and for the children to understand. Due to the fact that there are 7 gnomes, the mirror, queen, pigswill, narrator and prince. We decided to cut the dwalfs to 4 gnomes instead, and all of us played two roles, except for Snow White.
Charactors:
SNOW WHITE - Aaliyah Bell
PRINCE - Naomi Mwakomowo
NARRATOR - Shyanne Watson
QUEEN: Demi Bekir
MIRROR - Shenell Poorman
[PIGSWILL CHANGED TO HUMPHREY - Jessica Ellis (Me)
GNOMES: Jessica Ellis (Me) 1,5 and 4(only 4 for One Scene)
A Disadvantage: If everything doesn't pull things together in good enough time, the play might not go very well so we have to focus.
What is the pantomine Snow White?
The pantomine Snow White is basically a story based upon a jelous Queen who wants to be the prettiest, fairest of them all but fortunately Snow White has already taken that role. Queenie very much believes this is true and she does not like what she is hearing when she Mirror tells her different. She can't face the fact that this is true, so she orders her servant Humphrey out to murder Snow White. Humphrey does not want to do so, so instead he warns Snow White and suggests to her that she runs away forever and does not come back, Snow White listens to him and does so. She runs to out into the forest where she is stunned by a small cottage owned by the Gnomes, she comforts herself into their home, the Gnomes then spot her out and start questioning her. They promise to let her stay if she nurses them which she agrees to do and they become friends with her, after a while of geting used to her the Queen finds out that Snow White is living under the Gnomes roof and goes out to kill Snow White herself disguested as a innocent old lady selling fruit to her ;)
She pays Snow White a visit, offers her a apple full of poison, Snow White accepts the apple, eats it and falls into a deep sleep where she is later on awoken by her hansom Prince Charming. They then marry and live happily ever after!!!
As you can see from the picture shown snow white is a good friend and she is very friendly. She would never do anything to hurt anyone, an innocent snow. She is crying, because she had no where to go and was forced to leave her castle by the Envy step mother (Queen).
From this picture we can tell how the apple looks so innocnet and juicy on the outside, but on the inside it is laced with posion and vicous venomAnd in lesson 5, blogging was done, OVERALL I had a good term (Y)
See you next term.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Music - 20th & 21st Of October
On the 20th we spent time finishing off the final sections of Winter Wonderland, I found sections A and B quite easy but section C is a bit too hard for me to remember completely, but roughly I can pull it together. I think that section C is only more difficult, because it has a lot more complicated notes to play than sections A and B, Section A is very basic and section B has a catchy way of playing it which is why I find it easy to play. After the term, to make it easy for me to play I'm going to play section C alone at first, section-by-section rather than it all jumbling together
On the 21th we did not spent so much time on Section A,B and C. Instead we were working on our solo pieces which I was quite exciting about, within the hour we decided that our tonality was going to be minor(sad) rather than major (happy), because it will create a better scene for the sections of the song we have practised so far. The theme for Winter Wonderland is obviously as you can tell by the name very wintery and involves connecting the music to the weather e.g Minor gives us an image of snow, rain drops, wind and rustling leaves which are all related to winter.
I focused mainly on mostly the Harmony but still the melody, i started by fiddling around with the keyboard and using continues sequences and changing them around with different chords. I wrote them round roughly on a piece of paper, and then after we practised our oslos on the steel pans and where they could fit them in to Winter Wonderland, my solo had quite a strange chinesse-traditional melody to it. Me and Demi both played this together. We got through quite a lot these two days and I enjoyed music a lot cant wait till the lesson next week.
On the 21th we did not spent so much time on Section A,B and C. Instead we were working on our solo pieces which I was quite exciting about, within the hour we decided that our tonality was going to be minor(sad) rather than major (happy), because it will create a better scene for the sections of the song we have practised so far. The theme for Winter Wonderland is obviously as you can tell by the name very wintery and involves connecting the music to the weather e.g Minor gives us an image of snow, rain drops, wind and rustling leaves which are all related to winter.
I focused mainly on mostly the Harmony but still the melody, i started by fiddling around with the keyboard and using continues sequences and changing them around with different chords. I wrote them round roughly on a piece of paper, and then after we practised our oslos on the steel pans and where they could fit them in to Winter Wonderland, my solo had quite a strange chinesse-traditional melody to it. Me and Demi both played this together. We got through quite a lot these two days and I enjoyed music a lot cant wait till the lesson next week.
Monday, 18 October 2010
Dance - 18th Of October
Today, we were introduced to a new winter dance by Miss.Shrubb which involved various of spacing and time counts. We had to move very swift and quickly, this dance type is contemporary and is one the best dances we have done so far. We used cannons, solos and duets, our dance had lots of flow and constant energy we had to put all our mind and soul into it, its a very intense and serious dance. The beginning part of the dance involve us all in a cannon, one individual does a movement then two after the other. We were given sections in our duets to recreate into our own separate dances then when finished we added it on to our dance all in total.
The dance connects with a winter theme, e.g using a movement to enthasise being swifted away from wind.
We used many gestures for this dance, although it needs improvement but we can work on that.
It was a good lesson.
The dance connects with a winter theme, e.g using a movement to enthasise being swifted away from wind.
We used many gestures for this dance, although it needs improvement but we can work on that.
It was a good lesson.
Friday, 15 October 2010
Creative & Media Diploma: 15th Of October
Today !!!!!!!!!!
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Today, we used cameras such as 3.2, 5 mega pixels to test out the way a camera can focus from positioning one part of the picture to the middle of the image. We also had to test out the backdrops in photos and how things are on top of eachother as if it has many dimensions.
Can you see the way it looks like that passage of flowers is a short distance?! Well, it actually isnt, the way you present your picture is the way will think about it.
Look at the way the Photographer has made the wall looks so much larger and clearer than the house itself, we can also tell that the house is far away from the camera because of the blurred affect the photographer has use, but we can tell it has been airbrushed aswell to try and enthusise the image. But, in reality the house is much larger and taller than the wall.
Because the Photographer has used a Third Rule Layout frame-by-frame technique, it allows her an easy way to edit and focus on the part of the picture she wants. Meaning, the photographer can take part of the picture and enlarge it.
DRAMA:
Seeing as we have now finished our introduction to "Drama Pantomime Research", we can now start on Unit 1: Scene Venues.
We used lessons 2,3 & 4 to research Funded and Non Funded Venues, and we had to understand what Commercial and Non Commercial ment also Voluntary Organisations which we are looking more on next lesson.
We were given a sheet on places to look, I looks through them carefully and managed to pick The BFI Southbank and O2 ARENA (The main one).
I learnt that BFI Southbank is a funded foundation that depends upon anonymous, generous donators from Co-orperations, Foundations, Trusts and indiviuals.
BFI Southbank:
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Today, we used cameras such as 3.2, 5 mega pixels to test out the way a camera can focus from positioning one part of the picture to the middle of the image. We also had to test out the backdrops in photos and how things are on top of eachother as if it has many dimensions.
Can you see the way it looks like that passage of flowers is a short distance?! Well, it actually isnt, the way you present your picture is the way will think about it.
Look at the way the Photographer has made the wall looks so much larger and clearer than the house itself, we can also tell that the house is far away from the camera because of the blurred affect the photographer has use, but we can tell it has been airbrushed aswell to try and enthusise the image. But, in reality the house is much larger and taller than the wall.
Because the Photographer has used a Third Rule Layout frame-by-frame technique, it allows her an easy way to edit and focus on the part of the picture she wants. Meaning, the photographer can take part of the picture and enlarge it.
DRAMA:
Seeing as we have now finished our introduction to "Drama Pantomime Research", we can now start on Unit 1: Scene Venues.
We used lessons 2,3 & 4 to research Funded and Non Funded Venues, and we had to understand what Commercial and Non Commercial ment also Voluntary Organisations which we are looking more on next lesson.
We were given a sheet on places to look, I looks through them carefully and managed to pick The BFI Southbank and O2 ARENA (The main one).
I learnt that BFI Southbank is a funded foundation that depends upon anonymous, generous donators from Co-orperations, Foundations, Trusts and indiviuals.
BFI Southbank:
Music - The Wednesday, 13th Of October
This lesson we basically just continued on from last lesson and just revised Sections A & ALL OF B,
Things started to become more clear, I learnt quite a lot of notes, I cannot remember them at the top of my head, but I know when my hands are holding the sticks, its sounds great when I play..
I still make a few mistakes, but Ive learnt quick and we all have loads of time to practise.
x
Things started to become more clear, I learnt quite a lot of notes, I cannot remember them at the top of my head, but I know when my hands are holding the sticks, its sounds great when I play..
I still make a few mistakes, but Ive learnt quick and we all have loads of time to practise.
x
Friday, 8 October 2010
Diploma Friday - 8th Of October
Today, we continued learning our NEW dance with Miss.Scrubb - Contemporary Dance..
Unfortunately, I was late for lesson so did not get a chance to learn the continues dance and edit it with a partner. But, on the other hand I did review what the others were doing and I helped Miss.Scrubb out by filiming them, so I pretty much got an idea of what the DANCE is about. We also watched video clips of Comtemporary Dancers in pairs, they used a certain technique which involved was all to do with connection from one body to another and how you use the space, surrounding and props within it.
It looked quite interesting, and different to other dances types that I have seen e.g Street dance, Balled. Contemporary can ber used and many different ways and has about 20 techniques.
After, DANCE we then had MUSIC, we used to this time to update our blogging.
DRAMA:
After the first 3 lessons, we then had DRAMA, we spent this time in drama to pratise our script with "JACK AND THE BEAN STALK", and we started to continue on to scene 2. At this speed we are gradually building up our confidence and memorised more to the script. This pantomime is exciting and interesting, but what I need to improve on is to not get easily destracted and to not mix my personal life with my theatre life. When, I am on stage I am Jack, outside the drama studio I am Jessica.
Characters:
"Landlord On Stage - Landlord Off Stage - Giant Then Enters"
We catched up not on a lot, but quite a bit and on the 5th lesson, we spent time in the libary trying to update our blogs again which means a free weekend for me WOO HOO !
Except for learning lines : )
Overall, today was just normal but long.
C'yaaaaaaa Bloggers, Fnx for reading xxx
Unfortunately, I was late for lesson so did not get a chance to learn the continues dance and edit it with a partner. But, on the other hand I did review what the others were doing and I helped Miss.Scrubb out by filiming them, so I pretty much got an idea of what the DANCE is about. We also watched video clips of Comtemporary Dancers in pairs, they used a certain technique which involved was all to do with connection from one body to another and how you use the space, surrounding and props within it.
It looked quite interesting, and different to other dances types that I have seen e.g Street dance, Balled. Contemporary can ber used and many different ways and has about 20 techniques.
After, DANCE we then had MUSIC, we used to this time to update our blogging.
DRAMA:
After the first 3 lessons, we then had DRAMA, we spent this time in drama to pratise our script with "JACK AND THE BEAN STALK", and we started to continue on to scene 2. At this speed we are gradually building up our confidence and memorised more to the script. This pantomime is exciting and interesting, but what I need to improve on is to not get easily destracted and to not mix my personal life with my theatre life. When, I am on stage I am Jack, outside the drama studio I am Jessica.
Characters:
- Daisy & Nancy: Naomi Mwakamowo
- Landlord & Giant: Demi Bekir
- Jack's Mother: Aalyaih Bell
- Narrator 1 & Villager 1: Shenell Poorman
- Narrator 2: Shyanne Watson
- Goose & Beanman & Villager 2: Illenia
- Jack: Jessica-Lily Ellis (Me)
"Landlord On Stage - Landlord Off Stage - Giant Then Enters"
We catched up not on a lot, but quite a bit and on the 5th lesson, we spent time in the libary trying to update our blogs again which means a free weekend for me WOO HOO !
Except for learning lines : )
Overall, today was just normal but long.
C'yaaaaaaa Bloggers, Fnx for reading xxx
Another Music Lesson - 6th Of October&7th Of October
TODAY, we added on additional notes to the previous notes we learnt on Friday 1st October, "The Winter Wonderland" Project was really starting to fall into place.
We worked on the A section and most of the B section on 6th Of October, but by the 7th Of October we had learnt ALL of the A & B SECTION.
REMEMBER THESE ARE THE NOTES FOR THE NEW SONG !
" What'ya Talkin' Bout" was a taster, "Winter Wonderland" si the BIG thing!
Overall, these two days have been great. I have finally pulled all the NOTES together and learnt some so fast.
C'ya Bloggers xxxxxxx
We worked on the A section and most of the B section on 6th Of October, but by the 7th Of October we had learnt ALL of the A & B SECTION.
REMEMBER THESE ARE THE NOTES FOR THE NEW SONG !
" What'ya Talkin' Bout" was a taster, "Winter Wonderland" si the BIG thing!
Overall, these two days have been great. I have finally pulled all the NOTES together and learnt some so fast.
C'ya Bloggers xxxxxxx
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