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I have been doing acting since I was in primary school when I did a Shakespeare festival at Gloucestershire Academy school. Then when I was in secondary school I enjoyed all my drama lessons and when I got to GCSE I got to do Blood brothers in year 10 and devised peices for our year 11 final exam which gave me a lot of experience in creating performance pieces. Whilst I was in primary school I was also going to a drama academy called Helen 'O' Grady, there I learnt the basic acting skills such as facial expressions and body language even though. those two were always the ones I needed more work on. I did Summer shows in the theatre in Stroud which I enjoyed and my family would always come and watch, but when I moved into Year 8 in school I stopped going to Helen 'O' Grady and focused on drama in school as I already knew I wanted to do it for GCSE. When I was in Year 10 I had to do work experience so I went back to Helen 'O' Grady where I did Admin work, social media advertising and teaching classes. It was great that I got to go back there because I will never forget that there is where I developed my love for acting and being in the theatre.
When I started college I again did a lot of acting which was creative group work involved freeze frames activities to practise facial expressions and body language. During year two we worked on tv and movie acting and stage acting where we had to find scripts in groups and then after rehearsing later on perform it, starting off with a script from the Tv sitcom known as 'Young Sheldon' and then for stage acting did a script from 'Of Mice and Men' doing both scripts gave me an insight that tv and film acting is very different to stage and theatre acting. In stage and theatre you use the space of the whole stage in Tv and film you make it smaller within the stage space.
Here are the photos from when I did my work experience with Helen 'O' Grady Drama Academy
My Acting Vidoe's
Chair duet project
Chair duet project
Choreographed a chair duet after watching videos on how people have performed chair duets. As I am a dancer I took full advantage of this mini project to choreograph our chair duet to Tate Mcrae's song 'That Way' (slowed and reverb version) we saw in the video we watched that chair duets don't need to have a story behind the performance but I felt it was a bit different since we were doing it with music we did add the story of two friends who are in love but know they can't be together.
From the rehearsal to the performance, we did add more to the end because of the video example we watched, prior to creating our piece, the two performers switched chairs so we took that idea and added it to ours.
The process of this project could not have gone any better than it did, we had a lot of positive feedback from our performance and the girl I was working with, who hadn't had any experience in dance, said at the end of our final performance that she might consider getting involved in future dance projects which made me feel really happy that I had inspired one of my peers to get involved with something she hasn't done before.
Commercial, Choreography and Dance for camera.
Commercial, Choreography and Dance for camera.
(personal project)
(personal project)
Above are a few of the many rehearsal videos from my personal project, I've had many people help me with this project and some of these videos contain myself teaching the choreography to the people helping me in my project with the different character roles. I've choreographed most of the character roles based on personality traits from the information I know about each character. I originally planned to audition people for the character roles but instead, I chose who was going to be which character also based on who I thought would give personality to the character. More of my rehearsal videos are shown below. I've had a lot of fun rehearsing with the people who are helping me with my project, teaching them the choreography that I have created has been the best part as one day I hope to be a choreographer and teach people my choreography, I am very happy with the decisions I made with casting the character roles because I knew who was going to be which character from the very early stages of the process for this project and I'm happy I have trusting instincts.
Extremely happy with how this result turned out, based on my unit 'Dance for Camera' this was filmed from two other angles in the room, one to the side of me, in the corner, and the other from the front, audience point of view. Something about the result of the video made me feel like I had filmed my first ever music video and I've watched it about twenty times.
The lighting as well really set the scene and since it was filmed in the theatre we splayed all the curtains out so it gave me a blank canvas background.
Below are the other performance recordings of 'Poison' from other camera angles such as 'front/audience' point of veiw and 'side/corner' point of veiw.
Two of the recordings are also in a different costume top that was my original planned costume but had to be changed due to sizing issues.
Photos from the rehearsal run of 'Thank You and Goodnight' taken by Josh,
Who also did the incredible lighting for this performance recording.
These are the full seperate performance videos, with costume, little makeup and full choreograpghy.
Here it is!!! My full edited personal project performance video. Containing five songs with full choreography, costumes and makeup, I had so many people join me in this project to be the other characters and I'm so greatful to all of them who helped me and made this project incredible, I couldn't have done this without their amazing efforts. I had a lot of fun choreographing the songs and teaching them to the people helping me, it was a very educational experience into the world of a dance choreographer.
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