Macbeth group. Everything we have been doing for the whole month.

As a group we have been working hard towards learning our lines and learning how to use our physicality in all scenes. I was put in the Pink company with about 8 other people, working in a big group is slightly different than working in groups of 3. Bigger groups means more dedication as there is way more lines and work, we were given our are main roles to play but also other roles that were not given a person to play was meant to be sorted out by us students. I think that was the hardest part  as not everyone wanted more lines added to what they were already learning and the lack of time to learn them. I was then also given Murderer 2 as another character to make my own even if it was not that big of a role.

I believe this has been the hardest play to make work as my group lacked motivation to work to there best, but in acting we most always work as the show most go on. So even if Macbeth has been hard and proved difficult, as a group we have worked well with each other to know that our Macbeth will be a success. Working with different people in the group really gives you a range of insight and honestly it has helped so much, from different way to learn lines to using projection to its fullest when acting has been topics i and my groups often talk about. Given certain roles to people in our group has been very helpful because it gives us different view on who works well with who. Learning lines with characters who i have more scenes with like the other witches is better for me than whole group working as being a witch means i'm never really alone, so i do believe i had to have the witches on lock down before i could move on and have my doctor role on lock down as well. It's proved to be an efficient way to work and because of the lack of time we have it's been a fast way to getting everything done on time.

Breaking down scenes have helped so much as it's easier for me to work and process everything. I also think that because most of Macbeth is all rhythms and riddles it's been a mighty advantage because everything makes sense when saying it. My collaboration with other students in my group has been smooth as most people in my group I have worked with before meaning that we mostly already know how we work with each other. One thing that we did with our supply teacher that really helped was improvisation along the same words of our lines. it reminded me that acting is also fun and not always just work. What we did was say our lines but not 100% correctly so instead we just improvised them and went along, this showed me that Macbeth is a complex play and does not have to be boring just because it was made by Shakespeare. Really it's more fun and easy to learn and we can make the play our own while bringing it to life. We moved around like witches and spoke as if we were drunk, our teacher told us to act as if we were actually witches and imagine what kind of witch we wanted to be. We decided to act like homeless witches with ragged clothes and messy hair and honestly just look like we had lost ourselves in life problems with no solution.

Broken heart theatre. 

In our last lesson with the theatre it was completely different that what we would normally do, few lessons back what we were doing was writing duos over an argument that would occur between the two. i didn't have a partner so i wrote a duo for myself and worked on it every Thursday, i think we did this to improve our writing skills and to put ourselves in the shoes of a writer or even director. When doing this i had lots of ideas and fun because making your own work means you know everything that's bound to happen so you can make it as wild or lonely as you want. i believe the hardest part was picking what the story line would be based on and what would make your play distinctively different than any other play. Questions like "what's the story twist" or "why did this happen for the character to act this way" were going to be answered. That's the fun in writing that since it's your own work you can make it anything you want, so really my imagination was running wild. I still haven't finished as i have been focusing mainly on Macbeth but the duos are not allowed to be long so i know i'll be finished soon.

Back to our last lesson we were told to sit down and then when called on with another person we had to answer a question back with another question but in different tones and with each question we were meant to get angrier and louder each time, using our intonation and diction to make what we were saying loud with clarity. The use of repetition helped a lot to show that one word can be used and said in so many ranges and clearly being said differently means that your intention are not the same. This kind of work we do I believe improves my acting so i know range and always keep the audience awake and not bored on the one monotone we use for the whole play. It also shows me things and habits to avoid like looking at the floor when talking as when looking at your peers it helps to make the scene bound back and forth keeping the scenes energy till finished.

Macbeth part 2 

This term has been one of the Hardest terms since i started this college and honestly it has proven to me that even when things don't go to plan we still have to work our best to make sure that the show most go on. Right now my group is working well and following targets given to us,building my character has been the most work because researching Macbeth and my Characters has really helped to build them, knowing how they act and why they do what they do. Each characters is there in the play for a reason regardless of how big the role is or there part to play in the Macbeth. I have built my Character by using all my skills that o have learnt from these past months by using my voice,body and movement. All these skills proves successful when playing my given characters. I love making the play my own while playing around with scenes and making each line different than another. I think that working in a big group means less time on certain scenes with people you work with mostly, this means we have to always work outside lesson time to make them work out.

Coming to an end, the work i and my group have put in hopefully becomes a success as we only have 2 weeks left. Costume is also a great factor in making a performance which my group has talked about, we will be wearing most likely our own clothes but our own clothes made for our character or what we know they would have worn. So far rehearsal has been very helpful as every new method we bring it works for each of our benefit and i hope it continues to help us to become better and deepened our skills and knowledge. What i have learnt this term is that even when under the weather my class seems to always overcome our fears and unmotivated selves to become the greater that what we would originally planned.