Tuesday 28 October 2014

Performing Arts Business

Performing Arts Business 

11th September 2014

UCAS!

During this lesson we started to look at the University's or Drama Schools that we might look at, we were shown a powerpoint listing the top 10 University's and Drama Schools in the UK and we needed to research where want to study. 

My First Idea's was 

1) LIPA
2) Central      2 Drama schools 


1) Colchester Insituite
2) University of Essex 
3) University of East London                                 3/4 University's 
4) Manchester Metropolitan University          


this what the research I had done.........


18th September 2014 

Persoanl statements 

during todays lesson we started to look at what needs to go in a personal statement, we looked at the does and don`ts. 

we started to list the Univerasitys and Drama schools that we had looked at in to our top 5 of the ones that we wanted to apply for. 


My Oringal Top 5 were ......
1) Univeristy of East London 
2) LIPA
3) Cental 
4/5) University of Essex 
4/5) Colchester Insitiute
?) Manchester Metropolian 

with this first list  I was going to look around the Universitys and Drama schools first to get a better look around and the feel of univeristy,  but this list we decide on the bases of what was involved with the course bases on the university or drama school website, 

After looking at the Websites I change my list to add a univeristy that we had talked about in class which I like the look of the course. 

My new top 5 are ......
1) University of East London
2) LIPA
3) Manchester Arden 
4/5) University of Essex
4/5) Colchester Insitiute 
?) Mancester Metropolitan 


25th September 2014 

Today we started our application for UCAS as well stating to make our final desiosn for what university's we are going to apply for. 

The Universitys that I have applied for are 


  1.  Manchester Arden
  2. LIPA
  3. University of East London
  4. University of Essex 
  5. Colchester Institute 

   










Auditions for Actors

Auditions for Actors 

In this unit we will look at monologues and techniques to prepare us for auditions that we that we will have for Drama School and University. 


This unit will help me find the right the monologue for Auditions we looked at our playing age and I discover mine to be between the ages of 18 year old to 30 years old  so with this it  help me out, I had to find six monologues three contemporary and three classical which I could take with me to an audition but I also need to take in to a count that some of the University/Drama School will give me a choice of monologues that I need to choice from to perform. 

The three Contemporary Monologues that i have chosen are....
1. Blue/Orange By Joe Penhall 
   The character of Robert

2. Shopping and Fucking By Mark Ravenhill 
    The character of Mark 

3. Fading Joy By Walter Wykes 
    The character of Eddie

The three Classical Monologues that I have chosen are ......

1. As You Like It By William Shakespeare  
    The character of Jaques 


2.The Casket Comedy By Titus Macclus Plautus 
   The character of Alcesimarchus 


3. Mr. Paul Pry By Douglas William Jerrold 
    The character of Oldbutton 



The plot of the play which the monologue has come from and why did I chose this monologue...

                                                  Blue/Orange By Joe Penhall
The play is set in a London psychiatric hospital, an enigmatic patient claims to be the son of an African dictator, a story that becomes unnervingly plausible. Blue/Orange is an incendiary tale of race, madness and a Darwinian power struggle at the heart of a dying National Health Service.
I choose this Monologue when I was reading it in a book it took me attentions as I found it funny and as well I could read the madness of the characters. 

                                        Shopping and Fucking By Mark Ravenhill
There are many central Themes that this play talk about which are the sexual violence and what is possible if consumerism supersedes all other moral codes. To this effect everything, including sex, violence and drugs, is reduced to a mere transaction in an age where shopping centres are the new cathedrals of Western consumerism.
Aspects of consumerism and sexuality rampant in popular culture recur throughout the play: drugs, shoplifting, phone sex, prostitution, anal sex, and oral sex in the London department store Harvey Nichols. 
I choose this Monologue as I found it different for others that I looked at, but at first it was the title of the play that due me in to want to read it, then once I had read it I found it funny and entertaining and it was some new to try.

     Fading Joy By Walter Wykes
The Play is about a young woman finds herself caught up in the intoxicating world of a smooth-talking salesman. When he flees to escape a mysterious group known only as "The Tall Men," she finds it impossible to go back to her old way of life. Not only has she changed in some inexplicable way, but the landscape itself has taken on a strange and menacing new personality. 
I choose this Monologue as when I was reading it just got me more intrested in why was the character on the beech and what he was doing I couldn't stop reading it I just want to find out what the character was doing. 



                                            As You Like It By William Shakespeare
The play is set Duchy in France but most of the play takes place in a forest called The Forest of Arden, The Forest region