Level 3 Acting

UAL - Level 3 PaPA - Acting Pathway - Unit 1 - 4 ~Ilonka Flora Unit 3: introduction to professional acting Health and safety Ensuring the health and safety of the performer and the production is the most important part of performing arts. before acting, you must be sure that not only you and your colleagues or co-workers are safe, but also the audience and tech crew are too. Safe in general, and personally. Speaking generally I am referring to the surroundings, the performing space and stage. Before any rehearsals and activities take place, there must be someone responsible to ensure that the rehearsal/performance space is safe from any hazards. In order to 'ensure' safety and keep spaces safe, the team must be sensible and aware to stop any possible safety issues from occurring due to carelessness. The goal is to eliminate and minimise any kinds of hazards, the disadvantage is that many activities that take place within these spaces cause more pos...

UAL - Level 3 PaPA - Acting Pathway - Unit 1 - 4 ~Ilonka Flora Week 7 We ran through the play and had feedback from Rob, which is that we need to be quiet off stage, everyone needs to be focused on each other and our performances. We need to have more care with stage awareness which means to be careful to not block other actors and not hide behind other actors too. 'Kiss and kill' is also relevant in this sense. We need to always try to stay in our characters whether we are a minor character or major character in a scene. Every part of the play always plays an important part, because if it wasn't important, it wouldn't be there in the first place. Making eye contact IS acting and is very important, you need to show the audience that you are telling a story to them. The pace needs more energy, otherwise, it appears rushed, so you must pay attention to your lines and actually try to understand the motive behind the line, so you must figure out the right ...

UAL - Level 3 PaPA - Acting Pathway - Unit 1 - 4 ~Ilonka Flora Week 8 6.11.17 Today we went through the play then took feedback from Sharon. We attempted to do the entire play with no script and no speaking. The feedback is:  that the noise levels were relatively good. She also told us, now that we are familiar with the words, we should enjoy our role more and try and be creative with how went to express them. Rehearsal time must be used well because these are the only times we have together before the show. The balcony scene in which Juliet speaks to Romeo and the fighting scene all bring a good amount of energy. We should also be aware of each other, don't rush our actions and lines, glide through them, it's okay to pause. The first fight scene in scene 1 is great but it needs sound, noise. Scene 2 had good energy and good effort, in Scene 3, Lady Capulet should follow the nurse out instead of the nurse following her out because Lady Capulet says 'we follow th...

UAL - Level 3 PaPA - Acting Pathway - Unit 1 - 4 ~Ilonka Flora Evaluation of the performance, Romeo and Juliet in Westminster Kingsway College (Scenes 1 to 10) We independently rehearsed our play about two times as an ensemble and any parts that seemed the weakest. Our class performance overall was very fluid, with each scene that would end, the next scene would begin instantly without any hesitation and gaps in-between. On the other hand, in the beginning, Jaychelle opens the play with a stutter, maybe because of the pressure of being the first person to speak their lines. I also noticed that she was fidgeting with her hands, they should be by her sides. It's crucial that she doesn't do this because she is the character that everyone is watching at that moment therefore, they can see her fiddling with her hands. Instantly the audience will sense the loss in confidence and she needs to be able to continue without looking back on any mistakes in order to keep th...