I started an acting course last month, and one of the requirements for the end-of-term exam is to keep a diary about my experience of working on my characters of the exam pieces. It's quite an interesting task; I normally make tons of notes in my script about my character every time I'm in a play or film, but I've never actually thought about keeping a diary about the developement of the character and the changes I make during the rehearsals. I bet it will be pretty useful.
So, what I'm planning to do is to write an entry on this blog about each week's work in school and then copy it into a document at the end of this term to be able to submit it properly as an exam work. I'll start with summarising the first couple of weeks, and from now on I'll do my best taking as many notes during the classes as possible so that I'll hopefully be able to write more detailed entries about the following weeks.
WEEK 1
The first week (which actually was the second week of January) was about getting to know each other and doing some introduction games as well as some basic exercises of vocals, speech and movement.
WEEK 2
On the second week we started to get familiar with the first exam piece, which is the musical Blood Brothers by Willy Russell. The scenes that we are going to play on the exam were not chosen yet, we just had to perform short parts of the play with one or two partners. My characters were Linda and Mrs Lyons.
WEEK 3
Due to a previously planned holiday to my family, I missed this week, but it was mostly about giving out our exam songs and a little bit of work on more scenes from Blood Brothers.
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