Connors Acting Journey

Kobi My opinion on Kobi when he's younger is he's sort of see's his friends as people who give him the attention that he craves, because it's said in the script that 13 year old Kobi loves an audience. He's kind of put in the situation of wrong place, wrong time with the friends he has chosen to be with. He's also got a strange upbringing because there is no information on his parent's, his Nan is the only person he has from when he's 13 all the way up to when he's 18. Due to his upbringing and the friend's he's chose he used to steal things and always speak to try and get a reaction out of everyone. He is also scared of losing his friend's because he doesn't want to lose the attention he gains from them so like on scene 8 when they're all arguing about whose filming and the slime being solid he puts himself in the middle of it to try and avert away from all the arguing and continue with the task on hand. He doesn't trust Tom ...

National Theatre   The National Theatre was an idea long before it came into being, in 1848 a London publisher by the name of Effingham Wilson was the first to call for a national theatre. This was 115 years before a National Theatre company would launch in 1963 then a further 13 years before the building was opened to the public in 1976. The National Theatres mission is to try make theatre for everyone, they share unforgettable stories with audiences around the world. They ignite the creativity of young people with their nation wide learning programs. For audiences, they are making theatre more accessible by being in partnerships with more theatres across the UK, touring the world and screening them online and at cinemas. The National Theatre also commissions freelance theatre makers to create inspiring and challenging work.  National Theatre Connections Connections is 28 years old and is The National Theatre's annual nationwide youth theatre festival. It has a history of cha...

Monday  27th February 2023 I got told about my roll for Unbroken weeks prior so I decided to print off my scene and highlight all my lines so it was easier for me to learn them. I first had 4 days to learn my lines, but the filming day got put back to the 27th of February the day we came back from half term. So I had an entire week off to learn them. I got familiar with the lines and was ready for Monday but because I hadn't had a chance to go through the scene with the actors I was finding it hard to keep the constituency going of knowing the lines. I got told on Sunday 26th that my costume I needed would be a plain black shirt and plain black jeans since I was in a coffee shop. When we were on location the staff were nice enough to allow us to use their aprons as long as we didn't get the logo into shot so we had to wear them around the waist. We had a couple of run throughs of just going over the lines together then we got up and got ready to learn what actions we would be d...

  Monday 6th February On this day we put back into Tom's dance studio with the higher education students to go over the blocking of pretty women. We started off with the singing warm ups we had done before when working with Tom. We then split into 3 groups to continue the warm ups going but having a different group sing a warm up song all at the same time. Then we moved onto getting to understand the tune and lyrics for the song which was a weird one. We went over this a couple of times to get a feel for what it would be like before moving into something simple to block it out with. The blocking was only simple because majority of us can't dance so they didn't want to do anything too extreme for us since I was already struggling with the simple version as I kept getting my hands and feet swaying the wrong direction all the time and was behind everyone else. After we had finished the swaying in our groups we formed 2 circles and circled around the woman in the middle to whic...

Monday 26th September 2022 This was the start of our Christmas carol singing where we taught by Tom, our task was to learn a 15 minute piece for a The Muppet's: Christmas carol songs to perform at the globe for a Christmas concert. We started off with a couple of voice warmups to get us ready for the singing most of the warmups were based on rhythm and working on going high and low. We were then told what our first song was which was called 'Scrooge'. We had lyrics and the music in background to keep us on beat and remind us how its sung. Tom started off by playing the beginning tune on the piano then we were challenged to have more of a rough voice for the song because that's how its sung on the film because it shows how feared we are of scrooge. After learning a couple of the verses we got asked if there was a group of us wanting to go at the front and sing the first verse together. I got volunteered to go towards the front by my friend Will, which sort of pushed me o...

  Task 6   I feel like I have progressed a lot since my role in the ghost light tours. One of the major progresses being auditions since during the ghost light audition I was very nervous, shaking, stuttering and muddling up my lines the whole time, but for wizard of oz auditions I ended up doing two where I was a bit nervous at first when I was answering the questions about the Tinman but once I steadied into the process I managed to get through it with ease with just one problem being the stiffness. For the lion audition I was on script mainly because I got told to learn the role I wanted more, I knew the first couple of lines from the top of my head I just had to use the rest of the script for the change of emotion. Going into the show it was very nerve wracking because I now had a lot more lines from when I did the ghost light tours because that role was mainly me and Will blocking a piece together with one little rhyme, whereas for wizard of oz it was a full length role w...

  Task 2 Going into the show I struggled a lot with the stiff like movement, I made the decision to stay back and practice with some classmates. I stayed back an hour and made a little bit of progress. Another main problem I had going into the show was my pronunciation heart.  On the very first show cast 3 were leading so I was an Ozian to begin with. My costume was green joggers with a green sports shirt that I had to wear inside out because it had a black logo on both sides, you weren't able to tell that I had it inside out because I also had a green apron over the top that held 3 green paintbrushes which me and Henry used to pretend we were painting the emerald city so it looked like we were immersed in the wizards lies and did everything he told us to do. There was a problem with the very first show with Ozians since the side I was on missed the queue to go on stage so we were out of beat and out of time with one another so it looked sloppy when we were inter crossing in t...