Drama

In drama we are doing a unit on mime. The activity that we did last class was we had to form a group and then Mr Meiklejohn gave us a little card that had the name of what the scene topic we had to perform was on. The topic that my group got was setting up a campsite. What we did was we were driving in a car and I was one of the kids, Lucy was another one of the kids and Keina was the dad and Mimi was the mum. We got out of the car, got the bags, took the bag with the tent in it and then got the tent out and set it up. I really like how we hammered the picks in because I thought that we made it look realistic but when we were putting the poles through the tent to hold it up we didn’t really practice that enough I think because we weren’t very balanced with putting them in at the same level.

7C Drama: Basic Mimes from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

For this unit in drama, we have been studying dance and how we can fill up the stage space and how to create a dance that people will enjoy but also is easy enough for us to do. We had to create a group of people to do our dance with. My group was Kate, Juulia and Sophia. Before we started planning our dance we studied how to use up stage space and what would make our dance good. In our dance,  we had to use at least one prop. Our dance was about a japanese myth that was based on a real story. It was about a sun god who got bullied so then she didn’t come out and there was no sun so then some other gods (I don’t know who) had a parade and the sun god hear the music so she came out and paraded with the other gods and then there was sun. For our draft (I guess I could call it that) we tried to use the drum whilst I go and hide in a cave, but after our draft we got feedback from our classmates and they said that the drum didn’t really work because it slowed us down and made our dance look disorganized.

Our first dance was kind-of disorganized because we didn’t really know the choreography and so we messed up a lot but we had quite a few patterns. The prop we used was the colored cloth thing and we used it mainly with patterns and when I fell over that was meant to be the part where I went in to the cave and then came out to the parade, we used the cloths and sun rays to show the sun coming out. I thought that a really good pattern that we did was when we got in to a square and then the people that were standing opposite each other went down and the the others stood up and then the people that were down went up and then the people that were up went down. Also after we did that move we did crossovers where Juulia and I jumped diagonally across each other and then Kate and Sophia did the same thing and then after about two times we went at the same time and then we got in to a line to start the next movement.

Our classmates gave us some really good and creative feedback that helped us a lot when we were planning our final dance. We strived to try and make sure that everyones feedback was put in to our dance except we realized that it was going to be really hard to make sure that everyones feedback was put in our dance. One of the easiest points was to maybe try using music that wasn’t hand made so we chose a song that perfectly fitted our dance. We chose “Glad You Came” by The Wanted the instrumental version. I think that the lyrics of the original song were better but if we chose the original song with the people singing then we would have focused more on the lyrics of the song instead of focusing on the dance. One of the parts we didn’t do so well in (meaning Juulia and I) was staying serious. We started laughing towards the end because I messed up a little bit in the dance so I think that we might not get the grade that we are expecting to get because of that.

Overall I think that my group did a really good job with the planning of the dance, drafting and doing the final product. It was nice and organized and we got most of the feedback points in our dance except the thing that we can improve on a little bit more is staying serious whilst dancing.

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Hey guys, here is my drama video that we made.
The game that we’re playing is called ‘Space Jump’. What you do is the first person starts a scene and then another person needs to say SPACE JUMP and then the person that started the scene freezes and then the person that called space jump goes in and starts a whole new scene that is different to the one that the person before did. If you want to play space jump, just continue the instructions above.

Here is the video:

6A Spacejump 2 from YIS Academics on Vimeo.

If you liked that video, here is another one called Story, Story, Die.
How do you play this game?
You need 3-7 people. Choose a topic that you can make a story out of. One person says 1-2 sentences and then the person that gets chosen next has to continue the story but if you say um or you pause for a while, then you are out till’ you start another round.

Here is the video:

6A Story Story 2 from YIS Academics on Vimeo.

My strengths in space jump were coming up with things fast but I think that they weren’t always the best things to say. My weakness would be changing the subject or ending the story to fast, also making it random.

My strength in story story die was that I could come up with things fast and improvise and I think that my weekness was I seemed to repeat some things except I also changed the subject again.

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