HOLIDAY WORKSHOP- tuesday 24th of April

In week 3 of the skook holidays on Tuesday from about 9 till 3 or 4 i don't memba... I dragged my bottom 2 skool 4 a workshop to help character building and get us organised/prepared for our year 12 production of MIRROR MIRROR in week six! Things i need to do: Follow directors intent- Girls pressures/influences, including: absent father vain mother- bad role model not right build for ballet. makes me sad start of disorder magazines/pop-culture size 0= beauty BARBIE celebrities, models etc. shallow,surface, outside beauty=IMPORTANT, inside beauty=NOT IMPORTANT RESEARCH ANOREXIA understand the disease find stories about anorexic girls ANSWER 'what is it be anorexic?'... this will help me get into the mind-set PHYSICALISATION find photos of girls who are anorexic observe human behaviour, in order to re-create (watch skinny girls @ supre, ones who try on 3xs which = a size 0, & see how they react when they look in the mirror, are they happy, do they like wat they see?) appealing 4 my character= sky, air work out how 2 show this part of me through costume find material that represents my character for the circus tent MAKE BELIEVABLE AND REAL choose ppl or certain situations to enable a real performance.. DAD- MUM- FRIEND- BROTHER- VOICE- i already have one 4 the voice :'( & one 4 the dad 2. show difference in girl as she grows up.. 4, 12, 16 costume/make-up/hair voice attitude physicalisation WORK OUT RELATIONSHIPS 2 OTHA CHARACTERS use the script- what does it tell me about the GIRL, use this 2 build my character no name- represent a 'GIRL'... all girls?? use lines in the play to work out relationships and what others think of me use Kane's 'WORKING ACTIONS' WRING- strong, sustained flexible GIRL= nervous, worried about being caught out,fidgety want 2 FLOAT- light, sustained, flexible. MY QUEST 2 BE THIN AS AIR.... this will help with stage presence plus work through and tick off actors checklist stick 2 criteria, making sure its met 2 a high standard and.... LEARN MY LINES!!! :0

thoughts about 'the girl'

My personal thoughts after getting GIRL in MIRROR MIRROR. First thought is that its going to be hard, which Miss Mace has made quite clear. Before we were told our roles, we (me, Holly, Adele, Maddy, Knowlsey and Kyle) were told that we were playing 'straight' characters. These roles can be considered hard as there is no room for portraying a stereo-typical type, for example i represent all Girls not just one. This can make it harder to receive a good mark! Meaning the effort, time and research of the character needs to be put in, if an A is my goal.. which i don't see why it shouldn't be. I am really happy with my role and glad i have the opportunity and challenge of playing the girl. Getting into the mind set of my character is going to be a difficult task but i have many ideas of how i can experience some feelings the girl goes through.. My first idea is being ANNOREXIC for a day! After visiting the pro-anorexia sites i found many girls asking for advice and talking about fasting.. so for one day i am going to do the same eating plan and exercises as one particular girl on the site. So i can experience some of the things they go through.. even tho I'm not lookin forward 2 it, but come on now I've done the 40 hour famine, but that was 4 money, but this is 4 a good mark so I RECKON I CAN AND WILL DO IT! AN ENTRY I FOUND ABOUT A GIRL EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HUNGER... i've been thinking about the different types of hunger--like how there's 'snackish' hunger that is just an annoyance and easily dealt with, and then you go into 'real' hunger--like i havent had a meal in 12 hours and how sometimes it hurts your stomach and sometimes it hurts your head too....and how sometimes that is the hardest hunger to get past....but then theres 'starving'--i havent eaten in DAYS and how somehow it perpetuates itself. once you go so long with that hunger, you never want it to go away, no matter how much it hurts. and you get panicky about anything that you MIGHT eat because that would ruin your hunger....and then there is that weird hunger when you havent eaten in a week or more and it doesnt really hurt your stomach you just keep thinking 'i HAVE to eat. i HAVE to eat' and you start thinking a million miles a minute about whats in the pantry and what would be safe and should you binge and would you purge and where would you purge and my god i just HAVE to eat SOMETHING right NOW.

team building activites :)

last lesson was a fairly emotional lesson for me i was a bit fired up for unrelated reasons 2 drama but after the break i was ready to join in the 'fun' of the knot game.. it didnt work out but was alrite considering the annoyingness (if thats a word) of the gfame! We then played the ball game and got (gut haha phobe) upto 25, which was a plus and we finished that game on a more postive note. The next game was the 'manner' game and was quite fun just allowing the class to all have a good time and a bit of a laugh HEHE HORNY ;) Miss Mace brought to the classes attention, even though some were not aware of the so called bitchness happening, roll of the eyes at a person etc. I think it's just that fact not everyone is made to get along! But i must admit after the team building activities i felt more comfortable with most people and there wasnt a big gap between us or groups of people. Even the musical has helped with making our drama class more of a team..... But then again lol! i believe the that some people are trying to be all... look at me i am the best.. and are always competing and always wanting to be known as the VERY best! JUST MY QUICK BITCH.. SERIOUSLY I NEED 2 GET IT OUT!!!!!! this person outside of drama unrelated activities is fine, and when they are not competing but, i just think not only this person who frustrates me at times but all of us including me need not focus on who gets what role because, at the end of the day the moderator is not marking you on your role they are marking you on your acting ability... ok now back to mirror mirror.. we were ask to think about characters we would like and after seeing some scenes performed during class i really think i would like to play the girl or the voice of the girl. Reasons being i think these two characters could be done really well and i could see myself portraying these characters the best out of all the characters so far. After Kia and Kyle did the clowns acting out the story being told by the mum i can see the potential mirror mirror has not only to touch base on big issues affecting our youth but also be a light hearted comedy in places 2!

well since ive been at skool since 8:30pm (not that im complaining much haha, ah miss mace i kno ur prob still there i feel 4 u!) i think i might head off 2 bed

goodnite all dont let the bed bugs bite xoxo

yesterdays lesson...

Yesterdays lesson was very good in terms of our class working better as a group and becoming more comfortable with each other. After discussing possible plays for our group production we started doing improv games like 'park bench' and the 'bus.' These games would act as the audition for the part we will receive in the group production. There are no actual auditions for parts as Ms Mace is choosing them for us. I don't mind as Ms Mace will be choosing characters we will excel in and do our very best, but at the same time will challenge us, and enable us to show our acting abilities.

I did think about doing a backstage part in our group production, like maybe publicity but have decided i would enjoy acting more and think i will get more out of the course by doing it. Therefore by doing something i enjoy i will recieve a higher mark, HOPEFULLY! \

Also our lesson yesterday was so much fun and full of comedy i think we should start taping lesson and put together a DVD for the end of the year showing our journey in year 12 Drama Studies.

Love me xoxo

Already almost halfway through term 1!

Oh deary me! Time seems to have been going so very quickly and now that i have finally managed to get on to my blog account i can actually comment on a few things which have been happening in drama. Our class has had three options to choose from for our group production; Cloudstreet (which would appeal to the audience but we would find hard to write about and receive a good mark), Rhinoceros (which wouldn't appeal to the audience leaving many confused and asking the question 'WHAT THE!?!' but would be good to write about as there's lots of information about adsurb theatre therefore resulting in a good mark) and Mirror Mirror (which i believe would appeal to the audience as it addresses an important issue and also would allow us to write a good piece as information is easy to find about eating disorders, this is also my personal favourite.)





MIRROR MIRROR-explores the inner life of a girl with an eating disorder and the impact this has on those around her. This thought-provoking play tackles a sensitive issue in a theatrically dynamic way. It invites audiences into the topsy-turvy world of a circus where everything is smoke and mirrors and nothing is as it seems. The play is full of strong visual images and powerful dialogue, as well as moments of comedy.



It incorporates a wide range of performance, dance and music styles – from clowning to soliloquies, from ballet to belly dancing and from pop to tribal drumming.

REASONS FOR LIKING THIS PLAY-It involves many aspects of theatre and will allow us to connect to the characters as the issues confronted throughout the play are ones which many of us experiences everyday. From how we portray ourselves and how others portray us! We constantly worry how we are seen.. AM I too ugly, AM I too thin, AM I too fat, AM I too short etc.
This issue may not just effect us it can also effect ones family members or partner. It really comes down to the fact that we will all have to deal with this issue at some stage in our life, if we already haven't.
When i was younger, my mum stop eating for a period of time due to many different reasons. As i was not old enough to understand what was wrong with her or even to notice the fact that she wasn't eating, this didn't really effect me at the time. Today i look back at photos of my mum and see how incredible skinny she was. It made me feel sick looking at the photos. She look very very unhealthy like she should have been in hospital, she had pale skin and her face was all bony, she looked like a skeleton wrapped in a thin layer of skin!

I believe this is an ideal play for us as 'mature' young adults to perform and confront our audiences with the issue of anorxeia norvosa in a way which allows you to truly see the side of the person suffering from the disease.

My goal if we do 'Mirror Mirror' is to have the audience leave with a confident outlook on there body image and see their reflection for what it really is, so not one of them end up looking like this!

Thankyou for reading.. love jenna xoxo

week one down and a hell of a lot more 2 go!

Made it through the first week of school and survived.. woohoo! Drama seems like it will be a lot of fun but at the same time it will be a lot of hard work especially if i want to reach my goal of getting an A at the end of the year. This means putting effort into all my work and really trying my very best.

Our year 12 drama class has variety of different people who may not know each other very well. There are many obvious groups within the class. There is a bigger wall to break down when doing group activities with new people whom we wouldn't normally work with. I hope that as a group of young adults we are able to break through these barriers. The reason i want this is, as Miss Mace said we are not competing against one another! If we set someone else up to fail we will in return fail ourselves. As a bad performance from one person, lets not only them down but also everyone else down aswell.

Intro 2 the drama blogs for the all important year 12!

Hello there everyone in year 12 drama, my name is jenna and this is my drama blog! Throughout the course of the year i will be continuously updating my blog with everything from; pictures, personal thoughts, work load, struggles, and general feelings about the class as a whole and our drama group for the year.

Make sure you keep on checking out my space as we are up for a hard and interesting year, and i assure you this will be a very interesting space at times so keep me posted with feelings you have and want to share with me!

Thank you and catchya lata alligators
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xoxo