APPOINTMENT IN SAMARAH September 11, 2011

today we had got a sheet. that sheet was about the appointment in samarah. it was like a monologue. all of us was supposed to memorize the whole thing and we had to act it out. we got at least 4-5 days to work on it and after that we present one by one.  i was the 4th one to present. that time i was very nervous. i did many presentation in front of my classmate but still i was nervous. i thought i will forget all the lines because of the nervousness. but fortunately improvising saved me. i improvised a lot though people caught me but still.

i think that my presentation could be more planned and organized. when naureen used the knife as a prop that time i got the idea of knife. as naureen was well planned like where and when she will show the knife but in my case i didnt know what was the right time to bring up the knife. but i think when i did the melodrama thing  i was more confident. i said the lines frequently and the people also likes that part. i think that melodrama is something which i am good in. while doing melodrama our voice should be loud, our expression should be very clear and i think i can do both the things the expression and the voice. while i was practicing in front of the mirror i didnt planned to do melodrama but no wonder how the melodrama just came in my mind and i suddenly start practicing that way and i though it was a good idea.

overall i think that my presentation was ok-ok not to good not to bad. but i think if i could spent more time doing this that hopefully i would have dome better than this. but in future i will try to make my things more organized and planned 🙂 🙂 :).

after my presentation was dome miss gray wanted to see my performance one again. so we and miss gray actually utilized the whole period to make my performance very good 🙂 🙂 :).  that time i was alone with miss gray so she could actually focus only on me. she made some changes in performance. we made my ending the best.  i loved the was i did the ending :). i practice the whole thing for 5-6 times and the good thing was every time it was getting better and better.

after that i performed in front of every one and each and every person liked my ending. all the credit goes to miss gray because i think of she didn’t actually make me practice and make some changes that i think that i would never to well :).

overall i loved my second performance 🙂 🙂 :). and plus as i had practice for many times it made me more confident in front of every one : ): ): ).

THE MOB PLAY ONCE AGAIN April 3, 2011

today we presented your mob play once ahain but this time it was the whole secondary school. when i saw so many people i got scared before that i was fine. that time i was so nervous that i though i will ruin everything. it wasn’t me only who was nervous. ever one was nervous because for some people it was their first time to do something like this in front of every 1 in this school. i did 2-3 plays in front of so many people. but still no wonder why i get so nervous. i hsould get use to it. when the play was started i tried to not to be nervous and to focus on my lines. this was a serious play. but in some scenes the people laughed like the punch scene. when they were laughing it made me more nervous. but some how i controlled myself. but i knew that i have to do a good performance and in drama er can’t be scared of anything. we have to be able to take any kind of risk.  during the whole play i never looked up towards the audience because i knew if i had did so than i would have forgot all my dialouges. but at the very end when we did the bow that time i looked up. that time i felt so relief.  it felt so nice when the people were clapping. that time i was so pround of myself that i did the whole play properly. i didnt make any mistakes. after the play was over many teachers appreciated me. they were so shoked by lokking at me. they thought that i was i was really good. in the class i don’t talk that much. so all the teachers were like you did a  good job. overall i was very happy with my performance.

PPP Submission March 24, 2011

23rd march 2011

today was the when we have to hand in our PPP. when i gave my PPP, i felt so relief. after working on it for 2 weeks i really think that now i got it how we should do a PPP. this time we did PPP our step by step.  first we did the BRAIN STORMING , than EXPLORING THE STIMULUS, than the PLOT , STORY, LIGHTNINGS, SETTING. at the very end we did the pitch. in my opinion writing the pitch was very hard. we have to mention pretty much every thing in our pitch but not more that 250 words. we had to make the pitch very interesting. miss gave us different types of ptich to look at. it really helped me a lot. i read all the pitch 2-3 times. so that i could get a clear idea of how to write  a pitch. after reading all the pitch i wrote my pitch. i showed my pitch to ever 1 to get some feedback. people did give me some feedback which helped me a lot to improve and to polish my pitch. pitch was the most important part of our PPP. so i really focus on my pitch and tried my best to write a good pitch 🙂 🙂 :). but as it was my first pitch i knew that it wont be that much good but my friends feedback and the example of the pitches which miss gave was very helpful.

but after doing all this i get to know more about the PPP which we have to do next year. i will keep this PPP feedback’s so that in future i can use it properly. 🙂 🙂 :). overall i think the PPP exercise is really good. in this way we can know more and more about how to do a good PPP. 🙂 🙂 🙂

THIRD PPP “YORUBA DEATH MASK” March 10, 2011

today we got your thired PPP.  this PPP wasn’t like the secong PPP because in the second PPP the whole story was gived, the charcters were given but this time he were just given us some pictues. after looking at all the pictures we were supposed to get inspired by that pictures. the was a picture called the YORUBA DEATH MASK. i was very inspired by that picture. no worder how by seeing the picture i can imagine the plot, the seetings, the lighting and what the play will be about. thats was so cool :). when i get to know more about this mask i was more inspired. so i selected that death mask. among 7 of us it was only me and parul who choosed a different picture or other wise every one selected the same topic. so i think that this time my PPP will be very different from others. i was excited about this PPP 🙂 🙂 :). this time i am just waiting to present it :).

before we started working on our PPP miss gisele aksed us to do a brain storming. while i was doing my brain storimg i had so many points in my mind. i jotted down everthing in a piece of a paper. it really helped me to get organised because when ever i have whole lot os ideas in my mind, i get confussed about what should i di first. but if i organise myself  i won’t have that problem.

i am very happy with my topic 🙂 and hopefull i won’t do the mistake which i had done in the previous PPP 🙂 🙂 🙂 and hopefully this will a successfull PPP for me and yes i will have fun while doing this PPP for sure 🙂 🙂 :).

PPP “JOYRIDING”

today we were supposed to present your PPP.  the first 1 to present was naureen.  I liked the way naureen started explaining. first she introdenced us with the play than the characters of the play.  when i looked at her she looked very confidint. she wasn’t nervous at all. but as she started to talk about the seeting, the lightings and the ending, i thouhgt that she wasn’t organized. at the begaining she was but than at some places she stopped. she needed to think after will she say after what. but other wise i really liked her PPP.  i was after naureen. when naureen presented i was really paying attention towards her because i though if i will listen to her than i will know how to present my things and the mistake which naureen did, i will try to avoide it 🙂

after naureen it was my turn to present. in my opinion i think i can do much better than what i did because i thought that i just have to focus on the lightings and the seeting. but i didn’t think of the starting and the ending. in the beganing i started talking about my stage like why i selected the stage. i didn’t talk about how the characters will enter. which i should have done.  after listening to naureen i realised that i did a mistake. but still what ever i have i tried to explain my thing. i draw some pictures, so that it wpould be easy for me to explain certain things. but i think that after doing a bad PPP miss gisele and my classmates where very supporting. at the end every one clapped for me. after listenig  to the clapping i promised my self that when ever i will have to do the  PPP again i will first make a cler version of what i want. the play how it will start, how it will enf, the enyrence , the end etc. after i am done with all this thing that i will think about the seetings and the lighting because before doing anything we have to have a cler version of what we will be doing.

after me it was adiba’s turn to present. i really liked adiba’s presentation. when i was paying addention towards her, i realised that she have a cler vision of what she was talking about. she had a paper in her hand but when she was talking she didn’t look at it.  by seeing that i htough sge was very organised. in her whole presentation she never paused which was a good thing :).  in my opinion she was creative. over all i really enjoyed her presentation :).

after adiba it was mashroor than mashfiq than parul and at the last sadman. all of them were very good. every one had the same ending nut the lighting was different. each and every one was creative. every one kind of mentioned different types of props. some things were similar but the seeting and the lightings was different. ver one finished their PPP in 5-10 mins. but paul took the long time because she was going to much in the depth of the story. which is good. she thought a lot. but she wasn’t focusing on the seetings and lightings. she had so many informairon that she was kind of confused about what she will say.

i think over all the PPP was a nice practice for me. i belive that after doing 2-3 PPP’s i will be able to do it better. from this PPP i get to learn many things. i get to know about my mistake and in the future i will never do it again 🙂 🙂 :).

OUR PLAY “THE MOBS” March 6, 2011

after working so hard on the play finally the day came when we were supposed to present it in front of every one. i was very excited for that moment. finally when the moment came and i was on the stage i started feeling nervous. i did many drama play’s on the stage but no wonder why i started feeling nervous and i had a feeling for inside that i will forget my lines. which made me more nervous i was on the left side of the stage. when i peeped out to see how many people were sitting to see our play. when i saw it was so many peoples i was very very scared that time. i didn’t know what to do so that i feel releaxed. after some time miss Gisele asked us to be ready. after some time we will be starting the play. that time i remembered what mr. TION asked me ti di when i was doing my rehearsals on the “TEN LITTLE INDIAN”. once when i was doing my rehearsals i wasn’t saying my lines to loud.  so MR..TION  was very mad at me.  so he asked my other class mates to go at the end of the auditorium to hear that weather my voice is loud enough or not.  at that time i was stading alone on the stage and every one was sitting to watch me.  that time i was so nervous that i messed up my line. then suddenly MR. TION came to me and say that when ever you are are nervous don’t look at the audience. just say your lines and when you think that now if you look at the audince it won’t matter to you that slowly start looking at the audience. that time i felt really confident and as MR. TION said i started saying my lines without looking at the audience and when i thought now i was fine and now if i see the audience i will not be nervous than i looked at the audience and this time i wasn’t nervous at all. at the end MR.TION was so happy and he was pround at me as well. today in the ssame stage i was feeling nervous but when i remembered MR.TION’S word and when i saw how miss Gisele was hopeing for the best i didn’t feel nervous at all. after miss Gisele was done with the intro of the play, we started our play. at the begainning i wasn’t looking at the audience but after some time i started looking at them. that time i was so confident 🙂 🙂 :).  at the end i was so happy that didn’t do any mistake 🙂 🙂 :). i didn’t messed up my lines. when the play was over every one was so happy 🙂 espacially miss Gisele :). miss Gisele was so so so so happy :). by looking at miss Gisele face i thought we did a very awsome job :).

i was very very very happy 🙂

NAUREEN’S PRESENTATION February 27, 2011

naureen was the last one to present her presenatation. her practitioner was Jerzy Grotowski and his style was poor theater.  in the very beganning of her presentation she gave us a handout about Jerzy Grotowski. which i think was very useful for me :). there was many important things about Jerzy Grotowski his poor theater. i liked the fact that naureen didnt gave us any irrelevent information :). what ever she gave us awas usefull.  after she gave us the handouts she started her presenation. her presentation was 20 mins long. when she started her presentation she looked so confident.  by seeing her no 1 will say that she was nervous. she knew her topic so well :). when she was talking she didn’t looked at the slides. it seemed like she knew what ever she wrote on her slide.  she was very clear when she was talking :). she didn’t talk to fast or to slow. it was normal. after the power point she showed us a vidoe anouit poor theater. i really liked the video :). in the video they shoed how characters work in a poor theater.

over all it was the last and a good presentation 🙂 🙂 :). naureen did a awsome job. i really liked her power point presenation. i learnt many new things about Jerzy Grotowski and his poor theater 🙂 🙂 🙂

mashroor’s presentation February 13, 2011

after mashfique it was mashroor who had to present. his topic was Constantin Stanislavski . Constantin Stanislavski was femous for hid realism theater. his power point duration was 15-20 minutes.  he also gave us a handouts on Constantin Stanislavski. he did a very nice power point. i like his background but the background make a little bit difficult for me to read what ever was in the slides.  he explain each and every slide. he was good at explaning things.  in his power point he had information about Constantin stanislavski and his theater of realism. after the power point he showed us a vidoe. the vidoe was only about Constantin stanislavski not about his theater of realism. i thought that if the video could give us some informaiton about theater of realism than it would have been easy for us to understand the charaters of realism. their movement, acting, eye movement etc. when i saw the video i get to know about Constantin stanislavski. which was a good thing :). but i wanted to learn about theater of realism because we all had different practitioner and their differnet types of theater and in my opinion none of us know much about the practitioners and their types of theater and i thought that realism was very interesting. it sound really interesting to me. i thought that the theater of realism was a theater were characters show the truth of people’s life, the reality. but unfortunately mashroor didn’t give us much information about theater of realism.

but over all he did a good job 🙂 🙂 :).  he tried his best and none of us are perfect. we should learn things from our mistake so that we don’t repeat the same mistake in the future. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Mashfique’s presentation

after adiba it was mashque;s turn to present. it presentation was about bertolt brooht. first he gave us a hand out about bertolt brooht. there was a whole lot of information about bertilt brooht. after giving the handouts he started his presentation. he didn’t write anything in his power point. he only had picture in his power point. he remember the important dates.  i think that he had less information in his slides. but what ever he had in his slides he tried his level best to explain it.  his presentation duration was about 15-20 minutes. after the presentation he shows us a video about the history of the life of bertolt brecht. i think that the vidoe was very good but it was too long. the video comtain good information about bertolt brecht and his theater of epic. after that he was done with his presenation.

i think if the video was short than we could do some kind of activity. if he could give was a play related to epic theater and if we can act it out than it wold have been very good 🙂 🙂 :). i think that if we did something like this   than we could get a little bit knowlwdge about epic theater.

overall i think it was a good presenation. he tried very hard to make his power point,  because i have to do the same thing and i think make a power point is hard because he have to first read the information and than we have to write it in our own words.

🙂 🙂 🙂

 

ADIBA’S presentation February 9, 2011

adiba was next to present after me. she took 35-40 minutes to do her presentation. adiba’s practitioners  was Antonin Artuard.  he was femous for his theater of cruelty.

befrore adiba started her presentation she gave every one sone habd out. in the habdouts there was some information related to Antonin Artuard. when i opeaned the handout i saw a plenty of information about Antonin Artuard. all of the information was important. after giving the handouts she started her presentation.

STRENGTHS

• she was confident
• she knew her topic very well
• she was organized
• she gave us relavent handouts
• she wasn’t reading the information from her slides
• she showed was a video
• she interacted with the audience very well
• she did a activity to make us understand more about Antonin Artuard and his THEATER OF CRUELTY.

this was all the good things i found in adiba’s presentation.  when she was doing her presenation it look like she understand Antonin Artuard very well. when she was telling us about the activity she looked like she was into that activity. i like this thing very much. when some one understand something he/she gets into that character which is a good thing. i really like this thing about adiba 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 :).

i don’t think adiba needs ti improve anything because she was really good 🙂 🙂 :).  after adiba’s presentation i learnt many things Antonin Artuard and his THEATER OF CRUELTY.

over all i think adiba did a brillient  job. by looking at her presentation every one can say that she worked very hard and she had a very good knowledge about Antonin Artuard.

i will like to take all the good things from her presenatition. so, that  i can improve my presentation. 🙂 🙂 🙂