UNIT 9 (UBU)

UNIT 9

Context
This unit is our last unit. We are doing a play called King UBU which is a comedic and parody spin off of Macbeth. This Unit decides on our grades and status of next year.  King UBU from my understanding is about Pa UBU the main character is wanting to over thrown the king and he rules the land with a nasty rule. People hate his rule and then chase him out.
This Unit is also our last Unit therefore we are in charge of production as well as performance with of course help from the teachers.
The first time we saw the play a lot of us didn't understand the language and thought it was very long play.

Research 
The research of this Unit so far has been on the play language and dynamic. We research comedic play and comedic short clips as this play is a comedic and parody spin off for Macbeth. The first research clip was King UBU the play performed on stage. We watched this so it could help us in seeing ways in which we could perform UBU and possibly take ideas from the clip.
https://youtu.be/35lf_dc_SRM
After watching the clip we understood more of the type of play we were doing and the genre even though we knew it was comedy we also found out that the UBU performance is under the satire genre.
The next research was to understand the satire genre. We did that by trying to find examples of clips and TV shows using the satire genre. We found Tracy Olmen who was doing a satire genre of Teresa May and Donald trump progress cold open SML.
https://youtu.be/Zdn5WJNNTwk
Through this clips we found that a satire genre is making fun of something and very cartoonish and doesn't take it seriously and make it comedic.
For the production side of this Unit my category was costume design for this my research conducted of researching King UBU plays and seeing what they chose to wear for there plays and try integrate some of in our play. Someone in the class came up the idea of a Victorian style play for that i researched Peaky Blinders and great Gatsby knowing those have a Victorian style i researched images and videos on UBU and Victorian style and tried to figure out how to mix them both.

Planning
The planning process for this unit was a lot of practice and preparation for our show and play of King UBU.
We had a lot of script reading lessons and memorising and characterisation.
In one lesson we had a task to act out as a character another person gives you. For example someone says Police man we act like a police man typically would. For this exercise we had to act these characters in stages.
The first stage was statue we were given the character and had to stand as a statue but look like those characters. Using the police officer example we acted as a police officer but couldn't move so we would stand straight with hands behind back or hands saluting.
The next step was a gesture so we used out body movements to gesture something that character would do.
The third step was dialogue we added in a line that character would say.
From this activity we learnt physicality and movement techniques so we could lift the script of the page instead of walking around saying lines.
We did this to improve our physicality to act and show the audience our character and make the story more believable and more entertaining. This exercise was to teach us to lift the words of the script and use body language as well as lines.
There was a lot of planning for the production side of this unit. My category was costume i planned on a peaky blinders mixed with the comedic effect of King UBU.

Problem solving
We had a lot of problems with this unit. One major one was we weren't ready for this play nobody had the courage or the drive to do this play. Which lead to late rehearsals and missed deadlines and not being more prepared then we could of been.
We also had a problem with Production. This unit is our last unit therefore we were in charge of production roles but most of the things that were planned was not used in the final production. So we can to do with props that were used and old costumes.
Another problem was some students responsibilities were given to other students as they couldn't finish it. This led to me having the job of costume design and also lightening i had the task of writing every blackout where and when they are in the script and also most of our ideas and things we have planned wasn't done in the final production of the show.

Evaluation
This Unit was very difficult as there was a lot of miss communication between students and teachers.
At the beginning of this Unit we first got our script for King UBU we didn't understand what this script was about and didn't understand the language. The beginning we were just learning the memorise the lines. By the end of this Unit we had learn to lift the script of the page and not stand in a say lines we learnt more physicality and body movements and learnt more of characterisation.
Personally for this Unit I feel some of my own skills have improved. I feel my confidence is better than it was in other units. Even though it still needs improving i feel that i have improved from last time.
Our planning process was very receptive in learning on scripts every lesson but i think that just helps us remember what we do and helps us perform even better in the end.
Our problem solving did cause alot of problems but it the end we still had a performance to

UNIT 8 (personal project and presentation)

UNIT 8
Personal project and presentation

In this Unit we were asked to reflect on our skill set and how we will use what we have learnt For our play UBU.
I will show how i progressed this year and how i will use my developed skill set in my performance.

Skill set
Punctuality-  98.9% throughout the year shows that i am good at time keeping and planning my day

Memorisation- In all my plays i have said my lines in the right order and the right time which shows i am good at my memory skill.

Team work- My teamwork's skills are shown in my performances, and classroom practices and my communication between the team

Patience- My patience is shown in when other actors are late or plans are delayed. I have shown that i can be patience.

Respect- I respect other people fairly even though i may not receive it back.

Confidence- My confidence have grown since the start of the year. I have shown that i am more likely to talk to new people and my confidence on stage has grown with my voice projection and my pace. I still believe though that this skill does still need improving, even though i have grown in confidence i believe it not the best that it can be.

Maturity- My maturity is a good skill as i am focused when other may not of been and i plan my time to be able to achieve my goals.

Flexible- I have shown my flexibility in being in rehearsals and lesson even though it was not on my timetable and being in classes when the times changed.

Determination- My determination was shown im how i was in for every rehearsal and also got other actors to come into rehearsal and did other jobs even though they were not my responsibility.


Next year
My plans for next year is to apply for Level 3 acting and continue with my acting class. I already have found a monologue for my interview and i'm on the stages of memorises it. If my plans of level 3 acting does not come into tuition. My other option is enrolling into another course at the same college. Which is Art and design i have applied to it but if i have a interview is still on the line at this moment in time.