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My Autobiography A life in the day of jhon My name is jhon, I live in a house in Thornton lodge .I am 17 but change my age to suit my mood as I can go from 15 to 25 in one day; I like cool things and hate most things and people. My average morning consist mainly of shouting, swearing and a whole lot of trying to get out of spending another day at school. Each day I use the same few words to start my day off. Well, they're more mumbles than words but they make perfect sense to me. After the fuss and bother of getting up, washing, dressing and packing my bag for college I bound down the stairs, ignore all of my family, go out of the door and launch myself towards college. I am the sort of person that has the thought of skipping college each day to stay at home and eat ice-cream but I never do because there is a huge amount of guilt and fear of getting found out that descends upon me, so I keep on walking to college in a bound direction. Upon my arrival at college I ignore everyone I see reason being I ignore everyone I see is because in the morning I am a very terrible person, I am extremely grumpy and talking to someone will make it worse. Then I walk to the college entrance and kick open the door and kick open all the other doors that impede my uneasy journey to the room of my first lesson where I hope to hear the great news that some of my least favourite teachers
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Drama Coursework - Paper 1 Unit1 - Devised Workshop Love and Abuse
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We were given the play Mrs Warrens Profession. For our choice of scene we chose scene four, the last act because the scene contains the right amount of characters for our group of four. Also the ending scene is the climax of the entire play and
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Explain how you would communicate the roles of the main characters and give examples from Act 3 scene 1. In this scene the mechanicals are in a forest rehearsing for the play for The King and Queens wedding. We see that the mechanicals are obsessed with keeping in line with the realism of the play which could be connected to the overall theme of the play: the contrasts of realism and imagination, between the magical world and the human world. In this scene the character Peter Quince, gets caught up in the minute details of the play and as the theatrical organiser, does his best to keep the "bully" Bottom under control. Since peter Quince seems to be the head of the acting group, I would say that he would be more upper class than the rest. Translating this to the way in which he would walk, speak and re-act. Quince would speak with a slight accent to show his upper side roots and he would have a soft tone, to emphasis bottoms electrifying personality as he tends to interrupt and speak over people. But when the Bottom pronounces a word wrong, Quince would erupt and in a firm and also nervous tone correct him. At this point we see Quince almost having a nervous break down as he gets caught up in the minute details of the script, to show this I would shake all over and use precise hand movements at the script. Quince at all times would have a worried or stressed look on his
My review is based on 'The Train'. Diane Hoh is the person that wrote it.
A DIFFERENT SORT OF BOOK REVIEW My review is based on 'The Train'. Diane Hoh is the person that wrote it. I chose this book because the front cover looked interesting. It was very artistic. On the front cover it had a hand opening what I think is the train door. Part of the hand was in the flesh and the other part was bones. The title of the book was written in large lettering. The other reasons why I chose this book was because a friend recommended 'Point Horror' books, and I had not yet read this book. I had also read the blurb at the back and it sounded interesting. I thought that the beginning was quite easy to follow as it was only introducing the characters. The main character was a girl called Hannah Deaton, she was getting on the train with her friends. My emotions as I read this book was were as if I was watching a horror film. Some parts were exciting and in other parts there would be a lot of suspense. Throughout the book I first thought that Frog (a character in the book) had come back from the dead. Weird, isn't it? But towards the end I find out that it was his girlfriend, Lolly-short for Louise. I didn't think it was her at first because someone had attacked her just after everyone boarded the train, and then she did the wise thing by leaving. I then find out that she did it to herself. A quote to prove this is "Oh, Hannah, don't be silly.
Job Description
Basic Job Description Production Manager The job of the production manager is to assemble and lead the production staff, the stage manager also decides how much each department gets he's in charge of the money. The Production Manager will deliver the working budget to the financier during the "prep" period, therefore setting the business plan of the project. Typically, Producers are responsible for the cost-related decisions on above-the-line (primarily cast) issues, while the Production Manager is responsible for the below-the-line (production period) costs. The Film Director will usually have final decision on Cinematographer, Costume Designer, Production Designer, and Film Editor), and the UPM will make the deals and hire the remaining crew. Stage Manager Stage Managers are responsible for the running of the show when it is 'up' or has started. Although the Deputy Stage Manager is often the one who 'calls the show' - which means tells the technicians what to do. The Stage Manager is responsible for organizing the production, communicating across different disciplines, and keeping everything running smoothly Assistant Stage Manager An ASM or assistant stage manager is a theater technician who is responsible for keeping track of cast members, sets, and miscellaneous details during rehearsals and production of a stage performance. During the running of a show, they are
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Jan-Feb 2001 What is Theatre? At the beginning of the unit I didn't really know what theatre was, I suppose I had never really thought about it before, and had just assumed that by theatre people just meant the plays they performed or went to see. Throughout this topic though, I have learnt that its not just being on stage and playing your part, it how you play your part and the work and effort that goes into a performance and the exploration of the character you are playing. As we progress through the unit my perception of the word theatre changed greatly as I realised how much work it really was. The areas we worked on during this topic were, concentration, to do this we interrogated a member of our group. We looked at stage fighting and created a piece of drama involving this, we studied body language and character this is important so that the audience knows exactly what is going on and who you are. We also looked at movement, voice and ritual, which we explored in the form of a funeral. When we worked on the interrogation I was in a group with, Hannah Gess, Jennifer Routledge, and Sam Gore. We inqusitioned Sam, I thought this was quite a successful piece of drama because we all managed to keep straight faces throughout, even though the questions we were asking were completely unrelated and made no sense whatsoever. We weren't quite aggressive enough when doing this but
