Q - Why do we want to create truth on stage?
We want to create truth on stage to tell the audience a real and truthful story and 
without the truth it will not e effective.we want the audience to be effected by the piece.

Q- Why did we play this game?
we played the game 'i dont believe you' because we wanted to practise being able to
convaye the truth through theater.

Q- What did you learn from watching it / being part of it?
i learnt being a part of it and watching it that it is much harder to be natural 
and tell the truth in theater. Because when you are acting you are use to not being your self so this was a challenge for me and i am sure for many of my piers. 

Write about one of the people that took part in the game (Chem, Tyler, Kimberley, TJ, Skye, Ursula) - 

Q- What situation were they entering the room from? 
Chem-he just got his crushes number,
me-i had just had my head dunked in a toilet,
Tj -had come home to find everything in his rom had gone
skye-had just found out he had cancer,
ursula-was getting an arranged marriage with a guy she hated by her mum.  

Q- How were they able to show truth? 
they where able to show the truth through there body language  and there facial expressions. 

Q- What they change each time they entered the room? 
Each time they entered the room there physicality changes. 

Q- Were they successful in creating a truthful performance? How? Why?
They were successful in telling the truth because of  the way they connected with the audience without talking to them. they did it though there bodys actions and faces, they did to tell a story without saying the reason although we were told what had happend we could of almost guessed through the way they where acting.   

Q- What is non-verbal communication?

It is telling a story without talking or using words. 

Q- What scene did you create and who did you work with?

I worked with tia and we created this scene were i was a doctor
telling a family member or friend of a patient(tia) had just died.

Q- What other pair did you think were successful and why 

Another pair that piece was effecive was ursulas and tylers becuase 
there story was different and they used non-verbal comunication very well.

• NAME: Constantin Stanislavski
• OCCUPATION: Theater Actor
• BIRTH DATE: January 17, 1863
• DEATH DATE: August 07, 1938
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Moscow, Russia

Q- What is subtext?
subtext is basicly the hidden meening in what you are saying.

Q- Why did we work out the subtext of the monologue? 
we used it to find out what leah was really saying as she said it.
we had to go into pairs and analyze the monologue and write down 
the subtext, then one of us would  read the original context then after 
the other partner would read what leah wanted to say. we did this so
it would be easier to read the context with meaning.

Q- Did it help you to have a better understanding of the character? 
it helped us understand are characters more because we got to understand there
thought tracks more.

Q- WHY will a truthful performance be important to our performance of DNA? 

It is very important to create a real truthful performance because this play is naturalistic and for us it is quite easy to relate to (not the killing part) but how we are teenagers. So it is inpatient for us to portray this. So if we succeed in this we can truly portray the message of the play to the audience .   

Nature V Nurture

Task 3:

We created a scene to show the backstory of the character you worked on.

Q- What is a backstory?
A back story is the history and life of a character. dictionary definition:  A history or background created for a fictional character in a motion picture or television program.

Q- Why is it important for actors to understand their character’s backstory?
i believe it is important for actors to know the backstory of a characters back story because it gives you more to work with and you can get more emotionally attached to the characters. And this will help better your performance.

Q -What did you create as a snapshot of your character’s world? Describe what you did and link you choices to the play.
Me and my group decided that he would be brought up in a complicated family situation where he had an abusive step-father and this challenged him to be stronger and stand up for himself witch he cant do even with his imaginary friends telling him to stand up and this relates to the play because he could never stand up for himself and was a push over. 

This is the song to represent Adam the character. I believe this is good to reprisent my character because the song is saying if only and thats what i feel Adam has been saying his whole life. he will never been good enough, and he wishes for more,  and in the song he says things he wants to do but he cant achieve.

Task 2:

We created 4 ROLE ON THE WALLS for the characters : Phil, Leah, Brian and Adam. 

Q- Did you find out anything new about the character your group worked on?

i found that i did find out new things about my character because before i didn't really think in depth about the character but after we analyzed Adam(my character for analyzation  i then found  out so much about him and this helped us for the next task.

go to http://year10actingup.blogspot.co.uk/ are videos of the role-on-the-walls you created.

this is not mine but it is a example. 

In the most recent lesson we focused on creating the history of a character and exploring what we know from the text.
First we got into groups of 5 and we created a 1 minute version of the play ‘DNA’

Q1 - Why did you do this?
We did this to show are full understanding of the play and be able to brake it down and show it in a 1 minute piece this showed that we new the main points of the play.

Q2- How did it help you? 

It helped us because we thought about what were the most important  moments in the play and us our selfs got a better understanding of the structure  and this will really help us when it comes down to the main performance.

Q- What did you notice about all of the pieces that were created? Were their moments that were the same?

I noticed that all the pieces included most of the same main points. One of the points that i believe every group did was include a section of there 1 minute devoted to the explanation of the man who they where going to frame i think this was the section in most pieces that took the most time and was quite detailed  Also i scene that was brought up was the ending where they find out that adam is still alive. these two parts i think had the most time given to them and in all pieces where explained very well.

This is a photo of are script, it is 28 pages long it is short but in that short play a lot happens. its really well written and i feel dennis kelly has really captured the essence of a teenager the was they talk and comunicate with one another. A character the really interests me is Adam because you dont see him until the end but the whole play revoles around him the actions the other people and doing is coming from the situation of Adam, its as if he is controlling all of them.

This is one of my favorite scenes in the play, it is Act one ; scene one. I like this scene because not a lot is said and it is not complex but it tells a story and leaves you wanting more.
The two people in the scene are Jan and Mark and there relation status is friends.
I really enjoyed reading this because of the mystery.

Started reading are first ever script at BRIT its a really good read , and i really enjoyed it.
All the characters are really interesting and all play an important role in the play.
Cant wait to start working on DNA- Dennis kelly