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Emily Wixey
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RESUBMISSION: Stranger Things, Self Tape
After getting feedback from the group, I decided to resubmit another monologue. For this resubmission, I decided to perform Robin's...
Emily Jade
Nov 8, 20201 min read
SINGING VIDEO
Please refer to the bottom of the page for my video. For my solo, I chose the song ‘Once Upon a December’ from Anastasia the Broadway...
Emily Jade
Nov 2, 20201 min read
Singing #5 - Musical Theatre Notes Don't Always Have to Be Pretty
This session was mainly focussed on preparation for our solo, where we discussed how to make it look and feel more realistic. Our given...
Emily Jade
Nov 2, 20204 min read
SELF TAPE: The Fault in Our Stars
My self tape is Hazel Grace’s monologue from The Fault in Our Stars, where she reads her eulogy to Gus before he dies. This is the...
Emily Jade
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Camera Skills #5 - Love Rosie Wasn't for Me
In our final session, we had to perform our scenes that we had been given and paired blindly. Maisie and I were given a scene from ‘Love,...
Emily Jade
Nov 2, 20202 min read
Camera Skills #4 - Finally Finding Comfort In Front of the Camera
In this session, we had to read the scenes that were sent to us through the mock casting call that we were given. There were two scenes,...
Emily Jade
Nov 1, 20203 min read
Acting #5 - This is Where It Could All Go Wrong...
Unfortunately, in this session we didn’t get as much rehearsal time as everyone else due to COVID-19 isolation circumstances, so we had a...
Emily Jade
Nov 1, 20202 min read
Devising #4 - Too Much Crime Drama...
In our final devising lesson, we adapted the script in relation to the constructive feedback we had been given over the last few weeks....
Emily Jade
Nov 1, 20202 min read
Singing #4 - Punk Rock and Somewhere Over the Rainbow Should Never Have a Baby...
This session, we looked at examples of the same song sung in different styles. The song was ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, and we had to...
Emily Jade
Nov 1, 20205 min read
Acting #4 - Tick Tock On The Clock...
With a week left until the assessment, we still had a lot of work to do. Our script, unlike everyone else’s was only five minutes long...
Emily Jade
Oct 28, 20203 min read
Devising #3 - Buttercup, Buttercup...
For this session, we really tried to adapt our characters emotionally, and to give our audience an insight into why they’re the way they...
Emily Jade
Oct 27, 20203 min read
Acting #3 - Laughter is the Secret to a Dramatic Story, Right?
We began to flesh out the script for the most part of this session, using the snippets we’d chopped into one page from the previous...
Emily Jade
Oct 26, 20202 min read
Devising #2 - Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, and their Scarily Good Accent Help.
Following on from the previous acting session with Ben on Tuesday, we were able to begin writing and plotting the story for our...
Emily Jade
Oct 26, 20202 min read
Acting #2 - How Much Do You Know about Death Row?
In this session, we performed our pieces off script to the rest of the class and were able to give feedback in rotation to each group....
Emily Jade
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Singing #3 - Voldemort and Anastasia in the Same Blog?
Recapping on the last session, we had to find songs that were in thickfold and thinfold to discuss at the beginning. I took some time...
Emily Jade
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Singing #2 - I Didn't Know That Was My Range!
We discussed the importance of effort levels, and what each different one involves, as well as vocal qualities and vocal ranges in this...
Emily Jade
Oct 26, 20204 min read
Devising #1 - Family Feud
In this session, myself, Faye and Saskia looked at Top Girls in relation to the tasks we had done in the previous acting session. We...
Emily Jade
Oct 25, 20202 min read
Acting #1 - Is That Really What Shakespeare Wrote About?
For our first task of this lesson, we looked at ‘To Be or Not To Be’, the infamous monologue from Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. Upon our first...
Emily Jade
Oct 25, 20203 min read
Singing #1 - Team Chest Register or Team Head Register?
In our first singing lesson, we learned more about how our voice works and how it is connected to emotion, control, support and...
Emily Jade
Oct 25, 20204 min read
Screen Acting #3 - High Necks are a No-Go
In this session, we played around with speaking and reacting for the camera. It was a bit frustrating to begin with, as Covid-19...
Emily Jade
Oct 18, 20203 min read
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