The Days Before The Creation of The Blog (Uni Lessons Are Go!)

Wednesday 5^th October

A Lesson in CV

A lesson at Uni today consisted of showing my CV to Lisa Holloway to get feedback which could then help me tweak and perfect this naughty bad boy

I also learnt that networking is a good thing for actors because the more you know and the more you’re out there, the bigger chance someone will recommend you for things. Another benefit to networking is you can become friends with people you would come across and you could potentially ask that person to be a reference for you.

Maybe even ask for a cheeky favour ;)

During this class it came clear that I need to update my email into a professional one or even one that actually has my name in it. She also said that twitter is a good place to network. So, it’s time to create a twitter account it seems.

I learnt a lot in one day :D

Thursday 6^th October

The Day Off to Slowly Start It All

Using this free time that the lovely Vanessa Cornford gave me, I looked hard into how to create blogs and websites. But I thought you know what? I’m gonna use this time to work on notes from yesterday’s lesson and what I could potentially add to this blog or website when I’ve chosen which one I’m thinking of creating.

It ended up being a blog obviously

I also thought what if I wanna create an eBook? So in preparation for next week’s lesson where we will be taught how to create such eBooks, I thought today is a day to relax, help my landlady move some stuff and write my daily progress on Microsoft word until I can transfer them over to my chosen electronical media of choice.

Which explains why I’m blogging all this, a week late.

Friday 7^th October

Back to Break a Sweat

Today I had to learn out to breathe through the diagram but hang on a minute i already do that naturally since forever... moving on.

Breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth I needed to place that inhaled air into the back of my spine where at this point in the lesson I had my hand placed. This was easy but not at first, it felt like I couldn’t feel the crushing sensation.

In case you’re somewhat confused I was lying on my back with my hand on my back

How that we got that cleared up I started feeling the pressure when I either breathed in more quickly or focused the breath more downward into my lower diagram.

There were a lot of different activities we tried out but there is one that I will be haunted by. Although it was somewhat fun towards the end (because it was finishing, I joke) but i was so nervous doing it i had a brain freeze. The idea of moving from a dramatic pose, to a jump and lying down with movement’s in-between was a piece of cake but to add a song? That had to be song out loud?? In front of everyone??? The stress and the panic kicked in!

I couldn’t think of a song!

I didn’t know any lyrics!

I wasn’t loud enough!

This all tied into a frenzy but luckily we wasn’t actually doing this one by one it was in a group of 5 or 6 so I slowly calmed myself down, just a little.

I love singing to some extent because I write songs and always sing but I’m the sort of person that wouldn’t sing aloud and knows my voice isn’t all that, I’m not bad but I’m no Leona Lewis. Anyway to cut a long story short if it wasn’t for the help of me pal Taz I wouldn’t of gave it a good old confident go, so I’m proud of myself for at least trying.

The discovery I made in this activity is that I need to build my confidence when it comes to using my voice since I rely on my physicality a bit too much.

Now this is where the title of this day really kicks into gear.

Body workshop or as some might call it hell! A two and a half hour body workout that includes a combination of yoga, tai chi and aerobics, that is fun (especially for me) but exhausting near the end. Now I’m an actor and even though it’s good to keep fit and be in shape, we all are like novices when it comes to working out. So much so that I think it should be a weekly thing.

There was a little variation this week in body though since we had to move across the space from chair to chair using different styles of movement and paces, the only different or difficult thing was you had to keep a eye out for everyone and follow them so everyone is being consistent throughout.

The exercise turned into a mini performance which I think turned out ok but there was a lot of planning and not enough doing going on, so it wasn’t rehearsed enough and looked improvised. But I’d give a solid B for effort :)

Now that class was over, something has begun. Film making!! But I’ll elaborate on this in a latter post ;)