Making our new and revised puppet and getting some help with the IPP

Making our new puppet:

Throughout the week Bekki and I focused on making our revised puppet. We included parts of the three puppets we'd previously looked at to make a better puppet. It was there I realised that skills learned in one subjects can be applicable in other subjects. For this project, I used incremental design to add design ideas to our puppet in order to make it better. Bekki was leading this activity in the same way that I will be leading sound design.

IPP Help

Despite the focal point of the week being the puppet, I also receved invaluable help for my IPP. I'm now certain of what I'm doing, which is leading  a workshop on Strasberg's Method Acting. I will be training a non-actor into performaing a monologue from a naturalisitcs play that contains movement as well, meaning it will show the effects of Method acting.

Archery and Zen

For our work on our puppet play, we studied an extract from a book called "Zen in the art of archery" It details a man's journey to learn the art of archery from a Japanese master archer. The key quote from this text is "If one really wishes to be a master of an art, technical knowledge of it is not enough. One has to transcend technique so that the art becomes an ‘artless’ art growing from the unconscious’". This means that to truly achieve skill in something, it has to become an unconscious reflex, something that is done without thinking, like inner ear balance.

Script Study

This lesson, Bekki was sick but Lydia and I went through our jobs and then the script that Lydia had written. We discussed our own personal roles and realised that the role of puppet maker was not really Bekki's job. This is because even though I was meant to be just helping to make it, both of us were making big decisions and doing the same amount of work. It's good that we managed to work together on this but the problem with us producing an equal amount of work means it will be difficult for Bekki to use this in her TPPP, as she cannot claim sole credit.
As we went through Lydia's script, we noticed that she had included a lot of things that woul appeal to a young audience, which ties in exactly with our performance concept. However, there was something that we need to change, and that is the use of flashbacks. We started discussing alternatives but have not come down with a final solution yet.

PPP 

We studied the markscheme and task requirements in depth, comparing to past papers and eventually, our own work. Although I only got a 4, it is important to remember that it was my first go after only a year of Theatre, meaning I can now rely on a lot more knowledge to use in my PPP. Furthermore, loooking at past papers and going through the marksheme highlighted wht I did wrong and what I need to do this time.