Zen and The PPP
Being Zen:
Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel is a book that Mr.Fearnehough talked to us about when we first started to work on puppetry and concentration. We had already worked on this book and on the 1st of October i wrote 'the key quote he read out to us was ‘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’. My first reaction to this was that a person has to keep on pursuing their own goals in order to succeed. A person has to overcome exhaustion and keep their own beliefs in what they can do' After reading a chapter of the book, we found out that the man in this book tries archery and tricks the master but the master refuses to work with him because he had let him down. I realized that for concentration especially you cannot force something to be perfect. If something will happen it will, we cannot push ourselves to be perfect if we have just started doing something. I find this relates to me because when we first started working on concentration and we did some exercise which made us do something for quite a while, i found i lost concentration. Reading the rest of the chapter of the book i realized also that it takes practice to be perfect, no one can be perfect on the first go, practicing is what will make a person perfect and this is done for everything (dance, acting, playing football and even doing a presentation).  
Relating back to what i said in October about the quote my first reaction still sticks with me that a person has to keep pursuing their own goals in order to succeed, pursuing their goals here would be practicing. 


PPP:
On Friday 13th (oouuuh) in our double lesson we worked on the PPP. We went through the marking criteria and the examiners report on the past PPP's. 
We first did a Mock PPP last year when i did it i really thought i had put in a good effort in what i did and included everything that was necessary for a performance. I  soon realised when we were going through the examiners report that i had missed out quite a few silly things and i wasn't very specific on what i wanted, such as:
- The lighting - in my PPP i had not but for my lighting what i exactly wanted and no dimensions or on what power the lighting would be. 
- Words- i used a lot of words which on the moment when i was doing my PPP was what i first thought off. These words were simply descriptive and sometimes were not really explaining what i was trying to portray. 
From the fed back i have got from Mr.Fearnehough i am much clear on what to do also because i had a practice im more comfortable in what im doing. It was also helpful to see past students work to see the aspects they had included in their PPP's and how much detail was added. 
The one thing i need to try my best now is talking about why i have chosen specific things to use and i cannot just use it to look pretty. I need to explain everything and i need to be clear on why im using it and also i need to explain correctly because one thing i could write about could be read differently by someone else and my idea might not be so clear.