Dance !!

20/9/10

My Dance PowerPoint presentation

In dance on Monday me and the rest of the class was working on our PowerPoint Presentation on Contemporary dance.
   I researched three different choreographers called:

Isadora Duncan

Jose Limon

                                                      Katherine Dunham


I learnt a lot while doing this PowerPoint like, the creator of contemporary dance was Isadora Duncan and what type of dance different dancers prefer. I also found out about the Duncan technique, The Limon Technique and The Dunham Technique. I found this PowerPoint very interesting because i learnt a lot.
I thought that on this task Jessica did very well as i found that she had done around 11 slides and wasn't half way finished.
I did find the task quite hard though as i couldn't really find words to describe what i was talking about.
I finished my slide and added some finishing touches to it and next week i will show it to the rest of my creative and media class.

Photography and Patomime

17/09/10

Lesson 1/2: Media/ Drama
Today was my first lesson of media today, I didn't really have any expectations but i thought that it could have been a bit more interesting. As we got into the classroom we took our preferred seats and Mrs.Grieg gave us our instructions, which were to do a PowerPoint Presentation on photography and research as much as we can. So far in my PowerPoint Presentation i researched the history of Photography e.g When was the first Camera made, Who made it, what did the first camera look like e.t.c. The reason why i found it a bit boring was because for all the lessons Ive done in my creative and media so far we have been doing PowerPoint Presentations, though i know lessons aren't all about having fun. I found when i looked around that a few of my peers were doing very well especially Ilenia, i found that when i was on my 3rd slide she was on a mission with around 5 slides. As lesson two drama came along Mrs.Williams was very generous enough to let us do some more work on our PowerPoint Presentation for Media.

Lesson 3/4: Drama

I think personally that in Drama even though we didn't do much it was actually quite fun. In the lesson Mrs. Williams talked about what we will be doing in the future with our winter project, and she introduced 6 different plays that me and the class would pick from that we will preform after Christmas in a panto, to a variety of Schools. Our options for what we wanted to pick were..
1. Cinderella
2. Ali Baba
3.Snow White
4. Mother Goose
5. Dick Whittington
6. Jack and the bean stalk

After coming to a final decision everyone decided we was going to preform Ali Baba, and we decided what parts we would like to play, and i decided i would like to play the part of Mustafa which is Aswin's right hand man. We got handed out our script for the play and went through some of it until the end of class.

BBC BLAST

10/9/2010
BBC BLAST

On friday me and my creative and media group went on a trip to the BBC BLAST van, where there was a whole range of activities for us to do e.g One the activites was when you morth eachover faces from one to another and you have to take a picture of you and your partners face, after that you edit the pictures so that int he end you press play and amazingly your face changes into your friends face, i thought it was really good that i bluetoothed it to my phone so i can look at it in the future for fun.
 Ther was another activity where on my own i could make my own story by moving the twig persons body part very slowly, and save it and move the persons body an inch more save it again and do the same over and over again untill your happy with what u have and press play, the twig person would move however you created it to e.g it could body pop, or just walk.
 One activity was where we could inbetween a song introduce a song coming up next on the BBC BLAST radio.
There was one my friend quite liked which was when you could make your own song by putting in diferent beats and rhythms to what you prefered, in the end she bluetoothed it to her phone too.
My favourite activity was the graffiti wall where we could draw or write whatever we wanted, but i wrote my nick name ' Demsz! ' which took me around 15 to 20 minutes to do as i put my time and effort into it. I liked it so much that i took a picture of it on my phone and i also got a badge with with picture on it.
There wasnt many things i can say were bad but i do think that they could have maybe bad bigger badges, because the badges where so small that i could hardley see my drawing. Other then that i thought the BBC blast was actually quite good though i dont think i would recommend it.

First lesson

06/09/2010

Today was my first lesson of dance, and I found out  that me and only one other person will be our lessons together. Personally I think that having just two students in a class is much better then having 20 or more, the reason for this is because it gives us more of a chance to learn, and have the focus on us more from our teacher.
   I found that today's lesson was quite good considering we didn't do much because it was our first lesson and we didn't have the correct clothing so we couldn't do as much practical as we wanted to, though I knew we wasn't meant to do a lot of practical. when we did do a bit of practical I found it easy to understand with no distractions. Our topic is winter and so we did a winter dance and then we made a spider diagram, in which we wrote everything that comes to mind when we think of winter. In the end we all shared our diagrams to each over.
    I think I did good today, and I think there wasn't anything to improve on today. I think I did the spider diagram the best though I thought my partner did better in the practical, and I also don't think she needed to improve either. I finished all my work for this lesson and I learnt a thing or two about positioning myself and how to stand before preforming a certain dance.