LOGBOOK 22nd OCTOBER 2013

22/10/13

DIARY ENTRY                     ACTING AUDITIONS


Today all of us had to do a presentation on where we're at with our Drama school application forms and our monologues. Gary got Tyler to stay in with us in our lesson for a couple of minutes and talk about where he is at now and what he would have done if he was at our stage now. He said he would have got another Shakespeare monologue because he only had his two modern's and one Shakespeare. Also at this time last year he wasn't reading both his contemporary plays and the only thing he did was just look at them. By hearing this it has made me realise that I should be reading my plays more now and analysing the scene where my character delivers his speech. To be honest I did that with both my contemporary monologue's but with my two Shakespeare monologues I feel that I haven't spent enough time on them, especially with my 2nd Shakespeare monologue because it's a romantic piece I feel that it's going to be challenge for me and some of the language there I am going to struggle with. Hopefully soon I will be a lot more confident with it. After Tyler did his little presentation, Ahmed got up and told us about both of his auditions at 'Guildhall & Alra (The Academy of live and Recorded Arts)'. With his Guildhall audition he was 30mins late, which was quite disappointing but when he delivered his monologue to the panel it went well but they did not redirect him or ask him any questions. All the other candidates had 30mins with the panel and Ahmed only had 5mins, maybe because he was late. Again since last year,Gary has been going on & on & on & on telling us DON'T BE LATE!, which could affect our chances of being offered a place at Drama School. I obviously understand how important it is to be early buy by hearing Ahmed being late at Guildhall it has made me realise how important 'PUNCTUALITY' is. Ahmed's audition for alra went very well, this time he was early ! :D. He enjoyed the warm up games/exercises they did and got to the last round which meant that he must have done well with his monologues, but he claims that the only thing that brought him down was the improvisation exercise. Mahin also had his audition on that day and also got to the last round. Despite that both of them were not offered a place they still enjoyed there audition and said it was a good experience.


During our lesson Gray gave us a Final Year Check-list sheet with 8 questions -certain questions on how ready we are and where we're at at the moment ?, here's what I've answered for my check-list................

1. Institutions I have applied to ?- 5 university's & two Drama schools

2. Are all applications sent ?- all uni's done and my Arts Ed form is sent off

This is where I'm at now so far

Today was alright :/