Hmph!

Well, the stress this course has caused me is ridiculous. Last year, we started artefacts with Mr. Cullingford and Ms. Peddie. We spent a few weeks preparing and then one Tuseday, we were told to finish it. During the last 10 minutes, I was running to get a stapler when i got a foot injury and had to be rushed to A&E leaving my work, hanging in the drift. The school year was soon over and everything had been packed up to move to the other end of the school. The next year came around and I discovered sometime between the moving of the school and packing up of work, my artefact got lost. I decided to deal with it a bit later seeing as I was in the middle of science exams. A few weeks prior to this discovery we were told to create a music video, a piece of clothing, a script or a sculpture/painting. I chose a music video and after two weeks of planning I put aside a Saturday to film my video. I finished it and uploaded the tape. I spend a frustrating but apcomplished Tuesday putting together the film and editing it. At the end of the day I saved it onto the hard drive and vowed to put effects on the next lesson. I missed the next Tuesday but the next lesson we were sat down and told all of our work was due the next day. Obviously, I was worried seeing as my artefact was lost and I hadn't even finished my music video. So I decided to start straight away on my music video. But after two hours of searching I found out someone had lost all three diploma hardrives leaving another piece of MY vital coursework lost by the school. Two days after this second mistake made by the school, my mother got a call saying it would be best if I dropped the course because I was "under achieving"... my mum knew all the work they'd lost and was outraged along with me. It's quite funny really, because the examiners happen to be coming next week... hmm. All I know, is that I am completely swamped with English coursework, Maths coursework, Science GCSE revision and now a whole load of diploma work. But oh wait for it... its all due next week! How great is that? Two days to complete all of the above. Well, I should get started, I'll need all the time I can get. I think my opinions have really changed about this course. I loved it in year 10.
Now... I would advise NO ONE to take this course.
Until Next Time!
Kitty

Wikipedia

Today I was sitting at home when i decided to start doing my way over due coursework for Drama. So I sat down, opened my book and started working on the notes Ms.Cornish had given me. After about half an hour I came onto Reaissance Theatre. So I decided to look it up on google. As usual the first thing that came up was Wikipedia. So I clicked on the link and started to read. I looked at the note she had written me and it told me to look up the type of theatre it was performed in. So I scrolled down the page and sure enough there was a Sub Heading that read: Theatre. So I started to read and was shocked by what I found.

Theatres

once they were in operation, drama was mainly based on sex related plays,often including bondage porn and rape, however after shakespeare's death it got less brutal but more pleasent.it ended up just being 2 lovers having sex on stage at the turn of the century. however shakespeare's inflyuence on plays involving sex was not lost permanently when in 1608 an english farmer made a play involving the ghost of WIlliam raping his accompliaces from his time. bondage porn plays were introduced again in 1800 by sir richard awkright and he famously invented the daisy chain by havin all the whores in town licking eac ohter out on stage... he sadly died after catching 3 STDs.

As I looked over the rest of the page I realised that there was an edit button below each Sub Heading making it assessable to the public. Shocked that I hadn't realised this and annoyed that it wasn't made clear enough, I realised a lot of the information I had collected all over the years could of all been made up. Just shows you can't always trust the internet!
Kitty

My Project

I've had some more idea's. I've been thinking that I can have two people acting out the song whilst i am singing behind them. They will bump into eachother and start to talk.

I will be around them singing.I want to film in Abbeny Park
Kitty

Hollyoaks

Everyday when I come home from school I turn over to channel 4 Hollyoaks. Recently I found myself asking what is this addiction to T.V that most teenagers seem to have. Whether it be Hollyoaks, Eastenders or Emmerdale people seem to constantly come back for more. In soap operas there is always something exiting going on. Flicking from scene to scene there is never a dull moment. For example, today on the show there was two girls arguing over a boy, one girl made a nasty comment to another then it flicked over to a new club Calvin was running then he ordered the wrong beer and as he realised it flicked over to a shot of the girl from the previous scene crying. The writers are clever because they make it simple and easy to pick up on. This means you instantly become engrossed.A lot of adults think that we enjoy this because we have short attention spans. However, on the contrary, I think that it is because we can absorb a lot of information quickly. They always leave you hanging wanting more. Leading back to the question that has often been asked, are soap operas watched to face reality, or to escape it? Although it is masked as realism the overall storylines are rarely realistic. Again this can be left to opinion. I am addivtive Just as I am to Facebook. Its the sheer pleasure you get from gossip, whether it be real or fake. The nation loves to watch others get humiliated. I think its time to get a new hobby
Kitty

Video Diary

Kitty

Campaign!

We have been told we are doing animations for Campaingning for Childrens rights. We were put in groups (I am working with Beth) and decided to do EDUCATION4GIRLS. In a lot of deprived contries boys and girls do not have equal rights. In the lesson we created a storyboard for our animation. We decided to split the screen in to. On one half would be a boy growing taller whilst learning. And on the other side would be a girl with earmuffs on, stitched up mouth and blindfolded. I also decided to create a logo along the lines of this:

I think so far everything is going well and i can't wait to start animating.
Kitty

Monologues

Today in Drama we were writing our monologues. Ms. Cornish told us that we could write a monologue about anything we want. In the end we will film it on location. We had to include

• Who am I?
• How old am I?
• How do I Move?
• Where Am I?
• What Am I Doing?
• How Am I Doing It?
• Why Am I Doing It?
• How Do I Feel?
  

My character is called Anna. She is 16 years old and is anorexic but she won't admit it. In my scene she is staring in the mirror at herself. She is a very depressed young girl. I'm going to film it in a bedroom and there will be pictures of skinny celebrities stuck up all over the mirror and in the mirror i will have a blown up picture of me except fatter to show the audience how she sees herself.
I can't wait to set it up and perform!
Kitty