SKILLS AUDIT 3 (October 2013)

STUDENT NAME: Lara Grace Arogundade                                   

Performance skills ·      Voice (projection, control, accents, singing confidence) ·      Characterisation ·      Rehearsal skills ·      Movement/physical skills ·      Different styles of acting (Comedy? Shakespeare? Emotional work?) ·      Confidence in working with text	Out of 10 9 9 9 8 8 8
Current skills and experience From my first strand day of theatre in September up till now, I think have developed a lot more in my performance skills. I have gained more control over my voice and have learnt to properly articulate my words when acting. Although I have not yet experimented with accents, I aim to do so in the near future. I have developed more of an interest in singing and hope to gain more of a confidence in it as well.  Strand days with Mr Rennison have helped me massively when dealing with characterisation. Usually, I'd just think briefly about a character in my head then act it out straight away without any thought. However, I am now able to thoroughly break down into steps what is needed in a character. This helps we with my performance skills because I will be able to accurately act out a character realistically without confusion. Not only do I successfully use rehearsal time given to us productively, I now aim to also rehearse scenes in my own spare time. Doing this will help me to spend more time needed on my character and truly develop it, bringing my character to life. I have become more flexible and free with my body. The stretch and conditioning classes I partake in have helped me greatly as now I am able to do different stretches that this time last month I wouldn't be able to do. Also, I do jazz dancing every Friday and dance in a studio every Tuesday. I believe dancing will help me to move more freely with my body, being comfortable and experimental. This will certainly help me when I start doing physical theatre. During term 1 of this theatre unit, we have focused on serious roles rather than hitting the comedy aspect of theatre. I play a female character by the name of 'Alex' who has a harsh, unpleasant story that definitely contains nothing on the humorous side of things. I believe being given this role has helped me to come out of my comfort zone of being used to given male roles back in my old school. I now feel more versatile and more confident in taking on different roles in the future. In my English class, we have been analysing various poems and using high-order thinking. This has helped me more in my confidence working with text as I have been introduced to different vocabulary and having to think outside the box. I applied the skills needed to analyse poetry into my script work and now analyse my lines in more depth (creating objectives). I believe that now I am more confident in working with text by applying my English skills to theatre. Areas to improve Nonetheless, I am still proud of progressing in my confidence when working with text and using different styles of acting. However, I still believe there is room for improvement always. I would like to still read more challenging novels and get used to reading out loud. This will contribute to improving my articulation and improve my literacy knowledge.  Furthermore, I would like to try doing comedy in theatre as I feel quite confident in the emotional and dramatic side of theatre. In the past, I had done work that involved being humorous but also serious. Although, I believe more work in the comical side of theatre would help me to develop my acting skills.
Do you have skills or experience in any of the following? Stage design, make-up, directing, script writing, lighting, sound, finance, and digital IT supports, marketing administration?	Out of 10 6
Current skills and experience (same response as in Skills Audit 2)  I have worked backstage at performances at my old school that involve handling props and more. However, I have more experience in being on stage rather than being backstage.  Skills to develop (same response as in Skills Audit 2) I would like to have more experience in working backstage handling technical theatre given that it is very important to have experience and gain knowledge in the theatre world both on stage and behind it. To do this, I would like to get involved in helping more backstage in different productions that the school has and help with stage design, lighting, the box office (finance) and more.
Other skills in the workplace Communication Organisation Team work	9 8 9
Current skills and examples I believe that I work very well when it comes to my communication skills and team work. During Term 1, I spent a lot of time working with Clay given the fact that he played my father 'Joseph' in the play we've been working on. In order to make sure I perform the scene well, I made sure Clay and I felt comfortable with each other by arranging rehearsals in our spare time. Currently, I am the school council representative for my form class which I am not unfamiliar with as I have been school council in my other school. To be a successful school council representative, you need to be open-minded yet opinionated, flexible when it comes to new ideas and take on board others' opinions. This contributes to improving my acting skills because all of those things I have remembered when working with my partner. Areas to improve When dealing with written work for theatre, I need to be more organised. I sometimes focus too much on the practical side of theatre rather than aiming to excel in the theory element of it. For term 2, I aim to complete my theatre homework on the day it's given and complete it to a full standard. I know I am capable of achieving something when putting my mind to it! I have learnt from my mistakes in term 1 for organizing theatre homework and now aim to start fresh in term 2 in order to become the best actress I can be.