So this week was our first week of IB Drama... It still feels strange to say IB Drama instead of GCSE, anyway;
We started the lesson with a team building exercise called "The Lava Floor" in which only two people (out of four) could be standing on the ground and the others had to cooperate to find a way to not be standing on the ground. Heres an example;
We then went on to do an exercise where we had to create freeze frames which showed what Drama meant to us and how we felt so far about IB Drama. Here are my freeze frames;
This shows that to me Drama means "DEVELOPMENT". Changing from neutral (the freeze frame pose) and developing into anything such as another character, profession etc.
This picture shows how I feel so far about IB Drama. I had to direct my group into individual freeze frames to create a big freeze frame. This picture shows that (in the middle) I feel mostly excited for IB Drama. I have expressed that I mostly feel excited by the use of levels. To the left it shows that I feel frustrated as there are so many different things we have to do in IB Drama such as more homework ontop of homework from other lessons, this online blog and our Drama journals. This point explains the freezeframe to the right which shows that I am a little scared as it's only been a week and things are really different so I'm not sure what it will be like during the two years I have in IB.

I found it somewhat hard to direct my group into these freeze-frames as I was made to think on the spot and I felt like I was taking a lot of time and people were waiting for me. I think I may have felt this way because this year we have a new drama group so we do not feel 100% comfortable around eachother but I think that we will develop a stronger bond between eachother during the course.

At the end of the lesson we were asked what we were most and least interested in doing in drama out of; dramaturge, spectator, actor, designer and director. I said that I was mostly interested in the acting side of drama as it helps me to feel more confident within myself and I feel that each time I perform I get a little better which gives me a sense of achievement. Despite this I am also interested in the designing aspect of the course as one of my ambitions when I was little was that I wanted to be a designer. The aspect I was least interested in was the role of spectator as I would rather be part of the action and not left to observe and criticise.