Lily Ellen Corrigan: November 2011

Wednesday 30 November 2011

More on the decision I made earlier...

I have decided to leave the "Moonlite Players" after Christmas. Not only have I not gained much knowledge, but I have also worked very hard and left my uni work aside just to be Monika's backbone, and also have been talked about behind my back. It's one of the worst mistakes I have made in my life and I have just had about enough of being pushed and shoved and then Monika talking some of my colleagues behind their backs to me. The stage manager is also leaving with me. This relates (in Reader 3) to the theories of Connectivism and the Communities of Practice. I agree with these theories and I wish that I had read about them sooner. I could of had a full time paid job instead of paying £12 a month to sit around and be Monika's dog body and to not get anywhere. This has been a total waste of time and I am stuck with what to do now because I need my practice to complete module 1. I just don't know what to do.

On a happier note, I am starting a full time paid job the week before Christmas. All will be revealed when it is confirmed.

Happy Wednesday all!

Friday 25 November 2011

Pictures of the programme for "Fiddler On The Roof"

Fiddler On The Roof!

Last night I saw an amazing community theatre performance of "Fiddler On The Roof". It was in Hampstead. I was truly amazed to get a hands on experience of what it was like to be the audience that I will later use to help with Cinderella. It starred a great cast, and it looked like it had been directed very well. I had never seen the film, watched the play or even read about it, but the way it was portrayed gave me a clear understanding of what it was about. I was glued all the time. And in the end where Chava leaves with Fyedka after being disowned by her father for marrying Fyedka, left me in tears. I was thinking to myself How can a father disown his child when his two older daughters didn't marry well? Yes they married Jews but they married poor Jews and he still accepted the marriages. So why make a fuss about his youngest daughter marrying a Russian? What wrong did the Russians do to the Jews? I will research more about this, and get a clear understanding of why Tevye did this.

A friend in Cinderella's wife was in the production and she did an amazing performance as Mirala and Grandmother Tzeitel. For £8 the play was a good night out.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Task 2D Inquiry Task

I have had many questions over the last few months that I need to now inquire about.

From Module 1:

Should we have access to all websites where we can comment and share things on other people's profiles?

What if someone started being racist, sexist, or worse abusive and the website didn't have any power over it?

Do we have to be allowed to have our own privacy? Do we have to ask to keep for example a diary a secret?

Do we have to conform to what the creator of the website wants?

From Module 2:

What if the child or person is telling the truth?

Wouldn’t the supervisor know when a child or person is lying from their previous behaviour and personality?

What if the child’s or person’s life is at risk?

Would you rather sack a teacher (who proved to be someone totally different like for example a paedophile)

Or have a child put into hospital or worse die?

Wednesday 9th November 2011

Today at university we looked at "The Networked Professional" with Alan Durrant. There are many ways you can be or linked to a Networked Professional.

* Potential Business Partner/Customers
* Advertising Yourself
* People on this course/Peers
* Collaborating
* Meet people with similar interests to you
* People who may be learning
* Beneficial
* Google!- Type in your specific field
* Promoting
* Browse/Search Professional Network

There are lots of sites or people you have connected with that gives you the seed to your Professional Network. Such as:

- LinkedIn
- Who you've worked with
- Who you are talking to
- Browsing other people's blogs (I.E previous students from the BAPP course)

We then got into groups and looked at examples of diagrams of Thought. We questioned who? what? how? when?

I was working with Corinda, Rozana and Rhoda. We went and sat in the student union and discussed how we would go about drawing up a diagram that explains our Professional Network. We decided that we would draw up our own individual Professional Network, and then have a discussion about each one and bring our similarities together to make up a diagram named "The Networked Professional". We noticed we had quite a few things in common and that we could ask people on the course if they had a contact we could use (just general forms of communication in case anything in their experience could help us with our experience).

So I could ask Corinda what it feels like to have been self-employed with her own dance company, to then being married and having children to coming back to work. I could ask Rozana if she can teach me some moves that I would like to learn. etc...

Tuesday 22 November 2011

Lost Voice!!!!!

Hi all, I can only currently talk via writing on here. I will be blogging again in a little bit, I'm just finishing getting all the backing tracks for the Moonlite Players Christmas Carols performances.

Hope all is well

Lily
X

Saturday 12 November 2011

Made a big decision today. One that was very hard to make. I am not in the greatest of moods and I'd never thought that a group of councillors and MP's ran my life as if I was a robot. I thought wrong obviously...

But on a happier note everyone will be receiving Christmas E-Cards this year for the festive season.

Friday 11 November 2011

the Moonlite Players Official Website

https://sites.google.com/site/themoonliteplayers/home

Please have a look at it and let me know what you think.

@marybance thanks for the info on creating a website. X

Thursday 10 November 2011

"Arlene Phillips"

To those of us who are dancers. Here is an interesting blog to follow.

http://arlenephillips.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/shes-back/

"Arlene Phillips"

Have a lovely weekend all!

XXX

Thursday 3 November 2011

Tuesday 25th October 2011

Today I met with my director for a one on one rehearsal. We went through my first scene as Cinderella, composing Stage Direction, how I will be saying my lines etc. It felt hard as I was under a lot of pressure, (outside of the company), and I kept getting things wrong. I felt like I was a student in college doing improvisation. Sometimes you have to make mistakes in order to make things better or to better your skills and Professional Practice.

Also we had to purchase more backing tracks for Cinderella and go over some business for the company (which for copyright reasons I can't disclose information of). We had a nice lunch of Ham and Cream Cheese sandwiches. It was amazing.

Wednesday 2 November 2011

Questions from Paula Nottingham

How would you describe your role in the company?

My role in the company is an Actress and I am also the Musical Technician. I might be able to do some assistant Directing in the near future. As I am in Community Theatre my roles will change depending on the performance. I am also a Committee Member that assists the Director with Admin and Promotion of the Company.

What did this journal writing experience tell you about your professional practice?

Writing this journal told me that there is so much on offer working in Community Theatre and that I could explore more than I would being in West End show for example. I am learning and teaching at the same time, and also gaining an experience in how to run a company, what it's like to be a committee member, and a member of the technical staff. I may not be paid for this job but raising money by doing something I love is a fascinating thing.

Actually it's told me that I don't know...... I might have to come back to this question unless the answer above answers this questions. I might have to re-think this question and re-post.