Top Tips For a Personal Statement

Personal Statement Tips

- Explain your reason for wanting to study the course

- Explain how you are right for the course

- Say what you've done outside the classroom

- Demonstrate your career ambitions

- Reflect on your own experience

- Explain how your experiences are relevant

- Don't just describe it

- Talk about the skills your profession needs
- Can you demonstrate transferable skills
- Expand on your most relevant skills
- What's your long term plan
- Keep it positive
- Use formal language

Developing Costume Design Skills

Personality and Costume

During the lesson, we looked into reflecting personality in costume. Izzy and Luke done a catwalk for us and in pairs we wrote down what we think their clothing reflects.

Luke

• Extra
• Brooding
• Tree hugger
• Snazzy
• Alternative
• Confident
• Cares about appearance
• Takes time colour coordinating
• Jealousy (green)
• Trend Setter
• Reserved for work
• Tight
• Brave
• feminine
• Gay

Izzy

• Conservative
• cultured
• classy
• cares about enviroment
• likes a statement item
• job proud
• hard working
• lazy
• smart
• outgoing
• likes to blend in
• Hands on (sleeves rolled
• appropriate
• practical
• confident

We then had to design our own outfits for these different people. We had to take Luke and Izzy out of our minds and create two different costumes just based on the list of their personality traits. By doing this it will help us in made in Dagenham as we can look through the script and see what our character is like and create costume from there.

Dance

Developing our Guernica Solo's into a Trio

In the lesson we expanded and developed our duet and turned it into a trio. We used movements from our solos, our previous duet movements and from the phrases Kat taught us. We used fragmentation on both the phrases Kat taught us to develop them further. We then performed our choreographies to the class and gave/received peer feedback. Afterwards we spoke in a circle about what went well and what we could've done better. We also discussed our personal targets.

WWW; Because we're a trio, we could use canon and we showed it well in our piece. The scramble we did at the begging was really effective and having the two on the outside doing different to the one in the middle. And the use of accumulation and everyone doing something different and slowly joining together. EBI; We could've used facial expression more and been acting more to portray the theme. Also, we needed some movements to bit a bit stronger and extend our movements more.

Dance

Guernica

The painting, which uses a palette of grey, black, and white, is regarded by many art critics as one of the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history. The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italian warplanes at the request of the Spanish Nationalists. The touring exhibition was used to raise funds for Spanish war relief. The painting became famous and widely acclaimed, and it helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War.

Descriptive words; Horrific, Devastating,




Physical skills; Strength, Flexibility, Stamina, Power, Posture/Alignment


Performance skills; Projection, Confidence, Focus, Eyeline, Musicality, Timing, Facial Expression

In lesson, we learnt two phrases from Kat and also created a solo using six positions we learnt at the start of lesson. Me and Megan completed the solo task and started to combine our solos to create a duet.