Poland 2009 Four Sheets To The Wind Bedtime At The Orphange! Pics

Street Theatre Festival 2009 Krakow, Poland.

Cineclub Day 1

This was me and the young people at cineclub messing around with the camera, and green screen, this is what we came up with:

Cineclub

Hello blog buddies!

This week i'll be working with the young people, at Barnet Burnt Oak Lesuire centre, to help them create a short film lasting four minutes, which will be shown in a couple months at the Phoniex cinemar in east finchely. At the moment we are filming a scene in a computer room, so i am able to get on my blog and tell you guys about it! i shall keep you all informed about how the week is going! i should also have a finished product to post on my blog soon! it's all very exciting! (",).

Anyone INTRESTED Great Experiance!!!

Hi there, blog buddies!

Just a quick message to let you all know that Pilot Theatre's 5circles project is opening this Friday in York

It is free and runs from 7-10pm each night

23/24/25 October in St Sampson's Square

www.tinyurl.com/yhhm4yq

Interactive light / with new sounds and music / join in / share the message

Thanks guys! Sharina x

Marcus Romer
Artistic Director
Pilot Theatre

The Bible Street Theatre Festival 2008

This video clip is from the street theatre festival that happeneds every year in Krakow, Poland, The theme that year was stories from the bible, we focused on Exodus and the plauges, this was the show we performed over five days.

People I Admire

Judy Dench:

Judy Dench is someone I admier, she has had a huge impact on the way I think about acting from film and television, to the stage. She is considered the greatest actress of post- war period, and has achieved a lot in her lifetime and is now 74 years of age.
Originally trained as a set designer, Dench began her acting career in the mid 1950s in amateur productions, and made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. She branched into film work, and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer, however most of her work during this period was in theatre.

Marcus Romer:

Marcus is the Artistic Director of Pilot Theatre, the national touring theatre company based at York Theatre Royal.
I have met with Marcus on a number of various occasions when his productions have come to the Arts depot, starting with The Twits, Fungus the Bogeyman, and then Lord of The Flies, Marcus is a great contact to have as I have links to his facebook page, blog and groups he has set up, I always get information on shows coming up and also get e- mails inviting me to auditions for shows coming up, he is a great inspiration to my career.

Constantin Stanislavski:

Stanislavki was a Russian actor and theatre director. His innovative contribution to modern European and American realistic acting has remained at the core of mainstream western performance training for much of the last century.
I admire Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) as he has had a major impact on my career as an assistant teacher, I often find myself using the Stanislavski techniques, not only as a warm up but also, as a way into drama to help find and develop characters for characterisation work.

Picture Snaps

Graduation 2007:

The Resistable Rise Of Arturo Ui:







BTEC National Diploma Snaps:



Make Your Mark:

The Kolb Learning Cycle

In this post Kel and I will be talking about the Kolb learning cycle, after our lecture on it at Cat Hill campus.
We went through various different exercises to help us understand the cycle, which was created by David Kolb in order to help and inspire reflective learning. One of the task that we were assigned to do was take extracts from other people blogs, this was completely anonymous, we had no idea who had written the extracts, we then cut the extracts up into sentences and put them into the relevant Kolb cycle sections.

Kolb says that ideally (and by inference not always) this process represents a learning cycle or spiral where the learner 'touches all the bases', ie., a cycle of experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting. Immediate or concrete experiences lead to observations and reflections. These reflections are then assimilated (absorbed and translated) into abstract concepts with implications for action, which the person can actively test and experiment with, which in turn enable the creation of new experiences.

Active Experimentation: Feeling/ Doing/ Thinking.
Concrete Experience: Feeling/ Watching/ Doing.
Reflective Observation: Watch/ Thinking/ Feeling.
Abstract Conceptualisation: Watch/ Thinking/ Doing.

David Kolb's Experiential Learning: Experience as the source of learning and development (1984) theorized that four combinations of perceiving and processing determine four learning styles that make up a learning cycle. According to Kolb, the learning cycle involves four processes that must be present for learning to occur:
• Activist - Active Experimentation (simulations, case study, homework). What's new? I'm game for anything. Training approach - Problem solving, small group discussions, peer feedback, and homework all helpful; trainer should be a model of a professional, leaving the learner to determine her own criteria for relevance of materials.
• Reflector - Reflective Observation (logs, journals, brainstorming). I'd like time to think about this. Training approach - Lectures are helpful; trainer should provide expert interpretation (taskmaster/guide); judge performance by external criteria.
• Theorist - Abstract Conceptualization (lecture, papers, analogies). How does this relate to that? Training approach - Case studies, theory readings and thinking alone helps; almost everything else, including talking with experts, is not helpful.
• Pragmatist - Concrete Experience (laboratories, field work, observations). How can I apply this in practice? Training approach - Peer feedback is helpful; activities should apply skills; trainer is coach/helper for a self-directed autonomous learner.
I find that as I am keeping a reflective diary about work, and also relevant activities that happened during my day, I am able to use the Kolb learning cycle to put my diary entry’s into different categories, I find most times I will be taking about my experience that day, and be thinking to myself how would that help me in my very day practice? I will look though my notes and find similar references, sometimes the experience I have had has not always worked to it is a matter of thinking about, how and what do I do to improve and make it better for next time? Looking into the learning cycle a little bit more has made me learn to appreciate how I handle reflecting on my day or week.

Useful Resources!

I find that the Arts Depot, North Finchely is a great place to be no matter what age you are! There's many theatre show's that go on the ranging from Comedy, Childrens Theatre, Dance and many more, there are also many different course and class to take developing skills such as Drama, Movement, Dance, Puppetry, great place to be and fun for all.

Another useful link for young people who are lookin for help in a specific profession, and help in general areas of life such as, work, money, housing, health issues etc. Are you 13-19? If so, Connexions Direct can offer you all the information and advice you need to make the decisions and choices in your life. For a meaning insight and a great start to life for young people.

Also check out BASE, Barnet's new online directory for young people, to find music, drama, sports events, advide and more.

R.I.P T.V

This is a little bit of work i've done with the help of Nelio Santana, whilst studing on our Foundation Degree and working on a project called Call It! We foucsed of the media side of the show, and this was a little tralier used at the beginning.

2nd entry

Hello blog buddy's this is the second time i'm writing on my blog, i have done my CV just finding out how to put it on, at the moment i'm gathering my information so i can up load it all!