Working At The Jonathon Wilkes Academy

Yesterday, I spent the evening working along side David Reynolds, Jonathon Wilkes and Nikki Wheeler at the Jonathon wilkes Academy in Stoke. This academy was opened by Jonathon Wilkes and his wife in 2009. You may recognise Jonathon Wilkes as the Presenter of "Youv'e been framed", "Love On A Saturday Night.", "Celebrity Stars In Your Eyes." Etc. At present he is appearing in the West end Musical "We Will Rock You!" as Kashoggie.  

The Academy offers for one night a week children to  recieve intensive training in the following areas:

-Singing

-Dancing

-Drama

I went along yesterday to help run 3 drama sessions.

- Hour with seniors

- Hour with Juniors

- Hour with primaries

Next week the accademy are doing a show back of everthing the classes have been learning for the past few months. The show back is mainly for parents and guardians to see how their children are getting on. Their main show isn't for a while.

So I went alont to help run the drama sessions and help finalise each classes performance. The evening consisted of finalising monolgues, dualoges. We also had to brush up on some mime and sound pieces.

 I had a super night with very commited children. I wish them all the best for their show back next week. I'm sure they will all be great. Friends and family will love it i'm sure! :-) Weldone gang and best of luck to you all!

Year 8 Boys. Lord Slikin School. Telford

Last Thursday (apolagies for the late blog post) I worked with Urban Voice Limited  as an Arts Worker/ Actress. We were spending the morning at Lord Silkin Secondary school in Telford with a group of year 8 boys. This particular group are working on creating a short film. So looking at camera angles, camera movement and different camera shot. I went along with Urban Voice Limited to :

A) Show the class my showreel and speak as an actor. Allow them to ask me any questions based on my job and experiences.

B) Run the lesson along side the director.

So we started our morning, watching my showreel and allowing them to ask me any questions about acting and what not. Some of the questions I got asked were hillarious. Eg: Jessica. Was the food on set any good? haha! Great stuff. Infact the food was awesome but moving on. . .

We then spoke about different ways in which a camera can be used. Angles, movement, shot etc:

We played the showreel again but this time we were forgetting the acting and focusing more on the camera and crew side of things. So they had to identify all different technical and camera sides of the movie. Eventually, they got the hang of it all and we went away and filmed some scences of our own. We had:

1 lad on clapper board
1 on camera

1 on boom mic

1 on sound control

2 acting.

and we alternated it accordingly.

It was a really great session and the lads appeared to really enjoy it. That was really only the first stage of this particular project. Now they have an understanding of filming, cameras and sound. They are going to be filming, producing, writing and acting in their own film. So best of luck guys. I can't wait too see the final outcome. I believe that you have started writing and it is looking pretty good.

To find out more about Urban Voice Limited follow link:

www.urbanvoice.co.uk

Happy Birthday Karl

It is a weekend full of Birthdays this weekend. As you can see. Infact it's a month full of Birthdays. March is a very busy birthday month for me. So today is Karl's birthday. My fiancee is 31 today! :-) And he has not stopped talking about it for days. It would appear he is super excited and cannot wait to open his presents. I don't blame him mind. He does have a cool batch of pressies to un-wrap. Or in Karls case RIP APART! haha!

Happy Birthday To You,

Happy Birthday To You,
Happy Birthday To Karrrrrrl,

Happy Birthday To You!

I just want to say Happy Birthday to you Karl Veltman. Have a super duper day. Also I want to say I love you loads stinky! :-) You make me extremely happy. Very very happy indeed! Big loves for you.

Happy Birthday Sweet Brother Of Mine

Wahey! Today is the birth date of my brother. Mr Louis Harper! Happy Birthday Pal. Have a super duper day! I hope you like your present that we have bought you. It's wicked!

Happy Birthday To You,

Happy Birthday To You,
Happy Birthday Dear Louis,

Happy Birthday To You! :-)

10 Things I like About Louis

- He does not mind being called "Scibbs!"

- He always likes the clothes I wear.

- He sprays way too much linx all over himself. He smells like a perfume shop!

- He enjoys meeting up in town

- He is super ticklish. You can tickle him till he wees himself! haha

- Sometimes he helps me clean the chickens out

- Blue goes mad when he sees him

- Sometimes we look Identical

- He gives me nice cuddles

- He is bloomin Crazy 24.7 (But sometimes he can be a little moody) haha!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I Am Featured On A Fashion Blog!

As some of you are aware, I am involved in "It's our Time" competition for United Colours Of Benetton. I have met alot of  people on there. It has been a real way to get to know people. I started talking to a competetor called Kristina and she so happened to have her very own Fashion blog. It's a really great blog you should check it out. So anyway . . . She asked if I would answer a question on her blog for her and I said yes.

This is the blog address: http://kikasfashion.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/its-my-time-interview-with-the-competitors/

Please click to see my question answered.

I managed to steal a little print screen shot below. Cheeky ;-)

A big thank you to Kristina for asking me to get involved with her blog.

Kristinas blog address (once again) - http://kikasfashion.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/its-my-time-interview-with-the-competitors/

Kristinas "It's Our Time" URL - http://casting.benetton.com/users/903329-kristina

Blonde Is The New I!

It is true. I have been changed. My hair colour has undergone a new tone. You guess it! I'm a blonde now my friends, a blonde. But do not worry I still no my roots ;-) Traitors to the fellow red heads I am not. I was just in need of a little change!

And change I did. On friday I went to the Hairdressers and requested they bleach my barnett. It was a long slow process with a slight tingle on the scalp but the results are ones that I like very much, so it all seems worth it! :-)

What do you think?

The night of my new cut was the night I saw...

Pappy's

Pappy's are a comedy company from the West Midlands currently on tour. I went to see them on Saturday and very much enjoyed their show and performance. It was a feel good, great fun kind of night. They had the audience belly laughing and joining in. Plus they weren't afraid to laugh at themselves and they didn't seem to mind laughing at a few of the onlookers either. They made my night an enjoyable night. Plus the chips I had after were also very good and contributing to my night of goodness.

I just want to say a big weldone to Pappy's. You put on a good show guys!

Oh and my dad was chufffed When I made this Bad Boy for him!

Coming To A Theatre Near You ...

If you live near the Theatre that is.

25th March - 27th March. Arena Theatre.

Forties to the Naughties, is a concert that I am doing with SSMTC very soon. Just had the costume list and it would appear, that i have got to get myself up town and get my hands on a few things. Yay! Shopping!

This concert is filled with numbers from musicals from the forties to the (You guessed it) Naughties. 2000's in other words.

So if you fancy coming along to support us and be in the audience. Let me know folks and I shall see what I can do.

Un-fortunatley, you will not be hearing me giving a solo performance as I did not audition this time round. I'm not sure that's a bad thing to be fair. :-) But all the same come along and see us sing our hearts out and strut our stuff round the stage!

Although this concert is only small, get read for Boogie Nights at the Grand Theatre next year! Wooo!

SSMTC website: http://www.southstaffsmtc.co.uk