Hello hello….🙂
My name is Julia Berglund, I’m 17, I like singing, songwriting and playing guitar. I like basketball a lot because its my stress reliever/aggressive moment. I’m a gym/fitness junkie. I like hip-hop dancing. But i prefer to listen to reggae/acoustic/folk/anything i can sing and play. I like pasta. I like living close to the beach and going there as much as possible. I like environmental issues, political issues and anything that I can have an opinion on, care about and do something about.
I go to Kardinia in geelong, and I’m doing IB. The purpose of this blog is to keep my Theatre journal here.. as I recently discovered I know absolutely nothing about theatre.. and that is quite stressful.
When i get out of the burning inferno (also known as ib) I want to be a musician for the rest of my life, become wealthy, buy my mum a cottage, have gigs every night, inspire people do get active about the things they care about, and serenade my boyfriend with the countless songs i write about him.
Thats only 1/16 of me, but time can only permit that much information, plus I don’t want to bore you, plus I don’t want my theatre friends and teacher to think I’m totally insane.
Which i probably am.
If you’re doing IB theatre, feel free to drop me a line (to save me )
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hiya,
you probably don’t go on this site anymore but in a case of desperate measures, i have found it as i google “tppp help”.
i was wondering if you could give me some insights and guidance to how i could organize it and introduce it? i know you are probably really busy but any little but of help would be really appreciated!
thanks,
Lana
hi! by chance of me checking my old school email i saw your comment. and sure, i suppose i could give you some advice! But im trying to remember how i structured mine, i will go back and read it!
and now i have haha.
I pretty much put it into three different sections, one on the theoretical knowledge i had gained (talking about theatre practitioners and what i learnt from them, and how i later could apply it.) Then about practical experiences, like the plays i had been in, workshops, classes (mask making/makeup), improvisation. and then on the performances that i had seen and how they had influenced everything i had done. It was all intertwined in the sense that each section was reliant upon the other, and i tried to make it as interesting as possible. Its a really good idea to show who you were at the start of IB theatre, and who you have become. I’ll show you my introduction, as long as you don’t copy it!!
When I first started IB, I really didn’ t know what to expect from my theatre course. And even after I began to understand what assessments we had to do, I still felt as though I didn’t know what direction I wanted to go in. Image one conveys the way in which I was feeling. I was lost, I didn’t know where I was going with the course I wasn’t sure if I’d get out alive, and most importantly I felt like I didn’t have enough resources like the person in the picture to get through it all.
Luckily, the resources which I didn’t have in the beginning have built up the resources being my theatrical knowledge. These resources have been built up over the course, through designing, watching, acting and producing theatre.
There is no one defining moment that I could point at and say: that’s it. That’s when I learnt everything I now know about theatre. There is no one person, one performance or one theory that could be identified as being the source to my theatrical knowledge, and that’s what makes my journey through the IB Theatre course worthwhile. It wasn’t a realisation, it wasn’t one lesson: it was an accumulation of knowledge that has sourced my current appreciation for the art form. The way I see my theatre course, is like a tree seen in Image Two. There are many branches that all lead into one trunk, which also joins into the soil. The trunk of my tree is my journal, which has substantiated and given reflection throughout my course. Theatre in the Making, Theatre of the World and theatre in performance are all in the soil that fuels this trunk. Up the top of my tree there are many leaves, which symbolise the practical and theoretical knowledge I have collected, as well as the many theatre assessments that I have completed throughout the two years. There is no way that I would be able to identify every experience that has defined my knowledge, but I am trying to provide a balanced reflection on every event throughout this long and changing course. I will move through each area conceptually rather than chronologically, moving from practical experiences, theoretical knowledge and performances that I have seen that have all synthesised to form my rounded perception of theatre.
i included some excerpts from my journal, and the images are vital to include as they make it so much more interesting (20 minutes is a long time to talk, assuming you’re HL.) Also make sure you practise it heaps, it helps to know the words that are on the page infront of you, and ensure it goes for long enough, there was nothing worse that to see a couple of my classmates fall heavily under in time for the real thing. Ask your teacher if you can have a practise one maybe.
if you have anything else to ask then don’t hesitate, i ended up getting a 7 in theatre so I was pretty stoked. It seems so hard to remember everything i learnt, but you will get through it. As long as you treat the TPPP as a performance, then you’ll be fine, just talk yourself up an throw in some posh language that will make them think ‘oh she knows what shes on about.’ haha
Julia