First Class Honours BA Professional Practice (Drama & Theatre Arts)

Passion for Drama.

To feel emotion. To consider the perspective of others. To communicate your ideas. These are all what it takes to be human. This is the key role the drama class plays in the life of a school student (Ahmet, 2013). 

End of an Era!

Today's final presentation marked the end of my BAPP journey. I come away emotional and nostalgic. The course has held such a strong presence over my life in the past 15 months, it seems strange to think that it's pressures 

won't be there in the background of my thoughts anymore. Still I understand that I have changed, as a thinker and as a practitioner. It's this change that lives on in my practice forever and draws me back to my BA Hons in Professional Practice. 

Thank you for being a part of the journey. 

Presentation: I hope I can speak fast!

Yet again it's too long and needs to be cut... Story of my life!

Take a look:

http://www.slideshare.net/ahmet1981/bapp-arts-presentation

Good luck everybody. It's the final BAPP Mission!

Hand it in and let it go!

The final hand in. I bought myself a coffee to celebrate. Handing in of course creates a new sensation. One of doubt and nervousness. Should of, would of, could of. 

It's time to let go, before a revisit for the final presentation...

Something to cheer you all up and relieve the pressure!

Heads down. Pressures on. It's that time of year. For some of us, it's the last...

Wanted to take a moment to reflect over the things that never get mentioned in a bid to make you all smile and switch off from the pressure for a second.

The funny things we do on the BAPP course that no one mentions...

1. When writing your dissertation, it's so annoying when you aim to cut out a word from a sentence, only to find you've added more than originally so it makes sense.

2. Put a google doc up when it's not allowed to be accessed by the public, but ask for people thoughts.

3. Read your submission before you send it off, after it's printed and find it's full of mistakes.

4. Make up the pronunciation of theorists names because you have no idea how to say them.

5. Write the word 'practice' about 100 times a week.

6. Explain to your friends and family that a BA Hons in Professional Practice has nothing to do with running a doctors surgery.

But most of all...

7. The annoying code you have to enter when you comment on a blog, that no one can identify as it's so blurry...

Well I hope I wasted your time but made you smile. A week to go and then it's all things presentation... 

Artefact 1 & Artefact 2

Artefact 1: Playwrights and Practitioners Portfolio

After it was discovered that I had possible gaps of drama subject knowledge. I created a portfolio of key drama playwrights and practitioners. Using a subject audit given to me by Goldsmith's University. This is a tool that will inform myself and others of the knowledge of key texts of drama and seal over any gaps of knowledge.

Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8B022EmZdBvcjk0d0NHdzNfWU0/edit?usp=sharing


Artefact 2: PGCE Video Guide

This is a step by step video of how an actor gets on a PGCE course. So many things have now changed within the application process. I know I could have done with this, but I found after so many Facebook messages about how it's done. As I had gathered knowledge about a potentially difficult and delicate process. I saw a value in making an informative video about it.