To be great at something you must practice, practice and practice: thats why I always make sure I attend every training session that I can and work hard on my physical, mental and technical aspects of my game.

Over the past two weeks, I have had to put football on the back-burner due to a bad knee which I attained in a friendly. I am glad to say that I have now fully recovered. However, due to my acting course in London, I had trouble getting back in time for training and this consequently marred my reputation (more…)

‘Ceroc’ is an abbreviation for the French phrase: c’est Rock. This fusion of Jive, Salsa, Ballroom and Cha cha, is easy to learn, sociable and fun, and can be danced to any music with a regular beat. Ceroc DJ’s play music ranging from 70’s classics through to current chart favourites. An evening at Ceroc (more…)

Over the course of Thursday and Saturday I traveled to Aldgate East train station and walked the 10 minutes to Brick Lane where filming for the feature film ‘Kung Fu Flid’ took place. The location of both days shooting were in a 6700 square feet of unique space in central London called The Rag Factory: (more…)

I will be playing in a friendly against Bierton FC tonight from 6.15pm at Burcott Lane, Bierton HP22 5AU shown in the map below:

I participated in two days of filming at Shepperton Studios for a Pot Noodle Commercial. It will be aired in cinemas nation-wide from December.

Coincidentally whilst travelling to Shepperton Studios in London, I met the lead actor Jan Esparza and the Production Manager Tatiana Karol on the train. (more…)

PYNK London is one of London’s newest salons and fashion studios in Belgravia. It will be a five hour photoshoot with a style consultation with a make up artist. Including an abundance of pampering with facials, massages, manicure, hair styling and a makeup session.

I will be working with a team of professional (more…)

Acting with Jillian O’Dowd

Warm up Exercises

Every day we start off with a physical / breathing / yoga type warm up to stretch all the major muscles in the body and to help increase the depth of our breathing, relaxation, state of mind while getting us in the mood to start the hard work.

Breathing Circle

With eyes closed the group forms a close circle with everybody concentrating on the area between their nose and their lip. Taking deep, controlled and relaxed breaths.

Humming Circle

Still in the circle humming at a high and low pitch, in unison exercising the range of our voices, slowly stepping out increasing the size of the circle while still humming.

mmmmm Rrrrrrrrrr Circle

In the same positions we continued to hummm but we have changed it to mmmmmm then introducing the letter ‘R’ to open up the mouth nice and wide, experimenting with different pitches and volumes.

Clapping Circle

As a group slowly and organically stopping th ‘mmmRrrrrrr’ sound then bring hands up to the face less then a foot apart-the idea is to get everybody in the group to clap at the same time. Any body can start it off.

21s

As a group we are still in a close circle: the aim of this game is to see if the group can count to 21 one without any one saying the same number twice. For example one person starts of with the number ‘1′, then another person says number ‘2′ then another person says number ‘3′ and so on. If two people repeat the same number then the group must start again from ‘0′.

Text Analysis

When the term ‘Text Analysis’ is used there are many types of analysis that can be undertaken on texts. Even with the aid of algorithmic techniques. An algorithm may be defined as a step-by-step procedure capable of being run on a computer—i.e., an unambiguous and completely stated description of what the computer is to do. It can be expressed by a computer program but need not be; often the specifics of how an algorithm is implemented in a particular programming language would obscure the essentials.

If you want to find out about what other sorts of text-analysis techniques there are the list below will help you:

• Intervasity.org : Studying the Text
• Text Analysis : Info

Monologues

Silent Partner

Camera Techniques with Alicya Eyo

Video Analysis

• Focus on the other actor
• Awareness of delivery
• Open to direction
• Prepared
• Pitch of voice
• Monotone
• Movement of top lip
• Tempo of scene
• Colour of scene

To find

• Sillness on camera
• presence on screen
• good direction
• great timing
• be responsible for your own actions
• In the moment
• Consistancy

Call time for the Music Video for Hannah Kirton is 8.45am at Oxford Rail Station for those of us taking the train. Or 9am at Oxford Town Hall for those of us driving. (more…)