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LAMDA Acting Medals at College

LadyEnglish

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Hey ho, just wondering if anyone else is doing these atm?! Bronze to Gold
I'm doing Silver, just started :smile:

xxx

Reply 1

lil groovy dude

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o0o can you provide a link for me ? :smile:

Reply 2

fedora

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ahhh I just did my silver medal acting in July, I was 2 marks off a distinction (bah). what pieces are you doing?

you can have a look at the LAMDA website if you're interested http://www.lamda.org.uk/exams/index.htm

I have found in my research on applying to drama school that lots of people don't really rate them as good preparation for, well, anything, but I think they're really good preparation for auditions... getting used to standing up there on your own, with no other cast members, and having to imagine characters etc. etc.

oh and I see that they have just been allowed as UCAS tariff points starting in 2008... interesting...

Reply 3

LadyEnglish

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fedora

ahhh I just did my silver medal acting in July, I was 2 marks off a distinction (bah). what pieces are you doing?

you can have a look at the LAMDA website if you're interested http://www.lamda.org.uk/exams/index.htm

I have found in my research on applying to drama school that lots of people don't really rate them as good preparation for, well, anything, but I think they're really good preparation for auditions... getting used to standing up there on your own, with no other cast members, and having to imagine characters etc. etc.

oh and I see that they have just been allowed as UCAS tariff points starting in 2008... interesting...

IIII'm doing a shakespeare one, Queen of the Goths speech - Tamora, about revenge and shtuff :p:

Erm a speech from 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Blanche, and on from the film 'Chicago' by Roxie :biggrin:

How was the exam?! What kind of questions did you get asked? Did they ring a bell to call you into the audition?! :p:

(Thats what they did to the candidates last year :p:

) I'm not really taking LAMDA to persue any kind of career in acting, I want to be a psychologist :p:

Just thought it would be fun lol and a good way to indulge in my acting interest without doing the whole A level :smile:

x

Reply 4

Amy1122

I'm doing my silver acting medal in november. I'm doing the crucible, shakers:restirred and the tempest :smile:

Reply 5

lil groovy dude

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How would one get involved with such an activity?

:redface:

Reply 6

LadyEnglish

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Amy1122

I'm doing my silver acting medal in november. I'm doing the crucible, shakers:restirred and the tempest :smile:

Oooh Tempest, cool :biggrin:

Are you going to take gold aswell?! x

Reply 7

LadyEnglish

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lil_groovy_dude

How would one get involved with such an activity?

:redface:

Hmm unless your school offer any means of getting involved in it you'd probably have to pay :frown:

or join a drama club that offer it...I was just lucky my college offered it. Good luck :smile:

The link to the website is up a bit ^ :biggrin:

Reply 8

fedora

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LadyEnglish

IIII'm doing a shakespeare one, Queen of the Goths speech - Tamora, about revenge and shtuff :p:

Erm a speech from 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Blanche, and on from the film 'Chicago' by Roxie :biggrin:

How was the exam?! What kind of questions did you get asked? Did they ring a bell to call you into the audition?! :p:

(Thats what they did to the candidates last year :p:

) I'm not really taking LAMDA to persue any kind of career in acting, I want to be a psychologist :p:

Just thought it would be fun lol and a good way to indulge in my acting interest without doing the whole A level :smile:

x

oh that Tamora one is really great! I'm picking out pieces for drama school auditions and I had a look at Lavinia from Titus (thanks Simon Dunmore...) but it all looked a bit intense for me! I've ended up picking an Ariel one I think, that or Cressida maybe, I've just got an interview from UEA for English and Drama and all the speeches are really well-known Shakespeare ones, I'm using it as an opportunity to revisit Viola's ring speech which I did back in the day about 6 years ago as part of the old syllabus for grade 7 Verse and Prose... This time though I did Masha from The Seagull, Joan in The Lark by Anouilh and Hedwig from Hedwig And The Angry Inch.

The exam was actually pretty fun, but because when I did it I was the assistant drama teacher I had been working from about 11 - 5 then had my exam at about 5.30, so I was a bit frazzled!!! she asked me basically only about the reasoning behind why I played my characters like I did, like Hedwig wanting to be accepted as a woman and using a brash front to hide behind, that sort of thing (so more gold medal than silver really), with a bit about the period, like Joan of Arc in her boy's clothes and the difference between how she would move and how Masha would move in her corset and long skirt and drunken state. I didn't even really get subtext or context, a little bit about objective, and I made sure I brought up all the research I'd done on Chekhov and the Moscow Arts Theatre!

The questions for Acting are much more satisfying than the Verse and Prose questions, honestly, my silver medal V&P was like AS English and GCSE Biology. I had to be able to talk about different verse forms and the use of things like enjambment and end-stopping and so on, and figures of speech and the mechanics of breathing and voice production, and use of pitch, pace, pause, the different types of pauses...............

and oh yes I had the bell, I quite like it though, it makes me feel like I'm going to a tea party with the Queen or somesuch.

To get involved...... you can enter yourself for an exam at the LAMDA centre, but I reckon it's a good idea to get a teacher to help you out, it's quite pricey to walk in underprepared I think, and it does take a lot of work, I've taught LAMDA syllabus as well as taken the exams myself and it is hard!!

Reply 9

L27

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I did Gold this January... I've done all the others, and I didn't find Gold too difficult.
I found learning the pieces pretty easy, and the only bit that took much work was getting to know a bit more about my Shakespeare book, Charles Dickens and my poem's author, and the theory I learned in the week before the exam.
It's actually pretty fun :smile:

I had private lessons in a teacher's home. I think my Mum found her on the internet.

I was 2 marks below distinction :frown:

I got distinction for almost all my other grades though (or honours as they used to call the top grade I think)

Reply 10

LadyEnglish

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L27

I did Gold this January... I've done all the others, and I didn't find Gold too difficult.
I found learning the pieces pretty easy, and the only bit that took much work was getting to know a bit more about my Shakespeare book, Charles Dickens and my poem's author, and the theory I learned in the week before the exam.
It's actually pretty fun :smile:

I had private lessons in a teacher's home. I think my Mum found her on the internet.

I was 2 marks below distinction :frown:

I got distinction for almost all my other grades though (or honours as they used to call the top grade I think)

Aaw that's annoying :frown:

Could you not get it remarked?! x

Reply 11

cabeza_loca

I do LAMDA medals outside school. I love it :smile:

Not particularily useful for anything bar a bit of confidence and a couple of UCAS points as of this year but its always been a bit of a hobby of mine :smile:

I'm doing silver acting as well... i am doing shirley valentine, streetcar named desire and The house of bernarda alba (REALLY useful as I'm studying this play for AS spanish lit :biggrin:

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Reply 12

Luc12

I did gold Lamda in October and received the certificate but no medal, is that normal to send one without the other as we are now in December

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