Monday 20th November
On Monday 20th November I joined the Skype call
with Adesola, Matt, Laura, Charlotte and Natalie. I unfortunately joined late
due to missing a bus (the joys of London aye?) but joined in with a discussion
about networking, CVs, reflective journaling and attempting our final essays.
I found the session useful in developing ideas and hearing
other people’s points on topics. I especially found it useful to revisit the
topic of CVs, which we cover at the start of the module. It was nice to explore
ideas and develop on them now that we are further into the module e.g. by
including points and views on how networking can come into the topic also.
It was interesting hearing how other had been going about
their reflective journals. I think for most of us it wasn’t an easy topic, as
it was something new but we helped each other in how we could try different
ways of reflecting and finding time to do so. For me personally so far I’ve
been jotting down things that I’ve been thinking about on random scraps of
paper but I’ve been failing to then write them up. At the moment the main issue
I’m facing is finding time to write up my ideas, reflections and observations I
am having about my industry because I’ve started rehearsals for the Christmas
time. Rehearsals are however a good thing, as they are giving me real world
moments to be observing and reflecting on what I’ve been learning and how that
applies to my life currently and also thinking about how it differed from when
I was solely auditioning. Also, some days I am not noticing things because my
mind is just too engrossed in something else.
I think from the discussion the best way forward for me is
to just set aside a couple of hours a week to type up my notes I make into my
journal but also write a reflection then about how I maybe feeling about it now
e.g. whether I agree with it still or my thoughts on it might have developed
further on from that.
I am going to explore further on some points later in the
week on here, so apologies for the inconsistency of my material but there is
more thoughts coming if you’d be interested to read.
Matthew x
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