Personal statement

1		I would like to study drama to enhance my acting ability. I want to be an influential person
2		in history one day. I can not see myself doing anything else in life.
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4		Drama as a whole interests me, but I particularly like being on stage especially in theatre,
5		knowing that I am telling a story to people I have not met before and they are believing it
6		really uplifts me. In addition to this, I am also interested in the film and television side
7		of drama behind and in front of the camera. I am really attentive about knowing how it works
8		and I will like to have more insight about this difference acting techniques used between
9		theatre and TV.
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11		I have been acting since the age of 7 going to a variety of drama clubs. But since joining my
12		agency I have been taking Acting extremely serious and want this to be one of my careers in
13		the future. In 2016 I was chosen to be a part of a short film called Rhonna and Donna which
14		won best comedy award at woods hole and audience choice award at blue stocking film festival
15		in LA. Since being at college I have taken every opportunity that has been given to me. In
16		November 2017 my class performed at the shaw theatre with a company called Shakespeare schools
17		festival. I also did a course with Bush Theatre where we mixed virtual reality with theatre
18		while also connecting with a group on the other side of London (East London). In addition to
19		this, I joined the Camden Youth theatre where we doing games and small workshops. In February
20		2018 I Joined the Taylored Management agency. In summer I did a wide range of courses to
21		strengthen my skills. I did a course called space to create with national youth theatre where
22		we mixed lyricism and movement to create a piece that we could show to the public in
23		Southbank. Lastly, I did a one week course at UAL (Drama centre) which was an insight of drama
24		school giving us tools and skills that we will need to become actors. Continuing my work with
25		UAL (Drama centre) I am now taken a monologue course to help us with our auditions to drama
26		school. I am also taking another course at Hackney Empire called young Producers where we
27		organise an event from scratch.
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29		In college, we did a workshop with papa-tango where we learnt how to write scripts and got it
30		published in a book as well as getting professional actors acting out our plays. From this
31		experience, I started writing my own film script called "Mac" which is a street adaptation of
32		Macbeth.
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34		I assisted a director on a play called Johnny which was written by Kwame Augustine. I did a
35		course with Hackney empire where we learnt the fundamentals or directing and videography. We
36		were split into groups where we each given a scene which was about 5 minutes long and was told
37		to film these scenes using lighting, sound and cameras.
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39		I'm a highly driven, ambitious and target orientated individual who has hands-on experience of
40		working within a fast paced team. Willing to understand the company mission vision, values and
41		support the brand's guidelines. I have taken part in being an assistant director for a
42		sold-out play called johnny my duties included managing the cast in learning lines, answering
43		calls for the agency, engaged thoroughly in their rehearsals, learnt how to handle stress well
44		during their performances, Taught me a vast amount about theatre, Showed me that I definitely
45		want to be in the acting industry.