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Miscellaneous recommendations

This page will have videos or any articles, books, etc. That will recommend anything in particular, what you want to look for. Most of what is on this website, is what I have come across myself or from other sources and they were:

Don't call me stupid

This was a docmentry about dyslexia, which was presented by an ex-eastenders actress on BBC Three called "Don't call me stupid.", I am sure it can be found on the internet, somewhere. I would thoroughly recommend to watch it, as it gives a real insight into not only dyslexia, but how individual brains function. I recommend this, because it is partly also involving learning how to learn scripts with being dyslexic.

 

©2011 Referencing from the ' Don't call me stupid, It was made by the BBC and was shown on the BBC Three channel, which shown one personal journey into how their dyslexia affects them, and how it helped to overcome their own differences with scripts
 

Learning Lines by Mark Channon

This book I had found at a 'Surviving Actors' expo event, if you are more a book person, rather then, looking at youtube videos. It covers what is on what youc an find on the internet. But, in a more indepth way.
 

©2022 Referencing from the book called 'Learning Your Lines' from Mark Channon, which uses past research that is referred to at the end of the book and at the bottom of this paragraph.

 

Chapter One: Strategise

 

1. Martin Dresler, William R. Shirer, Boris N. Konrad

et al., 'Mnemonic Training Reshapes Brain Networks to Support Superior Memory' in Neuron, Vol. 93, Issue 5, 2017, pp. 1227-35.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.02.003

 

Chapter Two: Prepare.

 

1. Michael D. Mrazek et al., Mindfulness Training

Improves Working Memory Capacity and GRE

Performance While Reducing Mind Wandering' in

Psychological Science, Vol. 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pp.

776-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612459659

 

2. Nick Moseley, Meisner in Practice, A Guide for Actors,

Directors and Teachers, London: Nick Hern Books,

2012. www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/meisner-in-practice

 

3. BJ Fogg, Tiny Habits: Why Starting Small Makes

Lasting Change Easy, New York: Houghton Mifflin

Harcourt Publishing Company; London: Virgin

Books, 2020. www.tinyhabits.com

 

Chapter Three: Prime

1. David Hecht, 'The Neural Basis of Optimism and

Pessimism' in Experimental Neurobiology, Vol,. 22,

Issue 3, 2013, pp. 173-99.

https://doi.org/10.5607/en.2013.22.3.173

 

Chapter Five: Embed

1. Zhifang Ye, Liang Shi, Angi Li, Chaunsheng Chen,

Gui Xue, 'Retrieval practice facilitates memory

updating by enhancing and differentiating medial

prefrontal cortex representations' in Life, Vol. 9, e.

57023, 2020. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.57023

 

2. Kanyin Feng, Xiao Zhao, Jing Liu et al., "Spaced

Learning Enhances Episodic Memory by Increasing

Neural Pattern Similarity Across Repetitions' in

7Neurosci: The Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 29, Issue

27, 2019, pp. 5351-60.

https://doi.org/10.1523/NEUROSCI.2741-18.2019

 

3. Stéphanie Mazza, Emilie Gerbier, Marie-Paule

Gustin et al., 'Relearn Faster and Retain Longer:

Along With Practice, Sleep Makes Perfect' in

Psychological Science, Vol. 27, Issue 10, 2106, pp.

1321-30.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616659930

Check in - This is where the people attending, speak about their day and getting themselves psyched and mentally prepared for the workshop.

Physical warm-up - Before we start the activities, we obviously warm-up by doing movement and vocal exercises, so no one doesn't damage their voice and body.

The lesson or term objective:

Depending the session, week or term, we will focus on only memorisation from looking at poetry or someone's favourite book., do improvisation, mime exercises, etc. or even put on a show in whatever they choose to do. This could be devising a improvised, mime or if they want to show a piece they had been working on.

The takeaway section:

At the end of the session, we as a group will talk about what we learned from others in how we will apply them when we next rehearse or how we will use individual methods or tricks to help ourselves in daily life, so they can overcome their individual barriers or 'gifts' and have a better sense of confidence, when addressing or explaining how they feel, when they encounter these challenges again.

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