Blog Post #2 monologue reflection
Both this week and last week, we had been working on 2 monologues. One is written by ourselves which were basically talking about an interesting story about ourselves. The second monologue is from the summer reading “Fences”. I chose the “Mr. Death” part to act out.
For the first monologue, it is easy to catch the emotion and deliver the real feeling. Because it is our own story. Although it is easy to act out, I still did not do well, because of nervousness. For this monologue, I remembered what I did well is that I combined the music into the acting. The control of the music volume is the high light of my monologue. And I also did a good job on spacing and using the available props in the room. The thing I have to work on is that when I get nervous I like to shifting my feet left and right, which is not good on stage and looks unnatural. I have to control my body more. One thing I learned about is that acting is fun, especially when you are acting your own stories, you will feel less uncomfortable than acting other scripts.
For the second monologue, it is hard for every aspects. First of all, it is not our own story, we have to be someone else which is what acting is (be someone else). So, I have to figure out what does the author want to deliver, what kind of personality does Troy have. I also had to watch the movie, in order to learn and help me to elucidate the character. I have to think about all the body languages, and feel like I am Troy for that 40 seconds. For my monologue, Troy was talking to “Mr. Death”. Troy was angry, afraid and lots of other kind of emotions. In order to act out afraid, I was showing the emotion by slowly backing up and going onto the stairs, imagine that is the from door stairs. But, how do I show anger at the same time? When I was backing up I kind of turn up my volume a little bit by a little bit. In this way, I think I show both sides angry and afraid. That is how I understand this paragraph. The thing I did not do well is that, my voice is still to quiet. And I was thinking about the scripts too much, so that I did not act full out. One thing I learned that probably will help with all my performance skill is that, before you act some characters, make sure you study the character and fully understand character’s emotion.
I really like Cassidy’s “Mr. Death”. I think she delivers and shows a completely different understanding of this paragraph than mine. She is full of energy and anger. She was keep moving forward and with a lot of big body languages. She did a really good job. I think the reason why she can act all out is because that she has memorized all the scripts, so that she can only focus on acting which is a really good thing to study from.
All of all, today’s lesson I learned is that “To be someone else” when you are acting!!!
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