Blog Post #2

Some important elements of acting we have reviewed  so far are stage positions and body language, projection, articulation, and vocal emotion.  Stage position is important for voice position as well as minimizing confusion as to what is occurring in the scene. There is a stage right, left, up, center, and down. all of these are very important for movement in a production in order to convey the proper story.Projection is important, and goes hand in hand with articulation simply because if an audience cant understand or hear what you're saying, then the performance would have no impact on them.Vocal pitch is very important to acting because it gives depth and emotion to a piece. Vocal pitch is the increase and decrease in pitch in voice. This can help to display emotion in a piece. 
Three of my goals for this current semester are to be able to improve my writing personally instead of just factually, improve my memorization ability, and overall just improve as an actor. In this class I can work on this by writing and doing the blog post assignments, as well as working to memorize monologues and other pieces of work. Another way in which I am able to work on this is by becoming more open to constructive criticism and learning from my fellow classmates. 
In this class I hope to work on improvisation because I fell as an actor it is very important to understand the scene you are working with as well as be able to think right off the top of your head in case a cue goes wrong or something to that effect. Another element that I hope to work on is  a serious mindset for a character. I find it very easy to portray a silly, comedic character because that is what suits to my personality, however I feel it would be a good challenge to attempt to portray a more serious persona in acting. The final thing I would like to work on is body movement in actin because I feel as though when I am speaking, say, a monologue I never know how to move and what to do with my hands without feeling awkward, so I hope to be able to figure that out.