Moving forward

I was worried about showing emotion and was confident about memorizing lines, which is quite ironic because I believe one of my strengths so far has been showing emotions and one of my weaknesses has definitely been memorizing lines. I think that this is because I was so relaxed about memorizing lines and now I know that the lines are what I need to focus on. With the next performance there are a lot of lines and I think that having other  actors to react with will be very helpful to me because in the monologues I struggled with feeding off of myself and my memory, which obviously didn’t go too well as the whole memorization part didn’t exactly work the majority of the takes. I do think one of the things that have helped me in this class is the great support from my fellow classmates whose experience and talent always amazes me, and there support is so immense that it has helped me to strive to be a better actress.

This class definitely helped me in preparation for the audition for the winter musical as I now fully know my strengths and weaknesses and can work to improve them in the second quarter. I definitely want to work on memorizing both actions and lines. I can do this by practicing more at home by running them and listening to them.  I hope to prepare for the audition this upcoming winter season and to know what to expect as I have never been in a real audition or performance other than sixth grade which I prefer not to count.  In summary of these I think I am going to resolve my goal to focus on the broader view in preforming as I tend to focus on miniscule details very often which I do think ultimately is my downfall.

I also hope to get a better understanding of what the acting industry is like. I hope to be able to understand more than just the acting portion of performances: such as behind the scenes with set design or hair and makeup. These are very important aspects of acting as without them productions just wouldn’t be the same.

I am very excited for moving forward and to see how the next few projects go. The next project I will be working with Lisa and John, both who are very talented, and we will be doing a scene called “Over the Edge” by David Dalton and Chad Schnackel. It is absolutely hilarious, and I cannot wait to see what both of my partners bring to the performance. Below I have put a link to the script. It needs a bit of editing, as john is a guy, not a girl, however that is a quick fix and we have pretty much decided to just change the name Cathy to Carl and go on with the script because Cathy was depicted in a more masculine manner anyhow. So here is the script we all agreed on!

http://hollywoodactingworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Over_the_Edge_-_3_women.pdf

-Alexis