The final post.

Looking back to the beginning of the semester and comparing it to my knowledge on acting now, I had no idea how much work went into acting. You have to memorize your lines, movements, portrayal, and everything in between. There are so many different types of acting and different ways for one to act in different types. I have been fortunate enough to take both acting and public speaking, and sort of strengthen the right side of my brain through these courses.

I am a very STEM based thinker, so the artistic expression is very difficult for me. One of the original reasons I chose this class was for these blogposts. When we would write about our character or do posts about our scenes it definitely helped me with writing, which is a skill I will use all throughout my academic career and throughout life. Though I still struggle with writing I have definitely improved by being able to sort of freely get my ideas out, which I’ve noticed has helped me to improve in papers and written assignments in other classes.

Memorizing was probably my biggest downfall in this class. I wish I had put more time and effort into memorizing in order to execute the best possible scene I could. I feel as though when I wasn’t confident with myself knowing the words, I wasn’t able to perform at my best. If I had just put in a bit more effort to practice lines and maybe run them outside of class with a family member, maybe I could’ve memorized better and done better in my scenes. I did do this for the plane crash scene by writing the lines of the people around me and then writing in my lines in relation to where everybody said there lines. I think that was my best performance of the semester (so far- I still have one more to go!) and it is because of the effort I put into it, which just goes to show that the old saying “you get what you give” is right, you get out what you put in.

I’m not exactly sure where I am going with all of the skills I’ve learned in this class. Short term, I’ll probably utilize it for the winter musical next year, which I plan on participating in, and long term I think I am going  to be able to step out of my comfort zone with more ease and speak rehearsed pieces easier. This is a good skill for any public speaking environment or just for life in general. It’s really interesting and surprising how much the way something is said can change the delivery, and now knowing things like that I feel that overall the way i have learned how to speak to an audience and know how to change how I am portrayed is going to help me out very much in the long run.

Mrs. Guarino- here’s a link to a bunch of thank you cards because I want to say thank you and we have to include a link and I have no idea what else to link to.

https://www.hallmarkecards.com/ecards/collections/thank+you