Last blog

I think that I accomplished my goals in this course that I set ftom the beginning I wanted to be able to learn how to become an actor because that has always been a dream for me. I feel like this year I made huge strides to make myself a way better actor than what I started from. When the course started I wanted to be able to do a Will Ferell skit I was able to do that by doing the Lion and Tuna scene. When the course started I wanted to be able to be in a movie I accomplished that when I did the Longest flight and the Inception movie which was such a cool experience. I thought my acting in both of those skits was cool to watch. At the beginning of the course I wanted to be able to be in a musical I achieved that by doing the Hamilton musical. What I learnde from that is that I always thought I was a terrible singer and I could never sing but abby really did a good job and taught me how I should project my voice and be able to sing and honestly I thouht I did a pretty good job. I challenged myself by remembering how to memorize lines and by being able to keep a straight face since I kind of laugh a lot whenever somebody does something to me that makes me laugh. I worked a lot harder in this class then I thought I would. What I gained from this class was that if you put your mind to something that you want to achieve anything is possible. Like me in this class I always wanted to be an actor but I never thought I could do but I proved to myself that I could and I ended up loving acting. THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING COURSE!!!!!

http://youtu.be/37oJqWp4rJM

Final Audition Proposal

What I am Proposing to do for my final audion is an audition. Throughout the whole acting class my favorite part was when we did the monologues. The reason that I liked doing monologues because I am the kind of person that loves to get into the character and feel like im apart of something. Another reason that the monologue is my favorite part of the class and why im doing it for my final audition is because of my love for getting on stage and forgetting about everything that im worried about and just prentending im someone else. Its fun to just pretend im someone else because it gives me a feeling of what situations these people are in compared to mine of going to prep school at Cheshire Academy. How will this make me a better actor because it displays my abilities to perform a scene by myself without help from anyone else. It will give me the chance to get up on stage and show everyone that I am a very funny actor. That is why I am doing this monologue for my final audition and how it is going to make me a better actor.

My inception progress

So far during this inception project I feel like I have been exceeding more than usual. I think there are  three reasons why I am having success. One is that I have more confidence now, before this whole class I had always been so shy and I didn't really speak up and now that I am able to say my lines loud and proudly. My favorite scene from this whole project was when I was in the bathroom playing Robert Fischer from inception. The reason that this was my favorite scene was because it sounded like I was actually terrified and angry which made the scene great. The second reason that I am having a lot of success in this project is because I enjoy this role. The character I am playing is a very serious business guy that has a lot of money and is being chased by all these people to take over his business. I feel like it is really cool to play someone who is on the runs down has a very serious role during the project. Those are some reasons why I am having success with this project.

Blog #7

     Me and Jayden did the scene from coach carter for our dialogue. I personally liked the way I performed on that scene. The scene was about a coach going into the lockeroom after they had just lost the state championship on a buzzer beater shot and trying to tell his team to stay positive because they had a great year. Nobody expected this team to even make the playoffs let alone the state championship game so this speech was very powerful and to the heart. My role in this scene was the coach of the basketball team.
     My pros of my performance were I thought that I used hand motions and expressed my emotions pretty loud and clear. During the scene I pointed to the door showing the rest of the players "if any coach in the state of California offered me a job you know what team I'd chose". The reason I said this is show the players how much I love this team and I wouldn't want to coach any other team and I think I projected my self pretty loud, clear, and emotional.
      My cons of the scence were I need to memorize my lines better. I remembered my lines pretty well but I could've prepared much better and I'm going to be focusing on that in my upcoming scenes that I will perform. I also thought that made my confidence look a little bad because I failed to really remember the scene thoroughly that way I sounded more confident when I was talking. Other than that though I thought I did pretty well I certainly tried as hard as I could and I think that counts for a lot.
       I will work on my cons for the fourth quarter like preparing my lines and memorizing them like the back of my hand. I will also be way more confident and I'm going to show everyone in the audience that I am a serious actor so they feel that they're actually there in the scene.

Blog 6

The most important thing I have to work on for this upcoming scene is portraying my voice and making sure that everyone can hear me and understand me. The reason I need to do this is because it makes the scene complete, also I'm playing a very serious actor and I need to make sure I sound loud and proud that way everyone takes my character seriously and really takes me seriously as an actor. The way I'm going to work on this is by saying my lines over and over again saying my lines louder and louder each time. That way after I do over and over again it will be like muscle memory and I will be able to say my lines as loud as possible so I sound more serious. That is what I want to work on for next scene and how I'm going to work on it.

Play idea

The Great Gatsby
Daisy- Abby
Tom- Jack
Mr Gatsby- Cade
Nick- Ryan
Myrtle- Angel
Myrtles Husbund- Jayden

My double dialogue with Cade review

I think that when I did my dialogue I was very clear and I projected my voice pretty good. My one flaw that I had was that I didnt really get into the character as much as I could have. Like I didn't dress up or talk with an accent. I should have but I was still very happy with the way that I performed during the monologue. When I watch the video I really admire how far of an actor I have become. At the beginning of this class I had never acted before and I was kind of nervous about it. After I overcame my fear of acting infront of other people I felt like I have became way more comfortable with my acting and the way that I can project my voice. Lastly I thought that my peer Cade did a really great job of playing a tough cop. Even though both our characters were not exactly intelligent people we both did a great job of playing a not very smart cop and a not very smart criminal. Cades biggest strength was when he really sold the charecter and really got himself into the character. His biggest weakness that he needs to work on is he mumbles a little and needs to work on being more clear and projecting his voice to the audience so they can understand the scence better without trying to make out what he was saying. But other than that I thought Cade did a great job and I thought I did a really good job too. I was very happy with my performance.

Dialogue with Cade

https://youtu.be/VoqlJv43wJI

Theater review of Once on This Island

This play really caught my attention from the second they started perfoming. I missed the first half of the perfoormance because my hockey game ran late. But when i watched the second half of this play i was more than impressed. I felt like I was watching a show on broadway and it was only highschool kids which really blows my mind. Our acting class really represented well Ryan and Abby espicially. The lights were really cool and the props and the music was beautiful. My favorite thing about this play was the acting and how dramatic the actors portryed themselves on the stage. My one critism for this play was I thought that there could have been a better ending I really wanted T moon to get married to Daniel and not for Daniel to marry that other girl. Instead Daniel married that other girl T moon starved her self because she loved Daniel so much and could not live without him which is very sweet. I didnt understand why after she died the Gods made her into a tree it really didnt make sense to me.I have been to a lot of plays on broadway and all over the place My favorite one was a show called Jersey Boys it was really good I saw it at the Prudential Center last year. My least favorite Play I went to was Newsies I saw that on broadway and it was just not the type of show that I like. But overall this play waas really good and really exceeded my expectations.

Lion Taste Good

https://youtu.be/nCaVGZGhems

Monologue

OK, first off: a lion? Swimming in the ocean? Lions don’t like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I’m assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you’ve wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We’ve talked to ourselves. We’ve communicated and said ‘You know what, lion tastes good, let’s go get some more lion’. We’ve developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring. … We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It’s not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen, and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You’re outgunned and out-manned. … Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope.

The Longest Flight Silent Movie

My groups project turned out really cool it was a story about an old man, a single mother, an average man, and a flight attendent on a plane when everyone gets so demanding everyone starts to fight so basically the plane turns into chaos. The really good part about my groups project is that we used a lot of cool props and funny skits like we threw oatmeal on josh to represent a babys throwup which was so funny and gross! I also had did a spit take and got water poured on me which was such a funny and cool experience. Our groups project could have improved on a couple areas I feel like we should have made the pace of the movie should have been a lot faster but overall it was still a good pace. Also we couldve improved of really getting into the character like for example we could have made some of the eotions better but I still really liked what we did with this silent movie. The other group did an amazing job with their project it was just as funny if not better than ours when cade played that princess I dont think ive ever laughed that hard before in my life. My performence was a good first performence i would say, I dont really have any experience with acting so taking all of that into consideration I think I displayed well for my first time out on stage. I could 100% work on my expressions of when I do things like when I asked for the water it didnt look believable I have to really show the audience that im asking water. I think other than that I did really well though. I think that the easiest part for me was keeping a serious face because that is one of my strengths of acting. I think that one thing I need to work on is my face expressions I dont express myself enough. I think the challenge for me is the face expressions. The fun part was wearing the probs and trying to act like someone your not. I learned that I need to wrok on my mood swings or emotional swings.