Over
the past few weeks in acting class, we have been working on five different
scenes, with each person playing two different characters, which I talked about
in my last post. It’s been a lot of fun and needed a lot of hard work, but it
also taught me a lot of different things.
I
learned that in some scenes where there is not a lot of text in it, like in the
scenes that we used. There was not a lot of stage directions written down in
it, so Ms. Guarino, Lexi, Lindsay, Sam, Jehmima, and I all to have input into
what the stage directions were in every scene. The sets were another thing that
were very flexible in the scripts, so we got to make almost all the decisions, except
my scene when I play Stacy which needs a box for Bruce and Stacy to sit in
during the scene, but we also got to be creative about what we used as a box.
We used a table that was turned on its side that we stand in it during the
scene. Some scenes having a limited amount of information in their scripts let
people have a lot more freedom than scripts with a lot of information in it was
something I learned about when I worked on scenes in class.
While
I worked on the scenes in class, I learned many different things about myself
as an actor and about specific aspects of acting. I learned it is hard for me
to learn my lines from my scripts if the script is over a few pages and has
back and forth with my character, as in my scene as Stacy. It also showed me
that I liked and was good at creating backstories and motives for my lines. I
learned that it was easier to have good body language in scenes with dialogue, compared
to my work in the silent movie, because the scenes with dialogue are less reliant
on body language in the storyline when comparing it to the silent movie without
any words. Another very important part of scenes with dialogue that was not part
of our silent movie work that was a part of our scenes with dialogue that I got
to learn about during this project was delivery. It was very important and fun
to play with in the scene, because it can change the meaning of both the lines
in the scene and the scene as a whole. I
learned a lot of different things about specific parts of acting and myself as
an actor while doing scene work.
When
I worked with my class on the scenes, I got to learn a lot about working
together with my classmates. I really enjoyed working with my friends and we
all had also of fun. I learned that my difficulties about learning my lines can
be decreased when I practice with other people. I also learned different strategies
for learning lines, such as just repeatedly reading it off the script with my
scene partner and doing it without the script with my scene partner while
someone else has our script and corrects our mistakes. I learned a lot of different
things from working with fellow actors on our scene work.
I
learned a lot of different things form my work on the scenes we did. I really
enjoyed it. Well. I’ll write my next blog post on our next project so bye for
now.
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