1/23/12 Journal

Today was supposed to be the day we performed our monologues for the second marking level. Instead, we spent the whole class talking about things such as the appropriate clothes to wear to auditions, how your hair should be, what shoes to wear, etc. I thought this was really helpful, because in the past I have always just been wearing whatever I wanted to auditions, which isn't always the best thing to do. My clothes tend to upstage me a little bit, and that's something that shouldn't happen during auditions. We spent the next half of class working on our monologues. Although some of the feedback that I got back was a little hard to hear and I had a difficult time applying these things to my monologue, I think that learning all of these things was good. Now I know what I need to focus on doing better. The one thing that really did get to me was when I was told that I'm kind of blocking myself in a way. It wasn't much of a surprise to me, because i'll be the first one to admit that I do that. However, I need to work on that if I want to move forward in my acting career. I can't expect to play another character if I can't be myself. This may be something that will take a while to work on, but this is a change that will need to happen eventually.