1/31/12 Participation

Participation: 100

After today's class, I am thinking about choosing play writing as my minor for the next marking level. I am still debating over film or that. I definitely want to choose acting as my major this marking level, and still want to work on my design a lot more, but I think i'm going to keep working on my own this marking level and get feedback from Scarlet on my sketches, so if I decide to pick design as my major or minor in the 4th marking level I can focus more on the actual designs and get a good grade. I got a C on my design grade this marking level, and that is unacceptable for me.

1/31/12 Journal

Today we did a reading for Imani's play. I wasn't cast to read any of the roles in her play, but I did follow along with the script while the reading was going on. It was interesting to see one of my peer's work being read. The only other time we have ever done this was with Brett's play, and since I was cast as a big role in that play I focused more on reading my lines than observing how other people were reading theirs. I have been following along with Imani's play since she started writing it and it has come a pretty long way. I thought it was much more interesting than the first draft she sent me. I learned a lot about playwrights as well during today's class. During the talk back, you aren't supposed to answer any questions about the context of the play, and you aren't supposed to take in any feedback at that moment in time.

1/27/12 Participation

Participation: 100

Today in class we spent the whole class working on our thesis papers. With my thesis paper, the problems i'm having are:

·         Why were the characters written that way?

·         Background info must be relevent to the thesis

·         aviod the world obvious

·         the characters do not exist!!

1/26/12 Participation

Participation: 100


Today I realized that I want to focus more on my acting career rather than design. This marking period, I chose design as my major and acting as my minor. I learned today that this was actually a mistake. In theater, our major grade is a bigger portion of the final grade than our minors. I did better on my acting final, which was a contemporary monologue, than my design final, which was a complete design. My bodies are not as realistic as they should be looking by this point. I do want to learn more about design in the future, but as of now I have more of strength in acting and spending two days learning about acting would be a bigger benefit because I do hope to be ranked higher on my acting final next marking level.

1/26/12 Journal

For the first half of class today, we discused how our monologues went yesterday and our notes. I actually guessed the exact place I would be on the list, and I was correct. I am happy that I am not at the complete bottom of the list like last time, however I will work my hardest to be more toward the top of the list next time. Things I have to improve on are my pronounciation of the letter S. I will work on this by repeating the sound of the letter untill it sounds completely clear. I also have a problem with my hands. They are very tense when I am performing and I need to work on that a lot of I want to become a sucessfull actor. These are things I will definatly begin to work on now.

1/25/12 Journal

Today all of the acting majors and minors performed their monologues for their marking level finals. It almost reminded me of my audition for the program in a way. We all sat in the dressing room and waited for our turn to perform. I think my monologue went well if I had to say. I tried taking all of the feedback I have gotten over the few weeks into consideration, but I could understand if some of it wasn't clear. I did speak in a clear and loud voice, and I focused on not having "cup hands." I did catch myself almost doing it a couple of times, but I stopped myself.

1/24/12 Participation

Participation: 100

This is the first draft of my costume for my design final. It is an '80's costume design. I think I am starting to understand how to make bodies look a little more real. I do have a lot I need to work on before Thursday.