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A Bit About Me

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Hello! My name is Julia Shatalov, and I'm a freshman this year. I'm also a day student. It's been a little while since I've done much acting, beyond the skits my friends and I like to make up. The last time I was in a play was in 5th with Honk! Jr. I live in Cheshire and went to Dodd for middle school, where I participated in chorus and cross country. In 8th grade, I tried out Glee club, where we sang a capella, and I absolutely loved it. One interesting thing about me is that I am a cyclist. I do mostly criterium racing, which is where we have a track of about half a mile to as long as 2 miles and we race around it as many times as possible in a set amount of time. Other forms of racing are time trial (TT) and point-to-point. In a time trial, each racer is sent off 30 seconds apart and they are supposed to go as hard as possible for a set distance. Whoever has the fastest time at the end wins. Meanwhile, point-to-point racing is the simplest form. Everyone is sent of...
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Scene Work Reflection

So far during our scene Work, we’ve made a lot of progress. I believe all three of us have improved a lot with the expression in our voices. The progression from calm to annoyed angry seems natural for the personality of the characters we are playing. When we first began working on this scene, I feel that we went through it much too quickly and that the transition between the different emotioned we were portraying was more sudden. I also think that we’ve added a few really good personal touches to it. For example, we added in a part where my character, Lisa, stands up and throws a vase of water at Caroline’s character, Beth. This, in a way, fits in with a theme that we’ve had this semester that involves throwing things. It seems to be a favorite flare of ours to use. We also are doing a good job of balancing the scene. Although it is a dramatic, tense, mostly negative scene, a few of the things we are adding in add a comedic undertone to the scene overall. One such thing is the way Jen...
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