Julia's Acting Blog

Practice~ We could do a story where some girls are out dancing and having fun and one of them loses something. They would later notice at the music change and the rest would be looking for it Tourist finds something of value that was meant for someone else and picks it up. The person it was meant for go looking for it. Resolved by them meeting up, arguing, and finally the person getting their thing back. Envelope/ note that goes with the book to show that the object isn’t meant for the tourist. Characters: tourist (julia), deliverer(Jenna), the person the package was meant for (Caroline). Argue over book. Real Thing~ A really famous person is visiting town and everyone is scrambling to fulfill her every wish, even the weirdest ones. Then, one person refuses to bring her a ____ so she gets angry and throws a fit. Two people meet up to eat at a world class restaurant/ gallery and a heist is performed on the most famous painting ever right under their noses. As they are constantly...

https://youtu.be/qMZtJW_fT1c Over the last couple of weeks I’ve learned a lot about monologues. My first monologue was a dramatic one, and I struggled with making my movements appear natural. In the second monologue, I felt a lot better with my motions, despite the fact that my character did not match my real life personality at all. At the beginning of my second monologue, which was a comedy, I struggled with tone of voice as well as making my actions energetic and perky. I learned different strategies which helped me feel more comfortable acting energetic and talking with my hands. The most helpful of which was thinking of other people at school who did these things and trying to imitate them in my monologue. Another trick that I learned was that overacting at first is easier to fix than not being animated enough. So, I tried to act excessively excited in one take, in order to later tone it back a bit. I feel that this worked fairly well for me, because I was really forcing myself...