Final monologue 2
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 to get into character, then settling back into the character enough so that it was still somewhat natural. Another thing I learned from working on the second monologue (which was titled The Chatterbox) was about how to use my body and facial expressions to convey certain messages. For example, I timed my standing up and sitting down to be with the flow of my talking, so that when I stood up it helped deliver the ‘excited’ line a bit better. I also made sure to try to add in a few facial expressions associated with sass,in order to show that my character was very comfortable in her skin and simply didn’t want detention because it would interfere with her social activities for the day. Another message I tried to convey was that my character just generally does not like to stay still. I did this by constantly shifting my position in the chair (for example, leaning forwards, then later backwards, then forwards again) as well as sort of pacing around a little bit (moving away from the desk, then coming back to it to finish). One improvement that I made from one monologue to the next was with talking with my hands. I feel that with my first monologue, I made smaller movements with my hands, but mostly focused on voicing and facial expressions. Meanwhile, the second one really forced me to think about using my hands in order to convey a certain message — energy. For my second monologue, talking with my hands was a big part of my character’s personality, so I learned quite a bit about how to do exactly that. Overall, I learned quite a bit about monologues over the past couple of weeks.
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 to get into character, then settling back into the character enough so that it was still somewhat natural. Another thing I learned from working on the second monologue (which was titled The Chatterbox) was about how to use my body and facial expressions to convey certain messages. For example, I timed my standing up and sitting down to be with the flow of my talking, so that when I stood up it helped deliver the ‘excited’ line a bit better. I also made sure to try to add in a few facial expressions associated with sass,in order to show that my character was very comfortable in her skin and simply didn’t want detention because it would interfere with her social activities for the day. Another message I tried to convey was that my character just generally does not like to stay still. I did this by constantly shifting my position in the chair (for example, leaning forwards, then later backwards, then forwards again) as well as sort of pacing around a little bit (moving away from the desk, then coming back to it to finish). One improvement that I made from one monologue to the next was with talking with my hands. I feel that with my first monologue, I made smaller movements with my hands, but mostly focused on voicing and facial expressions. Meanwhile, the second one really forced me to think about using my hands in order to convey a certain message — energy. For my second monologue, talking with my hands was a big part of my character’s personality, so I learned quite a bit about how to do exactly that. Overall, I learned quite a bit about monologues over the past couple of weeks.
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