Julia's Acting Blog

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The other night, on the 9th of November, 2017, I viewed the play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, written by Bertolt Brecht. It was also translated into English by this man. The play begins with two farming villages, the goat village and the fruit village, debating over who is best fit to have control of the valley. The fruit village has hired a famous Singer and a play to prove their point. The first of five closes with the introduction of the Singer. The rest of the scenes are showing the story that the Singer tells, called The Chalk Circle. This story is about a wealthy family with a baby boy named Michael. When the Governor (baby’s father) is killed, the town is thrown into chaos and the baby is left behind in the wife, Natela’s, haste to flee. She chose to save her dresses over her child. When a kind laundress named Grusha discovers the baby abandoned, she stays with it against her better judgement. Then, she takes it in herself when no one claims it. Over the course of the story, Gru...

https://youtu.be/gPGEeiZlR1c The mask video that I watched was called Familie Floz. It seems to be about four old men sitting on a park bench. They were creating rhythms with their canes. I liked it because it looked really funny to see the elderly men stomping their feet and banging their canes on the ground. Especially as they were looking around at each other, as if they were talking. It was interesting how the actors showed how the character was feeling through body movement. Such as when the men first started, the way the body moved made them appear confused and as they got more into it they also became less unsure.

Over the course of the past couple of weeks, we worked on creating a silent movie. At first, our progress was a bit slow, but once we found a good idea to work with, we made some solid progress. We did well with choosing roles for each person that would match with their personality. Another thing we did well with was timing our actions to the music. I feel that the music that was playing seemed to match the mood of what was going on with the mood of the notes very well. I also feel that we did well with coming up with a good story line. Our plot was funny and it wasn’t confusing. One thing that we could have done better would’ve been actually following the schedule we set for ourselves. We had a tendency to get a bit distracted in class, so it took longer to create the movie than it should have. We also struggled a lot with the editing process. Since we did not know how to use iMovie, we had to figure the steps out as we went. Another thing I feel that I struggled with was making a smo...

• carnival • 3 months in the year (a little of over 2 months of it is carnival) • Daily life • Represented freedom and adventure • 2 main types • Bauta (full face, gilded, no mouth) • Columbine (half mask, decorated with gold silver, feathers, held to face with a baton or by tying a ribbon) • Plague doctor mask • Moretta • Brightly colored • Complex decorations