Julia's Acting Blog

This past semester in acting class, I learned a lot about different kinds of acting. I definitely feel that what I got out of this class falls in line with what I was hoping to learn and improve on. I’ve gained more confidence when it comes to acting and in general. At the beginning of the semester, I learned about how to better project my voice, which is a skill that’s useful in many situations, including public speaking. Next I got the chance to learn about memorization and expressions through the monologues. The first one, which was dramatic, was easier for me because it had not too much movement and was just more in my comfort zone. Meanwhile, the second monologue, which was a comedy piece, was much more difficult because I had to pretend to be basically the opposite of my usual personality. This was more challenging than I expected, but it taught me about overacting, which I felt helped a lot. After monologues, we began doing silent movie work. This was my favorite unit because i...

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...

Lisa - naive - easily irritated -  trusting - self centered - defensive - well done makeup - hair down - casually formal clothes - expensive engagement ring - slim figure - 22 yo - in college - when she was young she and her sister would go up into their treehouse and play princesses and pretend to fall in love - her first date with her first boyfriend, who lasted a year. He was really sweet and was rich, but not gloating about it - on her 16 birthday her Friends all threw her a huge party where she met Dan - the day her dad left, at the age of 12 - when she and her sister had argued so badly that they didn’t speak for almost 2 weeks. This affected their current relationship - breaking up with her second boyfriend. It was really dramatic and ended in a shouting match in the school parking lot - right before: dress shopping with her best friend. Not successful, so it put her in a bad mood - finished meal with mom in awkward silence, then went back home for a...