Acting Blog 2

Acting Blog #2 By Christeena Aaron

The first two weeks of class have been great. Already, you have taught me things that I won’t think about, that are helpful to create a character. The exercises we do in class are fun, and most of the time funny. In some scenes, you could tell it was hard for all of us to keep a straight face and you would end the scene. In others you would let us go on for long time truly interested in what we would do next.

It was hard for me to sometimes stay in character. I would get distracted by the other students in the class that were doing different things. And in scenes where I had one job to do I would get distracted by someone or something else that would influence what I do. I want to work on being focused and not getting out of character. It was easy to talk about scenes and describe what I felt was happening in them.

I liked watching scenes more than being in them for some odd reason. It was cool to see what others would decide to do in a scene, compared to what you would do. An improv scene could go a million different ways, it helps to understand a person by what moves they make. I liked the class where we got a card and had to do what was on the card, but then it would escalate each scene we played.  I would like to do more of watching the scenes and more of the escalated card scenes. The one where we wrote done all of the words on the board then circled was fun to do as well. Having a connection to a character was nice. Its easier to know how they feel and would act.

I would like to work on staying focused on the task at hand. I like having discussions with the class as well. I need to work on getting my blogger in on time and writing it the way its suppose to be written. I want to stay in your room instead of going to black box, your room is much more fun in my opinion. I’m not someone who likes writing scripts but I love watching them and seeing someone else's ideas come to life.