Brainstorming

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Christeena Alexandria Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

Acting Class

Brainstorming for final project

As the semester is coming to a close, I am excited about the final project. One idea I have is to sing a song I wrote. I’m not much of a songwriter but I want to do something original. It would probably take a lot of time and effort but I believe I can do it.  I would make something on garage band for the audio of the song. Another idea is to perform a song by an artist. If I don’t like or can’t come up with my own song I will sing someone else's. Since whatever I do I have to act out, I should do a song from a musical. I think Maybe from Annie would be a great idea. In the School of Rock: The Musical I know I will be singing a lot so this would be a good warm up round. My last idea for the final project is to act out a scene. I know this is something I perform by myself so it would be a monologue. I don’t have a clue has to what I would perform but I know I will have time to find something to do when I return from break. I want to act out a scene to show the progress I have had since the first day of class.

Reflecting on second scene

Christeena Alexandria Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

November 16th, 2016

Acting Class

Blog Reflecting on my Second scene

In Linda and I’s second scene we became a lot more serious than the first scene. The first one was more funny and carefree, while the second scene has a lot more emotional and feeling added to it. There are two girls, who use to be best friends, but one of them betrayed the other to hang with the popular group. That girl is trying to rekindle her friendship with her and it was difficult at first but there was progress made. Linda played the girl that betrayed my character for the popular crowd. I was more sad then angry at Linda’s character and felt the need to push her away a lot. Linda was trying hard to have a conversation with me to apologize and try to fix things. I learned that in most scenes there starts off with a problem that is usually revealed in the end of everything. I think I improved on showing more of a happy strong feeling instead of focusing on the bad. I seem to love tragedy but it's good to have a happy ending. I still need to work on the volume of my voice. I am way too quiet. I need to work on making sure I’m facing the audience during a scene. This scene was very different from my first scene because it had a more serious vibe and more depth to it.

Review of Fall Play

Christeena Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

Acting

Review of the Fall Play

On November 10, 2016 I went to see the Cheshire Academy production of James Joyce “The Dead”. The kids did a great good performing their characters. I enjoyed the play a lot. It was nice seeing John act out what we had been working on in class to his fullest potential. I was seated with Linda and Michael and we all had fun watching the unexpected twists in the story.

I liked the dancing and singing the most I think out of everything. In those scenes, you could tell the performs were having fun and showing off their talents. I liked how fast the intermission was, it felt like barely five minutes had passed before the second act. I wish there was food during the intermission. I couldn’t see every scene and not just because of where I was sitting. I liked the eye contact the actors gave when performing a serious monologue. It gave the scene more emotion and depth. I was shocked to find out that Aunt Julia died. She was a joyful presents on stage. That was heartbreaking to me, I was hugging Linda for a while after that. When John’s wife  was still in love with her dead ex-boyfriend I only felt bad for John for some odd reason. The whole acting class was very proud of John and was hooting and screaming when it was time for his curtain call.

Sometimes during the show it was hard to hear what people were saying so maybe the volume of voices could be louder. So blocking with furniture made it hard to see people's faces. It was shorter than I expected but still jammed packed with action and dialogue. For my first Fall Play at cheshire Academy I was impressed with what the Black Box theatre itself had to offer. I was worried about it being to small but it was the perfect size.

When to the play "The Dead"

Blog 6

Christeena Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

November 4, 2016

Reflection on Scene with Linda

While performing this scene with Linda, I learned to compromise when it came to what role was to be presented. I wanted the same role Linda wanted but since we have two scenes to perform she got to choose what character she wanted with one while I had the other. I learned that it is better to have good energy and more enthusiasm while a person performs. This keeps the audience interested in the performance being displayed. I feel like I did well on memorising my lines and acting out the frustration i Felt while Linda’s character was annoying mine. In the next scene, I need to work on staying in character and becoming more of my character. It was easier to snap out of character when there was something funny that was said so I need to focus on being more serious about my character. Linda and i need to be careful about not harming each other when we want to hit or trip each other. When we were practicing it sometimes became to physical for both of us to handle. We need to be less intense when it comes to physical action.