Monday 2nd November
Today I finally finalised my costume, and what did I do? Forget my shoes… nice one! Never mind, I just about did without them ;)
Once again we knuckled down to rehearsing our monologues today, I am finally coming to terms with my lines, which are slowly becoming more natural.
After rehearsing individually inside our “little bubbles”, we performed a group rehearsal activity which proved to be a break through moment in my rehearsal process.
The activity involved performing the our monologues in three different ways:
- Singing was the first, and the idea behind it was that emotion is often unlocked through singing. I found this the least useful, mainly because my rubbish singing ability put me off, causing me to loose my place in the monologue.
- Overacting, this proved very useful as I came to realise how the tone of my voice was very similar, and noticed that there was no change in vocal expression throughout. I was unable to overact much more than I had already been performing.
- Speechless, this was a very difficult activity, I got completely lost. This was virtually impossible, I found that I had no planned movements to support my monologue what so ever. This meant that if I was to make a mistake with lines, I would be likely to come out of character and therefore loose the believability of my monologue.
The lecture today was rather hard hitting, but left me with a few rather large points to work on next lesson. A rather daunting prospect considering we are due to perform a finalised piece on Monday :(
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