Caroline's Acting Blog

During this course, I really learned a lot. From monologues to mask work, I really got to explore myself as an actress. At the beginning of the year, we started doing monologues. My first monologue was a comedy and it was a very unrealistic scene. At first, I didn't think that it was going to be that hard. But I never initially considered all that I have to think about when performing a scene. I definitely thi that the monologues were the hardest for me. This could be because I wasn't really sure of myself and wasn't quite sure what to do since I'd never done monologues before. Also, I think that monologues can be challenging because there no one that you can feed off of. Meaning you have to deliver all the emotions on your own without the energy from other actors. But after doing this first monologue, I figured out that I had to consider my hand gestures, tone of voice, and specific blocking to let the audience understand the emotions of the scene.  When I sta...

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Our final scene that we chose to do is a comedic drama. In this scene, Julia plays Lisa, Jenna plays Sara, and I play Beth.The plot of the scene is that two sisters, Beth and Lisa, and their mother, Sara, meet at a café to discuss Lisa’s wedding. Lisa and Sara, have a really close mother-daughter relationship; she’s the favorite. But Beth has the opposite relationship with her mother. Beth is always overlooked and thinks that both her mother and sister are naïve and not reality based at all. So, this “lunch date” is pretty awkward and gets a little intense.  After becoming familiar with the relationships between the characters, we made lists and descriptions of who we thought our characters were as people. We listed adjectives to describe them, their appearance, age, positive and negative memories to show what the character likes to/doesn’t like to do, and what they did before the scene and also after the scene to develop emotions. What really helped me was thinking about what...

Beth-Personality sarcastic mischievous optimistic realistic caring Beth-Physical Casual clothes Not fancy hair, hair down Wears classic, normal makeup No jewelry Skinny, and average height Age-25ish Job-we don't know, but seems to be a good lawyer 3 positive memories- College was a good experience Meeting friends-now Has a couple really good friends Maybe went on a few trips/vacations with girl friends 3 negative memories- Childhood with sister, maybe a bigger age difference Parents probably preferred Lisa over Beth Family isn't as supportive of her as they are of Lisa Before the scene- Beth is dreading having to meet with her mom and sister, but knows that it's necessary to talk about the wedding. She expects it to be about Dan and how he's cheating, thinking the mother knows. She tries to put on a happy face to avoid conflict. After the scene-Beth is furious that her mother and sister are being completely ridiculous and naïve about Dan ch...