How difficult was it to be spontaneous in this exercise?
What obstacles did you encounter during the exercise?
How did you combat them? What did you learn about yourself?
How will you use the things you learned in your future acting roles?
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It was really difficult until mrs. sundberg made me chase Erin around then I just thought about chasing her and less how i sounded and it came out better. I didn't feel like I could just be in the moment, but I did and i feel good about it. I learned that I can set my mind to stop thinking for a moment and just be in the moment. For future roles this will help me if I just realize to think is not the same thing as to act. Hence the word acting.
Well uh... I feel like the activity of being 'in the moment' meant giving up to an emotion that the song brought on and so when I was memorizing the song I felt like it was really such a semi-sarcastic, semi-depressing song. However, the day I intended to do it I was so happy that I couldn't quite register anything but that happiness and so pulling myself seriously into the role was quite difficult. And it was even more difficult to perhaps put myself in that place. But I felt a lot more connected with the words than how my voice sounded and in comparison with the first time I did this in 9th grade, I think I can easily say I did a lot better this time. For some reason, you (you being Sunny) made me make 'contact' with each person... as if I wasn't really connecting... which I didn't quite understand. When I look back on it, I wish I had pulled one of them off the tables and dragged them to stand next to me, as if playing my little 8 year old game. The entire activity really helped me recognize the emotional dedication and truth I should be bringing it to all my roles. A good insight for the future.
Ray is the one writing this...Okay... i feel like these excersizes and activities we do in class like... actually have a purpose...
IT was not really that hard for me to go up there on stage and be spontaneous. Probably because i've done many things on stage where i've had to be spontaneous before this excersize. I did though face an obstacle during this excersize. I felt as if i was kid of holding back on my emotions and showing the class my emotions. If i had been a little bit more spontaneous about the song i would have done what you (Mrs. Sundburg) told me to do which is go up to Sarah and get on my knees and sing to her, and hold her hand, and so on and so forth. I held back and that seemed to be the problem which i was asked to fix. In this excersize i feel as if i learned to maybe act upon my feelings and just do whatever comes to mind that i think may enhance my performance. In future acting performances i will use the things i learned here and react as much as possible with the audiance (if needed)...
So yeah... i guess these excersizes do indeed teach us all something. :)
- RAY
Yeah so...I was so afraid and nervous for this exercise (hence the fact that I signed up for Friday). The first time was really me just being nervous, and I guess acting on that. But I was so engulfed in my fear that I didn't concentrate on connecting with anyone in the audience. So I was (i guess unlike everyone else) fine with going around in a circle and looking at each person while I sang, and I felt that it made a greater impact that way. When working on future roles, I realize that I need to BE the character I play...and not just scratch the surface. I guess with a real emotional connection, it really can make the performance better. To make a long story short, I learned that I need to be emotional and in the moment, without holding back.
hey. So this was not too hard for me i think. It was the first time i did it but when Mrs. sundberg told me to look at sarah it made it much more real becuase i was singing to an actual person instead of to the wall or to the ground. It was very cool that wen i looked at sarah and sang to her i didn;t se her as sarah. I saw her as the person i was singing about. However, i did encounter a problem with this. When thinking of how i wanted to approach this performance i had intended to sing it as if i was singing to someone very close to me had died. But when i was actually up there it kind of morphed into what it is in the show which is more of a love song. So it wasnt what i wanted it to be but i guess it was a good thing (?) since we were instructed to be spontaneous. this was probably one of the most in the moment times i have been on stage. I don't know why i get so nervous. i adore singing and obviously i wouldnt be in an acting class if i didnt love it. So this activity just shows me to stop holding back, break down all my boundaries, and just BE up there on the stage. I loved this activity and after it was over i actually wanted to do it again haha.
This exercise was very difficult for me. One reason being, I cannot be spontaneous when under pressure. Sometimes, when I'm on that stage I can't even think because I'm so nervous. during the song exercise I was so nervous that my fingers were twitching. During the exercise, at first, I acted. Now I had never done this exercise before so I wasn't aware that we weren't supposed to be acting. Then Mrs. Sundberg tried to get my into the character by making me angry at her, but all that did was make me laugh at how funny the situation was and about how nervous I was. All I could do was laugh at that point. The teacher had kept me up there for such a long time and I was overwhelmed with a lot of other things as well. I began to tear, and as soon as I started tearing Sunny was like "Go with it! Your hiding back your emotion, just go with it!" So i did all that I could do; I cried.
This experience helped me a great deal. I am more confident on stage now and I feel that i can conquer any role i may come upon throughout my acting career. Even if that role may require a bit of waterworks. =)
Well let's just put it this way I AM TONE DEAF. yeah so this was slightly difficult for me to say the least. My problem is my lack of confidence and my nerves. I went up there and was completely petrified. I didn't want anyone to hear me and I was so nervous I almost cried. I went up there and once I started singing my nerves didn't go away but I channeled them into my voice. I was still a horrible singer but I felt really connected to the song and I was really in the moment. I did get a little teary-eyed during a few parts of my song. What I didn't expect was how I felt after. I felt so good and I felt like a wait was lifted off my shoulders. It was like therapy. Even though my voice is disgusting... I would most definetly do it all over again. :]
It wasn't very difficult to practice the song. I rehearsed with my singing teacher and she helped me to be confident when I be myself instead of another character while I'm singing.
It was really difficult to do this exercise, mainly because I feel I am the worlds worst singer...which I am, but thats besides the point. Obstacle wise, I had quite a few. One of which was the fact that song I chose means a lot to me, and tends to make me cry. However I didn't want to cry on stage because I hate showing that much vulnerability to everyone. Then about a minute before I went up on stage I had this weird calm fall over me...but it didn't manage to last me through the song, at one point I forgot my words...and then I started to lose focus and realize I was singing in front of everyone, which was a bit scary. In the end I realized that I can overcome a lot and that when the time comes I can suck it up and sing. :)
Oh and this is Vicky Betz
oh and forgot .. I think this exercise really helped me gain confidence and helped me to not be afraid to try new things. LOVEDDDDDD THIS EXERCISEEEEEE
So if you all remember...I cried...hysterically. Uhh I don't really know how to explain it. Lots of emotion in that song for me, I guess? I have no idea how to explain it, soo i'm going to leave it at that.
I really didnt find it that hard to get up in front of everyone. However i had some problems. First of all it took me forever to memorize the song, even though it was a rather short song. Then i finally had all the words and got all ready to sing, but when i got to class there was someone using the little thearter so we had to go to a diffrent classroom and just act. Then the next day when we were all going to sing, but i was in disney. When i finally got to sing i was nervious but it wasnt really that bad because it was all my friends, and when Mrs.Sundberg told me to act like an angry ex girlfriend it wasnt that difficult because it went so well with the song.
This exercise wasn't too hard. Although I found it to be very nerve wrecking. Not so much the project itself, but mostly preparing for it. I felt very anxious and nervous whenever I was looking over my lyrics trying to memorize them. But once I got on stage it was just a matter of making the lyrics flow and BELTING it all out. Sure, I blanked out a little bit and forgot some of them but it wasn't that hard to simply improvise with something close. At the moment I don't think I did too bad on the assignment, but after I got off stage I felt like I did really bad. Mostly because everyone got so into it to the point of shedding tears, everyone just got very EMOTIONAL. I feel like I just didn't get into it as much as everybody else did. Oh well though, everyone told me afterwards that I did a good job and everyone was probably right. And now I realize how good I actually did on it. LOOK HOW MUCH I'VE GROWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
okay so originally I wasn't really nervous for this assignment. I felt pretty confident that the words woud take over and that I would be able to express how I was feeling through them. The biggest problem I had was not "performing" the song...My whole life I've been trained on the basis of musical theater, and I found it difficult to not worry about the notes or how I sounded and really open up and show my true emotions through the words. It was kind of hard for me to make things not as "big" and not perform the song and the emotions to the audience but contain everything and make it more "one on one" with the audience. Then Mrs. Sundberg had everyone get in a circle and had me sing to everyone directly in the eyes. This helped me SOOOO much because I was able to connect with people's eyes instead of "performing" to the back of the house. I was able to make the song more intimate. This was my favorite part of the exercise becuase I learned that I really need something to connect to onstage wether it be a person, a prop, or even just something in my head when I'm onstage by myself that I can connect to and that will lead to emotions that I want to express in a scene or song. This exercise was really helpful and I learned a lot that I can use in future acting roles like that I need to not always make everything so big and that making things intimate will have the same effect, if not a better one. This was a really cool and interesting exercise overall and I would definitely do it again now that I know what can come out of it and so I can learn even more about acting skills and myself.
it was really difficult to start,probably because i hate singing in front of people to begin with. but once i actually got started...it wasnt SO bad. like i think it was easier to sing to one person because i can focus on that one person and pretend like there the only one in the room.
CHRISTIE HACKETT = This exersize was extremely difficult for me to do. I guess this is because I felt like such an outsider. I don't sing infront of people who aren't my close friends. Ever. Most of the time, I dont sing at all. During this assignment, I was very nervous inside, my entire body was shaking, and I felt really helpless. It was very hard for me, mostly i think because i knew there was absolutly Nothing I could do to halt my discomfort. I knew I had to do the song, I couldn't open my eyees briefly, or take a half step, like i could for the trust exercise, oh no. I had to sing. To help me combat these issues, i looked down, and fiddled with my hands a lot, but i knew this wasn't good, so i settled for looking out into the audience, but i threw up my mental wall. When I get really upset, I tend to wall myself up, so I cant really feel as much. I think I learned about myself, that I really need to stop being so afraid to be real. I think I keep being afraid that if i'm real with people I haven't known for 6 years, I'll get hurt. In the future, I haf to be more open, I think slowly, as i meet and interact with more kind, non-judgemental people, I will grow and gradually show more of myself to people. I think if i can teach myself to just be real, I wont worry so much, and my acting may improve! ^^ !
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