What difficulties did you encounter during the rehearsal process/performance? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the scene? How did you attempt to overcome the obstacles? Describe what you could've done to strengthen/enhance the scene.
This exercise I felt was a bit tedious at times, but otherwise fun none the less. The rehearsal process went pretty smooth for the most part, it seemed like everyday I was doing better and better with memorizing the dialogue and only had minor trouble with the blocking. The performance on the other hand I believe could have gone much better. We were originally scheduled to do it Friday, but unfortunately we got snowed out of school and had to perform on Monday. At that point it had already been just about a week since I last went over the lines with my partner, but I still felt good about it. Although once I got up on stage and we got through the easy stuff I felt like I had forgot a bunch of my longer lines. I ended up improving parts of it, I was just more concerned about staying in character. A major strength about the scene itself was the fact that me and my partner seemed to have an equal amount of lines. Although I don't think the scene really had a weakness, it had a fair amount of dialogue, and gave a specific amount of information on the blocking and characters and such. The only thing I could think of that would have made the scene better is if we got some time to practice the few days before hand, or if we actually did get to go on Friday. Overall this assignment was pretty fun, and it was pretty nice getting to work with a partner. This assignment helped me learn a lot about communication on stage, and how important is to make sure you're always focusing on what your partner is doing and responding back to that.
At first, we had difficulty figuring out what personalities to use. Having seen the scene done by Vicky and Michael (i loved it!!), I didn't want to play the copycat and have ours seem the same in any way besides the dialogue. Then finally, as we established our characters, I think we had a little trouble with lines at frst, but then we got mucch better. For me personally, it was tough to remember which line I came after, becasue instead of back-and -forth dialogue, there were 3 people to talk to. So, I was a little bit confused. I re-read the script those times to make sure I wasn't skipping Midge at all. But then, during the performance, it was probaby me that messed up,and created all of that confusion on stage. Sorry partnesr! The blocking, on the other hand, wasn't that hard, because we were sitting at the table the whole time. If we had done the scene in the correct order, it would have obviously been better. I think that if our facial expressions were also more defined, then we would have had a better overall performance. Our scene's strength was that it was written well, and we were over-the-top with it (in my opinion). Our weakness was our inability to say the right lines at the right time. Pretty much, though, I thought our performance was pretty good. In my eyes, it was comical and entertaining when we did it on the actual day. So, I could ask for more, but I'm satisfied with what we put forth, because as most people said, you couldn't tell that we were all mixed up line-wise. I really liked this activity though, and it was nice to have people to work with. This helped me work on my feet and be ready to act in regards to other people, not just spouting out lines.
I had a lot of fun with this scene. Some of the difficulties we encountered were how we should play it. Me and erins characters couldve been played so many different ways and it was hard to pick how we wanted to do it and make it our own and have it be the best that it could be while still being true to the peice. that was especially difficult for me becuase for a very long time i didnt know how i wanted to portray my character. When we performed the scene some of the obstacles we encountered were there that werent during the dress rehearsal. things like forgetting lines and having to go back and all those sorts of things, however i think we handled it very well and if people didnt know the scene they didnt know that we messed up. To strenthen my performance in the scene i think i couldve done some more intense character study. I knew my character fairly well but looking back i think there was something lacking and i think it mightve been i didnt know him well enough. Overall this was fun and i think we did a good job!
For one thing, I have a photographic memory so after reading through the script a few times, I was able to picture the lines on the page in my head and pretty much knew what I was supposed to say, what Jen was supposed to say and had a general view of where were we in the script and on the page. Not only did I see the page in my head as I recited the lines, but I was able to follow the story line so, even if someone forgot their lines, which did happen during our performance, I was able to sort of hint a few key words to my partner to lead her in the right direction. During the dress rehursal I felt that Jen and I perforemd well together and that we had a unique chemsitry on stage. The rehursal felt real to me and, for the most part, we stayed in character even when there was a mistake. I think that my strength was my ability to stay in character even when Jen and I were basically making up lines and jumping all around the script. The audience claimed that they could hardly tell that we had messed up which, in my opinion, means we did a pretty good job staying in character and finding our way to the end of the skit without physically stopping and breaking character. My weakness was deffinately that I was having trouble keeping a straight face while Jen and I were screwing up so much. Also, when the audience laughed, I had to really stay focused on my character to keep myself from laughing along with them. I feel that if Jen and I had gone over our lines a few more times before the performance, we wouldnt have had so much trouble staying on track on the stage. Our main problem in the scene was the forgetting of the lines and, had they been solid, our scene would have been great!
Uhhhhhhh well I enjoyed working on this scene...even though i hated the scene itself. The first time I read it over, I was very excited to work with Ray...but once i found out that my character was a sleezey drunk, i was a little less into it. However, it proved to be fun to work with and Ray and i have pretty interesting chemistry onstage, especially since we were playing a married couple. Oh well...I enjoyed it. :)
i enjoyed this exercise very much. It was a lot of fun to work with Danielle because we've never really done anything together. I think it was difficult at first because we were trying to block everything specifically but when we started to just go with the moment it was a lot better. I had a little trouble memorizing my lines at first because I've never really had to know lines before. Once we both new our lines it was so much fun to use our props and just be our characters, it was a really funny scene and i was able to connect with my character and portray her well..i think!
This was another fun assignment. well first off I loved having Vicki as a partner for this scene becuase she is so awesome and so much fun! I think the hardest part about doing this scene was blocking it and making everything smooth and work. Also, because it was a partner assignment, when either Vicki or I were not in school, it was hard to work on the scene by ourselves. I think the strengths were out chemistry and the characters we created in this scene. Again, I think our weakness lied in the blocking and some of the connections between the two of us. I think that if we had more time to sit with the material and really work it in different ways, we would have found a way that suit us and our space and wouldve worked awesomely but we didnt really have that time. Overall I really liked the scene that we picked and found my character fun and exciting. I think, again, if we had more time to play with the scene in all different ways and work on our connections and certain line readings, that we would have greatly enhanced our scene. Other than that, I was really satisfied with the way our scene turned out and really enjoyed getting to work with Vicki!
Oh my god. Never was there an assignment that was such a disaster in my entire life. I feel almost the polar opposite of Kels on this one. I didn't feel in character at all, I felt completely fake and lying and just... not comfortable with the scene at all. During practice, I had been a lot more comfortable with my character, but I had one of those 'self-fulfilling prophesies' that screwed up the whole thing. (I would put it in more vulgar words, but you're grading this, so I can't.) How did I overcome the obstacle of forgetting my lines? I didn't. If Kelsey wasn't an absolute genius, we'd have both been up the creek without a paddle. She literally saved our sorry butts from totally killing the scene. It was semi-impressive that we were able to keep on track... but not enough to make up for my huge blunder. If I could do it over, I'd have wished I knew my lines better.
this year you gave me and jess baby in the bathwater which i understood more than last year and liked it and it was much easier to memorize. I liked doing the rehearsal better though because we did it right after we already practiced it and then when we did it for the real performance it didn't work out because we didn't have time to practice watching other performances so it didn't work out so well.I also showed i forgot the words and jess did great though it might just be nervs for a real performance.
Okay so this was one of the more fun then many of the one's I've done before in acting. I really loved working with Jake! I feel like we played off of each other really well, but like he said in his comment it was really hard when one of us wasn't there, although I think we had the chance to learn our lines really well. I also think that personally I had a lot of trouble grasping the idea of exactly what my character wanted at first, but after a bit I got it and I think I really understood what she was feeling, the frustration at not only her "husband" but at herself for realizing how crappy (excuse the language) her life itself was.
ok, so this scene was a bit crazy. I was supposed to be a journalist who had emotional problems becuase of his wife . Sarah, was basically supposed to be a drunken whore. i didn't find it that hard to fit my part. I was confused though because i thought i was supposed to be really emotionally unstable and like cry when ever my wife (Sarah) speaks to me. But i was more than that. I had to stand up for myself and get pissed off and show it and fight back. Sarah also had trouble getting into this part, becasue she was a drunken whore, and ... well... it was hard for her to get into that character. She did overcome it thought and acted her part out very well. She was sarcastic and got under my skin every moment she could have...
During rehersals i laughed when Sarah stood up and got all pissed as if she was going to punch me in the face... She Got SOOOOO pissed off. and was mad at me because i laughed and i was acting unprofessional.. w/e. We overcame it.
During out performance we were actually fighting in realy life... i know sounds unbelieveable, but we were. This REALLY EXCELLED our performance because we were in character the whole time. So yeah... that's really it. I thought in the end our performance was great.
~Christie Hackett~ During the rehersal prosess i don't think we had too many difficulties. Me and Eric got along just fine and i was glad to have got to know him and all. However, during the performance we had much trouble with line recall, and basic fluidity of the scene. I think this is due largely to the fact that we had been out of school and me and Eric had not been able to practice with each other for 5 days. We lost our flowon the stage, and i think we had done a better performance in dress rehersal and when we were practicing alone. I think the strengths of our scene was that me and eric were pretty comfortable with being partners so that was good, but our weakness was that we were out of practice, so our line recall and fluidity was pretty off. Oh. And i jaw-dropped on a line jump of eric's, which is so bad to do, i really need to learn these things. Well, altogether i thought it was definately a fun, healthy learning experience, and i'm glad we did this. ^^
the scene was intense and i couldn't figure it out. but it was very well played and i enjoyed studying the drama and acting techniques that were used in it.
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This exercise I felt was a bit tedious at times, but otherwise fun none the less. The rehearsal process went pretty smooth for the most part, it seemed like everyday I was doing better and better with memorizing the dialogue and only had minor trouble with the blocking. The performance on the other hand I believe could have gone much better. We were originally scheduled to do it Friday, but unfortunately we got snowed out of school and had to perform on Monday. At that point it had already been just about a week since I last went over the lines with my partner, but I still felt good about it. Although once I got up on stage and we got through the easy stuff I felt like I had forgot a bunch of my longer lines. I ended up improving parts of it, I was just more concerned about staying in character. A major strength about the scene itself was the fact that me and my partner seemed to have an equal amount of lines. Although I don't think the scene really had a weakness, it had a fair amount of dialogue, and gave a specific amount of information on the blocking and characters and such. The only thing I could think of that would have made the scene better is if we got some time to practice the few days before hand, or if we actually did get to go on Friday. Overall this assignment was pretty fun, and it was pretty nice getting to work with a partner. This assignment helped me learn a lot about communication on stage, and how important is to make sure you're always focusing on what your partner is doing and responding back to that.
At first, we had difficulty figuring out what personalities to use. Having seen the scene done by Vicky and Michael (i loved it!!), I didn't want to play the copycat and have ours seem the same in any way besides the dialogue. Then finally, as we established our characters, I think we had a little trouble with lines at frst, but then we got mucch better. For me personally, it was tough to remember which line I came after, becasue instead of back-and -forth dialogue, there were 3 people to talk to. So, I was a little bit confused. I re-read the script those times to make sure I wasn't skipping Midge at all. But then, during the performance, it was probaby me that messed up,and created all of that confusion on stage. Sorry partnesr! The blocking, on the other hand, wasn't that hard, because we were sitting at the table the whole time. If we had done the scene in the correct order, it would have obviously been better. I think that if our facial expressions were also more defined, then we would have had a better overall performance. Our scene's strength was that it was written well, and we were over-the-top with it (in my opinion). Our weakness was our inability to say the right lines at the right time. Pretty much, though, I thought our performance was pretty good. In my eyes, it was comical and entertaining when we did it on the actual day. So, I could ask for more, but I'm satisfied with what we put forth, because as most people said, you couldn't tell that we were all mixed up line-wise. I really liked this activity though, and it was nice to have people to work with. This helped me work on my feet and be ready to act in regards to other people, not just spouting out lines.
I had a lot of fun with this scene. Some of the difficulties we encountered were how we should play it. Me and erins characters couldve been played so many different ways and it was hard to pick how we wanted to do it and make it our own and have it be the best that it could be while still being true to the peice. that was especially difficult for me becuase for a very long time i didnt know how i wanted to portray my character. When we performed the scene some of the obstacles we encountered were there that werent during the dress rehearsal. things like forgetting lines and having to go back and all those sorts of things, however i think we handled it very well and if people didnt know the scene they didnt know that we messed up. To strenthen my performance in the scene i think i couldve done some more intense character study. I knew my character fairly well but looking back i think there was something lacking and i think it mightve been i didnt know him well enough. Overall this was fun and i think we did a good job!
For one thing, I have a photographic memory so after reading through the script a few times, I was able to picture the lines on the page in my head and pretty much knew what I was supposed to say, what Jen was supposed to say and had a general view of where were we in the script and on the page. Not only did I see the page in my head as I recited the lines, but I was able to follow the story line so, even if someone forgot their lines, which did happen during our performance, I was able to sort of hint a few key words to my partner to lead her in the right direction. During the dress rehursal I felt that Jen and I perforemd well together and that we had a unique chemsitry on stage. The rehursal felt real to me and, for the most part, we stayed in character even when there was a mistake. I think that my strength was my ability to stay in character even when Jen and I were basically making up lines and jumping all around the script. The audience claimed that they could hardly tell that we had messed up which, in my opinion, means we did a pretty good job staying in character and finding our way to the end of the skit without physically stopping and breaking character. My weakness was deffinately that I was having trouble keeping a straight face while Jen and I were screwing up so much. Also, when the audience laughed, I had to really stay focused on my character to keep myself from laughing along with them. I feel that if Jen and I had gone over our lines a few more times before the performance, we wouldnt have had so much trouble staying on track on the stage. Our main problem in the scene was the forgetting of the lines and, had they been solid, our scene would have been great!
Uhhhhhhh well I enjoyed working on this scene...even though i hated the scene itself. The first time I read it over, I was very excited to work with Ray...but once i found out that my character was a sleezey drunk, i was a little less into it. However, it proved to be fun to work with and Ray and i have pretty interesting chemistry onstage, especially since we were playing a married couple. Oh well...I enjoyed it. :)
i enjoyed this exercise very much. It was a lot of fun to work with Danielle because we've never really done anything together. I think it was difficult at first because we were trying to block everything specifically but when we started to just go with the moment it was a lot better. I had a little trouble memorizing my lines at first because I've never really had to know lines before. Once we both new our lines it was so much fun to use our props and just be our characters, it was a really funny scene and i was able to connect with my character and portray her well..i think!
This was another fun assignment. well first off I loved having Vicki as a partner for this scene becuase she is so awesome and so much fun! I think the hardest part about doing this scene was blocking it and making everything smooth and work. Also, because it was a partner assignment, when either Vicki or I were not in school, it was hard to work on the scene by ourselves. I think the strengths were out chemistry and the characters we created in this scene. Again, I think our weakness lied in the blocking and some of the connections between the two of us. I think that if we had more time to sit with the material and really work it in different ways, we would have found a way that suit us and our space and wouldve worked awesomely but we didnt really have that time. Overall I really liked the scene that we picked and found my character fun and exciting. I think, again, if we had more time to play with the scene in all different ways and work on our connections and certain line readings, that we would have greatly enhanced our scene. Other than that, I was really satisfied with the way our scene turned out and really enjoyed getting to work with Vicki!
Oh my god. Never was there an assignment that was such a disaster in my entire life. I feel almost the polar opposite of Kels on this one. I didn't feel in character at all, I felt completely fake and lying and just... not comfortable with the scene at all. During practice, I had been a lot more comfortable with my character, but I had one of those 'self-fulfilling prophesies' that screwed up the whole thing. (I would put it in more vulgar words, but you're grading this, so I can't.) How did I overcome the obstacle of forgetting my lines? I didn't. If Kelsey wasn't an absolute genius, we'd have both been up the creek without a paddle. She literally saved our sorry butts from totally killing the scene. It was semi-impressive that we were able to keep on track... but not enough to make up for my huge blunder. If I could do it over, I'd have wished I knew my lines better.
this year you gave me and jess baby in the bathwater which i understood more than last year and liked it and it was much easier to memorize. I liked doing the rehearsal better though because we did it right after we already practiced it and then when we did it for the real performance it didn't work out because we didn't have time to practice watching other performances so it didn't work out so well.I also showed i forgot the words and jess did great though it might just be nervs for a real performance.
Okay so this was one of the more fun then many of the one's I've done before in acting. I really loved working with Jake! I feel like we played off of each other really well, but like he said in his comment it was really hard when one of us wasn't there, although I think we had the chance to learn our lines really well. I also think that personally I had a lot of trouble grasping the idea of exactly what my character wanted at first, but after a bit I got it and I think I really understood what she was feeling, the frustration at not only her "husband" but at herself for realizing how crappy (excuse the language) her life itself was.
- Victoria Betz.
ok, so this scene was a bit crazy. I was supposed to be a journalist who had emotional problems becuase of his wife . Sarah, was basically supposed to be a drunken whore. i didn't find it that hard to fit my part. I was confused though because i thought i was supposed to be really emotionally unstable and like cry when ever my wife (Sarah) speaks to me. But i was more than that. I had to stand up for myself and get pissed off and show it and fight back.
Sarah also had trouble getting into this part, becasue she was a drunken whore, and ... well... it was hard for her to get into that character. She did overcome it thought and acted her part out very well. She was sarcastic and got under my skin every moment she could have...
During rehersals i laughed when Sarah stood up and got all pissed as if she was going to punch me in the face... She Got SOOOOO pissed off. and was mad at me because i laughed and i was acting unprofessional.. w/e. We overcame it.
During out performance we were actually fighting in realy life... i know sounds unbelieveable, but we were. This REALLY EXCELLED our performance because we were in character the whole time. So yeah... that's really it. I thought in the end our performance was great.
~Christie Hackett~
During the rehersal prosess i don't think we had too many difficulties. Me and Eric got along just fine and i was glad to have got to know him and all. However, during the performance we had much trouble with line recall, and basic fluidity of the scene. I think this is due largely to the fact that we had been out of school and me and Eric had not been able to practice with each other for 5 days. We lost our flowon the stage, and i think we had done a better performance in dress rehersal and when we were practicing alone.
I think the strengths of our scene was that me and eric were pretty comfortable with being partners so that was good, but our weakness was that we were out of practice, so our line recall and fluidity was pretty off.
Oh. And i jaw-dropped on a line jump of eric's, which is so bad to do, i really need to learn these things.
Well, altogether i thought it was definately a fun, healthy learning experience, and i'm glad we did this. ^^
the scene was intense and i couldn't figure it out. but it was very well played and i enjoyed studying the drama and acting techniques that were used in it.
-Ian Murphy your favorite student!
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