Reflect on your final project/exam for this class. Explain your process and the final product produced. How have you evolved as an actor, director, writer, etc. through this class? Be specific.
In this project we have been given a lot of freedom and with that freedom gave us less boundaries to stay in which for me made it seem like a hard assignment. Our process of a script wasn't the best because well we aren't that great at scripts. Overall I like our end product of the short film we made even though it was kinda rushed and cheesy because where not professionals. Overall how I evolved as a actor this year is that I have found a specific way of memorizing lines that works for me. With reading it over and over to myself. In writing I didn't get better at all in all aspects of that I'm horrible. Directing I found that people don't listen, but getting threw them enough to make them see the importance of a project gives great results. I'm going to miss this class no matter what and improve till death is all I got to say. Love you Mrs. Sundberg never change.
Okay well I still haven't performed my final exam for everyone yet but the process to figure out what I was doing was definitely a crazy one!! First, I felt inspired so I said I wanted to do costumes for a show and draw sketches and have posters with fabrics and have people model and all this great stuff. Well, I don't really know why I said that becuase I can't really draw. So I tried to work around it but couldn't find anything that I wanted to do and Mrs. Sundberg and I couldn't agree on anything so I decided not to do costumes. Then I said, maybe I'll do another project where I find a picture and write my own monologue and perform it for the class. So i was really excited about it and went online to find a picture. I found a picture of a little kid and decided I was going to write a monologue from the point of view of a father whose son or daughter just died becuase they had a disease. Then I remebered that I had this monologue Mrs. Sundberg gave me from The Laramie Project that I really like becuase its really intense and really sad and emotional. I am really looking foward to performing this tomorrow because I finally decided on a final exam and hopefully I will do a good job. I really feel like this class has helped me evolve as an actor so much. I have learned about acting in a way I never have before and have seen that its okay just to let go and have a good time when you're doing improv or that its okay to let emotions out onstage. I have learned a lot about myself as an actor as well and what my strengths and weaknesses are. I know what I need to work on to become the best actor I can possibly be and that has come from Mrs. Sundberg and this acting class. I really feel like I am walking away from this class with so much knowledge and so many good things that I am going to take with me and use to improve. I believe that there is always more to learn and this class has taught me so much!
CHRISTIE HACKETT - Well if we had been able to perform our final project I am sure it would have been great, however just from the video I was proud. I know that we spend a lot of time filming that and recruting friends and traviling to all these places. (nissequoge river, anyone?) I think our video was pretty funny and while it was hard work to make we also had a lot of fun. The most difficult thing for me was keeping a straight face.
Uhh. So I'm not gonna say that you were right about working in a big group of people, but I'm not gonna say you were wrong. I think our issue was time. If we had had more time then we would have been able to finish our fillming and stuff. But we're teens, you know? So we all have work, dance, shows, soccer, clubs, and other stuff. So our schedules overlap and collide and stuff. But, although we had a hard time making our plans come to fruition, we do have an AMAZINGLY AWESOME SCRIPT!!!! The whole plan was Vicky was going to write it, and everyone else was going to act in it, and Vicky would edit it. It seemed like she was doing a lot so I decided to help her write it, and just have someone else play my part. And so began the long journey to figure out a story line, and writre out all of the parts and such. I mostly did the plot creating and flow, while Vicky made it sound nice and use the technical terms I didn't know. Together we created something lovely. But there weren't enough hours in the day, so the filming didn't get done. "Tomorrow," we eould say, "we'll get it done. Tomorrow." And tomorrow came and went,. with no filming becasue of one thing or another. So we decided that we'd split up; Vicky and I would hand in the script and everyone else eould do an infomercial. That's why we're where we are today. Hooray! And to think, I was just going to write my own monologue and perform it. In this class, I think that I have improved in my serious acting. Last year, I did more comedic routines, but this year I tried to stary away from the path that I was on and try something new. I have a hard time working with other people in things that we'll get graded on, so I tried to improv on that. (you can be the judge as to whether I succeeded or not)I feel like I have learned more about myself and I thank you for that, Mrs. Sundberg. This class was a great experience!
although our project was thrown together at the last minute aftter watching it i think it was actually pretty good. first we planned to do somehting completely different but it didnt work out so we went throgh the prop room and found febreeze and well the rest is history. through this class beleive it or not i have actually grow soo much although i dont htink i portrayed it in the class. i hope people in the class dont think how i act ther is how i act always beciase i think i kind of sucked in the class. but like i said its helped me so muhc. its helped me to even more become the person im playing and actaly live in that moment. now when i act im not [retending im being. so thank you ms sundberggyy !!!
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In this project we have been given a lot of freedom and with that freedom gave us less boundaries to stay in which for me made it seem like a hard assignment. Our process of a script wasn't the best because well we aren't that great at scripts. Overall I like our end product of the short film we made even though it was kinda rushed and cheesy because where not professionals. Overall how I evolved as a actor this year is that I have found a specific way of memorizing lines that works for me. With reading it over and over to myself. In writing I didn't get better at all in all aspects of that I'm horrible. Directing I found that people don't listen, but getting threw them enough to make them see the importance of a project gives great results. I'm going to miss this class no matter what and improve till death is all I got to say. Love you Mrs. Sundberg never change.
Okay well I still haven't performed my final exam for everyone yet but the process to figure out what I was doing was definitely a crazy one!! First, I felt inspired so I said I wanted to do costumes for a show and draw sketches and have posters with fabrics and have people model and all this great stuff. Well, I don't really know why I said that becuase I can't really draw. So I tried to work around it but couldn't find anything that I wanted to do and Mrs. Sundberg and I couldn't agree on anything so I decided not to do costumes. Then I said, maybe I'll do another project where I find a picture and write my own monologue and perform it for the class. So i was really excited about it and went online to find a picture. I found a picture of a little kid and decided I was going to write a monologue from the point of view of a father whose son or daughter just died becuase they had a disease. Then I remebered that I had this monologue Mrs. Sundberg gave me from The Laramie Project that I really like becuase its really intense and really sad and emotional. I am really looking foward to performing this tomorrow because I finally decided on a final exam and hopefully I will do a good job. I really feel like this class has helped me evolve as an actor so much. I have learned about acting in a way I never have before and have seen that its okay just to let go and have a good time when you're doing improv or that its okay to let emotions out onstage. I have learned a lot about myself as an actor as well and what my strengths and weaknesses are. I know what I need to work on to become the best actor I can possibly be and that has come from Mrs. Sundberg and this acting class. I really feel like I am walking away from this class with so much knowledge and so many good things that I am going to take with me and use to improve. I believe that there is always more to learn and this class has taught me so much!
CHRISTIE HACKETT - Well if we had been able to perform our final project I am sure it would have been great, however just from the video I was proud. I know that we spend a lot of time filming that and recruting friends and traviling to all these places. (nissequoge river, anyone?) I think our video was pretty funny and while it was hard work to make we also had a lot of fun. The most difficult thing for me was keeping a straight face.
Uhh. So I'm not gonna say that you were right about working in a big group of people, but I'm not gonna say you were wrong. I think our issue was time. If we had had more time then we would have been able to finish our fillming and stuff. But we're teens, you know? So we all have work, dance, shows, soccer, clubs, and other stuff. So our schedules overlap and collide and stuff. But, although we had a hard time making our plans come to fruition, we do have an AMAZINGLY AWESOME SCRIPT!!!! The whole plan was Vicky was going to write it, and everyone else was going to act in it, and Vicky would edit it. It seemed like she was doing a lot so I decided to help her write it, and just have someone else play my part. And so began the long journey to figure out a story line, and writre out all of the parts and such. I mostly did the plot creating and flow, while Vicky made it sound nice and use the technical terms I didn't know. Together we created something lovely. But there weren't enough hours in the day, so the filming didn't get done. "Tomorrow," we eould say, "we'll get it done. Tomorrow." And tomorrow came and went,. with no filming becasue of one thing or another. So we decided that we'd split up; Vicky and I would hand in the script and everyone else eould do an infomercial. That's why we're where we are today. Hooray!
And to think, I was just going to write my own monologue and perform it.
In this class, I think that I have improved in my serious acting. Last year, I did more comedic routines, but this year I tried to stary away from the path that I was on and try something new. I have a hard time working with other people in things that we'll get graded on, so I tried to improv on that. (you can be the judge as to whether I succeeded or not)I feel like I have learned more about myself and I thank you for that, Mrs. Sundberg. This class was a great experience!
although our project was thrown together at the last minute aftter watching it i think it was actually pretty good. first we planned to do somehting completely different but it didnt work out so we went throgh the prop room and found febreeze and well the rest is history. through this class beleive it or not i have actually grow soo much although i dont htink i portrayed it in the class. i hope people in the class dont think how i act ther is how i act always beciase i think i kind of sucked in the class. but like i said its helped me so muhc. its helped me to even more become the person im playing and actaly live in that moment. now when i act im not [retending im being. so thank you ms sundberggyy !!!
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