Monologues: Introduction To Acting Class

Monologues are such an important aspect to acting and I am pleased that our Introduction to Acting class was given the opportunity to explore monologues and other basic aspects of acting. Given that I would have loved to have more time during our individual rehearsals to have my performance critiqued, I enjoyed the process we underwent to explore our monologues. I personally enjoyed choosing something that I had never done before and that forced me to read one of my new favorite dramatic works. Overall this experience was enhanced by the chance to see others grow and improve their performances throughout rehearsals and practice. While my fellow actors were performing I did notice I common theme of things that caught my attention. One of the main things I noticed and that was talked addressed in class as well was the varying of vocal range. My students including myself had this critique and even though a few students, Calli, Garrett, and Courtney, for example did get into a different vocal range than they normally do in day-to-day life they then stayed in that vocal …show more content…
To me students who really grasped this consent and implemented it into their monologues were Matt, Hailey, Savannah, Christina, Brooke, Giana, and Jennifer. I think that objectives were projected well in these monologues because I could tell exactly how these students felt about the situation that they were sharing with us and projected that emotion onto the audience. Students who I feel did not accomplish this with their monologues were Garrett, Calli, Abby, Zach, Lauren, and Adriene. Personally I could not tell what their feelings were about the situation and the few emotions they projected often were contradicting to the words of the monologue. Simply I did not feel like these students did not fully understand what their characters situation was and did not project the objective to the