Personal Reflective Essay
In April of last year I had my first ever audition. I had applied for a place on a part-time college course in Acting and Performance, which I would do during school hours on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. I had mixed feelings about doing the course, if I did it I wouldn’t be able to take Higher Drama at school, but if I didn’t I might be missing out on an amazing opportunity, one that could help me decide if this was something I wanted to do at university and if it was, this course could be a huge help in securing a place. I sent my application away, thinking I could make my decision later, should I get a place. Weeks passed and having heard nothing I had all but made my peace with the fact that I wasn’t going …show more content…
Eventually, we were tasked with doing a warm-up. Then we were split into groups, with one group doing their monologues in front of each other and the small woman and another group, my group, going into a separate room to chat, while we were whisked away one by one by a different tutor to give us our interviews. I let out a small sigh of relief when discovering that I was in the group to be interviewed because I felt like it gave me more time to escape from the dreaded monologue. We were put into this small room and told to “get to know each other” while Sandra, the lady giving the interviews, prepared before taking us out one-by-one school-by-school, she ran out the running order to which I discovered that I would be the last interview conducted because I was at the bottom of the list. She left and we began to talk amongst …show more content…
Then one night in early August I received an email to say that pending my exam results I would be able to attend the course. I felt a wave of relief wash over me as I sent away an email to confirm my attendance as I let it sink in that I would get to attend college to do something I truly felt passionate about at the time. Now, several months later, I am still attending the course, but I no longer consider acting to be a career that I would wish to pursue. The course made me realise how much there is to being an actor, more than just learning lines, and these were things I didn’t feel passionate about. However, the course has helped me to become more confident in speaking in front of others, which is something I have always struggled with, so in that respect I am still very glad that I attended this course because without it I may have been far less confident in myself and my
In April of last year I had my first ever audition. I had applied for a place on a part-time college course in Acting and Performance, which I would do during school hours on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. I had mixed feelings about doing the course, if I did it I wouldn’t be able to take Higher Drama at school, but if I didn’t I might be missing out on an amazing opportunity, one that could help me decide if this was something I wanted to do at university and if it was, this course could be a huge help in securing a place. I sent my application away, thinking I could make my decision later, should I get a place. Weeks passed and having heard nothing I had all but made my peace with the fact that I wasn’t going …show more content…
Eventually, we were tasked with doing a warm-up. Then we were split into groups, with one group doing their monologues in front of each other and the small woman and another group, my group, going into a separate room to chat, while we were whisked away one by one by a different tutor to give us our interviews. I let out a small sigh of relief when discovering that I was in the group to be interviewed because I felt like it gave me more time to escape from the dreaded monologue. We were put into this small room and told to “get to know each other” while Sandra, the lady giving the interviews, prepared before taking us out one-by-one school-by-school, she ran out the running order to which I discovered that I would be the last interview conducted because I was at the bottom of the list. She left and we began to talk amongst …show more content…
Then one night in early August I received an email to say that pending my exam results I would be able to attend the course. I felt a wave of relief wash over me as I sent away an email to confirm my attendance as I let it sink in that I would get to attend college to do something I truly felt passionate about at the time. Now, several months later, I am still attending the course, but I no longer consider acting to be a career that I would wish to pursue. The course made me realise how much there is to being an actor, more than just learning lines, and these were things I didn’t feel passionate about. However, the course has helped me to become more confident in speaking in front of others, which is something I have always struggled with, so in that respect I am still very glad that I attended this course because without it I may have been far less confident in myself and my