Reflective Essay On Acting Skills

For my piece of practical work I had to frequently switch characters and successfully convey the differences between each part I played through the use of my acting skills. In the earlier stages of rehearsals I was concentrating on my role as a student and my role as teacher. In one scene I immediately change role from that of a teacher to a student. When playing my role of Emily Griffin a year 11 student I first put on an accent to correspond to the area my character was living in and therefore used a South London accent. I was consistently changing the tone of my voice dependant on the way my character was feeling at the time. My character of Emily was constantly changing her emotions from happy in which I used a higher pitch and spoke at a faster pace in an excited tone; to angry where I changed to a …show more content…
My role as the dinner lady was perhaps the most complicated character but I only developed the role at the end of the rehearsal process. My character had a backstory as to how she became a dinner lady and I based certain characteristics upon her childhood. The dinner ladies were also adults just like the teachers however there were some major differences. The dinner ladies were common and rough but not at all stressed and they actuallly liked the students. In the very late stages of the reahearsal process I saw that the dinner ladies shared many characteristics to the students and I tried to mirror the parts so that my role as the student was replicated in the role of the dinner lady. My character of the dinner lady had an accent similar but not exactly the same to the student. She was for the most part happy throughout the scene and so I used joyful facial expressions but switched to one of sadness and regret when I dwelled on the past. I interacted extremely well with the other two dinner ladies conveying the sense of a long lasting