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Wow. I can not believe that this semester is already over. I have learned so much and had so much fun in our acting class. I loved how we were able to do many different kinds of projects. From monologue to silent movies, to television show scenes, and everything in between. Since we practiced so many different types of scenes I was able to learn so much about theater as a whole. One of the main things I learned is that theater and acting is a long process. You have to find what you want to act, write/find a first draft, memorize the draft, plan out staging, perform a first draft, get feedback, practice more, then finally perform your final draft. Though this process is very long, you get so much out of it. You are able to take constructive criticism from fellow actors, and you can change the scene to be exactly what you want it to be. You can change different aspects of it to make it fit the idea you originally saw in your head. In this class, we really used this process and got a l...

For my final project I have decided to do a monologue followed with a short piano performance. This project will definitely be stretching my abilities as both an actor as well as a musical performer. For acting wise, I decided to do a more serious monologue that I will write myself. These are the first 2 areas I will need to stretch myself. I haven't been very strong this year with serious monologues, and I have certainly never written one. Most of the performances from this year were comedic, so I feel very comfortable with them. But serious/dramatic, that's definitely gonna be a challenge. I have never written my own monologue to perform. I mean of course I have written poems, essays, and short stories. But monologues. That’s a whole new thing. They have to be short enough to remember, but include enough that the audience still understands the story. I think that the combo of serious and writing it myself will really push me to do my best and really challenge me. But I also t...

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So far we have not gotten to the end of our first draft, but we are working hard. So far we have some two out of the four scenes we are planning on using for our project. In my opinion, our scenes turned out pretty good. I think they are going to spread a powerful message in the end, but also be a good form of theater. The way that we have been putting the scenes together has definitely been a process. We’ve had to change things around and start with new ideas for something else didn’t work. We still have to sell my other two scenes and put everything together, but I think it will be really good in the end.

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red lights catcall metronome sound dance match song men smiling women dancing amsterdam prostitution few people watching at first crowd grows men dance along filming cheering at end stop trafficking as at end people look confused when we first watched the piece i was very confused and didn’t understand the point of what was happening. i was disturbed by the faces that the men were making while watching the women dance, and i though it was not appropriate of them to be catcalling and filming. i finally understood the purpose by the end. it was to raise awareness about the problem of prostitution anoung women. i though that this was a strong message that needs to be talked about more, but all the men looked ver disappointed. some looked ashamed, but most just looked flat out disappointed. i think that once u get to the end it was a very good way of starting a conversation that may be hard for others to talk about. though many problem are just ignored and set aside these da...

it started as  just another average day  went to school, came home with nothing to say got home late and decided to turn on the news. after that it wasn’t just an average day  the second that bright screen flickered on i saw those words and my world went grey 17 dead, i didn’t know what to say  17 dead, how many more must pay

overall i enjoyed this movie very much, even though it was quite different than our classes movie. in their movie you could definitely easily tell who’s character was who’s, and they kept it steady through out the whole movie. it was entertaining to watch and i enjoyed the music they picked. in this silent movie all the actors had really good facial expression. their face easily told the entire story. i also really enjoyed the music they picked while editing. i though it was very fitting and complimented the acting well. i also liked the comedy aspect of this movie, it made me laugh. one thing i think they could have done better would have been editing. if they had added in another sound affect here and there, or some words at the bottom i think it would have added more humor. all in all i really enjoyed their movie.

This silent movie project was a very eye opening experience for me. It was a entire new set of skills needed in order to produce the final product. Since no words could be used, we had to really work on our facial expressions, camera angle, and staging. When we were filming I had to constantly remind myself FACE FACE FACE not WORDS WORDS WORDS. I think one thing we did well with was each character was very unique, and each had a very funny and special quirk. These quirks made the overall movie very funny. Whenever one of the would “Wipeout”, it had a taste of their personally in it. This made it so interesting to watch. In my opinion it was so hard not to use words. In everyday life when you want someone to know something you say it. But in this project you couldn’t. If you wanted the audience to know something you had use your face to say it. This was a very new and difficult skill for me to grasp. Another aspect I really enjoyed about this project was process of it all coming toget...

This scene project taught me a lot of things as the process went by. When we first chose our scene, I knew that this would be something new for me. Working with more than one person on a comedic scene. In the end though, it was one of my favorite project we had done. I though in this scene we did a good job of all interacting together well. At first I thought this would be difficult since the host talked to both contestants separately. But in the end we did a good job at incorpering everyone at most times. It was very fun to work on this aspect. Deciding where the other contestant could cut in and make a snarky comment. I also thought we did a good job of memorizing our lines. It's was a long scene compared to what we had previously done. But all things considered we were able to remember our lines and keep the scene moving in a funny way. I think one thing we could have worked on was making sure our bodies were more towards the camera. At some points it was difficult to see a pers...

Les Miserables Review I had the pleasure to view Cheshire Academy's production of Les Miserables, written by Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublilon on Friday February 23 in the Black Box Theatre. Les Miserables starts with a man named Jean Valjean. After serving 19 years for stealing bread, he is released by Inspector Javert. Once he is released he meets a young girl Fantine, a young girl left to take care of a child. Soon after she is forced to leave her child in someone else's care in order to find work to afford the child, she becomes ill. While on her death bed she asks Valjean to care for her daughter, Cosette. The next we see Cosette living in a brothel house where she is being treated very poorly by the masters of the house. Once Valjean finds Cosette, he pays to get her away from the house. Years later Valjean changes his name and becomes mayor of the town. As a young lady, a man named Marius catches sight of her and instantly falls in love. Sadly though, this...

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 This monologue project was very eye opening to me. It helped me realize how much work needs to go into a single scene. This project was quite challenging for me to complete. First and foremost i HATE performing in front of anyone.  So having to do most of this process in front of people was quite the learning curve. I had to accept the fact that mistakes will be made, but the people watching are there to help me fix them. Going along with it liking the crowd, it was hard for me to look up and perform at the same time. When we first performed I was constantly looking down trying to avoid eye contact. My main goal was to just get through all the words correctly and for the scene to be over. By the end of this project I was definitely more comfortable performing in front of people. I think the biggest thing i improved on was my blocking. At first i hardly had any blocking and pretty much just read the lines. By the end I feel I did a lot better job at blocking. I include the tab...

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1. My character is a teenage girl in highschool. She is a very peppy talkative person, and gets carried away easily. Her voice is soomewhat high pitched but not too much so. 2. She is in the lunchroom talking to her friends about this guy. 3. This momolouge is being delievered because she is really excited. The cutest guy in school who she has a crush on just came up and started a conversation with her. 4. Right before this scene is when the guys is talking with her, still in the lunch room. After this I imagine her and her friends continue to talk about this guy and other thoughts they have about him. 5. All I will need is a desk or table to sit at.

MiMI: Oh My God! Do you think he likes me? (shrieks) He is sooo cute. So cute! I cant believe he came over and started talking to me. Oh my God, do I look okay? Did I look alright when he was talking to me? Oh my God, I feel my face is red, I feel hot. Was my face red whe he was talking to me? Was I blushing? Oh my God, was I BLUSHING!? No, No? I was cool? Okay good. (laughs) I was sooo nervous. So nervous! Up close, he has these really dark blue eyes. They are so so dreamy! (laughs) (boy walk by) Guys be quite your all so obvous. Shhh! (laughs) Omg guys he is actually amazing. Hes so cute!

 Hi! My name is Sarah Greenberg and I am from Cheshire Connecticut. I have lived here all 14 years of my life. I play field hockey, lacrosse, tennis, and I swim and snowboard. I also play the piano and guitar. I am an only child in my family. Some of my hobbies include cooking, art, and baking. One interesting thing about me is that I was almost on Master Chef Junior of FOX. 2 years ago I was a huge fan of cooking. All I watched was the food network, and I cooked dinner every night. One night while watching Master Chef I saw an ad for an open call in NY for a junior version of the show. I knew I had to at least try, I mean what's the worst that could happen. We registered online and a week later we were on the road to NY. I completed the open call not expecting much. There would be at least 8,000 kid audition in NY alone. There were 12 other open calls before us. After the open call they said they would call in 2-3 days if they wanted to see us again. I spent the rest of the da...

Person: On a scale from 1-10 how dramatic are you. Me: Phantom of the Opera overture