I think this is the best practice of my monologue yet. My voice is finally loud enough!

I’m proud of the improvement in my volume. I wish I could have added more hand gestures if I had the time.

I felt more emotion as I applied for Stanislavsky’s work I actually felt like I was putting myself in the character’s shoes.

One discovery I found was pretending the other character was in the room really helped with focus, emotion, and eye contact. I also used to learn beats and dividing the sections.

• Who am I? Myself- a student
• What time is it? after school (afternoon)
• Where am I?  home
• What surrounds me? my books, my bed, computer, learning materials
• What are the given circumstances? I’m trying to study but fails because of how tired I was at school, emotions, and forgetting my material
• What is my relationship? A student at home
• What do I want? study for a test
• What’s in my way? Keep wanting to think about what happened at school, and forgetting to get the correct notebooks and materials I need to use.
• What do I do to get what I want? Spend time to (rest eyes for seconds) clear my mind for a minutes before completely focusing on work

I used to think that improvisation is really difficult and it is really easy to make mistakes. But now after a few lessons I think it has gotten easier for me and I make less mistakes now. I think a big idea of improvisation is taking others’ ideas and adding to it. I think it is really important during improvisation to listen to others and also add your own ideas, you need both in improv. During improvisation I think I did well with the pre-planning and creating beginning middle and end. I struggled a bit with thinking of new ideas on the spot. I think I need to practice with a lot of different people and listen to everyone’s ideas to become a better ensemble member.

List:

1. Risk taker
2. positive and energetic
3. Aware and in Control
4. Focused
5. Active Listener
6. Cooperative and Collaborative
7. Efficient
8. Leaders & Followers
9. Positively Critical & able to act on that criticism

Which of the ensemble member qualities do you feel you would like to work on this semester and why?

I would like to work on risk taking, and leaders & followers because sometimes I might be scared to try out a new harder idea and I don’t enjoy leading a scene.