Hannah

1. To perform the monologue, I cooperated several exercises to develop a well-put monologue. One of the exercises was different ways of expressing your monologue. I would read through my monologue but each time the way I express the monologue would be different. For example, the first time I read through the monologue would read it as if I just won the lottery. The second time I would read the monologue as if I couldn’t hold my anger anymore, and so on. This exercise helped me to develop different emotions throughout the whole monologue. To finalize my monologue, I tried different tones and different volumes to see which way I could express the monologue so that the audience can really feel the emotions coming from the monologue. I practiced over and over repeating the same lines again and again until I felt like this was my final piece.
2. I think I was successful in some aspects of the performance, however, watching over the video made me feel like there could’ve been many things cleaned up or changed. Some things I thought were successful was my voice, I think my voice was projected to the whole class, and what I was saying was clear to the audience. I also think I was successful in expressing my emotions as an actor to the audience. However, I thought my body language wasn’t coherent with my act. My body language doesn’t look professional, and it looks awkward. I also kept on moving my head back and forth, which makes me only pay attention to my neck movement.
3. Expressing your monologues in different ways can help improve my monologue performance by helping me feel the different emotions you could express with the same monologue. This exercise could help me with other monologues in the future that has a different meaning and different emotions.
4. I used to think performing a monologue doesn’t require many skills but now I think in order to perform a successful monologue you need to adapt many skills such as facial expressions, body language, emotions, etc.