What you are proud of, what do you think you could improve on

something I’m proud of is my voice. i think I did a good job being loud and intimidating. one thing I could improve on is probably my actions. i still wandered around a bit and my actions aren’t as good as I wanted them to be. though I wandered a lot less than before. but over all I think I did a pretty good job.

what did you use from Stanislavsky’s work?

i used communication since in the movie Tyler Durden was talking to an entire crowd of people.

One discovery you found (what you learned to use)

I learned to use different tones to speak different lines. changing emotion and the way I said it I think adds more dimensions to the monologue. it really helps showing the emotion and the tone you want the other person/audience to hear.

during improvisation, we did the final assessment which we had one line we had to add to our short skit, then we had 3 minutes to prepare then act it out. we also did some warm-up activities like a park bench where two people improvised and add on to people, and 3 things where we go in a circle asking questions and answering without much thought.

 

I use to think improvisation is really hard you need to be trained to be good at it, but now after some experience that improvisation isn’t as hard as I thought it was and it was actually pretty easy as long as you follow the other person.

 

something big I will remember about improvisation is you need to go with the flow and add on to the other person and build a story like that. it will stick with me because adding on to other people keeps the story going.

 

during improvisation, i found trying to make a story and start the improv really hard because i can’t think of a good story to start or tell. something i think i did well was adding on to other people’s stories and making it funnier i guess. i think this can help as an actor or ensemble member because it means we can react to sudden changes and adapt to it.