It's over, the ending of another chapter, the memories that came along with it. The One Act Play. What everybody who loves theatre in newton dreams of. Your moment to shine. To finally have a more private play. A moment to give all your effort and time. And I cant believe my moment had alredy finished. I seems like yesterday that we began searching for ideas for the one act play. As we started with crazy ideas of being bees or even being inside a mouth. I am really happy with the final project.
Description:
After the one act play we had Miss Alicia coming to the class to reflect in the final product we did and some feedback from Roberto of the things missed. It is quite intresting to compare all the previous feedback we used to have to the final feedback and comments about the play. Eveyrone that went to see the play congratulated us as they thought it was really hilarious, but once again as Roberto said the audience was already willing to laugh as they were our friends and classmates. The part that was most harder for me was pronunciation as I just said my text with intentions and characterization but I was not putting that effort in making the lines easy to understand. I thinks was I was more worried about was that the audience could understand the play more than anything that is why we tried to keep it simple. At the end they did and I was really happy about it. Also as a whole there was a lack of RHYTHM, in the play as Roberto thought it went really slow and sort of I felt it the same.
Analysis:
Overall I am really please with my scene for all the comments and even people chose it was they favourite one. This is because we had an understanding of the audience as our relationship with them was really good. I could hear the 'oohh' or the 'eww' It was more than laughter, they actually reacted outloud of what we were doing on stage. Me and Micaela in our scene we actually entered in a dialogue as Lu told us it already looked as if we were already fighting. As at the last rehersals I decided to put effort and inspire myself. Also the language was WAY better than it had started. It is good that Miss Alicia said that are english was very good. The tone was clear but still; the beginning of my sentences were strong and clear but at the end of the line it kind of drop, and is something I have to work on. The key factor my scene had was dynamism as it was very easy to follow. It had a very good rhythm entretained the audience as it had very intresting energy. This is because I started playing with the scene and actually enjoying it. As before I entered the stage I decided that I would have fun because at the end I am the one who judges myself the most. Also the 'tecnica mixta' we did the one in which they lip sync the dialogue said by another actor was fascinating as we manage to get it perfectly syncronized. I had to do this for the first scene. Most of all it was practicing and taking a slow pace to actually give entonation and emotion to the words rather than just saying the same text at the same time. We had a part in which we said cliché frases more of 'quotes' to fight with each other. This part used to make the scene really static so we added more actions blocking. But we kind of lost the confidence on it as before it was more like a fight, a competition of who said the better frase. But we lost it and I think we should work on it for the following presentations. Overall the play lack of rhythm, is such a pity because in previous rehearsals it was more dynamic and very funny. But also because of the audience some jokes were lost as they laugh and cut lines from the other scenes. In my case we made pauses before continuing. Also! I told roberto about the bangs for my head and he didnt quite like the idea /: but at the end he loved it! (roberto te dije) As it gave me another perspective of my character and it was really melodramatic <3 .
Connections:
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM. Firstly we still have certain aspects of a how to pronunce by German Expressionism, as we had to really exaggerate what we were saying as we all had creepy and weird, sort of distorted, voices. This really helped us in MELODRAMMA. Because we had a base to work on as we had to make the play very understandable. Also my scene has a distinguised influenced by moment: shadows. The part of the shower everyone could see my shadow taking a flawless shower. I still remember how stressful it was for me 'showering' in all rehersals'. At the end I saw the pictures and my shadow was stronger than I thought and people could see me very clearly. I have to work more on poses because I was just standing there instead of in a pose showering. The shadow was created by Myra's LiCo, just like in the school play. Another connection to german expressionism. Is the fact that you had to create another character. Change what you see in the mirroir. A new way of looking.
Reflection:
I should have started doing an effort at the beggining not just start in previous rehersals before the play. This way you dont get the 100% of your full potential. At the end I started adding things and actually improved my characterization as I realized the one act play was very soon and I did an effort to enjoy it. Playing with the scene and my character. You may all wonder why? why did nathalie started making an effort very near the play? I will tell you all. It was a cold saturday when Roberto decided to say one thing in an instant that would give me a heartache for a lifetime.He said 'Micaela is a better actress than you are' This was quite shocking, no for the Micaela part but because is the worst thing an actress could hear. Telling them someone acts better than them. I was heartbroken! I have always being taught that 'the only person they can compare you to is youself'. That day I lost motivation, even now and then I think of that day. haha just kidding. But still! that was the mayor reason why my energy dropped and I lost motivation and started doing my scene for an obligation more than a fun thing. (thanks rotten) But at the end I realized that the only one that was losing was me. Because there were wonderful things I can gain for this experience. So I standed up and putted my tiara on and began acting and applying things to my scene and it turned up to be awesome. I even improvised some actions and face expressions that the audience loved. This play was also really hard emotionally because I had to act inlove and I was going through a breakup and I was heartbroken. And at the time I got to write my scene I was dating someone so all the script was kind of my thoughts towards him in a very exaggerated way. I even chose the name of Algernon Balthazar Clayton Middleton Mcfarland (the ''love of my life'') as the initial was the same of his. (THE SECRET STORY BEHIND IT HAHA, i doubt anyone read my blog) Ok, the most awkward part was when we stopped dating and we did not talk to each other anymore, once again I was heartbroken and had to act inlove! you see what im saying? But as a professional, I didnt involve my personal life to my acting life. So I just felt what the character felt a the moment. Want to hear the worst part? ''Algernon'' knew I had written my scene thinking of him and that the characters love interest name was given because of him. Even worst when I knew he had to watch the play. awkward! Yep that was my main worry. But you now what? I am Nathalie. I dont care what people think about me.
Questions:
How can we apply dynamism to the quotes without losing intention? How to practice my lines so I can pronnunciate them well? How to mantein pronunciation? How can we apply more rhythm without losing intentions?
P.S; Special thanks to Robbie Rotten, that eventhough he is a bit harsh sometimes he manages to make awesome plays and we have a great time at dramma.
Also thanks to Miss Alicia, I really loved her comments about my acting. She is a great inspiration for me.
Thanks Alejandro; you inspired my scene and made my emotions be on the edge.
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