Speechless

Our latest performance was a silent movie. I've never had to perform without words before so I learned a lot about movement and grande gestures. I learned how to use facial expressions to show my reactions and I also learned to face the audience more because it would be hard to understand the play if I didn't. I also learned to be more dramatic with my performance, for example when in shock I had to place my hands on my mouth and have my eys wide open to create emphasis. And With all these new skills I've learned I can apply them to all my other performances. Whether it's a monologue or performing with someonelse I feel it's important to be dramatic on stage because the audience needs to clearly understand what's going on on stage. The most effective performance I believe was when jake and John came towards me to fight for my attention. It evolved a lot of facial expressions, I had to be confused, laugh, be irritated and freaked out which was  fun to do and watch as well. What also worked out in the play were the ideas we put into it. For example the cut scenes and adding different actions In between the fights made the movie even more interesting to watch.

A silent movie needs much more creativity because of its lack of speech, so I believe that all the work we put into creating a comedic silent movie paid off. My own performance was a little bit dry at the begin, I didn't use many facial expression because I was not so used to just using my face rather than my voice. And I also got to caught in the other actors performance that I didn't pay attention to my own acting.But as we went into performing more I began to feel more comfortable using my face and the rest of my body to tell the story. I also think I improved my skills when working with the other actors because at the begin I felt like rushed to give an expression before the other actor gave his but now the timing is in sync. What I found difficult was having to  break up the fight I didn't know how to place my self, I didn't know if I should have stepped back for the audience to see the fight while I stopped them or wether I should have come inner week so it felt a little bit awkward for me. So I think that i need to work more on positioning myself on stage where I can still let the audience see me and not feel awkward. I also found it hard to make certain faces, for example the scene were I had to sneak of I didn't know which facial expression would be funny enough. But overrall i enjoyed this performance because it was new to me and even though so aspects of it were difficult it wasnt as hard as the monologue.