And that's a wrap!

I had two goals at the beginning of this course, my first goal was to improve my acting skills and my second goal was to get out of my comfort zone and increase my stage voice. For my first goal I truly believe I have learnt a lot over the past few months, I have learnt that when I am performing I must be aware of my audience and perform for them, face them and use gestures that they can see and understand.  I also learnt that I must know whom I am talking to if I were to be given a dialog. When acting before, I used to use the same expressions when talking to other actors, but now I know that my expression should change when I am talking to a child and it should change when I am talking to an adult. Throughout the course I’ve also noticed that I’ve become more and more comfortable being someone else. Before I found it quite silly actually to act, especially in front of people, I would always get shy to play a role in fear that I might mess up. Even when singing on stage I’d sing to the microphone and show no emotion. But now I’ve improved a little bit more in that department. My second goal was to step out my comfort zone and speak louder! What I meant by stepping out my comfort zone was that I wanted to act out different characters, not just the ones I felt comfortable acting. At the beginning of this course we were given scenes to choose from and I chose the more serious script because it evolved being serious and I find that to be easy to perform. But after all the stuff we’ve done, from silent movies, to monologues, dialogues and finally a three people scene, I’ve been able to be more than just a serious character, I have stepped out my comfort zone and I have tried new things. As for the speaking louder part, I still need work on that, I’ve improved a little bit but I noticed as I was watching our last performance, that my voice would get loud but then I’d go back to my normal voice and forget about the audience. So I need to improve on that and hopefully when I’m in college I will take an interest in acting and continue from there. But for now I feel I’ve improved from how I started of in this class and I plan on keeping these new techniques I’ve learnt this year and hopefully use them again in college. And lastly, of all the scenes we have acted in this course I am most proud of the latest one we did where I was Cassie. I like this one the most because I feel I performed to the best of my ability, it wasn’t so perfect but I feel like I actually put effort into portraying myself the way she was written. I even stepped out my comfort zone and pulled out a (horrible) British accent to change things up a little bit. Overall I have truly enjoyed this class and I’ve learnt so much!