Final assessment

My final assessment went much better than the first, I didn't forget any lines, well apart from a very small stumble. I had been working on my characters physicallity (movement) for a couple of days before hand which payed off during the assessment. I gave my character more things to do (such as laying backwards when the character Nina was thinking) and felt more confident with the way I was moving and the outcome. I still got very nervous beforehand but I managed to control it more effectvely and use the nervous energy to improve my monologues.
I have learnt that when I manage to control my nerves, I can use them to my advantage (if im careful), yet if I let them get the better of me they have a negative effect on my performance.
Overall I think I managed to improve my monologues from my previous attempt and I received good feedback from Georgia, which proves that if you act on feedback you can improve. I am very happy with how it went and I hope I can continue to improve on the monologues for future auditions.

Wednesday 24th October

We worked on our devised piece based on the tube train. We added in the character monologues and flashbacks to make it more meaningful and to give the characters a story. We split up into two groups, of which one all had monologues and the other flashbacks. We worked on what order to say our monologues and how to move between person to person, we decided to stay completely still when we are not saying our peices and when is nearly our turn we interupt someone else using movment or words (e.g James throws Kirstys book on the floor), this helps it to flow more smoothly.
The flashback group all worked together on one piece, which involved a troubled home and a youthworker, this will go before the monologues.

Overall I think the day went well, we all worked together and were honest with feedback which helped us to improve. I did alright I think as I shared ideas, although I think my monologue was too long as I felt like It may have been detramental to the group as I was taking away other peoples opportunitys to speak: Im not sure though but I'll have to talk to my group about the length. I also think I was still holding back in the performance which will have effected the urgency of the scene, yet I did do better than the last rehearsal so I am improving. :-)

monologue assessment

On thursday we were all given a time slot in which we would perform our three monologues to our Tutor Sonya and to Georgia who teaches other acting courses. My slot was at 4:10 so I had a while to wait, I used this time to go over my monologues and  ..well to worry allot aswell, which I shouldnt have done as this effected my performance quite badly :-(.

How do I think I performed?
I am quite unhappy with how I did as I know I messed up lines during two of my monologues and my movement was very wooden.

• I did my shakespeare monologue first (Hero from much ado about nothing) - This was alright, but I missed out 3 of the lines in the second paragraph, which I am annoyed about as I know this monologue inside out! I dont know whether it was noticable to be honest as it still made sense and I didnt pause, but It still effected it and put me off slightly when I realised.
• I performed my contempary monologue next (Alex from as we forgive those) - This was the only monologue that the script itself was all correct, but I remember missing out allot of the movement I usually do, I think this was down to nerves and the fact that I dont like to plan that much blocking as I like it to be spontanious and in character, but sometimes I dont plan enough and I believe this to be the case with basically all of my current monologues.
• lastly I performed my monologue by Nina from The seagull - I have been struggling to learn this monlogue for a couple of weeks so was concerned about lines, I practised this the most the previous night for this reason and I knew it all the way through. But becasue I was so worried about the lines I didnt really think about movement so once again I didnt really move!. And annoyingly I still forgot the lines halfway through and had to pause to think about them before I picked myself up, but I did stay in character when I stopped which is a positive at least.

On the whole I know my vocal skills are quite good and I understand and feel what I am saying, but I am not very good at portraying this through movement. It seems that whenever I get nervous I just tense and dont think straight which leads to mind blanks with lines and restricts my movement. I know I could have done allot better if I didn't let myself get stupidly nervous. I will have to work on improving the way I control my nerves as it really effects the way I perform and think. I am going to think about the way I move and keep on going over my lines, so I will hopefully perform better during second marking.

devised piece - 7/7 london disaster

During our wednesday session we worked on our group devised piece which after some stimulus we decided to base on the 7/7 disaster.
It is set on a tube train that gets caught up in the bombings, and is about how people cope with the situation,  and how their past influences them in the present. First of all we took some time to chat about the scene and listen to everyones ideas, this was easier said than done as everyone wanted a turn to speak but we were all talking over each other! in the end though everyone had their turn and we started to work as a team quite well. There were some really good ideas, shroom came up with the idea that there could be a count down which can be heard in the background that the characters are oblivious to but the audience can hear: this makes it more tense for the audience as they are wondering what its leading towards. I thought that the light could go out during the crash and come back on when everyone was on the ground to give the audience a shock, but then Victoria made a really good point and said that the way we all fall is really effective as we do it at the same time, so we changed it so the light would go off after we fall for a few seconds, and this would give a better effect. We started rehearsing the scene a few times, but it just wasn't really working, nobody was in the moment when the crash happened and it just didnt seem real and fell flat, I think we were all too embarrassed to simply go for it and act completely in character. We stopped to have another chat about how to improve it and decided to add some unaturalistic aspects,  we decided to have character flashbacks and have Matthew as a symbol of fate/death or whatever the audience percieve him to be, we do this by adding him in the background of all the flashbacks, and making him present on the platform and on the tube but nobody really notices him, this makes it more interesting and forces the audience to think about what it could mean... for example has fate been following them?, could it have been anybody who ended up on the train?, was he a symbol of death?. We then went through it again and it worked much better but it still falls flat after the crash as I dont think anybody is in the moment still. So for next time we have been asked to either come up with a flashback or a character monologue which will hopefully make us think about our characters and how they would feel which will make the scene more interesting and as we will understand more about our characters it should be easier to act them spontaniously and believably . I have been asked to do a monologue and I have come up with the idea that she will be confused, therefore she keeps on changing the subject without thinking, so its a muddle of her fears, thoughts and memorys.

 This is the video we watched for stimulus, its really emotional and made you think about just how terrible it was and how scared the people involved would be feeling

Thursday 11th october

We started off with some focus games-

• We all had to lay on the floor and either close our eyes or look up to the ceiling, the aim of the game was to count to ten but only one person can speak at a time, so if somebody says one you have to think about when you can say two because if more than one person says a number you have to go back to the start. This was suprisingly hard and I never got a number right even though I was trying really hard to focus.
• We then did some eye contact exercises, which involved standing in a circle and if you made eye contact with somebone else you had to walk towards them and they would then have to quickly make eye contact with someone else and move before you reached them, this was hard as sometimes you didn't make eye contact with someone and they would walk towards you anyway, and then people would look away from you so you couldn't move fast enough! but this did mean you had to be focused.
• We played a similar game but this time if you made eye contact with someone else you had run towards them and one person would jump and the other would roll, but you don't know whos going to jump or roll so you have to judge what the other person is planning by body language very quickly so sometimes you end up doing the same thing, I went in the middle a fair amount and managed to chose correctly each time but once I went down to roll and somehow forgot to actually roll! so I nearly got squished but I didnt so it was all good :-).
• The final game we played involved walked around the room, two people were given wooden sticks and if they made eye conact with somebody they had to throw the stick to them while still walking, then the person who gained the stick would then do the same thing and so on. You had to be focused as you had to catch it carefully and make sure you throw it at the right time to the right person.

After this we went to the dance studio to show back monologues. We didn't get a choice about performing infront of everybody this time so I had to show mine back, but to be honest I am happy about this as I havn't pushed myself enough to do this yet and I sort of wished I had, so this forced me out of my comfort zone which is what I needed. It actually went quite well and it wasn't that bad, I got positive feedback about my vocals and I feel relieved that Ive got past the barrier of performing infront of the first years for the first time.
Finaly we (second years) were sent to another room to work on a devised piece of our choice, we decided after some debate to base it on a tube crash, we actually worked really well together and we all seemed to listen to each other and share ideas. We performed what we had back to everyone at the end but as it was still a work in progress it was all improvised and didn't work to well, we will have more time to work on this next week so we can improve it further then.

Much ado about nothing- helpful videos

When I was researching Much ado about nothing to understand more about "Hero" I found these video's which explain more about the characters and the plot :-)

monologue contrast and appropriateness for auditions

Appropriateness for auditions-

Hero's monologue from Much ado about nothing- I chose this monologue because The character is close to my own age, so I can portray her believably. Its also by shakespeare, and many auditions require a shakespearian monoologue. It will hopefully stand out as its not an overdone monologue in comparison to some of shakespeares other plays. I also like her point of view as I get angry when people can only see the bad aspects of a person, so I can relate to her opinon which will make it more believable.

Alex's monologue from As we forgive those-  I chose this for my contempary piece (many auditions require a contempary monologue). Its not very well known yet it is from a published play, so I will be allowed to use it but it won't be overdone. I can use the "magic if" to help me relate to it as I have a sister and know how terrible I would feel if I had hurt her, but I also know what its like to feel anger towards her as we have argued in the past, so in auditions I should be able to show feeling through the monologue. Its also lasts around 1 minute 40 which fits in with most of the specifications. The character is also in my age range and has a similar accent to me. This piece would be suitable for a serious audition but not for a pantomime or a childrens theatre audition etc. 

Nina's monologue from The seagull- I chose this monologue as it contrasted to the others as it was written in 1890, the monologue itself is very abstract as its being said in a play within the play!, and its quite odd and hard to grasp but this may make it interesting to a panel. Once again the character is within my playing range and I can use my own accent for it (as I can't do accents). its the right length so it wont take forever to perform and it changes emotion throughout so it won't get boring and I can show different emotions through it.

contrast-

1. They are all from different timezones-shakespeare, contempary and 1800's
2. They contain different styles- serious, abstract, naturalistic and angry/comedic
3. The dialect differs- old english and modern
4. The characters are all very different- they live in different times and their personalitys vary from troubled and angry to sweet and innocent.

Wednesday 10th October

Thursday 4th October

As Amiee (our dance tutor) was away we started the lesson with some focus games, we played the ladder game where you find a pair sit opposite each other and put your feet against each others. when everybody does this it creates what looks like a giant flat ladder!, each pair is given a number and if it is called you have to run through the ladder and get back to your seat before your partner,if you get there first you gain a point, at the end the side with the most points wins. We also played grandmas keys and sheriff to gain focus.
After the games we did a practise workshop audition, so at the end four of us would be selected.
This started with a devising and team work exercise, in small groups we had a minute to create a human version of an object e.g a washing machine. We did a few of these and I liked this section as I came up with allot of ideas and felt like I worked well in my team. We then did a devisng exercise in groupd of three, we had 10 minutes to create a 3 minute scene which had one tense moment, one comedic moment and a pause, This is where I think I let myself down, we struggled to come up with an idea and I managed to come up the comedy and tense moment and Steven and Dan thought of the setting and character relationships, but we took so long to come up with the idea that we hadnt actually planned out the scene therefore when we were called up it was complete improvisation! this worked for a while but I was supposed to get to a point where I pushed Dan of a chair (to create the tense moment) but I never felt like the time was right at the time so I missed the moment and then our time ran out, I think I let the others down because afterwards I realised there were many opportunitys that I overlooked!. Our final exercise was an improv activity, Which consisted of two people being in the middle (of everyone in a circle) all of the time improvising a scene, at any point anyone could shout freeze and take over from one of the characters in the middle and do whatever they wished to the character and scene. I really struggled with this as I found it hard to find a situation I thought I could enter into and when I did feel ready to go somebody else would shout freeze first (I need to jump in quicker!). I knew by this point that as I didnt do very well in the last two exercises that I wouldnt of been chosen in real life or in this practise but I found it incredibly useful and I now know which areas I need to improve on.

Wednesday 3rd October

We looked into auditions and audition ethicate. here are some of the tips I learnt:

• be prepared
• be yourself
• read the specifications carefully
• be friendly
• be confident but dont go over-the-top
• try and enjoy the experience and dont let nerves effect your monologues
• have back-up monologues

After this we moved onto monologues, we had some time to practise our monologues before performing them back to everyone. I performed my Shakespeare monologue from "Much ado about nothing" which went ok, as in I remembered it and pronounced the words correctly, but it lacked energy and blocking which I need to work on. Its good to gain feedback from others so you know what you need to improve on and so you know your getting the character accross. I am going to keep on going over all of my monologues, and work on my vocal tone, my energy and character development so that I improve them to the best of my ability.

This is one of the videos we watched- its about audition ethicate

and its been created by someone who's attended allot of drama school auditions :-)

Thursday 27th september

we started with a warm-up of zumba and movment. We had to move to the rythm of the music that was being playing, for example we had to step with our toes pointed for three steps, then turn around and step again, it was fun but suprisingly hard to keep in rythm!. This is an important skill though as having rythm and being able to move to the flow of music is helpful and used allot in theatre. After this we practised the chair pillow dance again. I think im definately picking this up much better now, yet I am still struggling with the pace so ive got a long way to go. we then got separated into groups of about 7 to perform the dance infront of each other to get a better idea of how everyone was doing, I was slightly out of time in parts but I didnt majorly muck up which was great! And it put my mind at ease as when I observed others I realised quite a few were out of sync, so maybe we need to practise being in rythm as a group. I gave it my best and with more practise I should improve further.

We then played a focus game called grandmas keys, where we had to snatch the keys when the owner at the other end of the room wasnt looking, yet if they turned around to look you have to stand still otherwise your sent back to the start, you also get sent back if you are caught with the keys. Its important to use teamwork in this game as everybody has to hide the person with the keys and pass them on. You have to be focused at all times as if you laugh you'll be sent back due to movment and you have to be constantly thinking as a group about tactics. Once we were all more focused we worked individually or in pairs on our monologues. I rehearsed my monologue from "As we forgive those" and "Much ado about nothing", once I'd gone over them a few times everyone was asked to change the style of the monologues e.g if we were performing an angry monologue change it to being happy for a few goes! this will be challenge but it helps you to experiment. I did "Hero's" monologue really angrily even though its suppose to be sarcastic, I found it hard but it was helpful to use a different technique to see how mood and tone of voice can completely change a monologue. I think ive imporoved on my lines as I know those two monlogues confidently off by heart now,  I also think my projection and vocal tone has improved during my monologues, yet my blocking still needs allot of improvment.
Overall I think I got allot out of the lesson, I was focused and gave everything my best at the time, I am still dissapointed that I didnt volunteer ...again! so I definatly need to improve my confidence so that I can feel comfortable perfroming my monologues.

Alex's monologue "As we forgive those"

I have chosen this monologue as I feel like it will be a good challenge for me, but I think if I can perform it effectively it could improve my skills and hopefully stand out at auditions.
I also feel like I can relate to some of the characters feelings, which will mean I can understand her and portray her situation believably.

During our last lesson we worked on a monologue of our choice, we experimented with vocal skills , the characters feelings and how we can portay them.

• PROJECTION -  The strength  and volume of your voice. It is imporant as an audience or panel need to hear everything you are saying and how well you are emoting the monologue. I havn't performed mine infront of everybody yet, therefore I dont know how loud I am yet but I have practised projecting my voice (in the monologue) at home and in the theatre, and will continue to work on this vocal aspect of the monologue.
• ENUNCIATION - The articulation of speech/the clearness of words. This is improtant because you need to  make what you are saying clear to others, otherwise they might not even understand what your monologue is about. I think my enunciation is fine in this monologue, but there are times when she gets quite angry and speaks fairy fast, therefore i need to practise these sections slower to make sure I don't get into a habit of letting my enunciation slip in these sections.
• ACCENT OR DIALECT - A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, esp. one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. Its important to make sure that your character has the same accent as you or you can do the accent to a high standard, because if you have a completely different accent, it won't sound believable. Also it means you have come from a different social background to the character, therefore you won't be able to relate to them very well. As I know my accent skills are poor at the moment I made sure the character had a similar accent to mine. So I don't have to worry about the accent to much.
• INTENTION OF MONOLOGUE - Its important to get accross why the character is saying and feeling what she is, so you can portray the characters story. Her intention is to tell her sister how she feels but in an odd sort of way its also an apology and trying to get rid of the past tension between them in an honest outburst.
• EXPERIMENTATION - Trying out new concepts or ways of doing things. Its crucial to experinent with monologues, as otherwise you won't find out the best way of performing it or what works for you. I have tried using allot/very little movement, using anger as the main emotion, using her sorryness and vulnribility as the main factor or saying it quite subdued yet you can see she is very hurt secretly. At the moment I am using a mixture of the emotions,  and a small amount of movment that I feel its enough.
• GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES - what the author or playwright have given you as an actor to work with in terms of where you are, who you are, what you are doing, and why you are doing it. You need to think about the imformation that is already there and take in into account otherwise you could miss out important imformation about the character and thier personality. I made sure I knew about where "Alex" was and took into account all of the information I was given (which isn't actually that much in this script).
• MAGIC IF - The magic'if' is where you as the actor puts yourself in the position of your character and you use how you would react in that situation. Its important that you can use natural reactions and emotions in monologues so the acting comes more naturally and realistically. I thought about how I would feel in "Alex's" situation and am now using this in the monologue. I think she would be feeling very sorry and secretly knows she has done wrong, yet the anger within her won't let her admit it. I know how anger can block out anything else, now I think I understand how she is feeling I can put myself in her situation.

Thursday 21st september

We started the lesson with a warm-up to prepare ourselves for further work on the pillow dance.
This was tiring but nothing compared to what we might get in the future, therefore its important to get used to them and to improve our fitness levels. After this we moved on to the chair pillow dance again, we learned the rest of the routine and practised it numerous times to make it easier to remember and perform. The routine involves three rows (first row starts, followed by the second then the third) , I am in row three which meant that after the second verse my row had to run on stage with the chairs to start the dance, yet this was hard as the music changes after the second verse therefore its hard to keep in time. We got into pairs to work on monologues, I went with Victoria who is doing a monologue from the play "DNA" by Dennis kelly, she performed hers first which was really good, she had allot of energy and character in the piece which made it comical and believable, yet I told her that although its great she could emphasise some of the words more to give it more effect. I did perform mine back yet I found it difficult to come up with blocking for the piece, therefore we decided to give ourselves some time to work alone on our characters and movement. The next part of the lesson consisted of focus games, improvisation and feedback. We were told to hide in the main section of the theatre which is basically an open space which made it hard!, everyone was found very quickly this time round. We were then told to hide again but this time to imagine that it was the worst thing in he world to be found, everybody was more creative with their hiding places, and I managed to find a much more inventive place than before, the point was that if you have a reason to do something its always easier and comes more naturally. The improvisation was unexpected to be honest, we were told that three people would come into the room of who we really wouldn't want there. but i wasn't exactly expecting a acted hostage like situation!. so my reaction sort of came naturally, me and Victoria were talking at the time and got a bit freaked out and sort of hid behind the curtains, which I think is what I would probably do if this situation actually happened but looking back I probably should of stayed and improvised properly. Finally we watched back some monologues and gave feedback, i didn't perform mine as i didn't feel ready and am still a bit nervous of the first years, but I aim to start pushing myself more this year so I will really try and volunteer next time.
Overall I believe I understand the dance moves much better, although theres still room for improvement!, I have thought about my characters further and have more experience in improvisation.

Yvonne Rainers contemporary dance routine

            This is a video of the contemporary dance we are working on
                                                                         :-)

Tuesday 18th september

Improvisation exercise- as improvisation in an important element of acting, it is commonly asked for during auditions and practised in workshops, therefore we need to cover this to improve our improvisation skills. Our tutor gave us a situation which we would have to improvise... the situation involved an argument  between Victoria and Chloe the night before which had been spread all over Facebook! as a group we were asked to come up with a devised scene for the end of the lesson which we were all going to be marked on, so obviously this would be difficult in-between an ongoing argument!. The improvisation was funny to perform and watch as everybody did it differently, some people were being as naturalistic (I think I was naturalistic) as possible whilst others were playing it over the top with added comedy which gave others something to bounce off. I was quite pleased though as we did manage to make the scene flow even if it wasn't too believable!. 

Analysing monologues (picking them to pieces to figure out the character and their intentions)-

We were all given a monologue which we knew nothing about and as a group we started to analyse it to figure out what the characters personality is like. We realised straight away that she is a pushy mum who wants fame for her daughter and probably herself as well, we found this out because she was talking about taking her daughter to auditions and arguing with her daughter when she messed up. we thought that she probably wanted the fame more than her daughter as at the beginning she says "when we first started out", and why would she say "we" when its only her daughter attending the auditions?. her language was also incorrect and involved swearing ("i mean she's fucking illiterate") which suggests she isn't posh or very well educated. After analysing it more we came to the conclusion that she is attempting to live her life through her daughter and puts fame and money before her daughters happiness. Its helpful to understand how you pick a monologue to pieces (to learn about the characters) as its really important that you fully understand audition monologues so you can perform them with meaning. It was also interesting that even the punctuation used can teach you a great deal e.g if theres allot of short and sharp sentences it may mean that the character is really angry,  upset or not educated to a high standard.

For the last half hour we worked on our monologues individually, this gave me time to run through Polly's monologue a few times to get a grasp of the language used and time to memorise the first half 

Friday 14th september

Today we were looking for and researching monologues for both units. I found it really hard to settle on a contemporary monologue, so I borrowed some books from my tutor which contain plays for young people produced by the national theatre. 

I have watched "much ado about nothing" for character research but I can't find "as we forgive those" on any videos or the full version of "The seagull" but I am doing character research into these online to get a better grasp of the characters personalitys. 

The monologues I have chosen so far...

• Ninas monologue from "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov. I need to do further research on the play but so far I know she's 19 and is an actress. She isnt the best of actress's but gives it her best! the monologue I am doing is quite strange as its a piece that she has to perform in a play, she thinks its brilliant, but the audience think its a bit strange.
• Hero's monologue from "Much ado about nothing" by William Shakespeare. In this monologue hero knows that Beatrice is listening to the conversation between herself and her maid Ursula, she is deliberately saying nasty but quite comical things about Beatrice's personality and attitude towards men to make her realise what her behaviour is really like. The style will have to be quite over the top as its a comedy and she wants beatrice to hear everything shes saying.
•  Alex's monologue from "As we forgive those" by Andrew Smith. Alex is troubled girl in her late teens who left home after injuring her sister, she has appeared at her sisters house a few years later after an unfortunate coincident with   her sisters roommate Jenny of whom she had robbed the night before without realising!. she secretly regrets everything she has done but she can't seem to admit it for a while. the monologue is when she has finally cracked and she is telling her sister why she went to such extreme lengths, it turns out she thought she was ugly and nothing compared to her sister so it was done out of jealousy. She still feels worthless but she also feels deeply sorry for what she has done and wants forgiveness. The style is quite naturalistic and I will need to use the "Magic If" to portray it.  

Alex's monologue srongly contrasts with Hero's monologue, as Alex's is quite depressive and involves anger and negative emotions whilst Hero's monologue is sort of a comedy and involves humour and teasing. They are also from completely different time periods, contemporary and classical.

here are some links I found which will give you more information on the plays-
http://www.enotes.com/much-ado-about-nothing
http://www.gradesaver.com/the-seagull/study-guide/section1/
http://www.stageplays.com/products/as_we_forgive_those/Andrew%20Smith

Thursday 13th september

This was our first lesson working with the new first years, which was great but also quite scary at the same time! in a way this experience in itself is helpful for both units, as during auditions and workshops you often have to work with people you don't know and you have to learn how to deal with this to perform your best (keeping confidence and teamwork etc). We started the lesson with a group warm-up to prepare us for the contemporary dance routine. The dance routine goes with the song "river deep mountain high" and is a modern style of dance which uses lots of simple but effective movements, it also involves a chair and pillow. Contemporary dance can come in many forms and is used fairly commonly, therefore its important to have some experience and knowledge in the style. During workshops and auditions you may also be asked to undertake some form of dance or movement activity; which makes it all the more important to give it a go.  For the next hour we looked at notes from professionals explaining what they look for in an actor (during auditions), I found the information very helpful as I had never even thought of some the aspects they covered. 

below are some of the notes I found helpful and will use for future auditions:

•  The audition starts from the moment you walk through the door
•  They look at how you dress, so you must make sure you dress appropriately for the part you are going for
• don't babble on or over sell yourself
• They may not ask you directly to leave, therefore you must look for the hints
• always listen and respond carefully to thier questions, never argue a point with them!
• try to relax and not let nerves get in the way, as your acting probably wont show very well and will become forced if you tense up to much. 

After this we paired ourselves up with somebody we have never worked with before to work on a monologue called "tbc!". We had to interpret in ourselves as we weren't given any information on the character or the backstory. everybody interpreted it in different ways, I originally thought the character would be in his twenties and was complaining about an old school friend who got him into trouble on numerous occasions, as it turns out it was about a teenager with schizophrenia who was talking about his other personality which causes trouble. The activity made a good point though as it proves that you have to read the whole play to understand the character, their feelings and aims, as if you don't it will become apparent by the way you perform it. we continued the activity by watching a few versions of the monologue, it became clear that even if you know who the character is, everybody will put their own stamp on a piece and you have to find out what works for you and your interpretation of the character. During the lesson we also participated in a game to get us all used to each other: we all stood in a circle with a chair in the middle and one by one had to get up and simply sit in the chair and look at everybody for as long as we felt comfortable, this was to show us that we can get up in front of each other without being scared as we now already have and are all in the same boat.

overall I have taken allot out of the lesson, I have met all our first years, gained helpful tips for auditions and learned the importance of character research.