Saturday, 20 October 2012

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.

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