My Monolouge experience

Doing this Monolouge I was able to get to know and see everyone's acting style. This was a great experience and I think everyone did well. Now let's talk about my Monolouge. I was told to try and do a pirates voice but I can't do one. But I was able to make up for if by showing emotion in my body  movement. I did always struggle with the ending, but I think that at the end I did ok. Now back to my classmates. I think they all did well and I liked how Gia took our advice and acted more scared when about to hit the bottom. Josh also did well, and after some relieve really made it look like he was trying to hide from the paparazzi. And Victoria was amazing with that child voice. She went slow and paused to think really making it look like a child was trying to present. In the end I think we were all able to really make our Monolouges personal, the way we changed it a bit and how we acted it. This experience was fun and useful.

How to be a pirate

https://youtu.be/vJk1sRT4Ns4

What I think

I need to improve on my pirate voice and my outfit.

Monologue

Lesson 1... no baths, no washing, no cleaning up

Pirate's take pride in their stench. It's like a contest or something. If you're the only one who smells good, it's rough. It's better to blend in the bad smells... If someones out of tune, it throws off the balance.

Lesson number... the next one... You have to stop being so girly. Female pirates are the roughest, toughest, leanest, meanest human beings to ever travel the sea. If a male steals one gold, you steal two. If a male cuts off one finger, you cut off two. Be better or be dead!

Blog #2

My experience these past two weeks has been very interesting. I first thought the class would have a lot of people. I also thought that we would be doing plays or reading scripts. But to my surprise it was a small class which gave me the opportunity to get to know everyone on a personal level. The class has us do activities.  These activities help us become better actors/actresses and are really fun. I enjoy the exercises where we interact with each other but find the exercises on the iPads boring. It was hard to do the improve exercises because I struggle to think of what to do. However, I enjoy the silly activities. For example, the commercial where we had to sell a product. So far I am enjoying the class and the people in it. I hope that we keep doing activities with a lot of interaction with classmates, so I can have fun and strengthen our relationships. I didn't enjoy looking for a monologue because quietly browsing the internet didn't feel like it had anything to do with acting. I love acting but I don't enjoy writing. I have a difficult time expressing myself in words. I find that I run out of things to say.  It has been only been two weeks so there isn't much to talk about. So I am struggling with the blogging aspect of the class (as you know).  Hopefully, this will be come easier with practice.  But if there is something I want to learn in this class is how to be better at improvising and how to get rid of stage fright.

How to be a pirate

Setting: aboard a pirate ship in the Atlantic
Plot: a pirate training a lady how to be a pirate
Who: captain black beard
Why: he needs more people in his crew
Looks: eye patch, hook hand, crooked teeth, stern and ugly, smells
What happened before: the lady being trained is a proffesinal thief names golden pocket and joins black beard becuse she want treasure
Cloths:Blackbeard is dressed with a captains hat, ripped shirt, a sword on his side, boots, coat

Who I am

Hi, my name is Jake Polanski and I am in acting class. Something to know about me is that I ski during the winter in Vermont. As a child my mom and dad called my "total drama Jake" becuse of my favorite show "total drama island". Over the summer a few years ago I went to a camp for to weeks and stayed with my grandparents. During this trip I learned game coding and acting. At the end of the course we did a play in front of our parents (I was the only boy in the class). The reason I'm doing acting class is becuse I really enjoy being on stage becuse it's fun to act and get to know new people. And to know what goes on backstage can make you apretiate other plays more.

Class

When we did our scenes today we learned that a scene with separate objectives and no interaction are less exciting to watch. But when you have a objective where you interact with the other actors /actresses you have a lot more dialogue and excitement. I hope we do more activitys like this one becuse it was fun.