Thursday 19th January

Today we focused on our monologues and characterisation.
Firstly we arranged ourselves into small groups, together we read through our monologues and discussed characterisation or anything we believed to be productive.
notes i wrote about my monologue and character

• I have decided to perform my monologue standing up, i believe i can get more of my character (Frosine) across to the audience this way, by posture an gestures.
• I need to explore intonation more thoroughly, this means i can make important aspects of the speech stand out more. This will also help the audiences understanding of what she is trying to say.

To gain more feedback about our monologues we were asked to perform our monologues to the class. i managed to read out half of my monologue, but i had to stop due to nerves (something i will have to work on). I still gained some helpful feedback, i learnt that my enunciation, tone of voice and characterisation are all good, yet i need to be louder and perform with more confidence. We then had a short amount of time to think about our feedback and come up with some new improvement ideas.

During our last half hour we watched some classical theatre clips to give us a better idea of how it is performed and what it is all about. We watched David Tennants monologue ("to be or not to be") from Hamlet, Catherine Tate performing " a winters tale" and the modern version of Romeo and Juliet. It was interesting to see what facial expressions they used and how much the acting style can differ yet still be effective. I plan to research more about Classical theatre, especially from the restoration period, as my monologue and script are from that time era.

                                                                        

This is one of the videos which we watched, i found it interesting to watch the use of facial expression and intonation