Class Evaluation of Monologue

Name: Penny

Penny is the school drama leading lady.

Age: Around 30-40 years old

Sex: Female

Personality: Optimistic Confident caring

Place : In the Drama lesson

Situation: She is doing Demonstration and giving speech to her students

People involved: Miss Penny and her students

Silent Movie Project

I am a blank paper in acting.

 I hope I can learn 

as much as possible

in performing class

to fill up my blank space.

     For this project, we made a small comedy. There are 4 characters in our play. Ryan is the flight attendant and the remaining of us are the passengers. We keep making troubles to annoy Ryan. We add a lot of creative things to make our play better and funnier. My favorite part about our play is the costume. Ryan stands out with his hot pink dress. He looks interesting and attractive. He is the main character and the highlight of our play. I think we should do more rehearsals to practice our facial expression and body movements to enhance our performance and group cooperation. Besides, I think we can make our performance closer to reality. Dramatic things are good to attract attention, but too much of them may ruin the play. We can try to make fun of usual things to make people laugh. I love our play, but it will better if we have more conflicts instead of exaggerative performance. In addition, it will be better if we can create layers for our silent movies. The atmosphere can be more intense layer by layer. In this way, the expression will be clearer and more attractive.  

    In my opinion, John's group is energetic and active. I like their creativity and effort. I also like the Chinese elements that John has put in the background music and plot. I love the part when Sam takes out the gun from his ribs. It is so funny and special. I like the contrast between the view of her back and front. I think that the video will be better if they trim more carefully. I like it, but some of the connection points between two shots are broken. All in all, I think the interpretation of the characters and the ideas are outstanding and great.

To be honest, I feel really embarrassed when I am performing. I used to perform actively, but I feel not comfortable when I am performing now. I really try hard to make my character better. But I feel like as if I am discarded by the world when I am having performance. Everyone is staring at me and I feel like I am a panda in the cabin. My happiness is gone. I am tortured when I am performing and watching my performance. To me, standing on the stage is the hardest challenge. I would prefer to stand on fire if I have choice. However, I am still hoping to change. It is hard for me, but I will hate myself if I don’t try. I have thought of giving up, but I chose to stay at last. Hopefully, I can really achieve my target.

In this project, I try hard to help with the settings. I like to set up the costumes and props. It is the most interesting and easiest part for me. Although my suggestions are voted down, I feel satisfied that I can speak out my opinions. But I am still not outgoing enough on the stage. I wish I can do a better job next time. 

A Magical Start

I love to be a fairy god mother.

I like to use my magical power.

I am not a pretty girl.

But I have my own magical world.

I want to have good score.

And I hope I can achieve more.

My name is Angel and I am 15 years old. I came from an international city, Hong Kong. I got in touch with drama in an English secondary school in Hong Kong. I was lucky that I was chosen to be an important character when I first played drama. Our play was called The Cinderella and I was the fairy god mother. We rewrote the script and added a lot of creative things into the play. I was responsible for all the costumes, make-up and movements design. I work really hard and learn a lot of things about drama. We won the champion in the Hong Kong Speech Festival. After that, I was chosen to be a member of Chinese choral speaking team in our school. We won 2 champions in Hong Kong speech festivals. Later on, I joined the debating club to practice my pronunciation and public speaking skills, but I gave up drama because of pressure. This year, I chose to take performing class because I want to restart drama performance. I want to make my performance better and maturer. I have set up goals for this class and I hope that I can accomplish these goals.

Firstly, I would like to be more confident. I have stopped performing for two years already. My confidence was taken away by time. I am not that outgoing. I feel shy to act and talk. I dislike competition. I don’t even want to speak in class. I want to regain my confidence. I want to have courage to stand on the stage, smile to my audience and listen to their rounds of applause again. Besides, I dream to be a lawyer. Confident is a must criteria for lawyer. I wish that I can be a brave able woman in the future.

Secondly, I would like to have a B or above for this subject in my report card. This is my first time to attend an interactive class. But I am never afraid of trying new things. I would like to participate more in class and work hard in every blog post and project. I hope that I can have good grade in the end of each marking period to prove my ability. I am not satisfied with my GPA, so I would like to have better grade in this subject to increase my GPA.

Lastly, I would like to learn other kinds of performance besides drama. I hope that I can learn to do silent movie because I have never tried it before. I have watched the videos made by the students last year and I love their creativity and sense of humor. I wish that  I can have my own silent movie product.  Also, I would like to try poetry. I have tried Mandarin and Cantonese versions of poetry before in Hong Kong. I would like to have a try in English this time. I hope that I can have a lot of fun with these new things and learn more professional knowledge.