Comedy sucks

   Since I have been doing serious scene for a long time, Mrs Guarino decided to assign me a funny piece. I am going to work with Jack Pummer. We will present a humorous and dramatic show to our classmates. We have chosen a scene talking about a man with gun and a crazy female writer. The female writer is focusing on her new story. To get inspiration, she decides to experience the situation the main character has experienced. She breaks into the house of a stranger with a gun. Weird and funny situation take place.

     I will be the dramatic lady this time even though I still have a lot of space for growth in dramatical acting. That’s why I have been performing serious scene for almost a quarter. These kind of scenes allow me to be normal. But I have to be as hilarious as I can in this scene in order to attract people's attention and make people laugh. I feel stressful since it is really embarrass to perform in a weird way.I mean  Jack is a perfect comedy actor. If I cannot be as funny as him, the show will look weird and boring. It is extremely hard for me to do so because I hate the feeling when people are staring at me, talking about me and laughing at me.I know and I admit that I am a inferior girl. Being laughed is hell to me. I did not thought about the scene and my character deep when we made the decision. I just realized the hardness when I practiced it yesterday. I could not think of facial expressions and body movements to enrich my performance. When I tried to act the scene out in front of a mirror, I felt like as if I was a marionette.I tried to watch some comedy scenes and learned form people. But I could not copy their tones, facial expression, body movements naturally.I need a lot of improvement but I am confused right now. I don’t know where and how I can start. If you see this post, could you please write me some suggestions about things that I can do to fit my character? Thank you.

Rocking scammer, angry nephew and old me

  This time, our group of three produced a dialogue about a scam. I am the victim, John is the scammer and William is the one who stops the crime. William is the nephew of my character, an 72 year-old lady. To make the dialogue more natural and catchy, we make use of different  props. John and William find a stick for me to support my character.  I make a Wellsfargo checkbook and get a take away beverage container from Bann Thai in order to enhance the show. We have been working hard and I really enjoy acting with two professional actors. 

  I have learned a lot through the process.Firstly, I have learnt the ways to be dramatic from my partners. William and John are gifted actors. They performed perfectly and they influenced me a lot. John taught me to be loud enough. Although my character is just an old lady, I should have enough volume in order to catch the attention of the audience. William always asked me to increase my anger to him. He taught me that I should magnify my emotion so that we can enrich the show effect. Secondly, I learned to set the performance from Miss G and my group mates. We have to find a balance point between the real background of the story and the exposing face to the audience

  In my opinion, we do well in memorization. We rarely forget about lines when performing, which helps with our interpretation. Our props are also parts of our strength. 

For the weaknesses parts, I think I should increase my volume and make my performance more dramatic to make our whole effect in harmony. My group mates do well and I hope that we can have chance to perform again.

  My favorite performance is ours. My second favorite performance is Kade's group's performance. They have a really humorous show. I like the jocular character and the funny setting. I also like Abby’s group. They are really talented actors. It will be a little better if they memorize the lines earlier.

  If I have chance to grade our group's performance, I will give a 100 to our group because we have been working hard to bear fruit. Our group mates' effort deserve this. And I am really proud of them. For individual parts,I would like to give John a 10 out of 10. He is a really charming actor and he has really good interpretation of character. I would also give William a 10 out of 10. He is a really good actor and group partner. He acts well and he teaches me well. For myself, I would like to give a 9.0. Honestly, I don't do as well as them though I have tried hard. I don't really look like an old lady. I should really pay attention to my acting skills. I wish that I can fall more and gain more in the future. All in all,  we cooperate well and I have learned from a wonderful lesson taught by John and William.