Aaron F

1/25/2019

I'm Aaron. I'm a student, obviously, and I took this class to help myself get out of my shell. I have never been the type to try new things, so I saw this class as an opportunity to open myself up. I always found myself to be nervous talking to people, or taking the role as the lead, but I feel like this class can help with my communication and help me become a better leader. As well as helping my social skills, this class can also give me experience with new things and help me be in a place where I have to be on the spot, and help me open up conversations to get somewhere. This class can help get me prepared for auditioning, social skills, and being quick with my answers, and these are all skills that I would have to use in my adult life. This class can help me develop many skills, and help me enhance the skills I already have.

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Aaron

1/25/2019 03:21:30 pm

1. Who is more important... the playwright or the cast and crew? Defend your assertion with your logic and some examples. 2. Also, how did your first performance in class go? What did it feel like before, during, and after?

1. I say that the cast and crew is a bit more important than the playwright. The playwright might make a very bland story, but sometimes it takes the atmosphere or the acting to make it good. Of course there are many stories where the writing is amazing and the cast can be bad, or the costumes are yucky, but the cast's acting is usually what makes the production more than Just a play. The cast brings a mood that writing sometimes cant replicate. The play is sometimes only as good as the cast makes it.

2. I feel like the performance went hahhahhahaha awful. Before, I was really nervous and I wasn't looking forward to being the main person in a pantomime that we had little to no time to rehears. It was a little frustrating, to be completely honest. Not everyone was on the same page. During the performance, I feel like it started out really solid. Started great from my little perspective. But as the play went on, it was clear that not everything was going to go according to plan. It was panicky and not everyone left on their cue to leave, and not everyone came out when it was their cue to come out. It made me panic. And after that i felt like i had lost a sense of pride i didn't even knew I had.

Aaron Fuentes

2/1/2019 03:05:12 pm

1) How did you begin? Did you brainstorm, get struck by a spark of imagination, or begin with by recounting a personal story, etc?
2) Has thinking about objective and tactics aided in your writing of an interesting story? Give an example of a tactic your character is using...
3) What theatrical genre would you call your monologue at this point and why?

1. I have no idea how i started. I originally had thought of a story i wanted to write so i based it off of that then I slowly spiraled into my own icky feelings and I turned it into my own little emotional fest.
2. The objective was originally for the character speaking, Mei, to get the person she's talking to, Caleb, to be more considerate towards her feelings and to the feelings of those around him. But now its just to get Mei's feelings on the table, because it seemed more difficult to be angry instead of sad. A tactic she uses is guilting and also brushing it off.\
3. I would call this a tragedy. A mess.

Aaron Fuentes

2/8/2019 02:20:28 pm

Consider your monologue... Give a synopsis of your story and the character you're going to portray. What are you doing to prepare yourself for the performance? How might you bring physicality to your character?

A synopsis would be that the person talking (Mei) has been lead on by the person she's talking to (Caleb), and she is at her breaking point, and she needs to get everything off of her chest right then and there before she completely cuts herself off from Caleb.
To prepare myself for the performance, I have to really understand where she is coming from. I have to understand the hurt that shes going through so I can bring that to stage with facial reactions, tone of voice, and even physical stature. To have this be a successful monologue, I have to *become* her basically. I have to make the emotions she feels play into what I do.

Aaron

2/13/2019 01:30:12 pm

Reflect on your monologue performance. What it like in preparation and anticipation? What was your experience during the delivery of your monologue? What parts do you feel went really well. What parts so you know you'd want to improve upon? Also, what was it like being an audience for your peer's monologues?

My monologue was icky. I wasn't ready to be called up so quickly and i had rehearsed in m,y head like all day and in the bathroom that morning. my experience was nerve wracking. I never LOOKED UP and that was hahhaha gross. I feel like i did well with my words, i didn't stumble as much as i thought. And most was improv because I felt if i were to have put everything in my paper, then it would just become convoluted. I loved my peers monologues they were so funny/. I'm glad i was able to see most of them, and they did really good. The wide range of monologues somewhat shocked me because I've always
seen monologues as angsty soppy messes because i am an angsty soppy mess.

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