The first thing the professor brought up in class today was about making our blogs public so that everyone in the class could read them. I honestly don't have a problem with that besides the fact that I haven't figured out how to make a blog so I've been writing everything in my notebook...Luckily I asked Chris how to do it. He's been really nice and helpful considering I came a day late because I switched my major and had to enroll in all different classes and so I had no idea what was going on in this class. Some people seemed a little hesitant to share their blogs. I can definitely understand why. It's a little nerve-racking to share your deepest thoughts and feelings first off with people you barely know and second off people you'll have to see a few days later. They might think differently of you after they see what you were really thinking. I can understand that. But I also think that it would be healthy and helpful to get our emotions out on paper for everyone to read. It might make people more comfortable to see that other people feel the same way they do. I don't know, I just think it would be kind of cool for everyone to share their thoughts.
Today we also talked about last class and how acting can be therapeutic, however it is not to be thought of as therapy. You do not have to call upon past memories in order to let out some of the emotions and feelings that need to be portrayed during acting. You have to go balls to the wall and let yourself go and be free in order to reach those emotions. And you have acting coaches or teachers who are there to help you along the way and to help you feel those different emotions. And, even when you put yourself in someone else's position you can still reach those emotions, sometimes deeper than you might think. I never really thought of acting as therapeutic but now I can definitely see it. Whether you can relate to your character or not there are ways to get to the root of their thinking and motives through your own experiences and emotions.
We were also given a page from Boleslavsky and told to find the underlying action going on on that page. To tell you the truth I think I hit mine right on the head but for some reason the professor was a little hesitant and kept pushing me and asking me questions and making me second guess myself. After a lot of questions and a lot of pushing I just got down to a synonym for the action word that I had chosen to describe what was going on. I was a little frustrated because I had the right answer all along. I think that the problem was that my verb wasn't strong enough. Our professor likes to see us use strong action words and I guess mine was too simple. I didn't mind being pushed though. It was kind of fun. I had to stand up and act some lines in front of everyone and I was really nervous but I figured I'd try and let lose and go for it and it actually turned out to be a lot of fun! I don't know if I did very well or not but the scene I was doing I had to be very excited and I really got into the role. I actually did start breathing heavily and getting really frantic and excited so when the words came out I think it kind of sounded like I was feeling the way my character was supposed to be feeling. Doing this has made me realize that acting in front of people isn't TOO scary. I think I'm still working on it though...
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