Wednesday's Class

Today we recapped the weekend and talked about our observations. I enjoyed hearing all the stories that went along with the people that you observed speaking. Talking further about why we do activities like that as actors, we discovered that observing makes us more creative with the characters that we play. If we were given a character that was not exactly us (as most characters are not like us), then we can draw from our world in both speech and mannerism when speaking.

"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience." - Paul Newman

We are getting close to performing our Dr. Seuss books in class. Only one more class period for rehearsing. Keep in mind this is a Vocal performance! This doesn't have to be an acted or memorized piece, focus on the voice!

In our next class on Friday, we are going to wrap up our mini-lessons about voice and we will demonstrate good and bad diction, we will work with a few more lines from Shakespeare that can be emphasized and we will hear from Robert Cohen about Tone and Pitch.

Remember to speak with conviction everyday! See you in class on Friday!