LOGBOOK 15th OCTOBER 2013

15/10/2013

                              ACTING AUDITIONS DIARY ENTRY


Today all of us had to get up and show our monologues, since Mahin has his alra audition on Friday we as a whole helped him. The monologue he is doing is from 'A Winters Tale' and the character he is portraying is Autolycus, same monologue as Cameron. First time round he delivered his speech was good but he was rushing it and I couldn't understand what he was saing half the time on certain bit, maybe because he was scared to attack the language. Also he had to emphasize on certain syllables/phrases so we can understand what he is talking about. I think that he had good energy but it wasn't strong enough. I also feel that he should slow everything down and take it apart more. To get Mahin energised, Gary did this exercise which was to run around the Theatre until shouts 'Now!' - he should go straight into the monologue. When he did that it felt much better, but we still have to understand what he's saying. It is Mahin's job to make us as the audience understand what's going on in the scenario of his piece. Not just Mahin same thing applies to all of us aswell. As an Actor it is your job to make us understand your monologue/piece. Another thing I think Mahin has to work on is 'Clarity' again I didn't understand what he was saying and I still did not get a picture or sense of where he was. I feel that Mahin can do more with his physicality because t the moment he's abit stiff and stale. Last time round Mahin had to go full out without stumbling or any interuptions as while he's perofrming his monologue. This time it was much better but he could do a lot more with it. Overall it was a lot better fom when he first started. Unfortunately Gary couldn't het anyone else up to show their monologue because time was running out :( . For our next task we had to get into pairs and work with someone different. My partner was Sean, we had to choose who is going to be partner A or B-obviously because my name starts with an A I had to recite my lines from both of my Shakespeare monologues and Sean could stop me at any bit if he didn't get the meaning of what I was saying. I know y 'Taming Of The Shrew' monologue (2nd Shakespeare piece) but I didn't understand what I was saying. I understood a few bits but there were just words that I di not quite understand myslelf. When Sean asked to see my Julius Caesar monologue (1st Shakespeare piece) which I'm very string on. The first time I did this monologue I did not paint a picture of where my charcter is and who he I talking to. Sean told me with him seeing my monologue it's much better, he understood what I was saying and it has come a long way. He also told me to keep working on it and I should be fine :). On the other hand I have a lot of work to with my 'Taming Of The Shrew monologue :( and because it's a romantic piece I have a feeling that I am really going to struggle with it. Hopefully within a week or two it should be at a good standard.

Today was fine :/