The first day of practicing is a little bit difficult because me and my partner Sarad, aren't familiar with the lines at all. Even though we understood the scene is emotional but we could not even read the lines with vivid feelings nor tone that follows along the plot and the characters' feeling. For our first practice together, we decided to memorize a small part of our lines daily, so that we won't have to memorize it all at the very last minute. Basically for today, we read through our lines over and over again, we also make sure to pronounce words correctly like thou and thy that appears often in the text.
Day 2 Inclass practice
For our second day practicing together, we decided to work more on our feelings while reading aloud the lines. Therefore we read through the lines again but following along the video beside our ebook with the actors reading it out with us. I realized that I am missing a lot of expression while I'm to busy memorizing the lines. Many low and high tones are made while the actors reads, and it sounded differently than mine even though it is the exactly same scene. Whenever Juliet (my partner) is very emotional, she shouts louder and speaks faster. For myself as Friar Laurence, I am more calm as a character but also, I should raise my voice when I'm trying to stop Juliet from being over emotional to make her listen to me. We practice reading our lines following the flow, tone and speed with the video of the actors playing so we could get used to it and could pronounce words with expression to make it more interesting for the audience.
Day 3 Inclass practice
After two days of reading lines and pronouncing words correctly, we decided to research some staging on YouTube to see what experienced actors have done to show this scene better. However, some of it we did not like it too much because of it being over exegerated and noisy. Some videos that we seen being acted by students in our age, made it boring like a normal conversation without emotions. Me and my partner are trying to find a middle point in between the two versions we saw and disliked. We started creating our own body movements naturally as we read through. For example, Sarah pulling out her dagger with a desperate and more of an anger tone while reading, I will make a facial expression showing shock. We also added in a hug when Juliet puts down her dagger and started crying instead of threatening to suicide. I see some changes on us while reading when body gestures are added in, our tones became more natural and fluent; In addition, I could also feel myself more into the character I'm acting with emotions inside of me, instead of pretending and imitating the actor acting in the videos on our eBook.
Day 4 Inclass practice
Today's practice went well since it's the fourth day and me and my partner is cooperating well. We have changed gradually from our first practice by adding in more body movements to create a more natural feeling into our performance. Even though we're still not done memorizing our lines, we can read though all of them fluently with high and low tones. However, by the end of class today, we have an Inclass writting assignment that have reminded me of more techniques and methods to improve our acting skills. I also decided to brainstorm a little bit after class as Michael Chekhov have said, imagining myself as the character and think how should I react as if I am the character. For our next practice together, we would want to share our methods we have researched about since we did not have enough time today Inclass to go this far.
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