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Very helpful video, but doesn't include all characters.

Beginning Commedia dell'arte

After presenting my monologue on monday and after watching other presentations which i found some to be very powerful, we began to work on our new unit: Commedia dell'arte. My initial reaction was that it was very childish but after we talked a bit about it, i realized that, yes it was "childish" and but it was childish because through being like that many important characteristics about humans and human relationships can be highlighted. I also learnt that it was very relevant to movies, as you know i like film a lot, so i began drawing lines between much of what we learned about the character Zanni and characters in movies. When we were told to act like Zanni it took us a while to get into the character without feeling foolish, but after a while we started to pick up on how fun it was to play this character. In the first class we weren't able to do very good Zanni characters, but in the second class which we repeated much of what was done in the first we understood more and were able to do better. It wasnt until the Lovers that I really felt more comfortable with the character. The activity was to be "in love" with love and having a more concrete way of acting and being less scandolous than the Zanni we were able to pick it up. Acting like a Lover the goal was much more clear and the way in which we could get to it also, it was all about loving another person and since we have already seen this represented so many times in the media and in everyday life we understood how to do it. It was all about wanting to seduce and since that is automatically funny, one doesn't have to try so hard for it to be funny so it comes out much more natural. We ended up working very well as a class, when everyone felt like they were doing a good job everything worked better.

Monologue Presentation

This Monday I presented my Monologue. I really get nervous when I present and after not getting to the GIN thing i really felt like i had to do well. I practiced a lot, i thought out the motions well i thought about all of the aspects of my character. But in the moment of presenting, even though i feel very safe around the class, i got very nervous and stopped thinking about doing it well, instead just doing it. I really can't reflect on my performance that much because i was so distant of the whole presentation that i felt like i didn't even do it. I think that since i've never been up on stage much it will only take more tries to become more confident in front of a crowd (especially alone in front of a crowd). It was very hard for me, but i did feel very good of myself after preforming because of the rush and because i really liked the monologue that i had written.

GIN Drama Presentation (FAIL)

This is not an excuse, I'm just bored and I like writing.

I was ready to be at school for the drama presentation on Friday and went home to be back at school no later than 2 in the afternoon. I got home ate and told my mother (as i had already told her many times over the week that she had to take me to school) she said that she had forgotten and that she had to eat with her sister that had just come from Chile and so she couln't take me with the only car that we have. I begged for a while I got on facebook to see who could take me and there was nobody. I had no choice but to go on a taxi and since I didn't have enough money I had to go on a Micro. I had gone on micros many times in my life, but never on a friday afternoon, I got on and after 10 minutes i was only 10 blocks from my house, by this time it was 1:45. I started to bbm with Rios and narrated to him my whole journey from one side of Lima to the other. The micro had to stop at every block from San Isidro to Camacho even when the micro was so packed, I was sure that nobody could get in. Finally after about half an hour I was dropped of at the UNI. Lima, from there I had to run across the bridge over Javier Prado, and make a quick stop at McDonalds to use the bathroom. From there I got on to the crapiest Taxi which transported me 3 blocks to the gate of the school, he dropped me off I threw 2 soles at him and entered the school scribbling my signature at the door. I ran the whole school and as I got to the Center Stage... "I want Cake!" It was one of the final lines, I hadn't got there on time, in fact precisely late and I had been unfaithful to the class. I was mad at my mom for not driving me, but I knew that it was really only my fault. So in conclusion... i feel bad, but i went on a crappy micro, ran and went on a taxi/rapecar.

Final Monologue (for now)

I went to get some water for my family today. I walked many miles. And while I walked I thought. I thought about why I had to walk for miles. Why I had to burn my feet. My back. Why my eyes had to burn. Why my mouth had to dry. Why my brother had to die. Why my son was back home, thirsty and sad. Why death had to roam like a cloud. And not clouds of water. Not clouds of happiness. Clouds of family. Clouds of life. Clouds for me. At least a cloud for my son, so he could feel something more than the sun. the sun that takes his childhood away. I finally got to the well, and there, no longer did I think because my life is easier if I just don’t.

Requiem for a Dream - Ellen Burstyn's Monologue

Ezekiel 25:17 Pulp Fiction

New Monologue

I finished writing my own monologue after researching more about monologues. I used the theme of my previous monologue but changed it completely. My monologue is about a man who doesn't have water for his family and so has to walk very far in order to get it. While he walks he thinks about his situation and all of his thoughts make up the monologue. It isn't in very sophisticated language because I used the register I felt a man in poverty would speak in. The monologue narrates his walk and so has a beginning, middle and end which makes it more attractive for the audience. Also, in order for it to be more attractive, it is very emotional and in some way poetic. This allows the impact of the monologue to be more profound. I bettered my monologue by reading others and catching what makes them so useful.

Monologue Research and Rewrite

Today I researched Monologue writing and learnt many things that have been useful for my own monologue. I realized that it is important to take into consideration the way the character talks and moves because by understanding this I am able to become more personal with the character and be more emotional. A more emtional character allows me to further the profoundity of the message.