Exercises

Tempo, Emotion and Action: We walked around the room reading our monologue and whenever we got to any type of punctuation we would stop, turn 90 degrees and keep walking until we go to the next bit of punctuation. By doing this it gave us an idea of the pace of the monologue and where the tense bits where in our monologue and where the climatic bits where. For example my monologue starts off with lots of commas and full stops. This implies that my character is angry and jealous, then towards this middle there is less punctuation as my character is reflecting on what love is. By doing this exercise is showed my the tempo my piece could be performed at and the different types of emotions along with it.
We then walked around the room again, but before we walked we read the line in our head, picked out an important word then walked saying the line and did an exaggerated action to this important word. By doing this it gave us an understanding of where the important word where is the monologue and we should pick up on these words and emphasise them in our performance, not as exaggerated though.

Forum Theatre: I performed my monologue to the class and they gave me feedback on what I did well in the performance and what could do with improvement. They said my diction was good and projection, I think this came across well because I made sure I knew how to pronounce each word before I did the performance. An area to improve on was instead of talking to the audience I should also refer to the people i'm talking about. So when I performed it again I kept looking stage left to show the audience that the person who I was talking about was over there. I also got told that I could show a bit more jealousy in my emotion at the beginning of the monologue. When performing it again I crossed my arms showing I was angry at them and jealous and I also raised my voice higher than the previous performance to show my characters mood.