This is Your Captain Speaking...

Let me start off this journal entry by saying how amazing Richie's mask club was. He directed Boeing Boeing, and it was phenomenal. the acting performed by the three actresses was amazing from the way they carried themselves to the mannerisms adopted by each one. Especially the voice inflection adopted by ashley to perform her german speaking character. WoW is all I have to say.

Today is the day in class when Holly and I present our skit if you will of tactics and objectives. We've been practicing for the past couple of days; first we tried to figure out what we would do. We decided to do a piece about a brother and sister fighting but after numerous run throughs and a lot of help from Danielle and Gabi, Holy and I decided to change our scene completely and go with a more fresh and contemporary scene--a creepy man stalking freshman at the Cannon Center.

I played the creepy man and holly the venerable yet determined freshman girl. The scene was a big hit with the class and I thought both of us did a great job without tactics and objectives. my tactics being to touch, seduce, and please; just to name a few. My overall object was love or solace which may or may not have worked. My entrance was a stealthy walk about her and my exit was to see another girl, off stage, and try and hit on her--hence me needing to leave the stage.

This exercise taught me that acting is hard. I did not feel at easy nor comfortable in the role I was given and it was really only 30 minutes before class started did Holly and I get the rhythm of the scene down where both of us felt comfortable. My feelings towards acting did not improve when Stephanie asked me to role play a scene with victory regarding tactics where I was an airplane pilot. the scene didn't go to badly but I didn't feel very good about performing it. towards the end of class the discussion of sensory recall came up and stephanie informed us about storing memories to recall those actions and sensations we felt at those heightened moments of our lives latter when we act.

At the end of class Stephanie handed out assignments on who are partners where to be for our scene assignment. I am paired with Petra, a sweet girl from the Ukraine majoring in animation. It should be interesting to see how we both act and what talents we can learn from each other.