TGM Paper

• - Played Amanda
• - Mother who wants her own personal expectations
• - She used her power to make her kids do certain things 
• - selfish to her children but to herself she doesn't see what she is doing wrong
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• - anger
• pain, sadness
• movement
• body language
• reactions
• Memory 
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1. Amanda always reacts badly to Toms accusations and defense mechanisms
2. Amanda starts actions that can cause equal or greater reactions
3. Looking at her life before marriage and children
4. Attention given to her and possibly looking at the exaggeration
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Blog Post - TGM scene

During this scene, Aaron and I had a lot of difficulties getting our lines to match with the ones that we were trying to get across. As a group, we both kept coming up with different ideas and way to change and manipulate the scene in different ways. We also had a hard time working out each of our monologues. We did a lot of practicing with blocking and messing around trying to use the most of the stage. As the scene came together we had used the majority of the stage and has blocking that made us feel confident our point was being carried not only through our words but our actions as well. We had decided that there would be a more complicated lighting so that we could show a progression and have smaller changes that would hopefully affect the entire feel of each scene. Aaron and I also did work on action games and having fun. This helped us learn our lines and do different techniques to get better as actors in a scene together. The outcome was good, considering the more complicated lights and scene changes. We did a good job of staying in character and knowing the majority of the lines. While there were a few mistakes, mainly on my part, I think we learned the lines pretty well. Our blocking came out really well and we did a great job of using all of the stage in order for us to fill the space with minimal props and people. We had some shaky scene changes and we could have done a better job of making sure that Grace had everything she needed because she ended up not having a candle and I didn’t have the costume I was going to wear. In the scene changes themselves, it was difficult to move things and get everything where we needed it with only the two of us. I also could have done a better job of showing emotion and levels in my voice. As for blocking we could have included more levels, while we used the front, middle and back of the stage it would have been cool to use the bridge to give even more levels. Personally, I could have n=known my lines a little bit better and been more confident in delivery. I also could have done more react to Aaron than focusing on trying to find the music by blocking and thinking about my lines. I think that Aaron was doing good with what we set and was taking charge, which was helpful especially since he has had more experience than myself. I have a lot of room to grow and I can see that in the video and how I felt about the performance. As a group, I think we worked really well of getting everything done and working smoothly through the snow days. Finally, our video was a little bit too short so we could have added more to lengthen it, I think part of the problem was both of us rushed our lines a little bit.

TGM - Review and Edits From First Scenes.

Blog post due by midnight -- 300 words.  Based on the feedback you received on your first draft, what things are you working on and what rehearsal techniques have you tried in order to improve your performance?

Most feedback from my classmates only consisted of a few sentences which didn't really help me. A lot of the time I only got one or two things to improve on, or general things that both Aaron and I could work on, such as the piece was almost the proper length. The main problem in the performance was the I laughed at one point because of a mistake Aaron and I both made. As a class, we also agreed that my portion of the monologue should be moved. Overall, I think that the feedback wasn't really helpful because there was a lot that they gave as plan or average, so I don't really know what I should be doing to improve it. I think that I do have some improvement to make, such as changing that monologue and working on staying more in character even when there is a mistake in the performance. In order to fix these things I have been looking through Amanda’s monologue to add that in and learning the lines to that portion. I also have been working on knowing all of my lines more and thinking about what I want to say to the IB and do some blocking and reacting to situations. I also have been watching other versions of the scene in order to see how some people portrayed Amanda. This shows me different ways to come at the role and make my own version of the character and performance to make it unique. I also like watching the scene because I like to get inspiration for blocking and tones. I would have liked to have more suggestions and specific comments in my reviews but on the other side it allows me to come up with also of my own ideas and finding where I think I need to change things in rather than being told. But, I will say that this doesn't help me know where the audience sees problems not just my point of view from the stage.

TGM Feedback - review

Most feedback from my classmates only consisted of a few sentences which didn't really help me. A lot of the time I only got one or two things to improve on, or general things that both Aaron and I could work on, such as the piece was almost the proper length. The main problem in the performance was the I laughed at one point because of a mistake Aaron and I both made. As a class, we also agreed that my portion of the monologue should be moved. Overall, I think that the feedback wasn't really helpful because there was a lot that they gave as plan or average, so I don't really know what I should be doing to improve it. I think that I do have some improvement to make, such as changing that monologue and working on staying more in character even when there is a mistake in the performance. In order to fix these things I have been looking through Amanda’s monologue to add that in and learning the lines to that portion. I also have been working on knowing all of my lines more and thinking about what I want to say to the IB and do some blocking and reacting to situations. I also have been watching other versions of the scene in order to see how some people portrayed Amanda. This shows me different ways to come at the role and make my own version of the character and performance to make it unique. I also like watching the scene because I like to get inspiration for blocking and tones. I would have liked to have more suggestions and specific comments in my reviews but on the other side it allows me to come up with also of my own ideas and finding where I think I need to change things in rather than being told. But, I will say that this doesn't help me know where the audience sees problems not just my point of view from the stage.

TGM Scene Rough Draft Cassidy and Aaron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pMHVSwmKDo&feature=youtu.be