Nell Decker

Sorry for the delay guys. This blog is about Wyatt's and my rehearsal process for the second week of scene work. 

So Wyatt and I have met up a few times out of class to run the scene, over and over. We have run it so many times I feel like I am saying the lines in my sleep. I really feel like the only way I learn lines is repeating the scene indefinitely. I also noticed that when I feel like were having some sort of breakthrough with the scene I forget my lines or change them without noticing because something new is happening inside of me. 

When we get bored and feel like we are repeating the same thing we talk about how if feels and of there is something we can do to mix it up. One time Wyatt suggested just doing a really melodramatic run of the scene. Surprisingly that run actually felt the most "real," I think this is because we were just doing something different so our reactions were a surprise of the moment and we weren't afraid of being bad because we felt comfortable enough to be bad. We would also try the scene with different mop positions, sitting down at various times, and really just experimenting with anything we could think of. I think our scene has come a long way but I still sometimes feel like our performance is stale and actors actin and sometimes I actually feel myself cry a little but at the end because I find little ways that Rose relates to my own life, and just life in general. I wish I knew the difference in what causes each feeling and how to hone the really real feeling. It can't simply be luck, but right now thats how it feels. Randomly we will have a run-through that feels moving and randomly I will just feel like it sucks. I guess thats just part of acting 

Anyways, thats what our week 2 was like, thanks guys!