Julia Starkey

We had our individual coaching session on Monday the 9th. We both felt that our performance during the session wasn't the best it has been, but we got a lot of really valuable feedback and concrete things to work on. Something that we were both struggling with was making the subtext of the scene clear without overreacting or seeming inauthentic. We are both focusing on making sure we are completely grounded and inside of the scene, as opposed to being preoccupied with how the scene is looking from the outside. Thinking too much about this took us out of the action and made it more difficult to convey emotions. I think that we are definitely getting better at realizing that our actions will look most genuine if we really  understand and embody our characters' motivations instead of focusing on the actions themselves. We are also focusing on making the conversation flow more organically by breathing on each others lines during the fast paced sections of our conversation and making sure our pauses are meaningful and have intention. We met again in a classroom on the 14th, and ran through the scene a few more times. We felt good about this rehearsal, and we were able to incorporate our focuses  and notes well. I think that we were able to raise the stakes during these run throughs, which definitely helped a lot. We both feel that our scene is well rehearsed and we are looking forward to the final performance.