Jenna's Acting Blog

I like this music https://youtu.be/izQsgE0L450 Ideas (in general not just to the song) - we could have someone dreaming of something - searching for a missing item - fight over something - traveling/journey - a lunch date gone wrong

Ideas for tango project Having a tourist find unintended object A love story Shopping in a cafe

   In my personal opinion this monologue went a lot better than my other one. The first reason is that I felt more comfortable as the character. My character was much more relatable to me personally. In the last monologue the character was quite a stretch for who I am as a person. For example, I would not take so many pauses when I was talking because I usually talk very fast. I felt like this monologue really played to my strengths of comedic timing and my overly energetic feeling. My character in this monologue had a very similar reaction to what I would do in the situation of having someone's face swell up. Thirdly, I was more confident in my ability to perform because I had already performed a monologue in the class. In the first one, I was a little nervous to perform in front of new people, but now it has become much easier. Finally, I felt like my staging worked better for me because I could consistently be moving and doing something, while in my other monologue I felt a...

My characters name is Samantha. She is in her early 20s and this is her first job after going to cosmetic school. She has moved to a new city and got a job as a department store makeup salesmen. Samantha wants to become a makeup artist but knows she has to start on the bottom. Today is her first day on the job and she wants to make a good impression with both her coworkers and the customers. Samantha's boss is a very mean woman, who tells her that if she does not make a sale in the first day she can no longer work there. This makes her work even harder and really shows her persistence. She is a people pleaser. Samantha wants everyone in the room to like her and if they don't she gets very upset. She also is very bubbly and happy, which makes most people like her as a person. An older woman walks into the makeup department and asks Samantha for a cream that will make her skin glow. Samantha remembers her training and suggests a brand new facial that will make her skin glow. With...

My new monologue is called "The Facial" and it was located in 111 1 minute monologues for teens. Here is the script

https://youtu.be/R56viTypk70

In the last week I have learned a lot about how to create a well structured monologue. I created my character by thinking of what I would do in their shoes. I thought of how I would react if I saw a gun in someone's locker. I used that emotion and idea to set the scene of how my character felt. I showed emotion through my actions, for example when I paced at the door or touched my face at the desk. I thought I did well using my actions well. I felt that my choices helped make the character more believable. For example standing up when saying the main line, this is something I would personally do in real life. I also believe that my props worked very well to set the scene. Having the chair and the desk made the audience feel like the principal because it was like I was talking directly to them. Something I could do better was adding more pauses when I spoke. I found this to be very challenging because as myself, I am very used to talking fast and not taking as many pauses. These pau...