Headshots

Reflection

So far we've learned a variety of things from memorizing monologues to completing resumes. I've gained so much knowledge and I am so grateful. As we began learning our monologues, we learned the audition process which included slating, what to wear, showing your personality, filling out an audition form and resume, and creating head shots. When auditioning for our current one acts, we put these skills to work as well as the concept of cold reading. While rehearsing, we begin working on staging and movement. With movement, we had to determine whether our characters movements were big, small, deep, shallow, direct, indirect, tense, loose, heavy, or relaxed. We also dealt with colors in how they describe our characters mood. For instance, red represented anger and yellow represented happiness. Also we did this activity where we experimented with what animal and element(such as, fire, water, wind) our character would be. By doing these activities we were able to connect more with our characters. Through this process, we had to discover the objectives of our characters. This included their obstacles, tactics, goals, and stakes. All these components have helped us to become better actors and actresses. I'm looking forward to continuing this journey!

Character Bio

My character goes by the name of Pamela Warden. She is the hospital administrator. Her job is to oversee all actions and affiliations of the hospital. Anything concerning the well being of the hospital as well as the customers is her responsibility. As the administrator, she handles any issues that become present. Whats in the best interest of the hospital, employees, and customers is what she strives for. In the scene, she puts on a smile to impress the Hacketts thus displaying good customer service. Her attitude quickly shifts as the Hacketts try to intimidate her. She becomes stern and very authoritative. She is very straight forward, throwing all morals out the window as she presumes to switch the babies. Warden is all about business as she cuts off emotion. However, in the future this could lead to her lacking a personal life as she lets work come between her relationships as well as friendships. Throughout the scene, she uses tactics such as aggression, intimidation, aggression, deception, and manipulation as she attempts to avoid a lawsuit for the hospital. The stakes therefore a very high.

Comedic Monologue

Election Day by Josh Tobiessen
Brenda: No, it's ok Adam. I am on drugs. Ok now, hang on and hear me out. There was this big bag of narcotical materials, that I may have eaten. Unintentionally well, no, fine intentionally, but because of the police. Ok ok ok. Earlier today, I found myself to be in       possession of a sandwich bag, containing no sandwich, but rather a certain quantity of a controlled substance. When I was in the car later on, a police officer of the law, attemptedly        tried to pull me over, and I reacted in such a way as to not go to jail. So, I ate, and eventually consumed, the inner contents of the aforementioned sandwich bag, therefore inebriating the evidence. In a sense he didn't pull me over and actually was probably not following me, just driving on the same road. As me. Not impossibly in the opposite direction. But, however, it is important to note that for the previous half hour I have been locationed at Starbucks drinking shots of espresso, so I'm fine.

Monologue 3 First Showing

Monologue 2 First Showing

Dramatic Monologue

At The Bottom of Lake Missoula by Ed Monk: (Pam) You want to help me? Ok, you can help me! My whole family was killed by a tornado four months ago. My mom, dad, brother, and sister and the baby. All dead(with self-loathing.) And I wasn't there, cause I need some peace and quiet. I didn't want to spend an extra day with them. So here I am, I got all the money I'll ever need and all I do is spend all day in stupid classes learning useless information. I don't know why I keep going, I guess I'm hoping I can learn something to make sense of it. But there's nothing, it's all the same, it's junk and a bunch of noise...And...I pray  and I...I don't know...I have this bottle of sleeping pills they gave me after it happened, and every night I can't get to sleep and I sit there and think about taking the whole bottle. But that's a sin, isn't it? Isn't it? So I can't do that and I don't know what to do. And I'm going crazy, I can't stop thinking about them, everywhere I go, something reminds me of them why the heck couldn't I have let her have the dang CD player!?...That's the last thing I ever said to her...So you want to help? Go ahead and help. You tell me what to do. You tell me what to do!

Scene 1 Final Showing

Monologue 1 First Showing

Classical Monologue

Hamlet by William Shaqespeare Act 3 scene 2: (Player Queen) So many journeys may the sun and moon make us again count o'er ere love be done! But woe is me, you are so sick of late, so far from cheer and from your former state, that I distrust you. Yet though I distrust, discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. For women's fear and love hold quantity, in neither aught, or in extremity. Now what love is proof hath made you know, and as my love is sized, my fear is so. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

Scene 1 First Showing

Sade and Rachel performed a scene from 'Night Mother.  Leave them some valuable feedback.  Thanks for stopping in.

Blog Post Assignment 1

Strengths: As an actress,  I feel my strengths are my ability to connect to others as well as situations, my sense of passion and desire to succeed at everything I do, my determination, my ambition, my integrity, my open mindedness,  my compassionate nature, and my sense of humor. These are all personal aspects of my life and character that conveys into my theatre persona. In any and everything I do I strive to give it my all and as I do so I make it personal. That's why I believe that being my true self is my own personal strength.

What I Do Well: I feel I can imitate and mirror various roles and characters. My ability to adjust is also another one of my strong points. I also feel I do well in playing a more serious role in theatre.

Areas for Improvement: There are always areas that I desire to improve in. I would like to be more confident in myself as a performer as well as my performances. I also would like to become stronger in staging various scenes, projecting to the audience, and stage presence. When it comes to accents I'm not as fluent so that needs improvement as well.

What I Want to Work on to Improve: I'm interested in truly getting the audience to believe in the characters I play. To do that, I want to be able to really get into character and connect more with my role so that the audience is convinced. I would like to work on serious and suspenseful dramas or mysteries. I feel that that area is the direction that I would connect to.

Challenges: I sometimes struggle with having stage fright or performing in front of a crowd. It is often just a slight sense of nervousness that tends to fade away. Another thing that challenges me is stepping out of my comfort zone and doing things that may not always be familiar or comfortable from what I'm used to doing. However, it allows me to be open to new things and for growth and expansion. Other than that, the only other challenge would be myself. I sometimes can be my own worst enemy and stand in my own way. I have to learn to push myself and not doubt myself. My only fear is the fear of failing. I have expectations for myself and I always want to do my best. That's why I feel it's really important that I always give it my all no matter what it is. If I do that, this fear will become insufficient. I believe it's better to face your fears than to avoid them. If you continue to run away from the things that hinder you, you will never overcome those challenges or issues in life. Therefore, by facing your giants, you will obtain true victory.

My Autobiography

HI!! My name is Sade' Moore. I was born on September 8th, 1994. Throughout my childhood, I enjoyed playing games that involved acting such as, dress up and pretending to be various characters. However, at the time I lacked interest in any form of acting. I didn't realize that I would later obtain the desire to participate in theatre. As i grew older, I began to take part in small plays at my church as well as school related activities. In seventh and eighth grade, I joined a summer program called St-Arts that was held at Winthrop University. While there, I signed up to take a drama class, not knowing the effect and impact it would have on my life for years to come. I later would meet Mr. Chrismon seeing as he was one of the many teachers there that I would come in contact with. During these classes, we covered many topics such as improvisation, monologues, dialogues, and many other areas. There I gained knowledge and experience that I never thought of having. I was given the chance to express myself creatively through acting. I will never forget that experience and I will forever be grateful. Prior to participating in the drama program at St-Arts, I had never really considered acting as a part of my life, nor taken it seriously. I knew that it was a great outlet for creativity but I figured that I wasn't capable nor talented enough to do it. At the time I didn't believe in myself, feeling as though I lacked the skill and experience to partake in such a remarkable craft. After being apart of the program, it opened my eyes and created a new passion I had never thought of before. That was the moment where I truly believed in myself and my abilities. Since then, I feel I have grown as an actress. However, I know that I have not yet reached my full potential. There are always areas I feel could use some improvement but I know that if I work hard and give my all, true success can be obtained. Going into this new semester, I am so excited. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone, as we learn and grow together. I am so inspired by the talent of each individual. We are all different and unique in our own way and we each portray something special with each and every performance we give and will give in the future. I don't know where acting will take me in the future, but one thing I do know is that it will forever be apart of me.