actually talking

As i watched the first group today in class do the first voice activity i could tell that some of the language used was just used as a crutch or a filler... it did look harder than i thought it would be.  I think that finally getting to talk is actually going to make things a lot harder.  

Voice Acting

I agree with Ryan, I think voice acting would be really hard. ( Sorry I know that comment is from a really old post, but I just saw it.) At first, it seems like it would be really easy- all it is is talking. But it's not really- it's acting. After spending so many weeks acting with no talking I feel like it would be really hard to disconnect movement and words. Perhaps that was the point of not talking , to reinforce the importance of action . I don't want to overthink things, but now I'm wondering how much harder it is going to be when we have the added complication of speech to our exercises.

And then they spoke...

I am surprised how fast I got used to acting without speaking. I thought that it was weird at first, however now that we are starting to speak during our scenes, I see the point of starting the way that we did this semester. It allowed us to be able to focus on our actions without having to also figure out what to say. Now that we are more "advanced" and prepared, we are going to be able to handle the situation better than we would if we did not do the activities we did until this point.

It is kind of ironic because when going into this class, I figured that we would simply start off with acting activities that involved speaking. Now that we are used to acting without speaking, it is intimidating and nerve-racking to go up in front of the class and speak...even though we talk to each other when not acting. It is funny how something that we do all the time can be so challenging (which goes along with my blog from last week).

I agreed with Professor Polanco when he said that people may be uncomfortable doing these activities because they are not planned out. I always like to have everything planned out and I have found out that this has been a struggle for me in this class. I do not think I am very good with thinking on my toes! For example, today I was trying to plan out our scene and figure out what each person was going to do. I think it is great to be able to be spontaneous and hopefully I will get better at this!

sit, stay, speak

I think that maybe another reason or an addition to someone elses reason for not speaking until now might be that we hadn't broken ourselves in yet. Not knowing what to do is scary, but not knowing what to say and do is worse. It might have been more uncomfortable if we started just talking and then had to move into ridiculous motions to go along with it. We would revert back to talking too much. Also, it is alot harder to go from starting off with alot and then taking things away, while if we start with just doing and add talking later it would be easier. Last thing, I felt entertained when I watched the first group have their dinner party. excellent work

this week

i am starting to get the hang of all the excersises we are doin and i think they will get easier bc we will be able to talk i think you will see a big difference in everyones acting ability.

basiclly

The class is getting a lot easier for me! I was glad to hear that we might be able to talk this week because i think it will make things a lot more funnier. I know that acting is hard and that when you add lines then you have to add so much more! So i think it will be interesting to see what happens

No talking.

I agree with most of the others when they say that starting out talking would not be a good think. When we were acting in class we couldn't speak and so we had to look in the detail of our acting in order to make it look believable. I think that by starting out not being able to speak will hell up pay more attention to the details when we are aloud to speak. Being able to say something is a lot easy than having to act it out. I think the acting part will be much easier; however, I think that since being able to talk we will have to pay more and more attention to detail. I guess the more detail you have the better actor you are.

Not being able to talk has been a good and bad thing. It's good because you get to concentrate on the finer details of acting. You get to concentrate on movements instead of worrying about what you are going to say. The way that it is bad is that it makes it hard to communicate exactly what you are doing. Just like the one exercise where one person goes up and starts doing an activity and others join in. There were times where people didn't know what's going on and they changed the scene.

not speaking

I agree with Hallie that it was best for us to start off the semester without talking. I think once you incorporate talking it makes things a little bit easier (however I could be totally wrong because maybe acting with speaking is actually ridiculously hard). But I remember watching this behind the scenes thing on TV about the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith. There is this scene right after they fight and pretty much tear their house to shreds where they just do stuff around the kitchen and all they do is look at each other, they don't talk. And the director was saying that originally they were supposed to have words but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie thought it would be more difficult and more meaningful to just use their faces and gestures and emotions to complete the scene. I thought that was really cool because attention to detail is what we always learn about in class and this was an example of that exact concept in a big time movie with big time actors.