Meeting With A Professional Actress

This is not the normal post you see on this blog. I usually do reviews on movies (actually that's all I really do). But, today I am writing about my experience meeting with a professional actress. I hope you enjoy this post.

I can not begin to describe how amazing this experience was, but I'm going to try. I met with a professional actress this weekend, and she helped me with my monologue for drama class. At first I was terrified to meet with her because I thought I would waste her time. My nerves slowly started to go away; I realized she was there to help me, not to criticize me.

The first thing we did was discuss my character's personality and what she was trying to accomplish in the monologue. I thought this was a useful method to get into the mind set of the character. I will be using this method whenever I prepare a scene for drama. Next, we read the monologue aloud standing up. But, we realized that my monologue took place on a roller coaster, so I then read the monologue sitting down.

I have always struggled with stage fright when I perform. So, I asked her if she is ever nervous on stage. She also has stage fright when she performs, but she has methods to reduce her anxiety.  She reduces her "nerves" by saying to herself, " I am not Anne Decker. I don't know who that is. I am "whatever character" I am trying to portray." She thinks about how that character would not be nervous on stage. This helped me immensely with reducing my stage fright. It soon became easier to perform, and it felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders when I would perform.

We then worked on one paragraph at a time adding different emotions. She gave me great tips that helped me see what the monologue was really about. By the end of our hour and a half together, my monologue was finished. This meeting was amazing, and I hope to work with her again soon.

Anne Decker, the actress I met, is going to be in a play coming up soon. It's called A loss of Appetite. Please go check it out; she's an amazing actress. Hopefully you enjoyed this post talk to you next week! :)

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The Amazing Spiderman

The Amazing Spiderman 2 premiers, in theaters, on May 2nd. So, I thought it would be a good time to do a review on the first movie, The Amazing Spiderman. I am giving this movie a rating of 2 out of 10 because of the reasons below.

The Amazing Spiderman is about a boy, Peter Parker, who is abandoned by his parents at a young age. After he is abandoned he lives with his Aunt and Uncle. One day Peter finds an old box full of his fathers scientific notes. The notes lead him to a large research center in the city; he heads there one day after school. He is looking for Doctor Connors who was mentioned in the notes. When he has no luck finding the Doctor he starts to look around the building. He comes across a dark room full of hundreds of spiders. He accidentally hits a lever that releases the spiders from their webs. The spiders fall onto his hair and clothing, so he leaves the room. Once he has left the room one spider, that he did not notice, is still on his clothing. This spider bites him giving him supernatural abilities. He uses these abilities to fight crime.

I'll start with what I liked about the movie. I thought Peter's challenges that he faced, when trying to control his new abilities, added depth to the movie. It made the character much more relatable. He felt relatable because I go through challenges on a daily basis. My challenges are not quite to the extreme that Peters are, but they are still challenges. In the other Marvel superhero movies, the characters did not face many challenges. Which was unrealistic because if you suddenly had new abilities, it would be hard to control them. But, there were no challenges shown in the movies. A good amount of The Amazing Spiderman is Peter trying to control his abilities; this was very enjoyable.

The only thing I did not like about the film was the length. It took too long for Peter to defeat the villain. He was still learning to control his new abilities, but he took too much time to defeat the villain. I think this movie could have been shortened by at least 30-45 minutes. If the film had been shortened, it would have kept my attention.

I really enjoyed this movie and hope you watch it!! Talk to you next week! :)

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