Monologue analaysis

Who?
A guy who fell in love with a woman

Age?
The woman that shakespeare is talking about would probably be early 20s or  late 10s because this sonnet is talking about her beauty

Sex?
Male

Personality?
Extremely straight forward, because he is literally talking about her appearance and giving a compliment for it. Also very romantic and smart

Situation
Where?
I have no idea....

What?
The guy is telling that she is gorgeous. He is comparing her to the summer which is the most beautiful season and saying her beauty will last forever because of his poem

Who?
Beautiful lady and a guy who loves her or is attracted to her beauty.

Monologue shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The longest flight but funniest filming

This project was the first movie that I was appeared. Although I used to wanted to be an actor, I didn't have chance to go up on the stage for performance or create a movie. So, this silent movie was a quite meaningful project for me. Overall, I think our process and result were both pretty successful. At the beginning of this project, Abigail contributed a lot to the group by leading the whole discussion while other members didn't know what to do at all. First, we decided to use air plane for the setting. After we decided to use air plane as the setting, everyone began to come up with brilliant ideas such as putting pink dress and wig on me to make a hilarious stewardess, using oat meal to replace baby vomit, and all the other details that we showed in the movie. Actually, I was having a hard time when we started acting because of I had never wore dress and wig on. It was just hard to accept my appearance with those costumes. However, after I realized that I look hilarious and many people liked it, I thought it was a good experience to try a woman's role.

 

 Basically, our movie combined the happenings that could be easily occured in the plane during the flight and ended up with stewardess giving up everything. There were few differences between our group's movie and the other group's movie. Compared to the other group's film, our movie had more realistic comic elements. The other group's movie had more over acting which was hilarious. Most of scenes in our movie was taken in one spot which might bore the audiences. However, the other group used their camera in many different angles and made the film more dynamically. Our group couldn't make the movie as dynamically as the other group did because most of actors were sitting down and I was the only one who was walking around. I assume that we could've had some more powerful laughing points if we used more zooming or changing the angles. But, what I really liked for our group were the details that we showed between all the scenes. There was one action that I accidentally did, I was supposed to appear with the book but I actually forgot to bring it, so I went back again and brought it. It wasn't in our original script that we planned, but Abigail suggested to put it in the scene like it was meant. Also, one of my favorite idea was josh carrying the camera and screaming at it. That scene made the whole movie more dynamically and lively.

 Generally, I believe everyone in our group put a lot of efforts. Josh had oat meal all over his hair and face, Robert took the scene that he spits water almost ten times, and was spilled by water all over his body, but no one complained about anything. Also, every music that we inserted to the movie was perfect to show the mood changes. One thing that I feel regretful about the editing is that we didn't last the ending scene long enough which is my "giving all up" facial expression. The result wasn't a 100% perfect, but I learned a lot from this project about group working, acting, and editing. I feel much more confident about this class after completing the project and can't wait for other activities.

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 My name is Ryan Kim and I'm a junior in Cheshire Academy. I had an experience of taking an acting class back in Korea. The reason why I started learning acting was to improve my self confidence. I used to wanted to be a singer 3 years ago, but I always got extremely nervous when I appeared on the stage. At that time, I heard a lot about an acting class from my best friend which was taking an acting class and wanted to be an actor. And, I thought the activities that students do in the acting class might help my self confidence problem. Fortunately, it was of huge benefit to the problem and I had the happiest three months in my life with a great teacher in the beginning of the course and I fell in love with acting. Eventually, I had no choice but giving up everything because of my back problem which was bothering me for past 2 years. So, I'm so glad about joining musical in Cheshire Academy and having a chance to learn acting again.

 

 Although I'm truly happy and excited, I'm still nervous about taking this class because there will be quite a few challenging parts for me. Memorizing the lines will be one of the most challenging part. Since English is my second language, it's hard to speak like a native American. I don't have to care about my accent, pronunciation, speed, or the way how I talk when I'm talking in general, but I need to think about all those things when I speak the lines unless my role is an Asian guy. However, I assumed that my speaking skills will improve a lot after I complete those memorizing lines. Also, the other thing which is going to be really challenging is Ms. Guarino's 500 words blog essay for every week. I struggled so badly in the first semester of my English class all because of the Ms. Guarino's blog assignment. I realized that I need to improve my writing skills and every single teacher that I asked the question "how can I improve my writing skills?" responded "The more you write, you will get better and faster." So, I decided to take the acting class which is Ms. Guarino's instead of the public speaking class that I originally chose.

  

 I have three specific things that I want to learn in this class: monologue, dialogue, and improvising. All three of them might look similar because they are all about speaking lines. Firstly, in my opinion, monlogue requires the most basic skills for actors and is the hardest one to act because only one actor leads everything by their voice and some of facial expression and body language. Secondly, dialogue is the most part that occupies and leads the story and easiest way to describe the story in most of plays, movies, or musicals. Lastly, I am interested in improvising because I think it shows lots of emotions how I am and how I make my decisions. Also, It will help my speaking skills in general becasue it requires adaptation to circumstances.