In today's lesson we started to look at how we are as an actor looking at diction, tone, pitch, projection, accent, dialect, vocal control, breath control and support. When looking at these areas we had to give ourselves a rating and say our strengths and what we could improve on. I found that my 2 weakest areas where accent/ dialect and breath control rating myself a 4 in both. In accent/dialect I rated myself a 4 as i feel that I can only really do an american accent and find it hard to do other accents. However i am slightly better with dialect and am able to pick it up from different places very quickly. I could work on accents by looking at different accent tutorials when i get a specific character from that region and working on it till it sound right. I am lucky with Rose as we don't know where she come from so I can decide on my accent myself so instead of changing my accent for Rose I decided to use pitch and tone in order to get the audience to understand her. I am also not very good at breath control because when I have long chunks of speech to say which doesn't have much punctuation i have to gasp afterwards however this is working as my lung capacity is getting bigger with the more exercise I have been taking part in but in order for me to be able to speak for longer periods of time I need to learn to take my breath from deep within my lungs to draw a deeper breath so I can last for longer as this will also help when doing a musical. I really need to work on this as Rose as she tends to go of on a tangent and talking about stuff that isn't relevant for a long time. Once we had done this we went and worked on looking at the beginning without using our scripts as much as we could this worked well. However when off script some people are forgetting where they need to move too and this then throws where other people to move to. We need to be off scripts as quick as possible in order to come over these problems and make it look as slick as possible.
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