Acting Project- Jacob L

On Tuesday, Grace and I performed our two mini scenes in front of the class.  As a whole I thought we did very well.  There was a lot of improvement from our first draft.  From our classmates thoughts, most of them said that we had to improve on our blocking and memorizing.  Like Grace said,  the fire escape was very hard to show our body language cause we are talking about Tom's bad smoking habits that could be used for a night school course at the Washington U.   I felt awkward cause we were just standing there and not really walking around showing blocking.  The blocking was an issue for me cause Im outside the fire escape and am not sure what I should be doing other than just staying in the same spot.  We both felt that the memorization was more important than the blocking even though we practiced the blocking a few times during class.  I really liked what Grace and I did, we both tested each other with what we had memorized so far.  If we did not know what the line was, we would tell each other what the line is and repeat it to ourselves over and over again.  I felt this was a good use of our time during class.  I really think I helped Grace with her lines cause when she was doing it for me, I became more and more confident about my lines.  As time went on, we were practically Tom and Amanda in the scenes.  As for the staging we felt it was to crowded in the corner where the fire escape was so we made the living room a bit smaller and some of the living room part of the fire escape.  If you could not tell, the clothes hanger was basically our door out.  For example, as I am putting on my jacket heading outside towards the fire escape thats where the door is.  Anyways, both of us showed our emotion in a different way.  I pushed my chair as if I was trying to get out of the house cause I could not deal with what was happening.  As for Grace, at the end she showed great emotion by being all sad and basically crying about me leaving her with nothing but Laura.    I felt very prepared and felt I did a lot better than the first draft.  We had enough if not enough time almost too much time to prepare for this scene.  A week before, I knew my lines by heart.  I was dedicated and worked hard with memorizing my lines with my parents every other night.     Once we got into the Living Room the blocking was much easier for Amanda as she is exposing Tom.  Amanda definitely shows more blocking cause she is serious as for Tom he is a bit more and I don't care type of dude.  I tried to show that I was annoyed with Amanda and did not really care with anything she had to say to me.  Amanda know's that I am very annoyed of her so she calls me a selfish dreamer and really shows her anger when Grace grabbed my arm before I attempt to go to the movies.  I really felt Grace was good with the memorization and blocking which really allowed me to do my part and act out my lines.  Next time when we are doing an acting project like this, I should be less nervous and more confident.  By focusing and staying on task you will do just fine.  Grace and I got along very well during this project and knew each other weakenesses by just practicing.