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Acting Skill Strengths To Improve Plan of Action

Physical Theatre Mask Work Although I took on a role in our TIE
performance that utilised a mask, I
Facial Expression still feel that this is something I could
work on. The scene where the mask
Use of space was used did not give me the scope to
explore different emotions felt by this
Good posture character, as I was only feeling
attacked throughout the sequence. I
Naturalistic Acting think it would be interesting to
explore the juxtaposition of a
Tempo-rhythm character with a sad mask feeling
contrasting emotions, such as joy.

Dancing skills In one of our rehearsals for our TIE

piece, we explored creating a dance
Movement section to show the development of a
character using a different medium.
Although we did not use this section
in our final piece it was clear to me
that I was lacking the necessary skills
to be a competent dancer. Therefore,
I would like to improve this by
following online videos and potentially
going to extra classes in my free time.

Physical embodiment of a I have strong acting skills in physical

character theatre, but I would like to improve
my characterisation and physicality
when portraying a specific character.
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To do this I will conduct more

research into practitioners such as
Brecht, to work on the stature and
movement of a character.
Breath control Accents Although I took on a role that I was
able to apply an accent to, I did not
Emotional Range feel that I fulfilled my goal. I felt that
some sections of the performance,
Projection the accent came through incredibly
strong, however, I was unable to
Use of emphasis to effectively maintain a consistency throughout.
portray comedic performances My plan is to work on maintaining an
accent throughout a performance and
Articulation I will be doing this by conducting
further research into the specific
dialect of my character.

Use of pause I feel I improved massively on my use

of emphasis to create comedy.
Voice However, I was unable to use pauses
to the same effect. To improve this, I
will conduct some research into how
pauses are used in comedic
performances and then apply that
knowledge to a
character/performance.

Vocal range I have noticed that although I have

strengths in emotional range, I am
lacking necessary skills in my vocal
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range. I find it difficult to speak in a

Reactions to other characters
To continue reacting throughout
the whole performance and not
Interaction just when I am part of the
conversation
Knowledge of different writing
Working with Text styles
Be able to show more naturalistic I feel that although my skills in
character reactions
higher or lower tone to that of my
normal voice. To improve this, I will be
completing vocal exercises that
challenge my range, i.e. scales or
sirens.
naturalistic acting have improved, I
am not quite as confident reacting to
a scenario in a naturalistic way, as I
am in a non-naturalistic style.
Therefore, I would like to improve this
by following some of the Stanislavski
system and asking myself how I would
react in this situation, to give a more
realistic approach to my character.

Textual Analysis
Blocking Trust I have noticed during this year that
although I felt trust was one of my
Acceptance strengths I realised that I find it
difficult to trust my fellow performers.
Spontaneity, both physically and This may be due to the fact that once I
vocally am let down during a rehearsal, I find
Improvisation it hard to keep that initial trust. To
Taking creative risks improve this, I am planning to open
myself up a little more and allow
myself to trust others. It may also be
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beneficial for me to perform some

trust exercises with other members of
the group to improve this skill.