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I should really start working on better preparing my scenes for drama; it's a bad habit I've gotten into, procrastinating. If I had been better prepared for this monologue maybe I would have remembered all my lines. I really enjoyed the character of Babe, and would like to get a chance to work on and expand her character more. Things I need to work on; making it bigger, lines, using my prop(s) effectively and getting into and focusing on character.

"Making it bigger" by this I mean that I need to be more hysterical. If I exaggerated my movements more it would make the character of babe more interesting to the audience, she just attempted to murder her husband after all. I need to make the facial expressions more emotional as well as the tone and emotion in my voice.

Lines, I need to practise more! Saying it is easy enough but actually doing it is an entirely different thing all together. Memorization is difficult for me; I just need to put more time into it and slowdown in my delivery in order to allow for my memory to catch up to my mouth. If I make these improvements, which I plan on doing, my performance should end up being great!

    Our task this week was to observe someone completely involved in a task or situation. I noticed that a lot of people are involved completely in what they are doing every day. Some examples of this would be, my stepdad watching football, a sr. Kindergarten student trying desperately to open their juice box or the field hockey girls during practise. None of these situations would seem so intriguing if the people weren't totally involved in what they were doing.

If my stepdad was just sitting on the couch half asleep with football on, the entire family would not be laughing at him for yelling at the television or trying to jump up and cheer when his team scores, only to realize that he cannot do that due to his recovering knees. If he was not so involved then it would be a rather boring scene, him just sitting there not really watching not doing anything to catch anyone's attention, although it would make reading or doing homework a lot easier on football nights.

Imagine if the determined SK was not as determined as he was to get his yummy juice box open, no one would look at him and go "awe how adorable". No one would pay him any attention and he would be happily sipping his juice, a more pleasant situation for the boy but not intriguing.

Finally the field hockey girls, anything less than 100 percent of their attention on the practise or the game, they could get hit by another player or a stick or a ball. Not just injury would result from not paying attention but surely some scolding from Coach Dietrich and possibly their team mates. This situation is probably one which would be more interesting if the players were not totally involved in the game, but for the sake of the sport it would be a bad idea. 

All of this relates to drama and acting because if the actor is not totally involved and focused on their character and the scene then it will not be a very believable performance. Focus is one of the most important things in acting if the actor is not focused they will not give a believable performance.