The script
analysis helped me to visualize how to act and how I am feeling during the
scene. I actually know where the conflict is when I started to read a scene.
After I read my first scene I picked up the conflict right away and even found
a part where I need to be more aggressive and use facial expressions more. When
I and my partner started to rehearse, I and he started picking up more and more
parts where we have to switch are emotions around. We both thought the same
thing about each part, on how we have to switch up are attitudes around.
Now in my
rehearsals I am reading it more thoroughly and out loud over and over again to
figure out where the conflict is. Sometimes I don't really find it and ask
other actors for help. We end up finding it together most of the time. When I
and my partner started to rehearse our scene, it took us at least the fourth
time to finally pick up one conflict. After we picked up one conflict we
started to pick up emotions on the scene. The emotions are the hard part for me
because we really have to be feeling a certain type of way there. We started to
act out more scenes better after we found are characters feelings. It’s actually
more helpful and fun. Now we even work on are facial expression in are phones. Or
even in the mirrors of a bathroom.
Once we worked on
our facial expression we move on to our tone of voice of the character. This is
the part where I actually get stuck on, because I have no idea on how they
talk. So I picture it in my head and read the sentence on how I think it might
be. After reading it I started to pick up on how they are talking when certain
parts of the script had examination marks. I noticed the aggressiveness in 1 part
of the script. That’s when I noticed I had to raise my voice more and start to
get angry with a slight attitude with my character.
I noticed because
of the script analysis actually helped me understand the character more. Before
I would have just read it through without even figuring out where the conflict
was. Now not only did I find conflicts, but I found the emotions as well. This helped
me understand why actors on TV do their facial expression a certain way. When I
use to see actors on TV I thought the director tells them to make a face a
certain way I never knew that it had to do with reading the script. Now I know
that reading the script is part of you coming up with the emotion and putting
on a certain face to get it. Not only reading the script helps you become a
better actor, but helps you vison your scene on how you are going to perform.
