Wednesday, 9 May 2012

The Monologue that i chose to do was Eve from the play Apples by John Retallack. The monologue is where Eve wakes up with a hangover then she realise's that she is has been raped. She believes it was Adam who is in the room with her however it was someone else. I start the monlogue with a groggy voice as she is waking up and with a hangover. When I realise I have been raped I have an uneven breath and a stutter as I am shocked and getting quite upset. Throughout the monologue I get angrier so my voice gets higher and strained, yet I also and I have a angry voice that is quieter, thats when I more an upset and scared angry at the end of the monologue. At one point I say one line as Adam, as I say it I make my voice go deeper so it sounds more like a boy.

Originally me and Shannon were going to do a dualogue from Stags and Hens by Willy Russell. However we didnt get chance to rehearse it very much as were filming a lot or just not being able to get together. We were going to learn how to do a Liverpool accent, I did try and do a lot of it in the accent when I practiced it by my self. When it came down to the performance we did do the dualogue however neither of us did the accent and we didnt do it very well because we never got to rehearse as much as we wanted to. This is why I chose to perform my monologue as I knew it very well and I had performed it for university auditions so I was more confident.

Wednesday, 2 May 2012


The film I’m filming with media during this unit it ‘The Runaway Princess’. I am playing the main part, Sarina. Most of the time I’m using my own voice so it wasn’t hard or challenging voice wise. I didn’t really have any angry or sad scenes where I had to talk, there were mostly facial expressions; however I did have one scene where I’m getting to go the prom and I get excited. I did a high pitched squeal in only one shot so whether it was used I’m not sure. I did however have to do voice over’s for the film. I started by having to say "Once upon a time...", they wanted me to say it in a Disney/animated voice, I tried my hardest because I wanted it to sound different to my actual voice when started talking normally again. It was challenging doing voice over’s as I thought I would just have to speak how I normally do however with certain lines I had to make sure I got the emotion through in my voice.  I enjoyed by how different it was and I hope it worked well on screen.