Weeks 3 and 4 were saturated with Monologues -- and I thought they all were an excellent beginning to the course and a great learning experience for us all. Feel free to click on other students' blogs and check out their final monologue videos -- the close-up camera makes them even more powerful than when delivered in the Black Box.
Personally, I was impressed with the feedback and support you all gave to your peers. It helped them better memorize, more accurately enunciate, and express truer emotions in their process of delivering their best take. The biggest successes were in projection, clarity of speech, and solid positioning (no fidgeting). We are still working on emotional impact, but that's exactly where our next project leads....
In beginning to explore the genre of Spoken Word Poetry, students have found many good examples to share with the class. You can click on students' blogs to see some of these, and I have also posted a few under the "Animation and Expression" Topic on our class portal.
This week, I will ask you to find your own poem to eventually turn into a recitation that brings life to the poem instead of stillness. I am looking forward to what we will create in this unit!
No comments:
Post a Comment