My monologue came from a movie called "Mean Girls" and my character is Regina George. Regina is a cruel back stabbing person who is feared and loved by everyone. In this monologue she is talking to a new girl in school about a girl she was just talking to. A strength of mine was how I channeled my inner "white girl" and sounded like an annoying snobby teenage girl. I also used a lot of eye rolling and disgusted looks to show how my character was not a very nice person and emphasized words that were harsh to use such as "lesbian" and "retarded". Another thing I did was flip my hair with my hand a couple times which adds to the "I do not care what others think" personality. Finally, I memorized my speech pretty quickly by watching that part in the movie and mouthing the words with her and closing my eyes and listening to her say it.
What I could work on is not looking at the ground or the ceiling, because even when I do not mean to I do it sometimes and that could take away from the affect I am giving or who I am portraying. Also, I need to work on my legs, in this monologue i leaned on one leg to show the I do not care personality but if the posture I have does not convey the correct attitude or emotion that will affect my speech.
Differently than my first monologue I was able to change my voice and portray someone who I am not. I very much enjoyed this monologue because of that reason and also it is very funny to see what all the students do to enhance their performance. This monologue also allowed me to twist how it was originally done compared to the movie. This allowed me to give it a personal touch to show how i view girls like that in high school.
My classmates taught me how to portray different emotions through language. Not just speaking language and how they delivered it but through body language. For example Baran uses his voice to emphasize the importance of not talking about fight club and used his voice to intimidate people. Ella's monologue was sad and she used her tone of voice to convey anger and sadness and used pauses to help portray that as well. Along with her facial expressions and her mouth. When she was angry in the monologue he mouth was bigger but when she was sad she did not open her mouth as wide. Evan taught me through his blocking how to make an audience laugh by making a fool out of yourself and how using it can help your monologue.
I needed two more words to make it 500 :)
Link to video: http://youtu.be/YOtdr3km4m0
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