Reflection of Oral

Initially, I was very nervous about my oral for the scene. I wanted to explain all the ways we implemented themes of the story into our scene without repeating the same thing over and over. I wanted to also emphasis the amount of acting study we did to prepare. In the end, I think I did a good job of explaining both, without sacrificing detail.

The hardest part about the oral was finding room to balance text and stage analysis. Finding a suitable structure that flowed well and incorporated all my ideas was challenging, but ultimately similar to an essay. I find that often when writing, I use a similar process. I laid out the topics I needed to include and grouped them into over-arching ideas. I focused on themes, character, character development and reflection. By doing this, I was able to find the exacts details I wanted to add and avoided leaving out requirements of the criteria.

I think that overall the oral was really beneficial and valuable to both myself as a student and an actor. Taking time to reflect of what went well and what didn't is an important part of anything related to theater. I always enjoy an opportunity to grow and improve. In acting, the only way to get better is find the specific areas of improvement. Thus, by doing this oral I had the chance to do exactly that. Also, I have always found a strength of mine to be talking :) This was a positive and constructive outlet to use the talent.  This oral also challenged me to think about what I didn't like about the scene, which is something I often do not do. I always try to focus on the positive, however this can cause me to forget that mistakes are a good thing. This oral encouraged me to embrace my flaws and as an opportunity to learn!