Competing at the Fullerton Festival 2014

On march 14 and 15, I I have competed on the annual Fullerton Festival 2014 with the the I-Poly Drama Team. It was the time of year where everyone got to show what we have work on for few months like others who have done the same thing. On the first day was very exciting, when me and the drama team arrive at Fullerton College, we let our true artistic personalty selves out. There were hundreds of others form different schools in the campus that were having fun and very excited for the competition. The drama team set up a spot where everyone can meet and set up schedule to see what time for each and everyone, including me, and where we'll be competing at. After that , we all headed of to the Fullerton Auditorium for the opening ceremony. Usually every year, their always be an open ceremony where one person from each school carries a flag that represents the school and carry it to the front where it will be hang for everyone to see. the one who carry the I-poly flag was Paola R. and boy was she was excited to do it. After that we get a good inspiration word from the people who created this festival, got to see a short perform for the Fullerton college drama team, and after that the competition began.

During those few hours, I was practicing my lines over and over while observing how I'll be moving around on stage, but during that time, I got to see many high school actors practicing their scene as well. i saw how they practicing and see if I could interpret that to my practice later in the future. Finally it was time for me to compete.

I met with ten other actors who were doing the comedy monologue catalog, which I was also doing, and they were interesting people to talk with. The two judges finally arrived  and introduce them self. I forgot who they were but I do remember both were long time professional actors who done theater or year and done Television performance as well. They told us the rules of in order to receive a high score and not get kick out of the competition. They also told us not to take picture since it could distract the performer, So I do apologize for not having picture of the competition, but if I did, I'l get kick out of the competition. When it was my turn, I wasn't really nervous at all, I got on stage, relax my mind, introduce who I am and perform. after my performance, wee moved on with the other actors. Some of they were impressive and I could tell that they put so much work in their performance, but they were some who didn't put much effort to it, so it was kind of painful to see it. after the competition was done, the judges told us that will send the score to our teachers soon. I gave complements to some of them since they did really well on it, putting passionate in the work, speaking unique tone and using gesture that engages the audience. Some of the other actors also complemented me on my performance. They like how I speak that graves their attention and they way how I moved, which made me really happy.

After that I move on with the next catalog that involves the whole drama team. We were competing the musical threatre catalog   again three other schools on the same time. Before that competition begun, Hogan had as run the three scene to practice. We all practice in our blocking, remembering what lines we need to say, and after that, we were off. We were the first group to on and perform to two other judges, one of them of course works at a theater in Hollywood which means he had a lot of experience with musical play. After we perform, we watch another group that only involved three people. During the performance, I observe how that move around the stage, how the show emotion to their character, and how they interact one another. After that, we enjoy the rest of the day. I got to meet a lot of awesome people and enjoyed with them for a while. i always got to see few others performance, but sadly, I wasn't a lot to take picture, but I do remember how they perform. At the end of the first day, we all headed back home to get rest for the nest day.
On the second day it was tiring. I arrived early in the morning since I was scheduled to perform at 9 am. I practice a few times before heading to the location where I am suppose to compete. I finally arrive at the place and the judges told us the same thing about receiving high score and stuff. I wasn't nervous since I done this before, but my mind change when I saw another performer, who went before me, who was doing the same monologue that I was doing. He had a better costume, better tone, and even had better gesture then I have, and he was moving around the stage a lot and thought we weren't suppose to do that, but he judges allow that. The were part is that I was next. In my mind I was panicking of how am I going to perform this if someone else did better then me. But then I remember something that I learn from one of the techniques that I am using for my answer of my EQ. That technique I learn, called the Chekhov Technique, quotes that it doesn't matter who perform better, it matter how you presented in your own style, which made me feel better. So I perform the same way that I always  did and got some good complements form others.

After that I head with my group to do the musical theatre competition again. After that, we all head to watch other performance before the competition ended at 1pm. At around 2 pm, the finalist list was posted up to see which schools made the finals. Sadly, none of us were in the finals, but that didn't brought us down. During that time, I remember what my mentor told me. He told me that being an actor isn't about winning or being better than others, its means to learning your mistakes and learning from other performers to see how they do it so that way you can learn how to to better later on the future and true actors never stop learning.

After that, the drama team went to see the finalist performances to see how we can improve better for next years competition. At around 5 pm. The festival was having the closing ceremony and rewarding trophies to people who won in a specific catalog. After the ceremony was over, the whole drama team headed to the Fullerton College theater because our school was invited to was the annual Fullerton show that they always out every single year. The show was called "Noise Off" which was about a group of actors, The Director, and two tech people who had a hard time working together and always fighting each other during a performance. The play was broken up into three acts. Act 1 was about the dress rehearsal before opening night, Act 2 was about whats happening on back stage during the performance, and Act 3 was about them messing up during the performance. I was laugh so hard and enjoying the play. I love how the actor interact one another, how the know all their blocking and how the engage the whole audience. At the end, we all headed back stage to meet with the actors. I even took picture with them, which was awesome.

So that pretty much it of my my experience at the Fullerton Festival 2013. I learn a lot from so many actors that i meant and saw and hopefully this experience will help find my best answer of my EQ. But most importantly, I will never forgets this since it is my last year competing in Fullerton festival and will always cherish it in my memories and in my heart for the drama team who were there to competitive and to enjoy one another as a team.

Arriving at the campus and seeing other schools setting up.

The whole dram team, who are awesome.

Almost 30 schools were in here for the opening ceramony.

Seeing all of the flags being hung up stage for everyone to see.

A short performance was perform to us by the Fullerton College Drama Team

Me and the drama team perparing for the musical scene before the conception begins.

A beautiful picture of the Fullerton College campus 

Our sign, which looks awesome

The closing ceremony for Fullerton Festival

Watching the play called "noise Off" and see how the sets are moved.

The cast of "Noies Off" who did a wonderful performance

Me taking a picture with the guy who play the director in the pkay.

Taking Pictur with two other actors. The ne with the beard played as a drunken old actor, who was the funniest in the play, and th other play the shy director's assistant. 

Blog 18: Third Answer

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:

• EQ 

 "What technique or method can an actor use to engage the audience's attention."

• Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*

"The Chekhov Technique teaches actors to become multiple characters and show how to give a unique performing style to the audience."

• 3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example)

1. The technique teaches actors the tool of characterization, meaning the difference between Individual character and the type of character. It also gives the four means of how to properly use the characterization which are:

• Know what is the difference between the actor's way of thing and the character's way of thinking, the more an actor know, the more clear he will have full understanding what his character acts like
• Observing straighter around you and try to interpret them   
• Playing around with the tool called "imagine body"
• Requires for the actor to make a list business of what the actor's character is going to fulfill form beginning to en

     2. Another thing it teaches actors is knowing the Multi-Layed Acting as in the Individual Personal Atmosphere, knowing the difference between objective and subjective, and learn to reveal your true self of performing with a tool called "The Mask"

     3. learning to a avoiding monotony by understanding the inner and outer tempo with outer and inner action of the character and show four channel to find guided thoughts and idea which are:

• Feeling and emotional of the character
• business
• objective 
• The lines of the play

 

• The research source (s) to support your details and answer

Source # 34a-h: "Michael Chekhov: THE MASTER CLASSES (Complete 1955 Recordings)." YouTube. YouTube, 10 July 2012. Web. 7 Mar. 2014.

Source # 33: Kirillov, Andrei. "Michael Chekhov and the Search for the 'Ideal' Theatre." New Theatre Quarterly, 22.3 (2006): 227-234.

Source # 24: Marowitz, Charles. "The Michael Chekhov Twist." American Theatre, 22.1 (2005): 42

Source # 7: Makela, Marjo-Riikka. "Back Stage Actor’s Craft Article | Chekhov Studio International."Chekhov Studio International RSS. N.p., 3 Oct. 2012. Web. 28 Aug. 2013.

• Concluding Sentence

The Chekhov Technique well effective acting tool use by many famous actors like Clint Eastwood and Johnny Depp and will hep actor to perform significant and outstanding to the audience.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

These are the twenty questions I would like to use for my Fourth Interview:

1. What technique or method can an actor best use to engage the audience's attention?
2. How can an actor best memorize his/her lines?
3. What makes an actor's performance so significant to the audience?
4. How does an actor become the character that is believable to audiences?
5. How can an actor create a significant scene that is believable?
6. What are the best ways to use techniques, generally, when working in the space of the stage?
7. What aspect of acting do you enjoy the most?
8. How long would an actor need to practice on different techniques and/or methods in order to be able to engage the audience?
9. What types of excises can an actor use to practice on techniques and/or methods?
10. If you were to work on rehearsal of a play that you are in, what technique or method would you prefer to use and why?
11. How can an actor learn to use their own personal memories of events and apply it to the character?
12. How can an actor build confidences him/her self if they're in a situation in the performance when they feel nervous?
13. When it comes to becoming the character, some actors would use imagination to be the character and some actors would use observation of others work. So, which one do you use the most in performance and why?
14. What technique can an actor use to improve his/her vocal/speaking skills when performing a long piece of a monologue or dialogue?
15. How do you prepare yourself mentally/physically the night before the performance?
16. How can an actor become multiple characters without acting the same character's personality in different performances?
17. What influences you to become an actor and be able to perform in front of a huge live audience?
18. How is one actor able to influence and communicate their main point significantly to the audience?
19. What does it mean to you when you and everyone else on stage performs to the audience?
20. In your experience, why does audience come to see the actor's performance even if the production of the play is big or small?