Jessica Rilings Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise

This was my best recording of my monologue so far. This is because I am becoming a lot more confident with the lines and not having to think too much about them when saying them. It is becoming a lot more natural and easier for me to fall into the character. It is good for me because I have now ran it a good few times and my body language is becoming more for the character. Video one: This was the best out of all of them. I liked how you started it off by huffing. I like how you smiled because you looked a little evil, like a bully. You came closer to the camera which I liked too. Try using a pen and point at her with it when you direct some things to her. You are getting better, well done. This feedback has been the best out of all of the videos I have sent to my partner. She is giving me some things that I could add in to help the character development and something that I can do with my hands instead of staying still the whole time. I also need to work on my posture because m...

This the first time that I am recording my monologue without using the script in my hand. I also decided to try sitting down, as this is how a therapist office would be set up, so this helped me get into character a lot easier. There are still some lines that I am getting confused because I have not ran it enough times to have the lines perfectly in my head, but not having the script in my hand means that I can use my hands to gesture and give more life to the character. I feel as if Carla may have a few hand gestures and so I can play with this when I record it next time.  Video one: The first one was much better than before. I felt that you were more into character. I liked how you addressed it but maybe try and have paper in your hands and maybe try and have paper in your hands and maybe start off the first few lines looking at it and taking notes and then look at her? That is something to play about with.  Video two: The second one, again was better. I liked how y...

This is the third time that I have recorded my monologue and this time I tried a different tone than the one I had used this time. This time I was quieter and a little more sarcastic than before, which I felt fitted the character and the situation better than the video before. The feedback I got from my partner was: I like how you said some of it, like you said it factual. When you said ‘you don’t want to die, you just want affection’, you could say it a little more factual. You also seem really still, could you maybe try sitting down? Or if you are going to stand, try and make use of the space. I need to make sure that I am learning the lines because the monologue was at a much slower pace than it should have been due to looking down at the paper. The flow was lost and the rhythm that I had created was ruined too, so the effect of the monologue was not as good as it should have been after watching it. I also need to work on how I am standing because it does not give off the st...

This is a link to the monologue and the terms of use, stating that I am allowed to use this monologue as long as I am not receiving money for performing it- http://notmyshoes.net/monologues/carla.html This was my time reading through my monologue when on camera. This monologue is my style of acting because I prefer doing something a little more of a dramatic monologue than something that is comedy or light hearted. The synopsis of the monologue is that the character I am playing, Carla, is a therapist who is talking to a young girl called Jessie. Carla is unsympathetic to Jessie about her suicide attempt and this is what her response is to hearing Jessie's story. I sent the videos to my partner, who is running the theatre company with me and asked her for some advice on how I can improve it when I do my next run through: Video 1: I liked how you spoke it but maybe try and be more forceful with some of the words you say? Is the camera the person? If so, try and get closer...

Segregated The two girls sat segregated within the glass box, suspended 50 feet above ground. The two single chains creek helplessly as the two girls sit in silence. Molly, the brash brat leans against the smaller glass panel, making the box sway in time with her heart beat. Roxi, the diffident doubter, rocks back and fourth, the fear beginning to hit her. “C-can you stop moving?” Roxi stammered “Oh well, if you don’t like it…” Molly smirks, leaning forward and throwing the mass of her body against the panel. In slow motion, the glass began to spiderweb. The illusion of a broken phone screen happening in front of them. “T-the glass…” Roxi stared at the panel behind Molly’s head. The single flick of Molly’s hair explodes the glass, making it fall like a flurry of tiny diamonds, the sound echoing through the box. “What the fuck?!” Molly crawled over to Roxi. The box wavers. “Now look what you’ve done! I told you to stop!” Roxi clutched her chest, the panic rising in her lungs. ...

This is our budget sheet that my partner and I had worked on together. Some of these costs such as the camera and laptop are going to be a one time purchase and therefore in the next yearly budget sheet, this can be taken off which will increase our income even more. The ticket sales and the merchandise were rough estimates because we have not made them yet, or we have not sold anything yet. This means out of the maximum number of students, this is what we had thought about them buying or the ratio of family and friend to the general public for ticket sales. This can always be edited as well when the actual numbers come in for the sales, but this is a starter for us and our sheet. We had originally looked at a different venue (The Marina Theatre in Lowestoft), however when looking at the prices of hiring the venue, it would cost too much for us to even consider it a possible venue. Using that venue, we would have put ourselves at a negative and this would not become a sustainable b...