This week I started to think about costume Valerie seems to be quite red in her monologue because of the children driving her crazy so what I thought was to have her in a dressing gown.
Description of Valerie's appearance page 54
The stage directions already say about Valerie's appearance. My idea is to elaborate from the dressing gown and have the dressing gown tatted to show that she is poor and doesn't have enough money. Her costume will be a old dressing gown with maybe flowers on it to show the age of the dressing gown. The dressing gown should be a fabric dressing gown with a nightie underneath.

This picture is Valerie which I thought that my costume similar. Valerie character seems to show tiredness as she is fed up with her husband. This costume shows that she is tired as a dressing is a comfy approach when you are tired and reminds people of bed and the feeling of being tired which we make the audience feel empathy towards Valerie. Also Valerie mentions in her monologue about "fat hard hands in bed at night" which indicates that she may just be used for at night. The dressing gown I thought that Valerie hair would be greasy and hasn't been washed for days because of the amount of stress she is put though on her own. At the end of the monologue she practically begs "can we not have before again" to the audience and it is a question asking to her husband because maybe her husband used to help with the kids and her got out of control and that's why he goes to the pub and "drinks it drinks it drinks it".
What feedback did I receive when performing?
Good feedback that had was:
Good accent however some words needs to be worked such as softening certain sounds.
Improvements I need to make:
My pitch was good but the audience thought that I needed more when emotional words come.This will impact the audience more as it will vary the tone of my voice.
My pace was a little boring at times because my pace was slow at times. The audience said that I shouldnt be afraid to speed the pace up and slowly the monologue down.
What did they want me to experiment in my monologue?
My group (Frankie, Brandon and Joe) suggested that I should experiment with my emotions by using the method working up through the emotions until it is to your biggest but I should start at 5 then I have a gap to go down or up in the tension of my mood. I will take this on board as I think it will help me improve my character because Valerie betrays a lot of emotion throughout her monologue.
Description of Valerie's appearance page 54
The stage directions already say about Valerie's appearance. My idea is to elaborate from the dressing gown and have the dressing gown tatted to show that she is poor and doesn't have enough money. Her costume will be a old dressing gown with maybe flowers on it to show the age of the dressing gown. The dressing gown should be a fabric dressing gown with a nightie underneath.

This picture is Valerie which I thought that my costume similar. Valerie character seems to show tiredness as she is fed up with her husband. This costume shows that she is tired as a dressing is a comfy approach when you are tired and reminds people of bed and the feeling of being tired which we make the audience feel empathy towards Valerie. Also Valerie mentions in her monologue about "fat hard hands in bed at night" which indicates that she may just be used for at night. The dressing gown I thought that Valerie hair would be greasy and hasn't been washed for days because of the amount of stress she is put though on her own. At the end of the monologue she practically begs "can we not have before again" to the audience and it is a question asking to her husband because maybe her husband used to help with the kids and her got out of control and that's why he goes to the pub and "drinks it drinks it drinks it".
What feedback did I receive when performing?
Good feedback that had was:
Good accent however some words needs to be worked such as softening certain sounds.
Improvements I need to make:
My pitch was good but the audience thought that I needed more when emotional words come.This will impact the audience more as it will vary the tone of my voice.
My pace was a little boring at times because my pace was slow at times. The audience said that I shouldnt be afraid to speed the pace up and slowly the monologue down.
What did they want me to experiment in my monologue?
My group (Frankie, Brandon and Joe) suggested that I should experiment with my emotions by using the method working up through the emotions until it is to your biggest but I should start at 5 then I have a gap to go down or up in the tension of my mood. I will take this on board as I think it will help me improve my character because Valerie betrays a lot of emotion throughout her monologue.
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