My first Dramatic monologue experience.

     Dramatic monologues are very different from a regular monologue or speech. In a regular monologue, you just stand in front of an audience and say whatever you have to say. You don't add any emotion or tone change. Your voice is the same throughout. That is not the case when it comes to Dramatic monologues. In this type, you can be sad, happy, angry or whatever you want be. You can add gestures or walk around the room. You can fall on the floor or you can jump around. It doesn't matter as long as you are emphasizing your monologue. It isn't exactly comfortable to all of the things that I mentioned in front of an audience. It teaches you to step out of your comfort zone and get creative. In a dramatic monologue, you make the character come to life, just like in acting. You make the charaters problems seem real and you have to use emotions to add the effect. There is a lot of steps when it comes to a dramatic monologue.

I have never preformed a dramatic monologue before. The first time doing anything can be kind of weird and it might not always turn out the way you had hoped it would. That's ok cause it's a first time. I haven't preformed my monologue yet but in terms of where I am now I feel pretty good. I feel like I need to add more anger to my monologue because mine is about a girl who is an actor but her father never comes to see any of her productions at school because he wants her to go to Law school to become a lawyer. There is a lot of anger building up in this scene so I feel like I need to put more emphasis on the anger in her voice. There are not many gestures to work with in this monologue because she is sitting at a table in her house while yelling at her dad, but I can always make some up since we don't have to do everything the monologue tells us to do. I can change it up if needed.  When I practice, I feel that my voice is loud enough or stern enough to make it sound like real anger, but I'm getting there.

Some students preformed their final draft of the monologue and others simply did trials runs. As I was watching their performances, I noticed their was a lot of emotion. More emotion than I expected. Their were sound effects in some, and other we gesturing in all kinds of ways. One thing I really noticed was their voices increased a tremendous amount from the first monologue we did. I saw improvement from their first trial run of the dramatic monologue to their fifth or sixth one. Practice makes perfect when it comes to anything.

In conclusion, there are a lot of important aspects when it comes to public speaking, and on top of that dramatic monologues. I hope my final draft will be what I hope it turns out to be. I want to eat loud and clear. I want to embrace the anger inside of me, which is the thing that I am struggling the most with right now. I want to improve on my gestures, that is if I can come up with any. The words can only take you so far, but it's the acting that brings it all together.