I CONFIRM THAT THE WORK ATTACHED ASSESSMENT IS ALL MY OWN WORK AND DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY WORK COMPLETED BY ANYONE OTHER THAN MYSELF AND SOURCES HAVE BEEN APPROPRIATELY REFRENCED
NICOLAS TUFAILE FORSTMAN
Section 1
At the beginning when we were starting this production I proposed we do a Shakespearean play, such as Hamlet as it would be a very fun project and challenging at the same time as its quite lengthy and the language used would be especially challenging since we haven’t every done a Shakespearean play before. It would also be good to do a Shakespearean play as it is good to have that knowledge and experience when going to Drama school or University, however no one shared the vision that me and Alex Morgan had with doing a classical play so that was immediate voted off the table.
At the end of the day I just came back in from a severe depression and a mentality that my acting career would end there so I was fine with whatever play we were going to do, but the main thing I wanted was to have the spark that I once felt for acting come back to me, so I could feel like myself again.
Section 2
Like I said, I just returned from a severe depression, and to some extent even at the start of this production I was still depressed, so the main thing I wanted to get out of this performance is to see if the old me was still there somewhere, if I could get the spark that I felt for acting back, if I could believe in myself again like I once did. I went into this production expecting to get a big role that I could put all of my passion and all of my soul into but was afraid I was going to just get the role of “Fight choreographer” and then play the part of extras.
Its silly and stupid but that thought that I wont have a big role crushed me even though I still believed that I would get the big role I wanted, which when we got our roles, surprise, surprise I was an extra and fight choreographer, I was mentally preparing myself for this moment but it was still hard to accept. I was upset, but I hustled as its what any good actor would do. Then I started getting happier, I started to get that spark back little by little and when I heard that I would be playing the role of Sean because Ciaran didn’t want it and instead wanted to play an extra I was ecstatic, I was so happy and I imediatly got to work, from that moment onward I knew the old me had returned and I was working harder than I’ve ever worked before, in and out of college to make Sean the best I could possibly make him. whenever I am in college I am working hard on my scenes, and when I am outside I work hard on my character development.
Of course I didn’t forget my role as fight choreographer, as soon as we had blocked all the scenes I started working hard to determine how to make the fights the best they can be outside of college, and when I was in college I’d work hard to visualize an awesome fight that I’d love to see on stage.
Section 3
I shall record most of the work I do in college and then summarize and evaluate it on here, on WordPress, and put it all into Practical skills on what went well and what i could improve. By doing this the creative process for scenes starts and even for my own character. All of the character development I do is outside of college hours and is all documented on my Creation of Sean page in which I talk in huge d-tail on how I made him the way he is and why he acts the way he does in every single scene.
By doing this I feel like it will have a massive positive impact on my and my future as a Actor however I also feel like it will have a negative Impact on the way I view my class mates, my friends. For example since I am so extremely determined and so hard working I might become arrogant and get a big head and think I am superior than them, which I am not, but I feel like this would happen as some of them aren’t even going into acting in the future so they’ll most likely not work as hard as me on learning lines and that will probably frustrate me a lot and have a negative impacty on our relationship. (it didn’t)
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