Answers to Qvestions #1 and #2

Questions #1

1) I worked better alone because I was able to do what I wanted without any conflict. I'm comfortable in either situation. Although, I would rather work with other people. It makes the experience more enjoyable and I'm able to learn more communications skills as it is rare I will be preforming on my own in the future. Plus I like being able to have community at all times.
2) I learned more on how to manipulate my voice to sound like different people which was something I expected to learn.
3) I learned how to block myself which I didn't expect to learn. I had an idea of how to block myself but I never had the opportunity to do so because the director was telling me my blocking but since I was both the actor and director, I had to both. I thought I would be portraying more than one character in more of a monologue type style so that's why I didn't expect to improve my blocking skills.
4) I actually I learned everything that I expected to learn.
5) I think my project went fantastically. I knew all my lines and said them fluently. I had all the different voices down to make it seem like I was multiple people. I knew the blocking well and I hit the punch lines at the right time and with the correct attitude and got laughs out of them.

Questions #2

1) I used all the time I had to work. I doubted I would be able to memorize all 9 pages of the scene and have the voices, blocking etc, down by that Friday so I worked whenever I had the time too.
2) I didn't think too much about the work. I had a rough idea as to what I wanted it to be like from the start so as I went along I tweaked what needed to be fixed.
3) I feel as if everything I did was real work. Yes, one might say watching the Fawlty Towers scene that I was preforming was not working but I was talking along with the voices trying to mimic them and get the feel of the high class accent. So that to me is studying my roles, not goofing off.
4) I didn't socialize very much. If I was talking to other people, it was me acting as their community. Scott LaMarca and I were community for each other. I helped him fix his Italian pronunciations while he gave me feedback on my scene.
5) I used my community as a way to get feedback and to practice in front of an audience. More to practice in front of an audience so I get used to a reaction and getting the feel of my performance with people watching.
6) My performance was too fast because I was nevous, my Spanish accent needed work, I didn't have a good costume or props because I didn't have the chance or access to better ones and I didn't have sounds for the reception bell because I didn't get the chance to get a bell and find a way to use it when I was away from the reception desk.
7) Although I enjoyed this experience, I want to something different. I really want to sing Italian music. Scott LaMarca and I are already thinking of singing 'O Sole Mio together with the idea of a bass/baritone and tenor harmony. I've done acting for most of my projects in STAC and I really want to do singing. If anything, I enjoy singing more than I do acting because singing includes acting but the emotional level is much happening. The reason singing is incorporated into a musicial is because the moment rises to a point where words aren't enough to express how the character feels so he or she goes into song. So for my next step or project for the next intensive week, I would like sing Italian songs, probably more on the classical side with Scott. It will be a good learning experience for the both of us.