Blog for the 2nd week on Physical Activity Inventory

The skills from my Physical Life Inventory can help me in acting because it allows me to work on performing in front of my classmates and it allows me to act like someone I’m not. In our reading, it mentioned about fear and how it is an advantage for an actor because we are putting ourselves out there and it allows us to take chances. Also, we learned about as an actor one has to go with the flow and not look back. “Flow” to this common experience, because so many people have used the analogy of being carried away by an outside force, of moving effortlessly with a current of energy, at the moments of highest enjoyment (Csikszentmihalyi 39). I used flow in my performance when I did a movement I messed up, but I kept going with the act because if I stopped then it will mess up my whole performance and it will then show that I didn’t learn from my teachers and peers.  I enjoyed performing my act on Wednesday because it allowed me try something new by acting as an old person who is overweight. It was interesting observing the person for the Physical Life Inventory because I had to pay attention to their body language, movements, posture, and facial expressions. During my observation, I had to watch out from getting caught from the person I was observing because then I would have to pick another person. It was hard for me to perform this act because it wasn’t me and I had to pretend someone I wasn’t. It seemed like I touched many peoples heart where they saw how hard it was for me to get off from my bed and then to the chair and trying to tie my shoes. Seeing my classmates perform different acts allowed me to see for myself what things I need to improve on and what other things I can add to my own act. It will help me as an actor by hearing my classmates’ feedback in what things were great of my performance and what they didn’t understand. It helps a lot when my students criticize my work because if they say everything is great then I would not know what I needed to improve on and that will affect my acting skills. There is saying where it says that practice makes perfection. Meryl Streep once said, “Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.” In other words, it’s not all about just acting like someone’s else, but finding your way true self by the person your imitating.  I can use it if I wanted to act like an old grumpy man, girl, little boy, or mailman for a play in the future. My goal for the next Physical Life Inventory I am going to study someone foreign because I can learn some of his or her culture, body language, and it will be a challenge.