Workshop 5 :(

Today in workshop we started off (after the meditating) creating situations in our head that would make us scared. At first Jim Bonney talked us through it. He made us picture walking through a park on a cold winters day and being handed a sick baby. The person who handed us the baby then ran away and no one would help us. We were then able to come up with the rest in our own heads. Fear is the most difficult emotion for me to bring up when I act. I kept going into anger and sadness. I feel like I keep that emotion buried so deep that it's easier for me to bring up anything else.

We also worked with scenes. These had more backstory, but it was fun when we improvised them and cameup with the situations ourselves. I worked with Alex and his character was trying to convince me that the rumor going around about him and my mother was false. My character believed everything and even blamed it on herself. It became really interseting when Jim Bonney raised the stakes so that Alex slept with my mother and I knew this but only stayed with him for the money. It was so much easier this way. My character had a reason to go along with everything he said. Without this I just acted like an idiot who couln't see what was right in front of her.