Reflection: My Learning Experience

For me this class has been a learning experience. From using the red ball exercise to break the ice and then working with random partners for Improvisational acting. It started with Professor Slater when the first I went to class and he told us that we were going to be tossing an invisible ball to our classmates. At first this felt a little awkward and weird, but doing this over and over in separate sessions really made me feel comfortable and helped me loosen up. I remember no knowing anyone’s name during the first meeting, but by the third meeting I knew at least more than half of the classes names clearly. The second activity that helped me be comfortable in my skin and be confident was the activity where we walked around the class and did

I have worked with all different types of people during my school time, but I’ve never acted like this with anyone before. I have never been in a position before where I would know something and I would have to let another person know without using words and through actions. This was a good learning experience in learning on how to use your body language to give off a message. Most of the times I ended up working with a person I had not known from before so It always felt like a challenge to get to a mid-point of thinking to come up with a good scene to act. Over time we all slowly got out of our comfort zone and it made it easier to understand how to go off each other’s movements. Working with each other also helped with understanding how to use each other’s energy to create a situation. For example, whenever I got a partner who was happy and cheerful, our acting scene was usually something fun and cheerful. In other time when an unenthusiastic person would be working with me then we would have to create a scene according to that energy, but most of the time everyone was happy and excited. I am glad we work with partners and groups because otherwise it would’ve been so difficult trying to act and Improvise alone without having someone with you. All the audience attention would be on you and it would cause a person to get nervous and stress out