...Within most studies, the measures of surface acting employed do not distinguish between the acts of feeling emotions and suppressing them. This is a confounding variable because simply experiencing the negative emotions could account for the harmful effects which surface acting has upon wellbeing. To investigate whether or not this is the case, Semmer, Messerli and Tschan (2016) separately assessed ‘emotions felt’ and ‘emotions displayed’ by using a diary study. Their results suggest that the effects of surface acting are, at least partly, due to the experience of the emotion when a negative emotion is suppressed. This is beneficial for our understanding as to why surface and deep acting impact wellbeing in different ways. Through engaging...
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...Explore the impact of Act One of Volpone. The first act makes very clear to the audience that Volpone is a Comedy of Types, meaning most character embody a set of characteristics in a very identifiable stereotype. This stereotype is backed supported by their names alluding to different types of animals, most commonly birds and “Volpone” meaning “fox”. Volpone is also a Beast fable, as the plotline is a realisation of the story of the fox playing dead to catch the scavenging birds of prey e.g. Voltore – a vulture, Corvino – a crow. However, Mosca and Volpone are different. They have a different type of characteristic. Their defining factor is deception, both by changing how they look, but also how they seem to think and act. At the same time as being their personality, they lose the “type” which the other characters have. Money is presented as the driving force behind the characters. Volpone feigns his illness so that people will come and, ironically, give him more riches in the hope that they might become his heir. Mosca acts as the servant who is supposedly on the side of the men wanting to be his heir, although he tells all of them separately that they can buy their right to inherit. Jonson presents the loss of morality and ideals from each individuals wish for more money. Corvino brings what the audience suspects to be poison in the guise of medicine so that Volpone will die sooner, and Corbaccio is prepared to reassign his will away from his son to Volpone because he is...
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...related to us more. If we were in her situation, this is similar to what we would do. In the book before the sedar meal she was at her Catholic friends house and they were celebrating Easter. They were eating Jelly Beans and Hannah was Jealous and wanted to become Catholic. I liked that scene in the book over her getting Tattoos in the movie. The book had more characters and more description on characters. Gitl was one of my favorite characters in the book and he wasn’t in the movie. The book gave more detail on their personality and their characteristics. On their characteristics you could use your imagination more. The movie was more straight forward adding characters with no description. The movie was more acting because they Holocaust is to cruel to try to act out. The book you could believe it more. Those are the reasons why I...
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...Duty to avoid conflicts of interest When acting for the principal, an agent must not allow his own personal interests to come into conflict with the interests of his principal. If the agent has any personal interest that might conflict with his principal's interest, he must disclose it and the principal must consent to the agent continuing to act for him. If the agent breaks this duty, his principal may set aside any transaction effected by the agent and claim any profit made by the agent. * Practical situations include while acting as agent for the buying or selling of property, he sell property to or buy property from his principal without full disclosure of the relationship. McPherson v Watt (1877) 3 - a solicitor acted as the agent for two ladies who wished to sell certain houses - the solicitor himself purchased the property though nominally the property was bought in the name of his brother - the House of Lords refused to grant the solicitor specific performance of the contract of sale - such a breach of duty would, however, be waived if the agent makes a full disclosure of his interest to the principal and the latter is still willing to proceed with the transaction * If an agent is employed to buy property for his principal, he must not sell his own property to his principal unless he discloses his fact Implied or usual authority This permits the agent to perform all reasonable incidental or subordinate acts necessary in exercise of his given express authority...
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...Nick Kimpel EN1320 U2A3 A Prank Gone Wrong Techies are notoriously known as the necessary evils of a play. They are needed to build the set and make all technology run smoothly, but also manage to pull pranks and create difficult situations for actors. The planning process to a techie prank is more complicated than most pranks, if one thing goes wrong the whole prank can ruin a show. Which is almost exactly what happened in the show “Back to the 80’s” in 2012. The conflicts we didn’t consider almost caused the integrity of hours of work on this play. The set of a play is when the true planning process of the prank begins. By the design of the set techies are able to determine which areas are blind spots for the audience so that they may mess with actors offstage (or even sometimes onstage if the stage permits). Well during this process my cohorts and I managed to exploit several locations in which we could execute our master prank on the actors. Two pranks were drafted, one on the second floor behind the only open and close door at the top of a flight of stairs and the second being a locker being used as a prop onstage. The first prank was going to be in the locker. The make-up techies were asked to dress up the head of a Halloween mask to look even more gruesome and intimidating than already designed to be. The goal was to hang the head in the locker so that when the main actor opens the locker during the second scene, he would have to act through it and not let the...
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...required to make it in Hollywood. If you've always wondered how to become a film or television actor, then here are ten steps that may not get you the role of a lifetime, but they will help you to treat your acting career as a career and not simply as something you choose to do for fun. Keep in mind that if you're hoping to become a theater actor, some of these may not apply to you. However, all ten steps are good to keep in mind no matter what type of acting you decide to pursue. Step 1: Learn How to Act Seems like a given, doesn't it? But I can't tell you the number of people that come out to Hollywood thinking that all they need to do is get a job as a waiter at some popular restaurant, meet an agent, get "discovered" and then it's nothing but champagne and caviar from there. Uh...no. Acting is first and foremost a craft. The best of the Hollywood actors understand this and no matter how far they have come in their careers, they are constantly looking to improve upon their craft. They take classes, work with acting and dialogue coaches, they study life experiences, etc. They know full well that even after a lifetime of work and study, they may never reach absolute perfection. So, for you, it's imperative that you take a wide variety of acting classes. Work in a wide variety of styles with a as many different groups of people that you can find. Try it all. From Shakespeare to comedy, from improv to cinema verite -- the more you know, the more well rounded...
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...characters’ French names, which are rather exotic even for me. I think that because I had previously studied Molière’s work in class, I was expecting this play to be performed in a much more traditional style. I was a little disconcerted at first when seeing the actors performing a more modern version than what I had in mind. I ended up liking what Arne Zaslove has done with the play. In my opinion, modernizing it a little makes it easier to relate to the characters. However, mostly I think due to language barrier, I found the play really hard to follow which made it less enjoyable for me. When it comes to acting, I thought that, overall, all the actors did a great job playing their characters. None of them ever looked at specific members of the audience while performing. I liked the way they used hand gestures or lowering their voice to address the audience. I particularly liked the acting skills of the actors playing Géronte, Lucinde and Léandre. I thought that they had the best elocution compared to other actors; they were speaking in a loud and clear way, articulating each word which made it easier for me to understand. To me the other actors’ enunciations were not as good. For instance, I thought that the actor playing Sganarelle did not do such a good job. It seemed like he was trying to be loud but ended up yelling most of the time instead, which I found tiring both for me and for him. This also made it harder to distinguish the different emotions he was playing. Furthermore, I...
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...Sally Giang Michael Flannery THR 100-01 October 10, 2012 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Have you ever thought ‘Wow, that person can really act!’ or ‘Whoa, that person can not act’? Many people have their own opinions of what good acting is and what bad acting is. In my case, good acting is has to be natural. When an audience watches you act, they have to see that the setting that you’re in, you’re completely comfortable in it. Meaning don’t look stiff, don’t try to ‘overact’ your part, be completely natural with your character to where the audience might think the part was made for you. Good acting is when the person feels what the character feels and can bring about the emotion that the character is feeling. Bad acting is when a person can feel somewhat awkward on stage and the audience feels that awkwardness. I feel that if you’re more engrossed in the actor or actress rather than the character that they are in then that’s when you can tell their acting is not very good. The acting in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was good in my opinion. Everyone seemed up to par with his or her character and no one stood out to me with any sort of bad acting. I was satisfied with the play itself and the acting played a huge part on my satisfaction. Actors typically really make up the play. If the actors aren’t good, the play won’t be good. When I first saw the actor who was going to play Andrew Jackson, I immediately assumed he was going to be a jerk due to his appearance. Later on...
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...One performing art that can affect a child’s life forever is acting. Acting is a great way for a child to express themselves. They can be whoever they want to be and is like a big game of dress-up. Acting can just be a way for the kid to be themselves, or a full-time career. When they grow up, they can decide which path they would like to take in acting. Hollywood, Broadway, or just a normal job. These are huge decisions for their career and their life forever. For a Hollywood career, a child can get in over their head when they start to act. They can feel a sense of entitlement and have a giant ego. They can get into a downhill spiral of drugs, alcohol, and other bad things. This may not happen to everyone, but in most cases, this is the...
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...The Rise and Fall of Child Actors Cute button noses, precocious humor, sassy acting—child stars can make any audience fall in love with them. But what happens when they are all grown up? They say the brightest stars burn out the fastest. Child actors are just like us, they go through growth spurts, but also have to face the day to day adult issues like sex, drugs, and the pressure of a job. The sad truth is we think about the welfare of young performers primarily when we are reminded of the dangers they face. Child actors primarily serve as the family breadwinner once their parents decide it is time to seek stardom. The pressure to be older than they are is a huge issue, they want to look older so they start taking drugs, partying and getting drunk. Most child actors do not know who they are enough to deal with the pressure of fame and the outside influences that surround the entertainment industry. For a child actor to be successful they need a strong family. It is up to the parents to let their kids be kids, but many parents forget what is important and the money consumes them and their children. Yet for every broken family in Hollywood there is also a success story to be told. Maculay Culkin is a prime example of how parents of child actors let the money get in the way of their family. His fame led to the downfall of his whole family, and he started using drugs and disappeared from the Hollywood scene. He divorced his parents and took control of his earnings...
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...Review on “The Mustache” and “Ashes to Ashes” Both The Mustache and Ashes to Ashes by Sabina Berman and Harold Pinter, respectively, were great plays however I only thoroughly enjoyed the Mustache because of its humorous nature. The Mustache started out as a very comedic play but transitioned into a serious gender based play. Both actors were acting his/her false sexual orientation when together but deep down each character was homosexual. Ashes to Ashes was just a very confusing play to be however I progressively began to understand the allusions to massive killings, perhaps in the case of Nazi Germany. However, each play consisted of its own values and ulterior meanings, and I was able to understand each play’s message. The Mustache was a very interesting play with a married couple starting their morning as such of a typical relationship. However, the couple progressively turned from sunshine into a bickering mess. The wife was at first angry because the husband had been wearing her mustache at the party they had attended. I didn’t expect this at first because a mustache is usually what is grown on men as a sign of both masculinity and age. They then started talking back about the party and the husband’s encounter with an archetype of a woman. This started to make me realize that there was a gender and sexuality message within the play as soon as the husband started listing out what his girl had possessed. Words such as young, beautiful, skinny, etc. were used to describe...
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...Singer's Levels of Analysis J. David Singer weighs the merits and limitations of the state and system levels of analysis in his essay "The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations." He assesses these levels on their effectiveness in describing, explaining, and predicting phenomena. Below is a brief summary of his basic views on each level: International System Level of Analysis * the most comprehensive level of analysis -- "encompassing the totality of interactions which take place within the system and environment" * more holistic analysis * more deterministic in nature * Effectiveness in describing: * primary advantages lie in its comprehensiveness * disadvantages lie in its lack of detail * Effectiveness in explaining: * disadvantage: exaggerates the impact of the system upon the actors and discounts the impact of the actors upon the system * disadvantage: requires that "we postulate a high degree of uniformity in the foreign political operational codes of our national actors" → thus we assume that all national actors "think and act in terms of interest defined as power"; however, nations may differ to a large extent in the nature and substance of their national interests → creation of "black box" concept of national actors * advantage: adequate for making not causal but correlative statements based on general system level trends * advantage: "singularly manageable model" * Effectiveness in predicting: *...
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...FIU Spring Semester Productions Lucky for me, I had the privilege to sit through an intro to acting class this past semester that assigned me to watch two productions. It wasn’t until I took this class that I realized how talented the theatre department of my school is. It even made me sad that I hadn’t gone to any of its productions until now! I was pleasantly surprised by both plays and did thoroughly enjoy them, as I was a theatre student myself in middle and high school. In The Next Room was the first play I ever saw by FIU theatre and I really believe that the director did a great job executing the play. I was happy to see one of my own sorority sisters up on stage, Michelle Antelo as Mrs. Givings. She was able to project herself very well and kept me engaged with the play throughout the entire show. Antelo greatly contributed to the success of the show. Her acting made it easy for me to suspend my disbelief in order to successfully get involved with the given circumstances of the play. It was clearly noticeable the extra time she put into her character and there was much evidence of preparation. The blocking the actors used on stage was very well thought out and it was also noticeable that all involved equally did their part to make the show a success. Antelo’s character, Mrs. Givings was an emotional one in the play. Antelo’s fascinating was of embodying these emotions are what kept me engaged throughout. I bring up her projection again because to me, it was powerful...
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...The movie is about a young guy Benjamin Braddock, who just graduated college. Now he doesn’t know what he wants to do next. He is feeling pressured by his parents, because they want him to continue studying, and he doesn’t want to continue school. He is seduced by one of his parent’s friends Mrs. Robinson an older lady. He is very hesitant and resist it, but then suddenly starts an affair with her, and things get a little messed up when he falls in love with her daughter Elaine. I really liked the acting, Dustin Hoffmann, is an excellent actor. He did a really good job portraying his character. I also really liked Benjamin Braddock’s character, a very polite, well-mannered, behaved young guy who is confused about life. The acting was really great; all the actors really did a good job portraying their character, even the small roles. Also I really liked the soundtrack of the movie, the music in background really matched the movies and the story. It gave the movie nice feeling, as if you were there yourself. I really like how the movie was surrounded in a rich environment. Because we know that college in America is extremely expensive, and people save up all their life just to attend college, when rich people they easily can. It somehow shows that school isn’t the answer to a good life and money can’t buy happiness. This is an older movie from the 60’s so the film quality isn’t the best, but the camerawork is very good. I didn’t like the story; I was expecting that...
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...The awake and sing play was a fun experience for me. The play portrayed the 1800s period and consisted of 9 main characters. The play was a about a small low income family who experienced daily problems and tried their best to cope with each situation, the daughter of one of the main characters named Hennie, had an unexpected pregnancy while seeking for love, and their son named Ralph, was eager to have his life start with an orphan girl while still regretting his childhood. Each character had their own problems which involved their family. Most plays I have been to throughout my life I didn’t enjoy, but this one I did. The whole experience was amazing, and I wouldn’t mind going to more plays at this theater. I liked the Awake and Sing! play because of the set, actors, and story line. As I walked into the theater I immediately noticed the unusual set, and could tell it was maybe around the late 1800s. All the house decorations fit that time period, the set consisted of an old fashion telephone, old time bed, record player and more. I really loved how beautiful the set looked, I also loved the style, which could be called vintage, and that is my favorite styles of clothing to wear. The arrangement of the set made it look like a real household, the crew that participated in creating the set succeeded in fitting the theme of that time. Each character utilized the set well to make it even more believable. As the play continued I could see the actors were very educated...
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