David Chiu

I guess I should start by stating what my goal was. My goal was to “go deep” as Tom put it, and show a man dealing with anger and pain from losing a loved one. My secondary goal was to show this man in a state of drunkeness. I feel I halfway accomplished my goals.

Tom’s biggest critique on our work today was that the scene was one-noted. I had pain starting the scene which led to more pain when Shannon showed up. Tom wanted to see different levels of emotions. The problem was that we did not setup the scene with different emotional possibilities. All we had was pain. On the flip side, I received a good note for the way I acted out the pain within my drunk state. He wants me to add more of a speech slur to match my equilibrium loss.

So in summary, I was told to bring back drunkeness for next class but next time he wants to see me being drunk and trying to practice a eulogy for my father, or something related to that. He wants me to be more talkative and active in a drunk state so that I can demonstrate my understanding of how to act drunk. So that’s exactly what I’ll do.

We also got new acting partners today so I will now be working with Melissa - a Filipina sister!