A 5-minute monologue/performance, performed to the camera, for the camera. It can take one of many forms: a confession, a reflection, an attempt to convince, a struggle to communicate, a message in a bottle. You can tell a story or anecdote, lay out a set of statements or facts, describe an experience. Your piece will exist somewhere on a spectrum between a monologue with few performance elements, to a performance with few spoken elements (there must remain some form of verbal address, however).
Importantly, this project is not about demonstrating acting ability, or acting in any form. There should not be any edits within the five-minute span. It’s important to engage the overall context of the monologue-performance: the setting (the context of where it’s being recorded), your delivery and how you address the camera, and how all of this (in addition to the content of your monologue-performance) produces certain kinds of moods or feelings.
Think of this monologue project as a culmination of the first part of this course, a way to further explore notions of time and feedback, phenomenal experience, embodied dimensions, and affect, all while engaging with verbal expression.
TO HAND IN:
1. The video, uploaded to Google Drive.
2. A 750-1000 write-up that deals with the making of the monologue-performance, initial ideas and conceptualization, technical details, etc. (DUE WEEK 7: October 29)