For project 3 i am doing a scene from the show friends. The episode that we are doing is season 3 episode 2 titled ‘the one where no ones ready’ .
My character- Monica Gellar
To help me i watched the episode again and again to recap what happens and to show me what it is that i need to do as my character
I already know a pretty much everything about Monica as I have seen the show loads of times and she is may favorite character. But to jog my memory I looked on a a few websites and gathered a few facts. She is Ross’ younger sister , her occupation is a chef and in the previous season was in a relationship with Richard who is an eye doctor, which is useful in the episode because it is what she is focused on .
In this particular episode she is distracted by a voice mail she gets from her ex boyfriend Richard. By re watching the episode back it aloud me to get a better understanding of her motivation and goal. Which is to find out if Richards message was old or new. Watching the episode also helped me to see her facial expressions and her movement. As well as the tone and projection in her voice. For example at the beginning of the episode she is calm tone in her voice, but as the episode goes on she stumbles on her words and talks faster or slower, showing that she is stressed and distracted. And when she says ‘yeah-huh!’ and ‘old or new?!old or new?!’ she has a higher projection. Which is what i will be using when i perform.
In the episode we are doing Monica has a few different outfits. In the beginning she is wearing a short black shirt and a checkered skirt. So i just wore a long black shirt because of my arms and black shorts because i didn’t have a similar outfit to what she does. For her other outfits she has a white silk dress thing with flowers, for that scene if we had time to do it, i would of worn the black shorts and a white vest top as i don’t own a silk dress and it was the closest thing i had.