Blog 22 - Mentorship

Literal

• My mentorship hours log can be found by clicking here, or clicking on the link that says "Senior Project Hours Log" on the right had side of my blog.
• Mentorship Information
• Julian White
• CalPoly Pomona
• Chip Healy
• South El Monte High School

Interpretive

• What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?
• I believed that the most important thing I gained from this experience was the overall knowledge on my topic. This is because my mentors provided me with information I may have never found out about on my own. Since my mentors were very experienced, they not only taught me about the meaning and importance of character building (which is what my entire senior project is based on), but they also taught me that acting is a business, not just entertainment. They taught me that actors must be able to be skilled in many things within theatre, dance, music, and especially business and economics. This knowledge that they have provided me will be able to help me in the future when I am trying to pursue my career in acting, which is incredibly valuable to me.
• Here are some pictures from my first mentorship with Julian White:

• Here is the only picture I was able to take in my mentorship with Chip Healy:

Applied

• How has what you've done helped you to answer your EQ? Explain.
• No matter what I was watching or directing within both of my mentorships, the ideas of character were always there. My mentors stressed to me the importance that a performance is nothing without the realistic characters. While doing things such as directing act 2 of La Casa de Bernarda Alba, I was able to work with the cast in order to perfect their character. With Julius Caesar, I was able to watch professional actors in person to see how they do their character building process. Everywhere I went, character was there. However, having to pick a specific character building method was difficult, until I noticed that within both mentorships, the cast would always begin with the psychology of a character. This showed me that the most important part of character building is the psychology, making the Stanislavski Method my best answer for its in-depth work on the inside of a character.