When I did research on Uta Hagen one of the things I learned was that she believed that you need to know so much about you character that you could be like him for a day. I used the questions on Merctio to better understand him more.  And as a result of that when we acted out the play for the first time not just reading through it, I knew what emotions to portray and when to show them.  Also I used a tequinque from the father of acting witch was when you need to portray a certain  emotion you need to think of something that will get you feeling that way, because if you think it then your body will actually do what you need to do.

Tuesday- My group and I finished our scripts and also the blocking. We then went over them twice just reading them, we didn't practice getting into character yet because we thinks that's it's important to know what your lines are and work out the kinks. We had a couple of kinks we had to workout mostly just getting Veronica caught up and we also had to change up some of the roles because it suited someone else better. After going through the play a couple of times we felt that we did enough that day. We then went over the costumes. I will be wearing white, Romeo will be almost wearing the same thing but he will also wear some gold to represent that he is wealthy and very important.

Thursday- We acted out the play this time, trying to step in the shoes of our characters. However we ran into a couple slight problems involving not being able to keep it together. I had to say a weird and kinda funny line right before the fight scene between Tybalt and I. And jack just kept laughing and then Veronica would then I would. It took us about like five times to get over the fact not to laugh. The way we figured it out was two options. One was to bite the inside of you cheeks to prevent you from laughing, but it slowed the speed of the play. So another thing we came up with was to think of something sad before i said my line so that they would almost like counter each other out. And it worked we were able to go over the play a couple more times after that. And I felt that it was a very productive day.

Monologue

TYBALT - Down Center

This, by his voice, should be a Montague.

Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave

Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,

To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

Tis he, that villain Romeo.

NEW SCENE

TYBALT - Down Left

Gentlemen, good e’en. A word with one of you.

Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.

MERCUTIO - Center Right

Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels?

An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear

nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s

that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!

Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.

I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.

(Enter Romeo.)

TYBALT

Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man.

MERCUTIO - Down Right

But I’ll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery.

Marry, go before to field, he’ll be your follower.

Your Worship in that sense may call him “man.”

TYBALT - Down Center

Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford

No better term than this: thou art a villain.

ROMEO - Up Right

Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee

Doth much excuse the appertaining rage

To such a greeting. Villain am I none.

Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.

TYBALT

Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries

That thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.

ROMEO - Center Right

I do protest I never injured thee

But love thee better than thou canst devise

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.

And so, good Capulet, which name I tender

As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.

MERCUTIO - Down Center

O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!

]Alla stoccato carries it away.

(He draws)

Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?

TYBALT

What wouldst thou have with me?

MERCUTIO

Good king of cats, nothing but one of your

nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as

you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the

eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher

by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your

ears ere it be out.

TYBALT

I am for you.

(He draws)

ROMEO - Down Center

Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.

MERCUTIO

Come, sir, your passado.

(They fight. )

ROMEO

beat down their weapons.

Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!

Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath

Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:

Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!

(TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers)

MERCUTIO - Down Left

I am hurt.

A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.

Is he gone, and hath nothing?

(MERCUTIO Exits)

NEW SCENE…

ROMEO - Down Left

This day's black fate on more days doth depend;

This but begins the woe, others must end.

Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!

Away to heaven, respective lenity,

And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!

(Re-enter TYBALT) Up Right

Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,

That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul

Is but a little way above our heads,

Staying for thine to keep him company:

Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

TYBALT - Down Center

Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,

Shalt with him hence.

ROMEO - Down Center

This shall determine that.

(They fight; TYBALT falls)

ROMEO

O, I am fortune's fool!

I have to portray Mercutio, to do this  successfully I have to have the emotions of being sad and betrayed. I need to portray these emotions because right before Mercutio is about to die he realizes that it's all Romeos fall for his death because of  his love toward Juliet. So, in his last words right before he's about to die he put a curse on the two households. That is why I wouldn't have to feel betrayed. I will also have to feel sad because I die and there's nothing I could do to prevent it. A way for me to prepare for this sceneill be using Ulta Hagenens nine step rule.  By doing this I will be able to understand my character more because it ask you a series of the 5W's questions.  Way I will be able to us reflect these emotions is by using this technique from Stan Sasuke his technique is to think of a memory that you have in your head and express it. This is what I will have to do to portray Mercutio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpzLLv-7_JE

Uta Hagen made a series of nine steps that actors should live by.  She believed that If you can master all of these before you go in to record the first scene you will be a great actor.
1.  WHO AM I?  

2.  WHAT TIME IS IT?  

3.  WHERE AM I?  

4.  WHAT SURROUNDS ME?  

5.  WHAT ARE THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES?  

6.  WHAT IS MY RELATIONSHIP?  

7.  WHAT DO I WANT?  

8.  WHAT IS IN MY WAY?  

9.  WHAT DO I DO TO GET WHAT I WANT?  

Monologue

TYBALT

This, by his voice, should be a Montague.

Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave

Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,

To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,

To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.

Tis he, that villain Romeo.

NEW SCENE

TYBALT

Gentlemen, good e’en. A word with one of you.

Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.

MERCUTIO Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels?

An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear

nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s

that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort!

Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.

I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I.

(Enter Romeo.)

TYBALT

Well, peace be with you, sir. Here comes my man.

MERCUTIO

But I’ll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery.

Marry, go before to field, he’ll be your follower.

Your Worship in that sense may call him “man.”

TYBALT

Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford

No better term than this: thou art a villain.

ROMEO

Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee

Doth much excuse the appertaining rage

To such a greeting. Villain am I none.

Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.

TYBALT

Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries

That thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.

ROMEO

I do protest I never injured thee

But love thee better than thou canst devise

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.

And so, good Capulet, which name I tender

As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.

MERCUTIO

O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!

Alla stoccato carries it away.

(He draws)

Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?

TYBALT

What wouldst thou have with me?

MERCUTIO

Good king of cats, nothing but one of your

nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as

you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the

eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher

by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your

ears ere it be out.

TYBALT

I am for you.

(He draws)

ROMEO

Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.

MERCUTIO

Come, sir, your passado.They fight.

ROMEO

Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.

Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!

Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath

Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:

Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!

(TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies with his followers)

MERCUTIO

I am hurt.

A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.

Is he gone, and hath nothing?

(MERCUTIO Exits)

NEW SCENE…

ROMEO

This day's black fate on more days doth depend;

This but begins the woe, others must end.

Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!

Away to heaven, respective lenity,

And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!

(Re-enter TYBALT)

Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,

That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul

Is but a little way above our heads,

Staying for thine to keep him company:

Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

TYBALT

Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,

Shalt with him hence.

ROMEO

This shall determine that.

(They fight; TYBALT falls)

ROMEO

O, I am fortune's fool!

In the finally scene of the movie the emotions that I felt when watching Romeo look at this shrine and to see Juliet appear to be dead was depressed. I felt that way because when reading the play I felt as if I was in Verona. And I can feel for Romeo when someone you love is taken from you. After Romeo has said his goodbyes to Juliet he puts the ring she gave him on her finger, then say "seals it with a kiss" when he said this I knew that this was the end because Romeo can't live without his true love. He then turns away from Juliet and opens the poison, right when he does this Juliet wakes up. And I wasn't really that happy because I knew that they would die because of the play.

In the play Romeo and Juliet there is a pattern that is requiring throughoutthe play. It's like a wave, what I mean by this is somthing good happens like the beginning of a wave going up then somthing bad happens when the wave is coming down. And example of this is just a day later when Romeo and Juliet get married Romeo gets into a battle with Tybolt, who's jukiets cousin and hates Romeo because he's a montage. Anyway Romeo kills him in a battle and because of this he gets banished from Verona and can never see his true love again 3.3 "Hence from Verona art thou banishèd." This is when Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that he is banished from Vernon and can never  see his true love agian. Romeo hasn't even been married to Juliet for a day and he already manages to kill her cousin and get banished. I think that this is Romeos true side an anger prince with anger issues. But he was so in love with Juliet that she covered up this side of him. But it was a matter of time before it came out. Also in the play image is used a lot to make the audience know who's who. Like whe they say they are two powerful households that share a accident rivalry. You can already see in your head like two builds that are being disused by a streeet. And there colors are the complete opposite. Also some characters changed from the beginning to the end of the play.  An  example of this is in the beginning of the play Romeo was a strong male character meaning he called the shots in the relationship with Juliet and was a man. But towards the end of the play he became less of a man and became kind of a coward in some ways.  Juliet is another character that changed in the beginning of the play she was a shy immature teen, but as the play goes on she matures and becomes more of a woman. Her and Romeo almost to switch roles in the play. when Juliet's character switches it's for the better she becomes mature and gums from girl to a woman. But, Romeo's character switch is for the worse because he goes from being a strong male figure into a coward and scared.  Another person that changed was the nurse. In the beginning she was the mother figure that Juliet never had, she was always there for her.  But as the play goes on the nurse switch is her role and  since Juliet's mother figure, Because she starts the side with her parents and almost turned her back on Juliet.  This character change I think it's for the better, because it means that Juliet is it always right. And I think the nurse is just trying to teach Julie a lesson, and because of this I think that is one of the main reasons why juliets character change is for the better when she becomes a mature woman.