Hey y’all!

Today I will be telling you about acting and how it relates to PLTW. A module I recently completed was about making videos, or videography. I think that my favorite part of the module was the acting. I love to be in front of a camera and performing. Acting involves selling the character to the audience. The video I made was actually a commercial, so I kind of had to make it interesting for the audience so they would buy the product. The product we made a commercial for doesn’t even exist yet, so I had to be pretty creative and use my imagination. PLTW involves creativity, imagination, knowledge, and strategy, all of which are important in this world. PLTW is not just boring stuff, in fact, there is almost never a boring moment.

PLTW can actually relate to acting in multiple ways. When you are acting, you need to keep calm and keep your mind on the scene you are in. In PLTW, you need to be completely aware of your surroundings, otherwise you could find yourself in a very dangerous situation which might include losing a limb. You also need to use imagination in order to develop a character because there is a limited amount of information you have on the character. You need to use your imagination in PLTW when you are creating something because there will not always be a step-by-step instruction manual. There are a lot of projects in a PLTW class which include taking information and using imagination to create something to benefit someone. Another similarity between acting and PLTW is that you need to sacrifice some of your time in order to complete a project or memorize your lines and develop a character. You need to be willing to push yourself and sometimes go outside your comfort zone. In PLTW, you need to go out of your comfort zone sometimes in order to make something. You might have to be willing to talk to people who are part of large companies, or people who you have never even met or heard of just so you can move on and finish your project. When you are acting, you need to be okay with not being yourself sometimes, but also completely being yourself at other times. Sometimes, you will have to do embarrassing movements, or say embarrassing things. You also need to be able to move on and improvise. If you are acting and you or somebody else messes up, you need to be able to take your knowledge of the play and improvise so that the production can go on. If you mess up on your final product in PLTW, you usually need to just work around it. However, if you absolutely need to start over in PLTW, sometimes you can, but more often than not, you don’t have time to start over, or you don’t have the materials, so you just have to make do with what you have. Cooperation is another big thing needed in both because when you are working in a group, you need to work with them and not go off and do your own thing without the rest of the group. When you are acting, unless you are doing a monologue, you have to work with other people because you can’t take over the whole show, otherwise, that may end in disaster because you would be trying to cover the entire show with only one person. Let me know how that works out, because I think you would have to be really in tune with the production and really good at improv or plan everything ahead of time. Also, if you try to take over the show, it might mess up your career, but I am just guessing about that. Dedication is also important because in acting, you might need to take on multiple jobs in addition to acting. In PLTW, you need to be dedicated to finishing your product and making it the best it can be.

There are a lot of similarities between acting, one of the arts, and PLTW, an engineering type class. There are many things in this world which seem completely unrelatable, but there is probably something connecting them to each other.

CHALLENGE!!!: SEE IF YOU CAN FIND 10 SIMILARITIES BETWEEN A FINE ART AND ANOTHER SUBJECT OR EVENT!

Sincerely,

Regina S.