Things that I have learned about my character so far is that I'm a servant to Romaldi who seems to be apart of royalty. I seem to be very loyal to him as well. One thing I enjoy about my character is how he is apart of a plot to kill someone, I feel that is a really interesting role to play even though you are play a bad guy, but the idea of playing a bad guy is fun. The thing I am most content with for the work on this project is how fast and focused we were almost. There were times where it felt like we were very distracted but we always to manage to get everyone back together for another reversal. My groups weakest area at this point is I think our overall stage presence and acting of emotions. I just feel that it was very dramatic. Floor plan:
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Things that worked for my group and I, was finding costumes that worked for our character, as well as having a proper set that we made to make it feel more complete. The choices that were made impacted the scene to make it more polished. Not all the choses were strong there was an issue with the staging but it seem to work it self out. There's nothing that come to mind when trying to change anything that happened during the week.
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I found learning about the Victorian era to be very intersting. That was always a point in time that sparked my interest in fashion especially, society in general.
Something that worked well in class was being able to have really go communication with my classmates on the freeze frame activity. The cause of this would probably because we could all agree on what we should do and saying yes to the process. I feel the freeze frames did not tell the whole story effectively. Not all the freeze frames were that strong, but one that sticks out to me was Jade's because it felt really genuine. But if I were to do this activity again I would add more emotion with our lines next time would help the story as well as being more descriptive with the scenes and lines. I would have added more on to my story not just going over the part where I first met my cousins.
One thing I learned for the POC exercise was seeing what it was like to be up on stage, in the way that I translated that exercise. Point of Concentration means to having something that occupies you at the moment. Exercises that used the 3 c's were the postcard game, lemonade game, and the walking game. The first c for connection and communication would go to the postcard game as well as the lemonade game. For the commitment c it would be for the walking game because you had to commit to this role that you were walking as. Do you like your neighbor was another game we played were you make a circle and ask people if they like their neighbor and if they said no they would have to switch spots and someone would be stuck in the circle. Walking for age was an activity that had you walk around then the teacher would call out a stage of life and you would have to walk as if you were at that stage of life.
My understanding of improvisation at the begin of class was that it was a learning experience to the topic of improvisation and how it can come naturally of you could struggle with saying "yes" to the process. My thoughts on the topic have changed, before I was not looking forward to the task but doing it was fine. One thing I learned was how being distracted can prevent you from remembering how many people are watching you. Saying yes in drama means to say yes to the process. The processing being all the steps to putting the whole production together. Saying yes is important in drama class because that’s a leading factor to how the class can progress and generate more ideas all around. Generating more ideas and discussion is also another way for the class to ensemble stronger.
What is drama to me; drama is almost a form of exaggeration of langue and movement. Those are just the first things that pop up in my head when I think about the drama. The 3Cs confidence, communication, and community. They are important because they provided a safe environment open for ideas. Then Like we learned from the video many things in the business world can be tied back to the theatre even though you would it would be the opposite. Communication skills and confidence is what are really important when it comes to business.
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