Saturday, November 5, 2016

On Monday, we performed our play. On this day we received feedback. I was told I seemed lifeless and needed a specific emotion. I can work on this by continually trying to think of something that makes me mad at Romeo and Mercutio throughout the play. We were told that our play didn't have much expression in it and that we should put more passion in it. I can improve on this by speaking with passion and confidence, with my head up. Additionally, we received feedback that the swords were too loud and our facial expressions needed to be more serious. On the other hand, we were not loud enough. In order for people to hear us, we can talk louder during the sword scene and be quieter with the swords. We were told we needed to be louder and act more violently in the fight scenes. We can do this by pushing and shoving each other in our fight scenes and really getting in each other's faces. Our group was told that we needed more movement during the play. We can fix this be adding pacing in the play and movement back in forth during the fight scenes. I was also told to make my death more dramatic and enthusiastic. When I die I can have my sword go flying, and fall to the ground more realistically. Lastly, Ms. Guarino gave some more advice. She put a lot of emphasis on being more evil, madder,  and to have more intense sword fights. Working on all of these things it will undoubtedly make our play better.

On Tuesday, we didn't get much done, because we still had to watch more plays be acted. For the little time we had, we got feedback from Ms. Guarino. She basically told us to be more lively in the play. It is a dramatic fight scene where we kill each other. It should be emotional and intense. It should be physical and loud. We were able to run through the play twice. In both of these run-through of the play, we made remarkable improvements. We incorporated the feedback we got into the play. We were all loud when we spoke and did a better job staying angry. Additionally, we got in each other's faces when we fought and weren't so far apart. When there was no movement I would pace back in forth. In addition to movement, this pacing reveals the mood that I would be anxious or worried. We made the fighting more realistic and included pushing and shoving. Veronica talked louder during the fight scene. Ethan and I both worked on making our deaths more realistic. This was hard however because if we just threw ourselves on the ground it would hurt so we had to find the right balance. We made significant improvements on Tuesday taking in the feedback that we received on Monday. However, Thursday I was sick and wasn't able to help act the play, so my group acted it without me. Although we had limited time acting this week, in the little time we did have we made significant improvements.

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