Final Progect Update!

For my final Literature and Performance project, I get to work with Michael, Grace, John, and Jack. Our adaption was originally going to be based on several scenes from the book, The Giver, but we decided to change the subject of our adaption to a different novel. We chose to adapt, Life As We Knew It, a novel told from the perspective of a young girl named Miranda about her and her family's life after the Earth drastically changes when a meteor pushes the moon out of its orbit. In the adaption, I will be playing the role of Laura, Miranda's mother and one of the central characters in our adaption.  In class, we have been working on our adaption  for about a week now and we have made a large amount of progress on the project.
One of the areas that we have made the most progress in is the selection of the scenes from the novel that we are going to perform. As Grace was the only member of our group to have read the actually book and I only read a summary of it, we were quite limited on the scene choices. This was because of the fact that we had to heavily rely on Grace's information about the novel and her opinions about the individual scenes when choosing the scenes. However, we were able to work together with Grace on picking the scenes, because we read several different summaries on the book, some of which were very detailed, and Grace also provided us with further information. We also had to chose a scene for each actor that centered around their character.
We also made a lot of progress on our script, as my group worked together to finish it on Friday. By using Google Docs and discussing it at the same time, each of the members of my group were able to work at the same time on the script that we were writing. It also allowed us to have a large amount of say in the creation of the script. It also let us have a large say in the creation of our characters, as we all worked on writing our own character's lines.m
I think that we are off to a great start to our project. I am having a lot of fun working on it with my group. Soon, we will start to stage our adaptions and I will tell you all about it.




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