Final Project Progress Report

For my final project, I am putting on several different scenes from Life As We Knew It with a group of my classmates, Jack, John, Grace, and Michael. We have been working on it for a couple of weeks now and my group has made a lot of significant progress on our final project over the past week. We worked on memorizing our lines and blocking, so that we could perform our first draft. After getting some feedback yesterday from the class, we edited our script and blocking, that we now are working on memorizing. I think that it is going quite well.
I helped Grace revising the script, which included adding information about Jack's character and what happened to the moon, by giving her suggestions of what people could say and where they could say them before she wrote the script outside of class. This enables us to make the entire plot more clear to the audience. I also did a good job at memorizing my blocking for the scenes. I also worked on developing my character, Miranda, by making significant changes in her behavior and personality before and after the moon is moved, which disrupts the planet. I also worked on being able to do the scene changes needed for the performance with the people in my group quite well. We just assigned people to certain props and set pieces, which they were in charge of moving, which was a lot easier than when I had to do most of the scene changes during my last Literature and Performance project.
The biggest issue that I have is with memorizing my new lines. For me, the task of memorizing lines is one of the most challenging things that people have to do when they act. I am better at memorizing blocking, because it usually is somewhat logical and smaller amounts of it than the amounts of lines that I have. It also helps that if I do it enough when I practice I can remember it better and I am able to remember it at a much faster rate than the lines. My group is quite good at memorizing the lines and their blocking, so it gave me a less time during class to focus on learning them with my group in things like read through. Now, that I learned my blocking, I can now turn my focus to learning the new lines and getting more confident on the older ones that I know.
My group has clarity of their scripts as the biggest problem that they have to deal with. I think that this new addition to our script, plus adding lighting, costuming, and potentially sound clues will help make some of the more confusing parts more clear to the audience.
The other group, whose performance about a man's murder, was extremely entertaining, because it was extremely comical. The actors in that group had very good characterization and the ones that were memorized were able to do a great job. The other group had a problems with the clarity of their scene, because some aspects, like some of the relationships between the characters, was confusing and had some seemingly contradictory information. However, they are going to revise their script, use props, and wear costumes that would all help with this.
I am having a great time working on my final project and watching the other group's. I just can't wait to see the results of all our hard work look like!

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