Strengths and Weaknesses of Collaborative
So far this semester, we have really gotten a lot of the messy work done by creating and finishing the skeleton of our collaborative project. Now, we are working on refining lines, blocking, and lights/sound effects through experimentation and exploration of what we have written.
I would say that our strongest scene so far in our project is the first scene, where Sophia is packing in Ellie's bedroom getting ready to leave and the confrontation between the two of them. Part of what we worked on the past few weeks has been changing some of our previously written lines to make them sound more natural and believable, which is exactly what we did with this first scene. We are actually continuously making minor changes to lines the more we rehearse, which has only been making the first scene better and better.
However, what happens after the first scene is what needs the most work. The first scene had been the only scene we were working on staging for a long time, and this week was the first time we moved on to staging later scenes that had recently been written. Of course, it is rare and extremely hard to have a smooth run through the first few times you stage a new piece of theatre. Regarding what has most recently been written, this week we moved on to working on the second scene when we are fully immersed in the dream and Ellie sits down at the desk to read and write a letter, while Sophia is arriving, getting settled, and training at her military camp. What we struggled the most with has been the timing of everything and what we want to happen and each point in time, and seeing if we have time to stage all the ideas we had while Ellie reads and writes her letter. Additionally, as we rehearse, new ideas continuously pop into each of our heads, which is a good thing, but causes us to have to take more time to stop, rethink, and experiment with how we are now going to incorporate this new idea. The next step moving forward for us is to continue to work on experimenting with and timing our scenes, but also thinking about what each of our characters would do and how they would react to certain situations.
I would say that our strongest scene so far in our project is the first scene, where Sophia is packing in Ellie's bedroom getting ready to leave and the confrontation between the two of them. Part of what we worked on the past few weeks has been changing some of our previously written lines to make them sound more natural and believable, which is exactly what we did with this first scene. We are actually continuously making minor changes to lines the more we rehearse, which has only been making the first scene better and better.
However, what happens after the first scene is what needs the most work. The first scene had been the only scene we were working on staging for a long time, and this week was the first time we moved on to staging later scenes that had recently been written. Of course, it is rare and extremely hard to have a smooth run through the first few times you stage a new piece of theatre. Regarding what has most recently been written, this week we moved on to working on the second scene when we are fully immersed in the dream and Ellie sits down at the desk to read and write a letter, while Sophia is arriving, getting settled, and training at her military camp. What we struggled the most with has been the timing of everything and what we want to happen and each point in time, and seeing if we have time to stage all the ideas we had while Ellie reads and writes her letter. Additionally, as we rehearse, new ideas continuously pop into each of our heads, which is a good thing, but causes us to have to take more time to stop, rethink, and experiment with how we are now going to incorporate this new idea. The next step moving forward for us is to continue to work on experimenting with and timing our scenes, but also thinking about what each of our characters would do and how they would react to certain situations.
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