A Satisfied Ending

People always say: “Rome was not built in a day.” In the past school year, the whole class has achieved a significant progress, and this was condensed in one project. For this final project, my group did an adaptation of The Little Prince. I am already tired of saying how productive we were in the past few weeks, so I will talk about the performance in the last draft and our progress in the year. 

In the final draft, I feel everybody in my group did the best. Firstly, we used to have troubles with the lines. I always got nervous, so that I forgot my lines. Once I forgot my lines, Eric did not know what to say next. Then it became a disaster. Also, we all had cut others’ lines once or twice. However, in the final draft, none of the problems appeared. Secondly, our acting achieved a peek in the final draft. For example, the king was an interesting character, I did not want to make it boring. Then I tried so hard to make myself arrogant and self-centered. At first, I did not know how to do this. To be honest, the spring theatre inspired me. The most important thing I learned from “Comedy tonight” was movements on stage. Actors should not just say the lines, there should be movements in acting. As a king, I was sitting on the chair to show my arrogance. However, this was way too boring. When I looked at the first draft video, I felt awkward and I guess the audience did as well. Therefore, I came up with several different movements on stage. I was not just sitting on the chair all the time in the last draft, instead, I sometimes sat, sometimes stood, sometimes covered my face by the hat, sometimes waved the hat… This made my scene much better. Also, one actor’s emotion could definitely influence his/her partner. In the video that was really messed up, I was not in a good emotion, so that influenced Eric. Eric could not remember his lines neither, and his acting was not on his normal level. That was such a disaster. However, in the final draft, I was in a right emotion, and I tried my best to perform. Eric was influenced, and I actually gave him a right mood and emotion. We were really into that scene. This was one of  the reasons why that scene was successful. Moreover, I also overcame some little problems in our production. For example, we used to wear our own clothes, but in the last scene, we wore costumes. This literally brought our production to a new level. Also, we had problems with props once. We kept missing the props, but in the last draft, we were well-prepared. We checked our props and costumes several times. Consequently, I would say this final video was the essence of our progress in this class. 

In conclusion, I really appreciate that I chose to take this class this year, instead of taking a normal literature class. Though I suffered a lot from writing scripts, or memorizing the lines, but I had to admit that I did have fun. Every time when I watched our videos of the productions, I just forgot the pain of preparing them. Enjoy our last video!