We have been working on this group scene work for three weeks which is longer than it supposed be. However, I don't think we did as well as we could with this much time, and I think there are three main reasons which cause this. First we are not using class time well, second we didn't pay our attention on the performance and background and third we did take other people’s advices seriously. Because of these three reason, I think we didn't give the best performance we can. Anyway, we need to learn from this project, and we should remind our self when we next time do any other group project.
I have to say it again that time is the most important thing in a group project because how to use the time can make a huge difference when you have the final production. For example, when we are doing researching and reading through, it is so important that everyone is in the same page. Then we can make sure which scene we use and which character we are interested in. However, my group was a little bit slower because we changed our idea twice. After we dicide the script, we started to work on the memorization and blocking. However, my group didn't do well on working the pacing and staging because we were just working on our own lines. I remember when the first time we actually perform on stage we messed our pacing and blocking because we don't know how long others go and where they move. So in the future I will communicate more with my group mates to make sure we are on the same page!
Next problem we had was we didn't pay much attention to the performance and background, and this directly caused our final production looked a little emotionless. For example, when we first time ran our scene Angel, William and me were so calm that made the whole story didn't make any sense because the background should be that I am a people try to scam a old lady while her only family member which is her nephew caught me. William played as the nephew and Angel was the old lady. However, we were all acting so calm and deliver lines as if we are reading a boring story, so audience were so confused. Then we studied each character and we put more emotion in it. Finally we finished our scene. I consider that if we could study characters earlier, we would not be so unprepared when we act out the scene.
The last problem is we didn't take each other’s advices seriously, and this is a the problem can cause some bigger issues. For example, I remember that I was told to be more angry many times, and I didn't do much until everyone told me to do so.Then I found out that it did helped the whole scene. I have to say that there is no perfect actor, so we always need other people’s opinion because the point of acting is make audience believe not actor believe. I also realized that actors don't listen to other people’s advices not only because they don't want to, but also they can't view their work as others can. I suggest that we should take multiple videos before we actually do our final production because view as an audience can help you understand more.
This was the best of my work that I can do, but it always worth it to learn from it. I will focus more in the future about the group work, so we can do better on the performance instead of wasting time on other things. We also need to be more focusing on the background information and how to make audience believe. The last one is that we should always listen to other’s advises because there is no perfect actor!
