Final project

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Move On!

Yes, this is going to be my last blog post for Ms.Guarino’s class. Well there so many things I have learned from this class over my years, but there is one thing that showed us as a class what is theater all about. I remember watching my very first monologue recording, and I was laughing so hard because I would not accept it to be my final draft as senior John Jiang, but freshman John Jiang was pretty happy I got all my lines right. However, the senior John Jiang cannot remember his lines as well as the freshman did!

Yes, I forgot a line on stage, and yes I thought I had the lines solid! While I was all emotional and sad about my last acting class, my head had a blackout, so I forgot a line in my song which I remembered the best “I will be tender, I will be gentle and awful sentimental!” See, I do remember this line, but I forgot it anyway. I was so lucky that I was playing a tin man, so I just stayed still as if I ran out of oil which gave me about solid 3 seconds to think about my line, but I could not anyway. I just sang the line I can remember with all the confidence I can find at the moment, so it looked like I knew what I was doing.
These are the moments represent theater and life. Sometimes, no matter how prepared you are, things could happen which can lead us into what we would never expect. However, we cannot stop and be so sad and let everyone know because the show needs to go on and our lives need to go on! I think now I am truly ready to move on from what I have now because I need to better myself like I did when I was a freshman. Now, I will start as a freshman again in college chasing my dream and passion!

Final Project Proposal

For a four people scene work acting project, I think we should do Wizard of Oz. First of all we know the story and characters which will be helpful when we work together on this piece. I think we can cast: Chrissy as Scarecrow, Livi as Dorothy, Michael as Cowardly Lion and me as Tin Man. This cast will give us a good fit to our range. We will start with our group scene work and then we will work on our individual songs.

What I say is not what I mean!

In our real life, a lot people say things which does not represent what they mean. For example, sometimes when Ms.Guarino say: “Maybe!?” She really means “No that's not a very good idea.” And when John Jiang says: “I don't really know!” He really means “I know but I just cannot tell you what it is exactly about!” Our last scene from English class is one the perfect example of these moments, and it is also the biggest challenge for us to accomplish! As I mentioned before, the hardest part to show from out acting in this scene is our emotion changes! It is hard because the writing of this play gives us the feeling that all of these lines are in the same tone. However, there are many mixed emotions behind the actual dialogue and we want people to sense that even they don't know anything about the actual story.

So how can we do that and how we did? After many changes and practice. We finally gave our final production last Thursday, and I think it's bad because we have shown the doubt in Tom, the sad and anger in Amanda and the confusing in Laura. From the beginning of yelling at each other to slowly building up the temper. It has been a different feeling for me. I used to just think about my character and how will I present; however, this time I spend more time on study how Laura thinks on her head and why she would say each line which helps me a lot when I react to it. I didn't have as many lines as Chrissy had, so I figured to do other things to make my character as effective and interesting as Amanda.

Overall I enjoyed working with Livi and Chrissy, and I am very happy to see all of us becoming better at acting and working with each other! At the end, I am looking forward to work on our final piece next week with four of us in it, and I hope we can make it a perfect ending mark for our last class together!