I have been working on a three people's scene for one and half week, but we did not finish our scene yet because we were taking PSAT on Wednesday and we have three group in our acting class. I have tried all our ideas of this scene, and I hope we can finish it tomorrow. Through this scene I have learned a new way to improve my short scene work and my character's building. Because we are not ready to do a long play or long scene, we are now doing so many short scenes. However sometimes short scenes cause a serious problem which is that they are much harder than a play or long scene because audience sometimes don't know the whole story or how a scene happens. I had a extreme hard time to figure this scene out because our scene is a car accident which happened without any prescene or back story. After Ms. Guarino pointed out our scene's problem, we tried so many different prescene, such as dark environment, driving crazy, and drunk characters, and finally we got our precene to make the whole scene easier and better to be understood.
I didn't realized that a short scene can make audience so confused, so I had a hard time to come up with a idea to make it more sensible and logical. Since I got this script, I couldn't give a explanation of what and why happened in the scene, and I was also confused because this scene can be both comedic and dramatic. However, my group thought that they liked it to be comedic, and also we finally created a pre scene to make a completed short story. To be honest, I enjoyed writing a scene by myself because it gives me more space to be creative and flexible. I can decide the style of the whole story instead of sticking to the original script. I always like to create new elements in a scene to make it better, and this time we decided to make our characters to be drunk which not only make the story better but also make the scene much more funny. When we were acting drunk character, some of us reacted so excited and some of us reacted so different from the normal reactions, which made this scene much more interesting. Thus, adding a pre scene not only make the scene much easier to be understood, but also make the scene a much better scene.
I love this class because this class can always bring me new things which help me to be better with theater. I had a so tough time last week with my classes and major selecting, but this class gave me more and more reasons to keep my belief and passion of theater. I will use all I have learned in the future, and I will try my best to discover more, especially things can help with play and audience. Thus, it is such a pleasure to have these experience, and I will make my scene better and better by more creative and interesting prescenes.
