Briana Carter
10/28/14
Weekly post

10/21- Tuesday, we met in class and discussed our task of the day. We were going outside to perform and get accustomed to performing in front of an audience. I am really used to this sort of thing because I am a cheerleader and I am in front of crowds all the time. We warmed up with movements that made me think of theatre a little bit. When I was in theatre in High School, we always did movements across the stage so we could learn to become the character. After we were all warmed up, our task was to be put into groups and get a slip of paper. We all had to perform whatever was on the paper. I saw some really interesting acts, but a lot of people were either way too shy, or was not taking it seriously by laughing the whole time. My slip told me to become a text message. I could not think of anything to do. My first thought was the sound a message makes when it comes to your phone, so I made that sound and made a little pop-up bubble with my hands. I also did a little bit of the typing noises. This was really fun, but it was hard for me to come up with something to do. Everybody else had really easy things to become like animals for example. I could have easily have been a bee or bunny rabbit. I guess that just shows the difficulty of each one of the items. This made me realize how hard it was going to be to interact with others or have others interact with you during your performance, but the whole idea is to play off of each other.

10/23- Thursday was the day to present our projects to the class. We had to meet in Rowe, and walk to the drawing room for our photo-shoot. I have not gotten my photos yet, but I will describe my costume. I attached a red cloth to the outside of a picture frame. and crawled up inside of it. This way, you could not see anything but my shirt and face through the picture frame. I wore a black shirt that was wide on my shoulder and pearls. Also, I looked very presentable with my makeup and hair done. When I heard that we would be doing a photo-shoot, I figured that our teacher was just going to be taking a regular picture of us, but it was a professional with different lenses and a backdrop. I felt like a model getting in front of the camera, but also a little awkward because everybody in the class was watching us. The performances were really interesting. Some people were really shy and stood in the back, and others were very outgoing with their character. The mixture of characters was good in some of the groups, but bad in some. You had crazy people running around and then others who stayed still and giggled the whole time or had slow movements. My sound was playing classical music. Basically, I was trying to go for a very classical and beautiful look with my project. When I was younger, I always wanted to be "as pretty as a picture", so that is why I became a picture. I always think of pictures being perfect and flawless, so that is the look I was trying to pull off. I really liked my group. It was the baby, and the old hag lady with many items. I felt like I was mothering over them because I just stood straight up the entire time while they were down on the ground interacting with each other. I was like the person watching over them. Some comments that I heard about mine was the fact that I was a good center piece for that group and I looked like the pictures that move around and talk in the Harry Potter movies. I actually never thought about that until somebody said so. I loved this project in the end. It was fun, and it did not feel stressful at all. That is the one thing I love so much about this class. I don't have to worry about if it is wrong or not; instead everything is right, but has different meanings and differences. I feel like our class became so much closer through friendships throughout this whole project. We interacted with each other, and showed our real self through our characters; clicking with people more like us.