This is my second group work about theatre performance, and also the first one with requirement of recording our drama. For everyone who needed to perform for ,on average, 5 minutes, I do have a group with only two people, that is, me and sofia. So as we are doing a ten minutes play, it is so much easier than other groups since that I've known the plot in my class, for example the 20 minutes short movie group. Just like my last IB exam work, I am lucky enough to have so many good ideas that leads to a lot of funny effects. This time, fortunately, my partner is also very talented. She has so many good ideas that come out with in the script, and the experiences with staging. Me, as a beginner, I must admit that I am taking the advantage.
Our play is a little bit complicated. Due to the situation that with only two people in the play, we have to think about a starting with a different topic, or a form of script in order to make the play itself more interesting. So we decided to separate the play into two different staging. We originally planned that we design the plot as butterflies, talking about the story of Ti Moune though the whole play. So we have first staging about narration. Then when we have to exactly show the story, we will act it out. For example the dancing scene about Daniel and Desiree is for both of us. Then the whole scene is divided into three parts, which are the changes through Desiree's life. When she was pure, when she had more eager and then fell into darkness in the end. So the custom of our actors are different. She acts for the different changes for Desiree with different colors of dresses, but I don't change the color because I represent the pureness of her.
I would like to talk about the feeling when we tried our rehearsal as first time. Before that , I thought our script and staging are perfect to act, but when we actually mesmerize the lines and we go in to the black box and try out, I realized some problems that exist in our performance. For example, because we have lot of scenes changing in ten minutes. So our scripts seem like have a hard time on changing. It is too sudden to show the transformation of staging. This is one of the most serious problems that we have right now. So it is pretty urgent to face this problem.
Another one is about the facial expression ( the vocab in theatre theology), the expression of emotion. In total, we have four characters. And they are all different from each others on characteristics. For example, there are different emotions for Desiree each scene. They are pure and boring, fall in love with her whole heart, then the last one is when she depressed and desperate about her relationship with Daniel crashed.
