Explain how effective you believe your power point presentation was. Why?
Did you think research on your time period helped you with your scene?
What difficulties did you encounter during the rehearsal process/performance? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the scene? How did you attempt to overcome the obstacles? Describe what you could've done to strengthen/enhance the scene.
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Well, I think our power point was pretty awesome. Since Jake did most of the putting-together of the project and I just did research, it was nice to see the information put together into an organized presentation. I don't really think my research helped me with the scene - I feel like the scene would've been the same either way. I wish we could've picked a better, more historical scene, where there could be references or allusions that we could connect to because of the information in the powerpoint. I guess you'd have to look really hard for a play like that, and we didn't have enough time to dive deep enough to do that. Oh well. I had a lot of fun with the assignment, even though Jake and I are the two most OCD people in the class. We made it work. :)
This was a fun and interesting project that I enjoyed a lot. I obviously love to be on the stage and acting but it was nice to step away for a little bit and really look into the history of the theater and see why people like us love it so much today. I think our powerpoint presentation was very effective. I think it was short and sweet and to the point. We were able to express our major points that we wanted to. We also had lots of pictures and diagrams which really enabled the class to see for themseleves some of the things we were trying to express. Power points can get boring at times so we tried to throw some fun and interesting facts in there as well to keep the class always interested and wanting to hear what we had to say. I do think our reasearch on our time period helped with our scene a little. We were able to get to the know the playwrite and where he was coming from as well as the basis of the play as a whole and the time period that it was from. We were able to then understand the relevance this play had in it's specific era of theater and why it was ebing written and performed. The biggest difficulty we had during the rehearsal process was managing our time. We did not have that much time to work on the power point in the lab so much of that was done at home by ourselves. Rehearsal time was also limtied just because there is not that much time left in the year and also becuase soemtimes one of us was out of class which caused the other person not to be able to rehearse that day. The biggest difficulty we had while performing the scene was really figuring out the relevance this scene had with the other parts of the play and really try to discover what the scene was actually about. The strengths of our scene were that we both knew our lines very well and were well prepared and rehearsed to go that day. We were both committed to our characters and both knew what we wanted to accomplish by the end of the scene. I think we were both very intouch with our characters emotions which enabled us to play off each other and feed off each others characters. The weakness of the scene was that we still did not have a full grasp of what the actual motives and characters were supposed to be portrayed as being as we had no backgroud information on the scene itself and did not have time to read the whole play it was taken from. We attempted to overcome these obstacles by creating our own idea about what the scene was about and really playing off how we thought it should be portrayed, even if that was not how the writer originally intended the scene to be like. We could have rehearsed a little bit more to strengthen or enhance our scene. We also could have done more research on our sepcific play it was from. Ultimately we could have read the whole play in order to really analyze the characters we were portraying and really fully undertsand the scene and the play it was from in its entirety.
At first i thought our powerpoint was not going to be effective becuase me and shauna would get very distracted in the lab (or at least i would) and i was afraid we wouldnt get done. but luckily when it was time to do it we actually went A DAY EARLY and it really came together and i think it was very informative without becoming boring or redundant. My favorite part is that we gave the audience information on our scene. Our research that went into that powerpoint didnt help the scene persay, but i do think that our research that went into finding out info on our play helped the scene. we wouldve played it complettely differently had we not known all of the things that took place before and after our particular scene. like i said one of our biggest difficulties was staying on task. i particularly strayed from what i was supposed to be doing while in the lab. and we maybe shouldve rehearsed the scene more. I think our weakness in the scene was not knowing our lines. we did know them, but when we got up there we THOUGHT we didnt and so were asking for our lines and breaking character and suchhh. we tried to keep going as much as possible i think. maybe to get the nerves out and do it our best (since we had run it perfectly only one minute before the performance) we shouldve taken and minute and REALLY got into character or something. I dont know but overall i think it went really well!
My power point was amazing! Just kidding. I did actually write it myself and I understood what I was talking about. I made it pretty clear, I think, and the class seemed to understand as well. It wasn't difficult to get. My presentation was entertaining and I added a lot of effects to keep it that way! Therefore it was pretty much top notch. I honestly don't think the research that i did on my time period aided me in portraying my scene any better. I would have done it the same way had i not known anything about the period. The scene was very hard to understand and I wasn't entirely sure what was going on, which just added to the horribleness of the scene. During rehearsal, the scene went well. Eric and I knew our lines pretty early in the game and we practiced voices and annunciation every day. During the actual performance, shit hit the fan. Lines were messed up and we got all off track. I tried to cover up for the forgotten lines by hinting things towards my partner during the scene to jog his memory and sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I think the scene would have been fine had we been more solid on our lines and maybe if we had read the rest of the play so we had a better understanding of our characters. All in all, our scene sucked but our presentation made up for it. A+?
I thought it was very effective with the pictures and the descriptions we put in. Yes, it showed us the meaning of the scene we had, but also i read it in short lit so i already knew a bit. The difficulties were we didn't have the pipe early to work with it and Jen isn't a girl so it was harder for her to be in the mind of the character she got. Our weaknesses were we forgot some lines and Jen wasn't feeling well that day. Our strengths were our setup on stage. We could have memorized more and planned what movements to make on stage that's about it. Overall I think we did a great job.
Our PowerPoint was pretty good. It definitely had a good amount of information, and I think me and Kelsey understood it all pretty well. Although ours didn't seem as long, and wordy, as some of the other presentations. But I think that only helped us understand everything better. I'm not really sure though how much the PowerPoint helped when it came time to acting out the scene. I mean it definitely helped us understand what the purpose of the scene was, but not as much when it came to actually performing it. I can't really recall many problems during the rehearsal process, me and Kelsey seemed to be nailing more and more of it everyday. Although when it came time for the actual performance we were really nervous. I think we both felt like we hadn't had enough time to prepare. It was great how much we were both improving everyday, but when it came time to do it we both knew that the last quarter of the scene was still a bit shaky. But we still got up there and went for it. I'm pretty sure we got through the first page totally fine. I think at the beginning of the second page I may have skipped a line or two, but it was still flowing smoothly. Man though, it really crumbled once we got to the end of that second page. We were basically going back and fourth at that point, trying to remind each other of our lines, which worked to an extent. We got back on track somewhat at the top of page three, but the rest was still pretty bumpy. For the most part the scene was made up of a lot of different Neo-Classical references, which confused us both. I think that really made the scene a lot more challenging than it actually could have been. The only good part about it was that there was a lot of little small bits where we kept reflecting of what we were each saying. Those parts I think were the easiest to get down. Overall I think we did a not so bad job. We DID nail a lot of it, or more then I thought we would at least, and most of the little mistakes we made I don't think we made too obvious. Although I think it was definitely apparent once we actually got the end of the second page. The only thing that I think would have helped strengthen the scene was more time, because seriously, it seemed like everyday we were getting down more and more of the script, we even surprised each other sometimes with how much we've improved. In the end though it was a fun experience, and Kelsey was a funny, helpful, and was all around great partner to work with. Even though we hit a bit of a plateau in the end, it was a pretty enjoyable experience.
I don't think the powerpoint presentation had a lot of effect at all. It felt kind of useless and the only thing I really learned was that I liked avant garde style plays. So at least I'm honest here. I mean, I did find some of it interesting but at the same time a lot of it was really annoying. Like Theater of the Absurd gave me a total headache because of it's lack of reasoning. I'm definitely not familiar with lack of reasoning. But the time in class definitely helped complete it as well as with the practicing of the scene. I'm not sure Anthony and I would have been able to complete it properly without that time. I think our most problems lay in the fact that I'm not really good at working with people so I can be a little difficult, but Anthony handled it pretty well. As for the actual performance... I seem to have a problem with all of these scenes. Like with Kels my lines slipped and scrambled, but this time it wasn't from nerves or fear, it was because I was sick and could barely think, let alone think of my lines. I tried my best.
Okay so I know I was sick the day of our presentation so I'm not sure how that went but I know I did a lot of research for this project and I actually enjoyed learning about the art of Kabuki...which had NOTHING to do with our scene because that would have been difficult. I liked the scene we wound up doing which was Lysistrata however I wish that I had taken more time to memorize my lines, gotten a costume and that we all had rehearsed it a few more times. I think we had some funny moments though and we all worked really hard!
Victoria Betz
Okay so I personally think our powerpoints were amazingly beautiful, great and lovely. But however lovely it may be, it wasn't very effective. I'm not sure how intently people were listening to us, but I could guess that it was not much. I mean, it was only a visual thing and all they had to do was listen and they did. But if they were asked to recite it, then they would def not remember anything. I kinda would, but only because I was the one that studied it. But ask me if I could remeber what kind of stages theatre of the Absurd used, then I wouldn't be able to tell ya.(I WAS listening tough, honest) BUt yeah our scene was soooooo short and it wasn't too hard to memorize because it rhymed. The hard part was trying to decipher the language, so i found this modern version online to do that. Then we ended up having to do both to make it even partly long, so yeah. The hardest part for me was actually finding a piece to perform for two ppl in our time period so yeah. But most of the time we spent looking for the piece and not actually rehearing it but i guess it turned out ok. Except for the fact that our ORIGINAL SHEEP WASNT THERE!!! GRRR GRRR. (jk). um but yeshh. that is all.
I think our power point was quite effective in the informative, well thought out, fits-the-rubric-requirements way. However, if I actually had to watch that powerpoint, I probably would have fell asleep. Not like im saying it was boring or anything, no way.
Anyway, I think that all of the reasearch i did was really quite interesting. I really liked learning about the ancient roman stages and how theatre worked back then, I definately learned a lot of new and intresting things. I don't really think our scene was easier because of that though, I'm pretty sure it would have been the same without the research, but that's just my opinion.
~ Christie Hackett
i think our power point was not vert effective. I worked hard to find information and so did my partner but i think it was hard to explain it. The power point didnt really help our scene because it was very difficult. Mermorizing the lines were the hardest part, it made me realize how hard acting can be because i have never had that much trouble trying to memorize lines.
I think i could have worked a little harder on my power point because after seeing everyone elses, i realised that i probably left out some stuff. but erins was put together alot better then mine was. the scene was hard to memorize because it was in old english. it probably would have been alot easier if we understood what was going on. (the translation was easier to memorize) the information on my powerpoint really didn't help out with the scene.
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Considering I did 99.9% of the power point and well… I’m awesome… I think the power point was very effective. (SORRY JOSH FOR THROWING YOU UNDER THE BUS I LOVE YOU!!!!!) It was full of great and important information about nineteenth century theater. I worked really hard on it and spent a lot of time researching for it. Overall, I think the power point was SWEEEEEET. I do not think the research helped me for my scene because before I did my research I had already begun practicing my scene and knew exactly what I was going to do. The difficulties I had encountered were memorization. It is impossible for me to memorize lines. That was my one downfall I believe. With my memorization problem I just kept trying to push through the scene even when my mind went blank. That’s why I think the performance was pretty good overall. Not great… but good. I believe I could have had better props and studied the scene more to have done a better job on it.
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