Scene Work Reflection

So far during our scene Work, we’ve made a lot of progress. I believe all three of us have improved a lot with the expression in our voices. The progression from calm to annoyed angry seems natural for the personality of the characters we are playing. When we first began working on this scene, I feel that we went through it much too quickly and that the transition between the different emotioned we were portraying was more sudden. I also think that we’ve added a few really good personal touches to it. For example, we added in a part where my character, Lisa, stands up and throws a vase of water at Caroline’s character, Beth. This, in a way, fits in with a theme that we’ve had this semester that involves throwing things. It seems to be a favorite flare of ours to use. We also are doing a good job of balancing the scene. Although it is a dramatic, tense, mostly negative scene, a few of the things we are adding in add a comedic undertone to the scene overall. One such thing is the way Jenna’s character acts, which is very artificial and not genuine. It is a funny idea to close the scene with Jenna pulling out a pair of ridiculous sparkly high heeled shoes. One thing we could work on improving even more is the pauses. I still feel that some of them are a bit too short and that we need to lengthen them by just a few moments in order to fully get the necessary effect. Another thing we could do to improve the scene might be have more varied body movements. I feel like I am doing the same thing a bunch of times over during the scene, as well as sometimes just shadowing Caroline’s movements. It might make the scene more interesting to get a bigger variety of motions. Or it is possible that then there would be too much going on if the movements are too different. One final thing   that I believe we’ve been doing well is incorporating each other’s ideas into the scene and collaborating very well. Every time that one of us added in a thought, we would talk it over and make it better and decide whether it was good or not. Overall, the three of us have made a lot of good progress with our scene work over the past week and it is coming out very well so far.

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