Lewis & Clark Moodle

Me and tyler have done a good amount of work this week to prepare for the dress rehearsal. We have talked about what we are going to wear for our costumes for the final performance. We also have rehearsed in a room in Howard for this scene so we know when to say our lines and we have are physical movements down. A story during rehearsal is that we used some chairs in the classroom to kind of set up our set so we can get a more realistic look of our set and we rehearsed through that. Overall I think Tyler and I have a good foundation for our performance thus far and we will just have to bring the performance together for the final show. 

Tawayne, checkin in with you guys. Hope everyone is doing well, we are almost done so don't give up just yet. Dae and I have been working on this for the past couple of weeks and believe that it is really coming along. We are now focused on a lot of the little things like our physical behaviors and having more meaning behind our text. It has been both fun and challenging to truly understand this scene. It's really crazy how far everyone has come from the beginning of the semester when everyone was so uncomfortable acting in front of one another, but now it's easy. Dae and I are about to have something special for you guys on the final day, just wait!!! Look forward to watching everyone else's performances as well. Let's win these Academy Awards! Tawayne out! 

Hello everyone! 

Caley here. Will and I have had a great week this week practicing and delving further into our scene! We both have a lot of things we are trying to work on. I want to work on smiling less and really landing the action of my beat on Doug. Will is trying to do a better job of being injured the entire scene and identify the motivation of his character in every moment. While we both have a lot to work on we are excited for what the rest of the semester holds! 

Hello everyone! Connor here. Sorry this is a day late.

Falcon and I performed our scene last Wednesday. I am so pleased by the feedback you all gave! You're a really thoughtful group, and your criticisms were so helpful! Our next step is implementing them to make our scene the best it can be. Falcon and I have been super busy now that the year is almost over, so not a ton of progress has been made since the performance. We intend to focus on the more tender moments in our scene—places where our characters engage with each other without hostility. There are some really gorgeous moments to work with, and sadly we haven't yet given them enough thought. I want to present my character, Peter, in a more complex way than I am currently doing. Right now I've been playing him like he's little more than a jerk, but he has so much going on! I need to explore his less-angry side.

That's all for now. Falcon and I will keep you posted! For your enjoyment, here's a video of Falcon reading aloud a chalkboard full of unintelligible text we came across while working. Whoever tells us what it means first gets a Snickers ;)*

*Offer not valid in the continental US.

Hello Everyone,

Bria and I have been thinking a lot about our feedback.  I really appreciated when someone told us it really seemed that we performed like we were matching the scene directions. We worked really close with that I had not been in the Black Box to perform creating this world in our own head was a task in itself. I think that the notes, though helpful, are hard to work with from the logistics of the script. Many people were suggesting Bria be more 'drunk' but in the script, it says she slept it off. We will work on that and also blocking how to reveal the mud on legs, I have some ideas but I agree with how it looks for the audience could be improved on. Thank ya'll for the feedback.

Eli,

Here is the fourth blog talking about owning our statuses and adding more physical behavior.

Sorry y'all things have been stressful which I'm sure it is for everybody at this time of the year but Kevin and I doing good and our scene is coming along. 

Hello, it's Momoka!

This week we mainly worked on specifying physical behavior. The practice was pretty productive but since we both still struggle with some lines especially when we have to speed up during the fight scene, we realized that we need to spend more time on lines. 

We also finalized blocking and changed some movements to make lines and movement connect to each other and create more flow of the scene.

We haven't rehearsed with the costumes, so excited to see how these additional props and costumes would help us being into each character more!

This week has been another pretty good week for bettering our scene. We were able to meet a few times to rehearse and made good progress, though this was recorded before the critique we got in class on Monday, the 29th. We haven't yet had time to explore those. Other than that we need to work a bit more on lines in one part of our scene, as we've been having some trouble with it in previous rehearsals. We'll probably help this  by working more on lines individually and hopefully meet at least twice more before the final performance.