Blog #3

When we as a group first notice that we need to use the word "fence" as an inspiration to devise a performance, we are pretty much excited about it. Everyone has different opinion on it; Someone says that we should make a comedy; another person says tragedy is better. Finally, we decided to make a play about a boy who got bullied in his previous school, and how he changed in the new school.

During the class, I was responsible for taking others' opinion and wrote it in google docs. I am also the one who wrote out our scripts based on Helen's story. During the performance, our voice was getting louder in the middle of the play to the end; we did well in introduce each characters by the narrator, and we have some hilarious plot and acting.

I think one of the defects for this performance is that ending is unsatisfactory; because it ended hastily. As a group we should come up a more meaningful end. For me, I need to work on facial expressions and emotion appears to audience. Because when the part me and Joey as gangsters went to bully Jammal, my face and voice did not look or sound like mean. Next time I also need to find a good spot, because sometimes I turn my back to the audience.

Devising and performing by ourselves, I learned that sometimes the performance will not be exactly the same as the script did. So at that moment when something was wrong, actors need to use the skill of freestyle to remedy it; because audience did not know the script, they would think that was the plot. Also, everyone's opinion is different; in order to make a great performance, people need to listen to others' idea, and compromise to the one that every people agree with.

By viewing others' play, I learn that audience's emotions or behaviors influence actors a lot. If actors do something wrong or in a awkward position, and audience laugh a bout it, it will make actors laugh, which will make them forget the script or forget the emotion he should be in. Just like in Ivan's group, when they set a really serious beginning but audience laughed, they paused and laughed. It would not as perfect as the play which they do not pause. Also, if in a play each person acts at least two characters, it needs a better description so that audience will not be confused.