In Nia's group, they interpreted this as two people's life. It was a great idea that it showed two different kinds of life at the same time. Also, they chose a good background music. When they are reading the poem, it always has birds' sound. It really fitted the poem when Joey and Nia were reading the fifth stanza, which is talking nature, bugs, butterfly, etc. For the readers(Joey and Nia), their voice was loud enough that everyone could hear them clearly. But probably they need more movements, or more interaction with audiences. Lesley and Josh did a great job on using their body movements. For example, Lesley held her head and screaming; this created a scene of a dog was barking and it scared someone. Josh was looking at a coin when the reader said: "If you were feeding coins into a meter measuring your life." I think he wants to use coin to make a connection in their words. They overall did a great job, there was only was place that need to fix. At the beginning of the eighth stanza, for me it did not really have much of performance. It has few movements compared with what they did previously.
In Aaron's group, they were switching the person who is standing in the middle. By doing this, it emphasizes the lines that was important. There were also some lines that they spoke at the same time. I think this will make a resonance. However, because they spoke some lines at the same time, sometimes it becomes a chaos that I could not hear them clearly. For the movements, It is great that they moved around the bridge, so that it showed the audiences who the next person was. But at the same time, the same movements were tedious; probably adding more movements will make the poem interesting. They made this like a propaganda, you can directly feel the emotion, unlike a poem, you read it slowly, and you need to interpret its meaning.
In Stella's group, they modified the poems. Unlike reading all the poems, they picked several lines. By doing this, it becomes a lot more difference than the poems. Because it showed their own interpretation. They also did well on reading the poems. I could hear the strength beats and the weak beats in the sentence. I could hear the sentences were flowing. However, because this was all about reading, the audiences might get bored. Probably they could add some movements when they were reading the poems, to make it vivid.
In our group's performance, we interpreted that this was a normal day schedule for a person. He or she waked up in the morning, took a bath, and went outside. When he or she came back home, he or she prayed and fell asleep. In the dream, he/she could fly above the sky, nobody could limit her. When we read the poems, people could hear that it is emotional, we emphasized some of the important words and ignored few words that was meaningless. For each lines, we also have a body movements to illustrate that, which makes the performance became interesting. However, because we had too many movements, sometimes we forgot about it and we were just standing there. Besides this, we laughed at some spots during the performance. We intended to make the performance humorous, but somehow we could not stop laughing which made the performance look like a chaos. Also, we did not check the props before the performance, so that we made a mistake at the place where me and Jasmine supposed to pull a crown, instead we just stood there. We also did not check the bed, which makes audiences laughed when I lay on a broken bed. Our performance was different than the poem because we had a lot of movements, it makes it more interesting because audiences could directly see the interpretation of ours by watching out performance.
In Nan's group, they made this poem become a rap song. Instead of reading it, they sang a rap song. They modified the poem so that it fitted the rhymes. The song is flowing and it sounds brilliant. The hook which sung by Nan became a finishing touch. The only thing that need to be work on was purdy's voice. For me, it was too quiet that did not fit into the background music and the rap.
In Grace's group, they revised the poem. It sounds like a repetition when they read the poem. They were discussing about nature in the fifth stanza, then they went to the sixth stanza; but they went back to nature at the end. They put dynamics when they were reading the poem, but sometimes it was hard to hear it, probably they should speak louder. Also, they probably need more of body languages; when they were reading this, they were just looking at the poem/scripts, be more creative can make this interesting than the poem.
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