Blog 12/14

Going through the process of reenacting our scene in class, and doing the memorization quiz, some beneficial points were brought up on how we can improve our scene. The points that were brought up could improve the strength of our play dramatically. Ms. Guarino suggested that Guy should refer to the hot air balloon during one of his lines. This would connect our adaptation in a more direct way to the original text. By having Guy relive the true pain from his past from the original text, this would make our adaptation more meaningful and powerful that it would be without it. In our scene we kept referring to Guy as a selfish coward who killed himself, but never explained how he committed suicide. For someone that never read the book, it could be less dramatic if we never mentioned the hot air balloon because they would never know it existed.

 Ms. Guarino also suggested that we should equal out the lines a bit more. The angel in our adaptation had an insufficient amount of lines compared to all other characters. This is important to correct because the IB requires that all characters playing in the scene are to have equal parts. Blocking has been one thing that our group is still not on the same page with. Our stage will be setup the way we want it, but the way that we move on stage is still yet decided on. I feel that  the best blocking for us would be for both Lili and Little Guy to be sitting up in there beds with the apparitional characters standing behind them. This is simple and shows that there is a buffer between the apparitional characters and the real characters. The emotion I use can also be improved. Guy needs to be sincere, sad, regretful, and also worried about his families future. These are a lot of emotions to portray on stage and I really need to work on this to make our performance great.