blog of final draft

      Today we finished acting on our performance. We did the final draft today. During the practice I made some progress on my own scene, I also made some changes in order to improve my scene. As a group I and my classmates did our own part very well in the final draft. But there are still some problems that we have to improve.

      For my own part I changed my volume because in the first draft of my performance my volume is hard to hear. In my classmates' feedback, most of them said I have to increase my volume. Because it's hard for them to hear my voice. In the first draft I'm very shy, because its my first time to act a female character I afraid others will laughing at me. For the final draft when I say my lines i will increase my volume intentionally. I became more confident, maybe it's because I memorized my lines. I know what should I do, I only care about how to act well I don't care about others thinking during the acting. In the final draft acting I focus on my character, last time when I was acting the character Laura I laughed and I didn't focus on other actor's lines. This will affect the connection of the parts in a scene. This time when I and Stella was acting scene two I focus on her lines and we did a great job. When I was saying my lines I add body language and emotion in the character. In scene two when Amanda finds out Laura didn't go to the school, Laura feels nervous and afraid, so when I said this two lines I slowed down my speaking speed, and I break one sentence into many pieces to show the nervous emotion. When I start to wondering the happy time in the art museum and in the jewelry box. I add my body language and I stand up, I also showed the happy expression. 

      As a group we practiced a lot during the class period, we always practiced our lines together, in order to make sure we won't make any problems in the final draft. Although Stella forget a line in the final draft, I think it's because she felt nervous, she afraid she will forget lines. In my opinion when we have a group project we should relax our self during the acting, we can just feel like have a normal conversation in our life. In the second times acting we did a good job, everyone add emotion into their character, we also discussed when should the light goes up, when should we turned the lights down, and when should we change the light intensity. I think our performance is successful. 

      For my strengths, I think I did the memorize well, I memorized all of my lines, and I didn't have any problems on my line in the acting. I add more emotion and body language in my character. I have add happy, sad, nervous, afraid these multiple emotions into my character. When Tom and Amanda were arguing I add many details, when they were shouting I showed scared facial expression and I will shake my head to show the helpless. But I still have to work on something, I can think more about what should I do when Amanda and Tom was arguing I have  to think more about what should I do during this time. 

      For our group we did well on the connection of two scenes, and all of us did a good job on memorize. I think we have to work more on the lights and the sounds. Think time we didn't include sound in our performance. I think if we add the music in our performance, our acting will become more vivid, the audience can understand the emotion better.