What I feel about my project

First of all, our group project is almost done. We only have the scene proposal without looking at the script tomorrow. We are expected to record it with all the props included after we thoroughly get this thing done. From the beginning to now, we have been working hard on our stagings such as script mostly and some other blockings. We gathered together in the library during the study hall several times and over the weekend, we worked on our script through google docs when we were in our rooms. 


As our topic is the contrast between the rich and the poor, we tried to focus on it as creative as possible. All the members of our group are musicians, so we took advantage of it by adding the scenes in which we play instruments. Ben who is on the rich side plays piano and I myself who is on the poor side play ukulele. They sound very different; piano sounds luxury and ukulele sounds a little bit indigenous. Thus, we hoped that playing piano and playing ukulele would show the contrasting background between the rich and the poor. Also, when the rich character talks to the poor character, he talks in a rude and disdainful manner which makes the poor be looked as victims. It shows how corrupt the rich in this book is and directly shows the difference in class. Lastly, by setting the tragic ending where Desiree dies by getting hit by a car and Daniel does not even give an attention to her, we tried to, again, show how corrupt the rich is and how weak the poor is in this book. 


We thought this interpretation would make audience view the novel in a new way because the original plot simply shows one naive girl's first love which ends sadly with the girl's death whereas our scene tries to depict the main cause of the tragic as the rich and to reveal the immorality of the rich rather than to show the love story. To do that, we had to focus on the contrast between two levels, and as a result, we are expecting the audience to see what we wanted to show. 

Personally, I feel something great because it is so far the longest scene I have ever done in class which is around 20 minutes. Therefore, I would say I succeeded in just by finishing making the short-film length movie.  Although it gave me a load of memorization along with the winter musical, I am actually having fun memorizing lines and directions, and also acting out the character I read in the book is very interesting too. However, it is challenging for me to get into the character for whole scene including when I am out of the stage. Also, I still feel a little awkward to stand middle of the stage and act. I am constantly being conscious of others, which I never have to do when I am on the stage as an actor.