How are we doing?

My project called "Christmas in May" is going well so far. Our story "The Gift of The Magi" by O Henry is about a poor couple Della and Jim on a Christmas eve. They bought a gift for each other by selling their valuable things. In this project, Julie is going to act Della and I am going to act Jim. 

This week, my group worked on the script. Mostly, we tried to emphasize on a cute love between Della and Jim. Firstly, because this story has a third person view and tells the story of Della all the time, there was no scene for Jim himself. Thus, we had to make one for him. When we were making the scene, we realized that it was very important to dramatize it to connect with the ending. The ending of this story is somewhat twisting, so we had to make the audience not notice what is going to happen and make the scene very sneaky. We used flashback to show it. We knew if we show that Jim buys a comb by selling his watch, the twisting ending would be no use. Therefore, we only show that Jim gets an idea what to buy for Della's gift. Then, at last, after they know what happened to each other's gift, we use flashback to show what has happened to Jim.

Also, we thought that the cold weather, snow, and the atmosphere of Christmas helped develop characters' cute love. Therefore, we decided to add some Christmas carols throughout the scene (quiet but noticeable). In addition, in the beginning, we may use some extra people just to make them walk around the street; they may act a family, a couple, or friends. Then, only Della left and she starts the scene.

The lesson of this story is the pleasure of giving. As mentioned at the last of this story, the Magi is a wise man who shows up on a Christmas day and gives a gift. In this story, Della and Jim were very wise to give a gift to each other and did not expect to receive a gift. They know what the happiness is that comes from giving. We added that at the last of our script too. Because it was our purpose to give a lesson to the audience rather than just giving them an entertainment.

A group of two, in my opinion, works very efficiently. We did not have that many conflicts while we were making the script. I am looking forward to actually staging our scene.