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Interpretation is communicated through artistic expressions.

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It means that we should explain the meaning and intention of our performance through artistic expression such as lighting, etc. We shouldn't straight up tell the audience about what the character thinks as it will make the performance get boring. We can express it to the audience using creative and artistic ways.

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What are your ALT's in drama?

Collaboration skill

Communication skill

Creative Thinking skill

How do you think you are working on them?

I think I have been working well on all of them. I have communicated well with my classmates and collaborating together in group to comes up with creative scenes with given scripts. We communicated and collaborated and listen to each other ideas to perfect it. I think I also did great in creative thinking skill since I can come up with creative scenes and subtext while getting great feedbacks from Ms. Nicole.

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What is the learner profile?

Risk Taker

Reflective

How are you working towards this in regards to the work you are making?

I think I've been working well regarding being a risk taker since I am now more confidence perform on stage and in front of my peers. I've take risk by trying out new subtext, scenes, trying to use light projection and, creating sound.

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Our artistic intention is to experiment and use lighting element to explore character inner thought, and intentions.

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Feb 1st

DNA Script 20-23

Character:

Jan (Jing)

Mark (Ting)

Danny (Kiara)

John Tate (Sarah)

Adam (Pitu)

Cat walking

lights

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Jing: Jan/Mark

Pitu: Brian

Pich: Leah

Bijay: Adam

Bomi: Lou

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Why are you doing this piece?
-We are doing this piece to show both the dark side of the character and also the sad side.

What do you want to communicate to your audience? Why?

-I want to communicate the inner thoughts in the characters to the audience so they can feel empathy for the characters.

What ideas explored throughout the unit and your individual research do you intend to further explore in developing your performance concept to a point of realization?
-I would like to research more on flashback/forward as I think it is an interesting non-naturalistic interpretation as it can make your audience stay focus to the performance. It can also make the performance more interesting. I would also like to research more on the use of lighting as we can make our performance dark while using lights.

What is the main message/theme you wish to communicate in your performance?

-Our theme for this performance is dark, creepy, sad. We tried to show the dark and creepiness of the performance but also make the audience sad for Adam at the same time.

What lasting impact do you want your performance to have on your audience?

-I wanted my audience to appreciate the visual of the drawing, lights, and sounds combine together. I also wants my audience to empathize Adam and experience the same things that Adam is feeling through the drawings, lights, and sounds.

What problems do you want to discuss and illustrate when performing this piece?

-A problem that we face during our performance is forgetting our script which we stopped a lot that makes our performance longer then expected.

Why do you think it is important to communicate this to me?

-I think it is important for you to know since we made an effort to try not using our script which also cause us to be unfocus and forgot our script.

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Factual- Artistic creation is the process of creating a work of art by combining creativity, talent, and imagination.

Conceptual- Interpretation is communicated through artistic expressions by coming up with creative subtexts, expressions, stage, levels of character, explorative strategies, facial expression, eye contact, body language, etc.

Debatable- Not everyone interpret things in the same ways. We all have different opinion and ideas. All the groups in our class did the same scene but we use difference techniques and non-naturalistic style.

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"One person is surprised to see their scene partner in this location." Partner: Sarah

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We tried to experiment with flashlights in this performance. As this is only the first part of our performance, we haven't got to the main part of our initial idea which is using light projection yet.

Feedback:

- Light is not necessary

- Leah should be in the scene

- More eye contact

- More movement between Jing (Jan) and Pitu (Brian)

- Jing (Jan) will get pulled by Pitu (Ms Nicole said that)

And Sarah will also do that

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Partner: Sarah

Our group chose "Siblings who always bicker. Both always want to be right."

We are both kind of annoyed of each other because of walking towards the same direction, which made us bump into each other

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Partner: Sarah

I was Jan and Sarah was Mark.

We performed using that script above.

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Reading script pages 1-9

We took pictures and though track.

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Shut up Danny!

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Leah ranting

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Staring at Phil open mounthed

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Dead? Like dead dead?

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We took the feedback and got rid of the flashlight and use a normal red light instead. We also got further into our scene to showcase and get feedback on our acting.

Feedback:

-Leah tone is too high, or change the tone. (Pich)

-Leah's voice can't just be high for the whole time.)

-Brian should act even when he's not speaking (Pitu)

-Move more into the middle

-Improve on our staging

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We performed the second part of our performance and change our stage to catwalk instead as the previous stage was too squish. We had got to the main part of our performance and use light projection to show the thought of Adam and Leah in the other world.

Feedback:

-Improve on our staging. It's too squish together.

-Bijay(Adam) and Leah(Pich) should be closer to the light projection so the audience can focus on both of it at the same time.

-No need for all the members to get on the stage at the same time.

-Some of them can sit with the audience

- Red light is too boring so should make the light flickering instead.

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We tried to perform the whole performance. We changed our staging to traditional stage instead of catwalk as our previous staging was too squished. We also make Adam and Leah sit against the black board near the light projection so the audience can focus on both of it at the same time.

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Feedback:

- Brian and Leah is creepy but they were too quiet

- Pitu did great potraying Brian

-Not using script was good

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How have I been practically exploring ideas in my drama lessons?
- I have tried setting up different light colors depending on the situation and put drawings through the light to shows the emotions and inner thoughts of the characters.

What was my initial idea? did this change over time and why? What impact did the changes have?
- Initial idea is in the audio. We did change our staging. At first, we thought of putting up drawings to show inner thoughts of Leah and Adam but it was change and we decide to have Leah and Adam communicating to each other while showing the drawings representing their inner thought as if they were in another whole. Leah and Adam are the outcast of the group and Leah is only one is kind to Adam. I think this change makes our improve the symbolism of our performance as having Leah and Adam talking to each other in another world shows that they doesn't fit in with the group.

How did you develop your final idea to be presented?

-In our final idea, we were all talking about how we found Adam then Leah and Adam suddenly fainted and woke up in their the world of their inner thought. The rest of team then go back stage to present the drawing through the light to shows their inner thought as well as making breathing and beating sound. Putting Leah and Adam in another world to communicate symbolize that they are relatable and are the outcast of the group.

Do you feel that you were successful in your task? explain your reasons.

- I think I was successful with my task as we have received good feedbacks from our classmates and Ms.Nicole. We have also put in emotions and use a lot of light element to shows our characters inner thoughts. We also made our performance dark and creepy which is why I believe our performance was successful.

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Feedback:

-Leah and Brian could have been a bit louder because they start to lower their voice as they start to get creepier

-We were a bit unfocus compare to our mock performance

- The connection we made to each character was great

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As our ideas for the mock summative worked well, we decided to keep everything the same and also tried to talk louder so that our audience can hear us. Despite that, I believe that we have lost some focused compare to our mock summative. During our final performance, we stopped for a few times as we forgot our script, but we still continued like nothing happen until the end of our performance which is something that I think we did very well. There were also time that we started to laugh a bit because the audience was laughing but we controlled it and act like it was part of the script and continue with the performance. We have took on feedbacks from previous performances and tried to improve on our staging and emotions. We made our staging better and not squish like before. We also tried to make our performance more dark and creepy.

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Obviously our group didn't start of very smooth, we were not focus and we just wasn't used to working together yet. However, over the past few weeks of working together, we have come to work together more smoothly. We would listen to ideas that we have have to improve on our scene and we will try it and give feedback to see if it that idea work. We would also help each other on our acting, help show each other what tone of voice to use for the scene and dialogues. By checking the video performances, we can tell that it didn't start off very great as we need a lot more improvement on our staging and acting. But we took in the feedbacks and work together to improve. We also help motivate each other to focus and work on our scenes. Therefore, I believe that we our good collaboration skill, we have work together to make a very big improvement judging from our 1st performance to our final performance.

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Over the past month, I have come to really enjoyed drama classes. I like how we got to work with our teammates to put on performances where we got feedbacks and we tried to change and improve on our next performance. I have improve a lot on my creative thinking skill as I have to comes up with new creative ideas to add to our performance in order to experiment with it and find out if it works with our performances. We have added or change a lot of small details of acting and emotions to the scenes of Brian and Adam that others might have not notice but it contributed to the organization and smoothness of this performance and make it better. I have also improve on my reflective skills as after each performances, we have to think over the feedback that we received and see if where we change to improve on our performance. Collaboration skill is also something that I have also improved on as we collaborated with our group mates in order to put up this act. I believe I have made some improvement on my acting skills. Although I think I'm not very good actor, I think I will make a pretty good director:)