reflection

Until now, our group has come up with a 7-minute long piece showing the basic idea of what we are doing. We have a plot of the evil and good inside the person battle for the control of the people, at last the people burst because she cannot stand the chaos in her head anymore. During the exploration process, we have encountered a lot of problems: we are not in the best casting, our idea is too vague to show, and the plot is not decided yet, but after performing our first draft, we find that we there are some process being made. We did a good job in presenting the relationship between our three characters, and the lighting helps us to create the atmosphere and show the rivalry dynamic between me and Ruth. Also, the lack of actual words actually accentuates the physical movements thus strengthening the dynamic between characters. 

Because we were struggling for a long time so actually there is still a lot of inclarities existed in our short piece. Firstly, we have to figure out a premise of the piece, or there is no context for the audience to relate. We are thinking about relating the piece to mental health in order to make it clear that the story is about a people’s internal struggle. Also, although our goal is to explore the power of abstraction, there has to be a balance between concreteness and abstraction so that the audience can follow and understand what we are trying to convey. Because our activities were all aim to create moments that show emotions, so what we have now are basically all expressive movements. So next we have to

step out of what we were doing and focus on put we had in a larger context without constricting ourselves to one idea and try different things.