Reflection of the improving scene

In the scene, I want to express the changing of love between Romeo and Juliet, which was caused by the desperation brought by Romeo’s banishment. Then, I could say that their love was fragile and not stable. In fact, it’s the second scene I have really performed this year, so that I was shy and totally not familiar with acting. However, at last, I thought I did a good job.

When our group first started to talk about the scene, we have the idea discuss the desperation of love by comparing and contrast the two balcony scenes. Theoretically, Romeo, which was acted by myself, and Juliet should show how they love each other deeply in the first one by saying goodbye several times with no boredom. In the second balcony scene, Romeo should be cold, anxious about his irresistible banishment and Juliet should be affected by Romeo’s feeling and she should feel desperate. I thought it would be easy to show the comparison, but actually, I was wrong.

In the first draft of the video, I can see my stiffly acting and lack of emotion. I always know that I need more experience so that I can behave more spontaneously. My partner and I worked a lot to make us be more emotional. I tried to act more exaggerated to show my love to Juliet in the first balcony scene and I showed my angriness to Juliet when she asked me to stay in the second scene. It was a big challenge and I did want to test myself. In the performance, I realized that I must think in the perspective of Romeo and that’s the only way to feel their love and desperate. I’m pretty sure that from my own perspective, I had learned a lot to participate and to do a good job in the whole scene.

Otherwise, in the scene, I changed costume to show the comparison as well. In the first balcony scene, which was classical that they exchange their love to each other, both of the characters wore in red, which is a livable and bright color. It showed that their feelings are bright as well. I was acting pretty impatient to find out Juliet’s love to me. In the second balcony scene, which was the night after they noticed Romeo’s banishment, I wore black and my partner wore white. I wore in gravely color in case to show the desperation that the terrible banishment brought me.

After the finally draft, even though I practiced truly hard, I still have problem that the depression in the second scene wasn’t enough to compare. Thus, some sad music had been add to the video to make audiences have more scene of the sadness in case to feel how desperate and sad their love was.

Overall, I did challenge myself in this scene with long script and exaggerated emotion expressing. I’m being a lot better in showing my emotions and I feel more confident and comfortable to perform on the stage. I’m glad that I became a better actress in this scene.