The progress of the scene

As what I have said in the last blog post, our group is telling the story of Ti Moune in the way of The Little Red Riding Hood. It’s interesting to show that there’s always a similar way for fairy tales or stories to tell. However, the similar plot would bring a crueler ending to show people that, real life can never be as beautiful as a fairy tale. Instead of being saved by the hunter, our little Red Riding Hood, which is Ti Moune, will be faded in the shadow and lost her true love, which she believes so. Thus, our scene is showing a real lesson from the reality that people need to weight their selves clearly and the real lives aren’t that beautiful.

During practicing the scene, I think I did well with emotion and giving directions to Ti Moune as being Erzulie. But my problems were obvious as well. Firstly, I’m acting several characters so that I needed to work on clarification. Of course the costumes will tell the difference between those characters, but I shouldn’t rely on that too much. I think it’s important that I can show how Andrea and Erzulie are different in our scene. It’s for sure that I will try to change my hairstyle and costume to show the difference between these two characters and I will also try to change my voice then. I might speak slower when I acted Erzulie and maybe explain more to make the clarification. Also, I can try to act as older people by being the loa of love.

After the clarification problems, I think it’s important to have more actions when I’m acting. For example, I have long scripts at the start of the whole scene that Ti Moune has asked me how to find her love. I should tell her the direction, but it wasn’t so spontaneous in the past rehearsals. I should find a way to do my movements and some body language better. For being Andrea, I need to find a way to be less inflexible when Ti Moune and Daniel are talking to each other. Also, I should work on my blocking that I had block their way sometimes. Otherwise, it’s hard to be the partner of Daniel sometimes that I didn’t really know what should be the attitude of Andrea. Is she really falling in love with the young man, or his money? Should I show love or profit in her facial expression? It’s hard to get this character.

Lastly, even though most of my lines aren’t that long, it’s a problem that I might forget when should I speak. For example, in the rehearsal this afternoon, I forgot there’s another line for Ti Moune to say before mine. It’s not a huge deal, but I’m sure that it will give displeasure to my teammates. Thus, I’m going to spend more time on reviewing my lines.

Overall, I like the way that we act our scenes! Beside the problems, it’s great!