My last project of the junior year

For the final project, my group and I chose to do The Little Prince and we have just filmed for the first draft. Everything is going well that we all have our scenes set up and I remembered all my lines even though there are some small problems. In this year of having the class, I have been a priest, Romeo, a god, a young lady and finally, a fox. Those are different characters that people can see from me and I saw lots of my improvements.

I improved a lot as an individual. In the first draft video that we took on Tuesday, I saw that I was confident, and I showed the emotion of the fox that was kind and eager for a love. I showed her helpless while the Little Prince was going to leave. Also, I showed her personality of a dreamer that she wished to be tamed by the Little Prince. To look back to the past scenes that I have did, it so amazing to tell that I can even been improved this much. I became less stiff, less shy and a lot more open. It’s a great experience, indeed. For what I need to improve, I feel like I speak too fast, still, and I also have some pronunciation issues for some words that I’m not so familiar with.

For my group, they helped me a lot, especially Sofia. Since we performed a scene Romeo and Juliet in the written coursework, she started to help me with putting more emotion in characters. Finally, when we acted this scene, I truly became the special, kind and nice fox. I really have to thank her that she used her special emotion to bring my emotion of the understanding of the characters out. My other group mates also showed me different kind of acting and I think we all did a good job overall.

The other groups are also doing very well done. For James and Julie’s scene, it really amazed me. It’s neither fancy nor fantastic, but it’s very charming and warm. The use of flashback didn’t make me any confusion but it was so good that I remember all the plots and the emotion that showed from them. It’s not very long, but every single detail made the whole scene fulfilled and structured well. I really should learn how could they show their emotion spontaneously, even like they were just those two figures. For the other group, the three men did the scene from the slum dog millionaire. They also used a lot of flashback, and the plot is intensive and attractive. The only problem is that I feel like there isn’t enough connection between the flash back and the questions from the show. Thus, I feel like there should be some kind of lines that can kind of explain the questions in the flashback so it’s clearer.

Lastly, I’m pretty satisfied to see my improvement in the final project of this class. I would try my best to remember all my lines well, I will speak slower, and I will make my pronunciation clearer.

The little prince - first draft link

https://youtu.be/uSGHHvIEG34

Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight

The spring theatre was amazing this year! Well, it’s not as long as Romeo and Juliet nor it’s not as wonderful as those classics, but, it’s very close to our lives. I have never seen a show that’s so close to my daily life and was direct by those people I saw in my everyday life. It might not be the best show, but it’s the most impressive one that I can understand every single of them and easily feel the point of those jokes. Thus, I love this show!

The others plays in the black box theatre these years are also amazing and the plots are even better than those ones, but those series of pieces can attract me easily, especially the one of our school morning meeting. I can recognize every single teacher in the stage that acted by student, and those fun parts that showed each teacher’s habit. When “Ms. Anderson” said her joke, I started to laugh spontaneously; When “Ms. Minahan” put her dog down, I suddenly feel the dog’s bark every night after lights out; When “Mr. McBreen” asked people to be in dress code, I would absolutely realize his son’s tragedy experience on that. It’s just too close to my life that I see those everyday, and it made me feel comfortable by recognize my daily life.

Otherwise, the songs were also good to listen. The girls sang very well and my mind was still surrounded by the melody of “John Jiang, the Latte boy”. Well, that’s brainwashing! Also, the part that man acted as women was surprising. Well, I would describe those boys as… um… pretty cute… maybe. It did attract a lot attention through the audience, so that’s a successful action.

Overall, I like the comedy pieces that it brought me so much fun. I wish to see similar things and good work in next year’s show as well!

My final project proceeding

For the final project, my group is going to do the Little Prince, which is the story of the Little Prince that most children have read in their childhood. It’s actually a fairy tale for adults, so that I understand more about the story every time that I read it.

In this week, we were writing scripts and talking about the staging of our scene. Everything is going through well. Eric is going to be the Little Prince since he’s the only male in our group and many of us already tried the frustrated process to showing love to a girl… Well, I still feel bad to be the fox that I would ask the little Prince to “tame” me, but at least it’s better than falling love with a rose and tame a fox >_<. As I already said, I’m going to act the fox and the two more characters are the rose and the king. The rose will be beautiful and pride while the King has some bad characteristics but being a not bad person.

For now, we decided to stage the setting in different planets with the rose, volcano in the first scene, a background of planet in the second scene, and a rose garden in the third scene. For the scripts, I did follow the plots in the original book but cut and changed some scene. For example, the King, the geographer, the businessman and other characters are all combined to the King. Those characteristics of him, arrogant, greedy, and pride are all combined in his speaking. I feel like it would be a main difference that people can understand all the lessons from those characters in one scene.

Also, the characters such as the rose and the fox are been humanized and they were suited to be people. I feel like this would be a good experience to act the scene that I knew well since I was young. Wish everything would be successful.

Final project proposal

For the final project, I want to choose a passage from, Anne of the Green Gables, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables is actually a children’s book, but it’s so attractive that I even cannot drive my eyes of it right now, when I’m already 17. It tells a story of a little girl called Anne that’s an orphan adopted by a brother and sister. They wanted to adopt a boy actually, but their fate leads them to the little girl and their lives became different. It’s a great novel that it’s too warm. It including love and friendship a lot in this book and it’s also funny due to the strange characteristic of the little girl. I want to choose a passage from this book because it’s my great memory of childhood and it would be a fun experience to feel those clear characters in this book.

Even though this book is a children’s book, I feel like the writer seen the main characters as an adult that she used the way of an adult to think. I want to chose the first few chapters of the book to stage because it’s pretty dramatic. Anne, a girl with strange and romantic thinking, has been sent to Matthew and Marilla’s home even though they actually want a boy to support their works. Anne was talkative, so that her personality seems truly clear. She can highlight the scene and make it fun to read. Matthew is the elder brother who’s full of sympathy and he seems very nice. Marilla is the sister and she seemed serious, old- fashioned and upright. When they struggled about if Anne should stay or leave, it would be really interesting to see.

This part of the book can teach students how to create a person’s personality through acting as them, and it can make us to understand the real thinking of those characters as well. Also, the funny characters would make the passage more interesting to act and discuss. This scene can show the struggle between people and something that can change people’s mind.

For the setting of the scene, I want there to be two settings. The first one should be the home of Marilla and Mathew that they can argue in and to get Anne in. The other scene should be Mathew and Anne’s journey back to home. Through the journey, due to the talkative personality of Anne, Matthew would have a more clear understanding of Anne and it would lead him to think about keeping her in their home. For Marilla, she would be stubborn but she would finally understand Anne and wants to keep her after talking to each other about their experience together.

I want the scene to be warm, with bright light effects and some slow music. When Anne uses her imaginary to talk about things that she wishes, there would be sounds that are unrealistic.

Overall, I would like to state a scene that’s attractive, as the first impression that this book gave me.

My IB exams

It’s impossible that I don’t feel nervous. It was my first IB exams since this is the only 1-year IB course that I have. I didn’t review too much the nights before the exam started since I already know what should I do and I know I cannot be even better at a few nights. Time passed too fast that I still remembered the first day I got to this class and filling the cards to tell something about myself. I changed a lot in studying literature and performance this year.

For the first exam, I feel like I didn’t do it that well. The night before I didn’t rest well, maybe due to the weather or something else. It was cold in the dinning hall. I shouldn’t be anxious since we have been practice for the whole year, but I was still nervous. I felt that my hands were sweat. I kept writing and then I feel that time wasn’t so enough. I thought two hours were a lot, but it weren’t. I messed up with the topic a little bit but I feel like the test graders can understand what I was saying and it might hurt a little bit, but overall, it should be fine.

For the second exam, I feel a lot better. I didn’t review too much as well, and the only thing I did is to recite my poem for several times to make sure I can remember them. The day was even colder than the first exam. When the exam started, I started writing. I knew that time might not be enough so that I looked at the clocks for many times. I spent about 15 minutes on outline and writing the poems down. When I wrote the poem down, I decided to choose the second question, which is about the significance of some single words. I underlined the words that I wanted to analyze. However, when I noticed that I only have 40 minutes to analyze my second poet and to write the conclusion, I felt bad. Instead of writing with my mind, I decided to write it really fast. I feel like it’s detailed but I need to concern about my grammar a little bit. I wish the grading teachers were art teachers J. But overall, I finished on time and I think I did a good job on the second exam.

To conclude, I can’t believe that everything is done. Time flies! I wish I’m ready to do my finally project right now, and I wish would have a good rest of the year.