You Go About to Torture Me
Tonight was the night that we formally presented our long and short Liverpool scenes. I always wonder if these performances are necessary. Everyone sees and hears the work done in class and I find it hard to believe that it would be interesting because they’ve seen it a lot. At least, that’s how I feel sometimes. I’ve seen so many people working on their scenes, and sometimes Raymon just stops everyone and says watch these people. It’s really not all that interesting to watch the performance if you’ve seen it over and over. But I guess maybe it’s the process and progress that counts.
Anyway, we began the class with a little bit of practice and then Raymon split us up and took half the class down to another room and gave the other half more practice time. I was in the first group in the other room. We just discussed things that we should look for in other’s scenes and what makes a good scene. I’m often really incoherent when there isn’t a lot of time to think about something, and I am a much better writer than I am a speaker. I find it hard to explain my thoughts and feelings when I have to give an oral response right away. I knew what I was trying to say, but I couldn’t get it out and no one could understand me. It was frustrating. We decided that the qualities of a good scene are connection, concentration and chemistry. The hard thing is to gain these attributes.
Then we went upstairs to the room and watched the scenes.
Then it was our turn to practice. Dan and I originally did our apple scene as a starving couple who only have an apple left between them. They each want the other to have it and are willing to sacrifice their own lives so the other can eat the apple. During our rehearsing, Dan and I decided to change it to a scene where these two people want an apple, the only apple left, and they are telling the other to have it, when really they are sneaking towards it to get it. In the end, we jump on the apple and fight over it. It was great and great fun.
I feel as though Dan and I accomplished what we wanted to. We wanted it to seem like the Saw movies, and that came across well. I remember hearing someone say “OMG It’s like Saw!” and I really want to smile, but I didn’t.
It was really good and really fun, even if it wasn’t a “real” scene.
Tonight was the night that we formally presented our long and short Liverpool scenes. I always wonder if these performances are necessary. Everyone sees and hears the work done in class and I find it hard to believe that it would be interesting because they’ve seen it a lot. At least, that’s how I feel sometimes. I’ve seen so many people working on their scenes, and sometimes Raymon just stops everyone and says watch these people. It’s really not all that interesting to watch the performance if you’ve seen it over and over. But I guess maybe it’s the process and progress that counts.
Anyway, we began the class with a little bit of practice and then Raymon split us up and took half the class down to another room and gave the other half more practice time. I was in the first group in the other room. We just discussed things that we should look for in other’s scenes and what makes a good scene. I’m often really incoherent when there isn’t a lot of time to think about something, and I am a much better writer than I am a speaker. I find it hard to explain my thoughts and feelings when I have to give an oral response right away. I knew what I was trying to say, but I couldn’t get it out and no one could understand me. It was frustrating. We decided that the qualities of a good scene are connection, concentration and chemistry. The hard thing is to gain these attributes.
Then we went upstairs to the room and watched the scenes.
Then it was our turn to practice. Dan and I originally did our apple scene as a starving couple who only have an apple left between them. They each want the other to have it and are willing to sacrifice their own lives so the other can eat the apple. During our rehearsing, Dan and I decided to change it to a scene where these two people want an apple, the only apple left, and they are telling the other to have it, when really they are sneaking towards it to get it. In the end, we jump on the apple and fight over it. It was great and great fun.
I feel as though Dan and I accomplished what we wanted to. We wanted it to seem like the Saw movies, and that came across well. I remember hearing someone say “OMG It’s like Saw!” and I really want to smile, but I didn’t.
It was really good and really fun, even if it wasn’t a “real” scene.
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