Reflection of Final

I am very proud of how the overall performance turned out. Veronika and I worked very hard to achieve the outcome that we did. Our progress from start to finish was very extensive, and I had no idea that the outcome would be as it turned out. I feel that my partner Veronika and I worked very well together, and we both wanted to be successful. Both of us were determined from the start, to get the performance where we thought it needed to be. I believe that having a parter with the same work ethic and determination helped us to achieve a goal.

I am glad that we split up the roles the way we did because Veronika grew so much as an actress with her role. Both of the characters were very dynamic in their own ways, and I worried at first that Veronika and I would not be able to portray all of the inside emotions of our characters. I feel that by working together to bounce off of each other's emotions, we were able to show how our characters felt about each other, as well as what they were separately dealing with. Memorization was key with this script since what the characters were saying was not exactly simple. I thought that if we did not have everything exactly down, that our ideas and motions would not get delivered successfully. Even though we did not get everything perfect for the final performance, we both embraced the roles enough that even if the lines were not perfect, we understood how the characters would act and what kind of things they would say. It was kind of funny how after the performance we both knew that we personally messed up a few lines, but had no idea that each other did! I would have never known that Veronika was not saying the perfect line because she portrayed the character so well.

I fell that our script was at the best place it could have been. We worked very hard to make it feel dreamlike, similar to Krik? Krak!. I wanted to make sure that what we were writing sounded like an add on to the author's original writing. I do not know if we completely achieved this, but I do feel that we were very successful in bringing a complicated idea to life. I worried that it would not be understandable, and the whole idea would come off as confusing. I believe that we portrayed a more whimsical idea, while also keeping the characters real and true to who they were in their original stories. Using lighting and props helped us to get our ideas across onstage.

As an growing performer, I am very glad that I was able to write and direct what I was acting in. I was able to experience a whole new side of putting a performance together. I have a new appreciation for those who spend time mastering lighting, and everyone who works backstage with sets and changing scenes. Doing everything with one other person on stage made me realize how complicated putting on productions can be, especially those that have more that a few scene changes! I loved working with another person to complete a goal we were both passionate towards. If I could do this assignment over again, I would start going over scene changes/lighting/props much sooner than we did. I feel that if Veronika and I were more comfortable with what we were doing on stage with the furniture and where we were placed under the spotlights, we could have been completely focused on our characters instead of the possible technical errors.