The ending is also the beginning!

Time flies like a arrow with no chance to stop and look around, so we have to keep going! Sitting in the audience and watching Galileo seems just like last night, but when the spot lights shine on my face I know that my junior year has gone. My first IB class also reached the end which is IB literature and performance. First of all, I want to thank Ms. Guarino and all my classmates for giving me such a amazing knowledgable experience. Second of all, I also wish all of us can take what we learned from each other and use them even better in the future! We have made both mistakes and achievements in our final production which means that we still need to improve ourselves more and more.

Talking about the mistakes and imperfect it is part of the live theater, and we have to be careful with it. However, this time our production had some system problems, such as stage changing and blocking. Even though we had a extremely simple stage setting, we had to switch two setting back and force. The problem was that we changed the setting every time with a different person which directly caused our setting looked slightly different everything we changed it. Another issue we had was that our blocking was not clear enough. For example, we should have only one way exit(stage right) to represent the front door of the house, but there was one scene we exited from another way which was stage left. Anyhow, the final production everyone did a great job and we had make some achievements.

I remember that I mentioned in my last bolg that the lighting effects should be changed in the final production, and now I can tell you that after we changed it, it looked much better. First of all, audience are able to tell if it’s the present time or flash back. Secomd of all, the lights created a atomesphere which help us to delivery emotions. Also, our script had be improved a lot since the last rehearsal. Some changes helped us to know the time and characters more, such as “you are only 13, you shoud eat.” this is one of the mom’s line which tells audience that Johnny is a 13 years old boy. We also did a better job on telling the time by adding our winter jackets, so audience can tell how bad the weather is.

At the end, I want to tell all of you that this is one of the best class I ever took in my school life, and I am so ready to use what I learned to improve myself and school theater. Through the last project, we precticed our writing, acting, directing and staging skills together. We also learned through our rehearsal to make little changes to our script, setting and costumes which helped us to make the whole skit better by developing characters, weather and back ground information. Thnak you all again, and hope you all have a great summer vacation.