“Put your hand on my shoulder! Shoulder! Not arm!”
“Look at me! Smile! Gentle! I am your lover now!”
“Louder! Slower! It is SING! Not SANG!”
“Oh my Erzulie! I just want to beat you!”
The scene above was not a war; it was the process of a patience’s recovery. For the entire day, I was sneezing, coughing and losing the ability of speaking, in order to salute the imminent snow storm. This situation was eventually cured by Joseph, who provided me nostrum of sickness by driving me crazy. Well, well, it did not mean that he was not a good actor. In fact, he had great performing skills and emotions. The ridiculous thing was that two Chinese speakers were arguing about how to pronounce English correctly. Please do not “LAUGH” at us, since we really tried our best to speak words articulately and fluently by moving our tongues as rapidly as possible. However, the result turned out that there were countless knots on our tongues. Therefore, the first mission we need to achieve is to untie those knots and to speak clearly.
The second goal for us is to combine music and lighting with our performance. As our proposal mentions, sound and light effects are two crucial parts of our project. They will be used to distinguish reality with flashback. In this way, our performance would become dramatic and interesting. Since we have several transitions between reality and flashback, we really have to make sure these techniques works cohesively. Otherwise, the outcome would be really miserable, which I am afraid to think of. We have already decided on what music to play and how to use blackout and Spotlight to indicate the transition. Nevertheless, we urgently need a professional technician to help us during the actual performance as well as rehearsal!!!
As for costumes, we decide not to wear butterfly wings since they are too inconvenient to put on and take off for multiple times. Therefore, we might consider wearing cloaks to substitute the actual wings. Furthermore, I need to figure out the most efficient way to change my costume between each scene, which requires less time and fewer movements.
In these scenes, we excerpted most of the significant plots which are needed to express the whole story. These three scenes each represents a certain time period of Desiree's changes. The first scene was kind of comedic, indicating her initial wish, a car, when she was still an innocent girl. The second scene is really romantic, illustrating her accumulating desire of owning Daniel. The third scene, of course, is a tragedy. When Desiree is finally abandoned by Daniel, she decides to give up herself rather than killing Daniel, who contains all of her wishes and persistence.
For the following days, we are going to memorize all of our lines, practice the pronunciation and figure out the best way to match up all the effects with our performance. To tell the truth, I am really confident that we will finish this project perfectly as long as we achieve the goals above. Fighting!!! I hope that there will be no more fight between Joseph and me!!! Looking forward!!!
One piece of music in our scene
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