Project Reflection 12/19/19

These past couple weeks we have been working on our collaborative. I think we are having a bit of a hard time with this project. One area I am struggling in is the plot. The plot of our piece doe not exist. This is problematic because now we don't have a piece. Instead we have the message we want to convey and I think that our group is having a hard time finding a more literal way to get the message across. I also think that our group does not have enough material to cover 12-15 minutes of a production. I think that I had a lot of ambitions and ideas walking into this project and not all of them were feasible. For me, this has been super frustrating because I feel like I want to do so much with this project but coordinating it and making it as legit and powerful as I envision it is really difficult. I worry that we all have different ideas and that putting them all together will result in a mumble jumble of theater. I also think that we have a lot of work to do with what we want our end message to be. I think the group has sort of split up on what we want the final project to be and that has made it very difficult for us to work together and make forward progress. My hope is that when we all get back from break we can get more on the same page and figure out exactly what we want to happen with our collaborative project. Maybe we can all come up with individual ideas over break and hopefully we can merge our ideas and b ring it back to a solid project.

Project Reflection

Our collaborative has been a very difficult process. The group that I am working with has a very unusual split of contradicting approaches to this project which has made it a bit of a challenge. Half of our group is thinking with much more abstract and interpretive outlook while others have zero'd in on one aspect that they like and want to focus only on that. This has made our group dynamic somewhat difficult and has ultimately slowed us down in our process. However, we have also don't a lot of incredible work. As a group, through a lot of trial and error, we came up with a fantastic outline for a very powerful piece that uses both behavioral and abstract gestures to tell an incredible story. I have personally spent lots of time working on the physical story and moments we would like to include. I have lots of visions for how I see this piece working out but I have noticed that are group also struggles with motivation and actually getting stuff onto the stage. I have a lot of ideas but I think at this point we really need to start kicking it into high gear and making much more visual progress. I also want to make sure we haven't strayed too much from out original Rhythm 0 concept. I think that we have lost some of the connections to that inspiration and I think that there are definitely ways we could revisit this and make them intertwine more. I hope overall that our group dynamic strengthens overtime because we have lots of little things in the way of us succeeding. I have noticed though, that we have been working better together the past couple days in a way we haven't before. Pieces have been clicking and I have noticed less disagreements and more compromise so this is really great. My hope is that I will be able to learn a lot from all the different thinkers in my group and further my theater experience so that I can have a better understanding of some of the techniques that don't come as easily to me. All in all I think our group has come a long way but still has a far journey ahead of us.