Dance Moms Fight

Set the scene,

it is good for acting and a good comedy

Three characters required

My vision is unique because i'm rewriting a reality scene and making it my own

Aldc group is sitting in a room and cathy walks in screaming “HII” everyone gets angry. Abby and cathy argue over whose dance was better abby saying “My dance had much better turns” and cathy screaming “My dance had style and yours was boring”the abby telling her to shut up triggers cathy and she storms over then abby throws water at her saying she thought the witch would melt than cathy hits her with her bag. Cathy yells that kendall was terrible in her solo than jill screams at her and says more water at her telling her to “Get lost”

It will be a good choice because it helps with better emotion and will be fun to make

City of Stars Staging

If I was directing this scene I would stage it to look like it was on a bench in a city at night with the actor walking down the street when it is raining.

Reviews

My part: I think that I did a good doing the lights and controlling the production. I think I can improve on working out differences

My skit group: I think that overall our group did well acting and blocking, the video came out well in performance quality and how the skit flowed, I like that Jess turned her character from the mom to a sister figure because it worked better with the comedic flow of the scene. However there were problems ,forming the skit was difficult because there were disagreements from some cast members and some would interrupt in the middle of a rehearsal because of confusion. Next time we work in groups I think that we need to be ore clear with each other.



City of Stars: City of stars; performed by Brooklyn had a very pretty feel and look to it from the video I liked Brooklyn's emotion within the skit and how it ended with her sitting with the lights fading out. Her blocking was very good and fitted the dialogue well. I also liked the use of a rain sound. I think they should have made the lights softer to be able to see her face better.



Whats wrong me: Whats wrong with me performed by Mao which is from mean girls was a very good skit. I liked that they used a dressing room instead of the stage because it fit the scene better. I liked that they made it look like a makeup desk and that they had the phone get a call from "Regina George". Mao had very good emotion and had a cool guitar intro and outro. One thing I would suggest is that she looked in the mirror more to add more emotion and to have the camera not shake away at the end.

Skit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bILAHjHjFP4&t=9s

group skit

Sets of the Stage

The stage sets can help set a scene and make a show more realistic. A set can make the scenes feel better and make a scene make more sense. For example, if there is a party scene in a play if they put a party room backdrop and some decorations to fit the mood. If it is a city street late at night. They can put out lampposts, a city like backdrop and dark lighting.

When it comes to sets there are many involved. The makers of the set who make the backdrops, constructed set pieces, and make the special embellishments, there's the set designer who designs the set with the director.  There are also the people of stage crew who are in charge of the set while the show is going on and pulling ropes and wires to get the sets on and off.

There are many types of set pieces and ways the work, backdrops are usually symbols of were a scene in the show is taking place (ex. home, street, office etc.). These usually are pulled and changed from ropes backstage. There are also objects like furniture, doors, and landscape (fake trees or bushes etc.). These are ether pulled on and off stage manually by stage crew, some can enter and exit the stage on tracks they are attached to and wires pulled by someone backstage. Many professional theaters and shows have motorized sets that can go and leave the stage without anything attached usually powers by a remote control. Most of the time set pieces are moved during a blackout (when they turn off all the lights and the stage goes black, usually to transition to the following scene)

Sets are a big part of the show, without them audiences can't feel like they are in the world of the show and they lit up the stage and make it more decorative.

Final Draft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SGh8QS_7aY

Reflection

For our songalogue project we were supposed to take the lyrics of a song and turn them into a spoken monologue. I originally couldn't think of one so the first song to pop into my head was the Christmas song "Frosty the Snowman". Not a great choice. It was obviously hard to take seriously so to hold in my laughter I tried to keep a straight face. However in my first rundown it wasn't very good because I actually sounded more angry then the happy mood of the song. It was also hard to memorize because there would always be that one line I'd always forget and because I had to readjust the lyrics to make it sound less awkward. It was hard to do so I decided the best choice would be to change my song. I changed my song from frosty the snowman to "Wake Me Up" by Avicii. This is a personal favorite for me so it was quite easy to memorize. The first time I performed it, I had kept some of the pauses that the song had put in which sounds good when singing it, it doesn't sound very natural when saying it. I had gotten rid of some awkward lyric ties and cut the repeating chorus and worked in making it sound more real and natural (although the fact that the song rhymes it didn't sound 100% real). When I finally performed the final draft it was a much bigger improvement from the first draft in how I spoke it and in emotion. It was also a huge improvement of song choice and emotion that Frosty the Snowman. Some of my strengths were that I looked all around instead of looking straight down or up and that my memorization was very good (probably because I know those lyrics by heart). Also, after watching the video I saw how my voice and my body language tied in well with the mood and emotion of the song. So overall my strengths were pretty good. Some weaknesses I think I need to work on are my blocking and use of arms because I sat in a chair the entire time, and my arms weren't really doing anything only for the big parts did I use them. That would be the one thing I would change. However I was satisfied with my performances because I think I had made some huge improvements. The rest of the class did very well with their performances and were very enjoyable. However I think that some people needed to change up their tone in their performance as it was pretty flat for some of the parts. I also suggested to them some better blocking because if they were walking around some had an unnatural tone or their body language was flat. I told them these things in their emails for them to work on, but overall as a class, they did pretty good. I think that our class did a very good job on these songologues and that the performances were very entertaining.