Romeo and Juliet Adaptaion

Consider these questions in addition to your overall reflection. What did you personally do well? What did you struggle with? How have you progressed since the beginning of the school year? How did you work in your group and what successes and challenges did you experience with your scene partners? Also, did your group achieve the vision that you originally had for this scene? What do you think of this adaptation? How does it add to your understanding of Romeo and Juliet?

In my group, we went with Aaron's idea. I think that was a smart choice in terms of the idea about it being a VR (Virtual Reality) game. however, there was a lot of difficulty explaining what was going on. I also think that Aaron did the clear majority of the work and while I tried to help I don’t feel like I really did a lot of the work neither did the other two members. It also was hard considering that we had to switch Romeo's multiple times and move all the characters around. I feel like that also made it harder for me just because nobody had wanted to play Romeo and they always wanted to skip over lines where they were addressing me as Juliet. In the end, I think that it really came together well enough that everyone had a job. Based on all of this I think that I did a good job providing ideas and working on the costuming. I found that I struggled with also acting alongside everyone, plus there were times when it felt like people didn’t want to be in this project and they would be gone for periods of time, I found it hard to get into character and I definitely did not do the best or most work in the group. In fact, I feel that I did almost nothing in order to help. I have progressed by putting what I feel like I should do as a character. The biggest challenge was at the beginning when nobody would be Rome and I was told to be Juliet, it was hard to have a character assigned and nobody want to do it with you, it was also hard when Jacob couldn’t say any of the more 'romantic' lines to me at all, which made me feel a little uncomfortable when nobody else really would and we had to almost force Aaron to do it. I think that also made it hard for everyone to act in the final product, so we changed not only his character but pretty much every other persons  character. A big success that we had was knowing all of our lines in the filmed version I think that we did achieve what Aaron and said he wanted, but I don’t think the final product turned out exact because we are still very new to this. Personally, I didn’t like this adaptation or performing it. It didn't quite do anything for my understanding of Romeo and Juliet because we went over the basic ideas, the only thing was that they really did have to be truly in love to do things for this for each other.