IA Individual Update

Individual update due -- Post on your blog what you have been working on, how it's going, what else you need to do to improve your project -- 300 words. Prepare to present your ideas in class as well.

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Our group has spent a good amount of time working on our own to learn lines and figure out some good blocking ideas. While we have come together a few times, we need to do more of this. On my own, I have been working on remembering the order of my lines and cues for me to speak. I think that it's going pretty good, but I think that I don't know how much I really need until we can all do a dry run of our rehearsal. I think that it's been a little bit difficult because we are all working individually to find a time when everyone can come together and do a solid run through. I am having a hard time motivating myself as well, and I've noticed this in my group mates a little bit too. I think that I need to work on the lines and my blocking on the stage with the room I am given. Another thing that I would like to be working on is the overall sequencing of the piece. I think that we will struggle a little bit with timing and when to come in and do different things on time so that it flows, right now when we run through we don't act it out very well. I would also like to, as I stated, run through the whole piece with all the lights and staging so that we can get a feel for the whole piece and really add our emotional and act out the whole scene like we will perform it. I would also like to note that we have fixed a lot of our mistakes with scene changes and what we were going to with Stellas costume change being too hard and how we were going keep the flow and explanation of Celione and her baby without her ever being seen. We also changed how the monologue was structured and who was going to be saying the monologue. We changed the lighting cues and the physical lights themselves to allow for more room to move around and to see what was going on, this will help us to see for our blog ideas. Overall, we have done a lot with our scene, but we still have a way to go still.