Preparing for the talent show Friday, Today I worked out the kinks with my performance piece. I played around with the lights and brought my own white backdrop from home because after previously experimenting with sheets and cloth I needed something plain and thicker. The cloth blurred my shadow and the other material had paint all over it, which was distracting. So then today I played around with how close I need the backdrop to be for my shadow to be seen well and what to use for an "operation" table. A real table didn't work because it made my shadow unclear. Today I figured out I can use two stools. Originally I was going to perform this piece solo but after experimenting I realized although it would be an accomplishment, it is already confusing enough with me playing two doctors, there's no need for more confusion and it will be easier to understand this way. Julian will be the body in the scene, and by body I mean patient (he just doesn't say anything) . The original script I was going to use didn't work out because the movements were too minimal and it did nothing for me personally when I tried it out behind the backdrop. So I am using four lines from the original script of an episode of 24 and just wrote my own dialogue. Tonight and tomorrow I will memorize. This idea also gave me another idea of a series of scripts I could possibly write and or perform behind a sheet where lets say, you think the couples arguing about someone being unfaithful but really its to get rid of the husbands mother or something and at the end of the scene the curtain is pulled away and you know what its really about.
Preparing for the talent show Friday, Today I worked out the kinks with my performance piece. I played around with the lights and brought my own white backdrop from home because after previously experimenting with sheets and cloth I needed something plain and thicker. The cloth blurred my shadow and the other material had paint all over it, which was distracting. So then today I played around with how close I need the backdrop to be for my shadow to be seen well and what to use for an "operation" table. A real table didn't work because it made my shadow unclear. Today I figured out I can use two stools. Originally I was going to perform this piece solo but after experimenting I realized although it would be an accomplishment, it is already confusing enough with me playing two doctors, there's no need for more confusion and it will be easier to understand this way. Julian will be the body in the scene, and by body I mean patient (he just doesn't say anything) . The original script I was going to use didn't work out because the movements were too minimal and it did nothing for me personally when I tried it out behind the backdrop. So I am using four lines from the original script of an episode of 24 and just wrote my own dialogue. Tonight and tomorrow I will memorize. This idea also gave me another idea of a series of scripts I could possibly write and or perform behind a sheet where lets say, you think the couples arguing about someone being unfaithful but really its to get rid of the husbands mother or something and at the end of the scene the curtain is pulled away and you know what its really about.
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