For the finally project we did in our class, although I feel like it could been worse and there were few mistake that we made during the performance, but I still assume that we did a great work.
With the light and the sound effect, the stage change between before and after the sunset become more reasonable then with out them, although we set where people should enter or exit at the last minute, which result in many mistake that we made in the last two scene. Both Miranda and john exit the wrong way. But the stage change was simple and useful in the play which easily let the audience know there are two kind of the stage and people act differently in different stage. So with those information I assume it was very easy to know the difference before and after the sun set. The other change we made to shows the flash back was the cloth change. All of as bring the winter cloth with us, which made audience easy to see the different of their dress.
I also think we made the character more clear to the audiences, like “peter” was more like a boyfriend of Miranda’s mother, not a random friend or doctor, and also clearly shows that he end in death because the flu, which kill many people after then sun set. Peter’s death make the whole play more hopeless and also made Miranda wish to go to the town more reasonable: because that she was the only hope to survive although that was way too risky. Also, Miranda shows how important the food are, john also was the only one who eat two meal a day. But I few a little bit of disappointment about we delete the line about the fire department was no longer work.
The mistake that we made in the play. We did not set the stage center at the center of the stage so there were a little bit to the left in the vidicon, also the other mistake that I already mention was people exit to the wrong side few time, and that would make some misunderstand to the audience. The other mistake was the winter cloth were not “winter” enough, which were more like autumn. But because in summer most of us will not stage winter cloth so it was able to forgiven.
After all I am glade that we went though the finally project and close this one year IB class with a good work. We took IB exam already and spend enough time struggle on every IB project we have done as an IB student. Although even at the end of the year I still assume that I could do better if I was in the b period class which will make me more talktive and have better cooperation with my group. One of the reason is I am not good enough to wrote, plan, stage or perform in any of the project we did this year. And I understand that is the reason I could not go to the AP lit class.
