Jamaal B Waters
Ib Lit & Performance
Propless Improv Review
The Improv show “Propless” at Cheshire academy was performed in the black box upstairs in the field house on May 18th and 19th. This show Included skits where actors were put in a situation to make up lines on the spot. I liked the way they put the show together the way how they did it was creative. Improvisation is a form of acting where the actors coming up with things on the go, acting them out without breaking character. I’ve did some improv acting myself at past school events and classes, but what I found interesting and liked about Cheshire’s Is how the actors interacted with the crowd using games. This was a great idea which gave the show life and made it more interesting. The show was fun, there was many jokes, people was laugh hysterically and the skits were well put together. For the most part the cast was talented and pretty good with the improv. One of the only things the cast could possibly work on not getting stuck when they were performing, some people got stuck at times and didn’t know what to say. Besides that overall the sketches were great my friend Ivan participated in one of the activities too. It’s the activity when they put the alphabet on the board and the participants had to pick a one word and make a sentence including that word. It was great and the audience enjoyed it. Parents seem to have a good time watching their kids perform. Good job to everyone that help put this together expectually my peers and the actors: Julia Rafferty, Helen Zhang, Ray Dong, Mao Inoue, Krystal Charter, Sunny Niu, Aaron Leo,Nan Zhou, Julia Zhou, Jerry Yu, Olivia Williamson, Bob Wang.
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Blog post due by Thursday-- what do you think you need to do to revise your WC essay? 400 words due by midnight. You will have some time to work on this in class as well -- we will begin it on Tuesday during class
To revise my essay I will correct all the grammar mistakes I had throughout my paper. I’ll go to the writing lab to have a teacher to proofread it. I know that some of my paragraphs was unclear and need revising to make sure the reader knows what’s going on in the paper and not get confused. I’ll add to my literary analysis describe more in detail about the book, characters, their live style, likes and dislikes. Most importantly add more to the setting of the story, give good background information. Tone and Mood is also important because if you don’t know what the characters are feeling how could you relate and understand where their coming from. All well written papers are entertaining. That meaning I’ll include more context to It making It more interesting so people won’t get bored while they are reading the paper. After I finish my rewriting my literary analysis I will continue to work on where I talk about the performance. Not only speak of my point of view of the project but my partner‘s points and see how they felt about the project seeing what they had found difficult what they liked what they dislike and compare it to myself while stating more stuff that we did while we were performing such as light, the way we set up our prop and what’s costumes we wore and why. How It portray the character because there was 3 boys including me in my group and in the play there 2 girls and 1 boy s we had to show that using costumes.
To revise my essay I will correct all the grammar mistakes I had throughout my paper. I’ll go to the writing lab to have a teacher to proofread it. I know that some of my paragraphs was unclear and need revising to make sure the reader knows what’s going on in the paper and not get confused. I’ll add to my literary analysis describe more in detail about the book, characters, their live style, likes and dislikes. Most importantly add more to the setting of the story, give good background information. Tone and Mood is also important because if you don’t know what the characters are feeling how could you relate and understand where their coming from. All well written papers are entertaining. That meaning I’ll include more context to It making It more interesting so people won’t get bored while they are reading the paper. After I finish my rewriting my literary analysis I will continue to work on where I talk about the performance. Not only speak of my point of view of the project but my partner‘s points and see how they felt about the project seeing what they had found difficult what they liked what they dislike and compare it to myself while stating more stuff that we did while we were performing such as light, the way we set up our prop and what’s costumes we wore and why. How It portray the character because there was 3 boys including me in my group and in the play there 2 girls and 1 boy s we had to show that using costumes.
Monday, May 7, 2018
What brings a poem to life
To bring a poem to life you need to have a loud voice. If the audience can’t hear the person presenting then they completely become uninterested because they can hear what’s going on. Also props should be used, they bring life to the poem and make It more realistic. Music can be added too but not necessary. Just don’t go out there with no music or props because those help set the tone and if you don’t have them it’ll get boring fast. Don’t be stationary, move around don’t just stand in one spot walk around the stage, use hand movements, express yourself. If you do all of these then your presentation will go well only thing you is remember your lines.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
The section of the poem in “seize the day“ that stood out to me was where it says “concentrate on living your life hour by hour as if you were feeding coins into a meter measuring your life, here’s this hour, you already paid for it”. In my opinion this is the best stanza in the whole poem because it’s the truth and I can relate to this. I find myself, friends, and family doing this, worrying about what happened before and not concentrate on what’s going on now . This it isn't good for you and your well-being , basically you're stuck on the pass and being miserable over things you can change or control. Why put yourself though all that presser and disappoint. People need to learn how to move on and forget things. The only thing that I’ll say is not to forgive is if someone did something wrong to you. The reason why I connect to ”concentrate on living your life hour by hour as if you were feeding coins into a meter” is because I tend to think about the past and the future when I should be thinking about what’s going on in the present; example like in basketball when I make a bad play or have a bad game sometimes I take this attitude in the next game and gain a bad mindset. which makes me end up playing bad or worst then I did before. Another reason why I think thinking about the past could be bad for you is because let’s say if something bad had happened in the past. Your main focus is on that and It can have you stressing yourself out. Thinking about what if I did this or that would the result change or not. You’ll end up sad and depressed thinking about It but If you forget and move on you'll be happier and be at peace with yourself.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Our project was fun. My group and I turned a poem into a hip hop/ R&B Hit!
Nan singing was amazing, it matched with the beat perfectly. Ivan and Purdy’s recitement of the poem was done very well. Put this together with my lyrics equals gold. At first we had to look through a lot of beats because we had to make it able to match up with the lyrics otherwise it wouldn’t sound as good. To prefect the song we could’ve made a beat. We dicided not to do that because it would’ve took to long and we probably would’ve run out of time. Making a rap from the poem made me understand it more because I had to dissect it to find the worlds and phrases I wanted to use
Nan singing was amazing, it matched with the beat perfectly. Ivan and Purdy’s recitement of the poem was done very well. Put this together with my lyrics equals gold. At first we had to look through a lot of beats because we had to make it able to match up with the lyrics otherwise it wouldn’t sound as good. To prefect the song we could’ve made a beat. We dicided not to do that because it would’ve took to long and we probably would’ve run out of time. Making a rap from the poem made me understand it more because I had to dissect it to find the worlds and phrases I wanted to use
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