Period 1:
Please place a COMMENT in the COMMENT section of this blog post in which you discuss:
After commenting, let's spend a little bit of time discussing Driving Miss Daisy & The Colored Museum. What did you notice about the way in which they were written? How "realistic" did they seem? What theatrical conventions or staging effects seemed most important or creative? How are these plays different from films?
The Colored Museum - Git on Board & Cookin with Aunt Ethel, The Photo Shoot; Soldier With a Secret; The Gospel According to Miss Roj, The Hairpiece,; Symbiosis; The Last Mama on the Couch Play; Permutations; & The Party
Please place a COMMENT in the COMMENT section of this blog post in which you discuss:
- What did you learn about playwriting by collaborating with your peers on our project?
- What might be some things that are important to remember about this experience that might help you write plays/scripts in the future?
- Comment about problems/frustrations or pleasures involved with this project.
- Refer to the homework rubric for details about how you will be graded for this assignment.
After commenting, let's spend a little bit of time discussing Driving Miss Daisy & The Colored Museum. What did you notice about the way in which they were written? How "realistic" did they seem? What theatrical conventions or staging effects seemed most important or creative? How are these plays different from films?
The Colored Museum - Git on Board & Cookin with Aunt Ethel, The Photo Shoot; Soldier With a Secret; The Gospel According to Miss Roj, The Hairpiece,; Symbiosis; The Last Mama on the Couch Play; Permutations; & The Party
With any time left, we'll begin reading 'Night Mother by Marsha Norman.
HOMEWORK: None.
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With collaborating with people, I learned that in playwriting we have to take into account different opinions and viewpoints in order to create the masterpiece. Some things that I found important to remember and that will help me write plays/scripts in the future is the fact that you have to write for your audience. Some issues and problems I encountered was trying to incorporate different viewpoints, limitations, and opinions, and also dealing with the actors not really expressing the words as we would want them to.
what I learned about play writing is that sometimes there are things that can't be in the plays and because of that we have to edit it and change it to suit the audience. Another thing I've learned is that everyone has ideas but it's always a good idea to take constructive criticism. The only problem I had with this project is the time that we had to do this. Some things to remember is that when writing, let everyone know what is going on so that way things aren't just being thrown last minute.
I don't usually do well when collaborating with other people, but I got to collab with some of my good friends and that was pretty fun. I thought we all had great ideas which made our play as good as it is, and we all spoke up if we didn't like something, so we could make sure the play was comfortable for all of the actors. One thing to remember when collaborating, your first draft of the script is always going to be completely different from the final draft. We changed our entire plot within the first two classes. There were not really any frustrations in my point of view, just that we don't know how exactly we are going to get the play all in one shot.
1. Through collaborating with my peers I learned that plays are a longer process than expected. There is the creation of the draft, editing, dry runs, cold runs, more editing, and eventually you'll get to the finished product. Also, you have to learn how to compromise and be open to new suggestions. In addition to that, you have to accept improvisations, and changes in props. However, it is a process that I do enjoy, and I'd love to do it again.
What did you learn about playwriting by collaborating with your peers on our project?
What might be some things that are important to remember about this experience that might help you write plays/scripts in the future?
Comment about problems/frustrations or pleasures involved with this project.
Refer to the homework rubric for details about how you will be graded for this assignment.
I learned that work feels a lot more rushed with the short time constraint. I do not like pushing out scripts in a day or two. I learned that I am simply a writer and I cannot do more than that, which is frustrating. Working on a script with a group makes me realize that there will be some people that I will not like working with (luckily my group was one I liked), so I need to be ready for the time when there are people I do not get along with. Communication is very important in these projects because this will help get a point across. Be vocal about your opinions and what you would like to see come out of the group and don't be afraid to do that. Another important thing is to accept criticism, or be mindful that your writing will not work out for a script. If your lines end up being cut or would not add to the script, don't take it too harshly. Some things I found enjoyable about the project is dividing the workload and overcoming blocks in the story that would take me longer to do had I been working alone. I like the input from my peers and their thoughts to improve since not everything I do is perfect. A frustration that I had is the recently mentioned time constraint and the limited availability we had to speak in person. My final comments is that I hope you mention a collaboration beforehand because you really caught me off guard when you said, "Oh! By the way, we're working with the drama majors." Other than that, this was pretty good for the most part I guess.
When writing a play I learned you have to be very open minded. You need constructive criticism no matter what you're writing. Listening to everyone's ideas is very important. All of the criticism helped because it was positive. The only problem we had was like having to change something in our play because that caused us to have to change everything we had to substitute one of our ideas which was something the play was revolving around.
I liked working with my peers it's just slightly unsettling that if they don't do their part then you can't do yours. Luckily, I didn't have this problem. Each person had a job so that we could produce the script, which worked out nicely. It's important to remember that your work will be revised and edited, therefore it could really change most of what you write. Issues that seemed to occur was the length of the play, and what exactly motivated the characters.
I feel I learned a lot about formatting and listening to my peer during this script. I also learned some interesting tactics in order to make play funnier both from my fellow writers as well as actors. Personally I feel that was the most important thing I could learn from this experience. The process of not only working with play writes and actors made the play come out much better. It helped make the scripts very real and engaging. Though I do feel there was a bit of a lack understanding between writers and actors. The rewriting and limitations were frustrating for us both, but I think it was hard for us to see that we both had equal frustration with the predicament we were in.
Through this collaboration project I learned about the importance of flexibility. There were many times where many people proposed ideas and they were not taken into consideration or they were dismissed. I learned that although communication is important, sacrificing some of our ideas for the sake of the project is the better decision at times. I also noticed that there were people who didn't get along in the group, however it wasn't adjustable. Sometimes encouraging people to get along is useless and the only thing you can do is try and work comfortably with them while trying to avoid conflicts.
While collaborating with people, I've learned that others can be very difficult with listening to your ideas. Sometimes they feel uncomfortable with how or what I and my partner has wrote. there were times where we had to re-write the entire scene. All in all, re-writing and editing only makes things better, not worse.It taught me to have patience and to be willing to start at the bottom again. I had a fun experience with my friends and would be willing to do it again!
With collaborating with my groups, I learned that its super important to be specific. Common sense doesn't always apply. Its easier to write for us but when writing for someone to act it out is harder. Its not always about what you understand its about what they do too. Certain words don't apply when it comes to play writing. Including different viewpoints is hard and when writing this one when the camera is in only one spot is hard because I wanted to show other spaces.
I learned through this collaboration that effectively writing a joke or comedy in general takes large amounts of work throughout the play.
I'll have to remember to build plot points for certain jokes to have the impact necessary.
This project was fun and I'd be willing to do it again. It's fun allowing creativity to flow between multiple minds.
okay so i actually like collaborating with people but this time around i hated one of my group members because they were so stubborn about changing their idea for the good of the rest of the group so you know damn well that i'm never going to let them into our group ever again lolz// i learned that you need people that you're going to get along with or else you're going to hate it// i already said what i hated //
that one is mine (joshua phonharath) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
By collaborating with my peers I learned that sometimes scripts should change based on the actors' ideas and their ability to perform it.
Something important to remember in the future when writing a play/script is your time frame-- essentially how long you have to write your script and what you need to include-- and your audience, which can cause you to censor or change your script
The problems we faced was our time limit which forced us to write a play in only one period, our props, which caused us to change from a plastic chicken to plastic fish, and our audience, which caused us to omit the use of drugs. It was definitely pleasurable watching the play performed and watching everyone else laugh as Julian and Leo performed it.
-Pahz
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