We are currently working on editing our pieces for our script. In our group, we have decided that each group member individually look at their own parts and see what it is they feel should stay or go in the scenes assigned to them, so that afterward we could all go over the script together and try and edit it even more. It is not an easy task. Part of that reason is because our group gets distracted by things so easily and therefore cannot concentrate on the work that is put in front of us. Maybe it is because it is a group of friends, maybe it is because we all have such strong personalities that we sometimes collide, maybe I am too bossy or dominant, maybe there are 1,001 other reasons to explain it. All I know is that we have work to do and we don’t have a lot of time to do it, so we need to get on top of our game.
Another problem that we are currently confronting is that our group cannot seem to figure out our method of presentation. The response is due…. Yesterday… and yet we still cannot figure it out. I as captain want it something that everyone else will be comfortable with, because I know that some people do not feel comfortable up in front of a lot of people, but I cant even come up with an idea that will suit everyone, and I don’t want to just do it the traditional way because it just seems, well, cliché. Only thing is that no one seems to be giving feedback, and I don’t want us to say don’t care what it is we choose to do now, and then go up in front of the class and only give 50 or 60% because some of us decided we didn’t want to act it out like everyone else in the end. If we all choose as a group then I figure no one can complain about this or that not being what they wanted to do, so hopefully we can pull it together.
Although it seems like my group is facing a few difficulties, I do have a lot of confidence in us. I know that everyone in the end will pull together and get it done, I just don’t want to have to wait until the end to see that happen. I mean, I have seen it in those instances when we are not being distracted and I read a line out loud and we have to analyze it as a group to decide whether or not it should be in our script. Everyone has an interpretation of each line, and everyone begins to learn more and more Shakespeare’s play on words and which ones are crucial to our plots and which ones just take up 4 lines to say ‘that handkerchief is special’ (or something along the lines). So that really makes me happy that although we don’t notice as it happens but we are learning as we go through this arduous, exasperating, protracted process.