EXTRACT FROM A PLAY
This task was for us one of the hardest to put together and this for many reasons.
Fisrt of all, we had a really hard time finding what movie we were going to take the extract from. But it was shure that we were going to take it from an animated movie.
During the first meeting for this task, we all gathered together to brainstorm to find what we were going to act. So finally we settled on the animated movie: “Over the hedge”.
The reason for this choice is that there is a whole storry around how to organise the team to accomplish a mission: steal the food. It is exactly what we were looking for because we not only wanted to experience “team spirit” during the work we were doing, we also wanted to act a movie talking about team work so this animated movie came perfectly like we wanted.
The next step was to find and watch the whole movie all together and find out which part of the movie we were going to select. This was a very hard part because each memeber wanted to act a different part of the movie, or play a different animal.
So it was hard but we finnally settle on 3 different scenes that also had to be understandable for the audience even though we were not expecting everyone to have seen the movie.
The third part came out as one of the hardest, while some of the team members were working on how to recreat the environment and choose the costumes using what we had and just bying a few elements. The other members were working on rewriting the script to make it easier to remember and understandable for the class.
Then everyone separated to learn its part and the last meeting was used to work and practice. See if everyting was organised and if nothing was left undone.
Finally during the act in the class, it is true some of us forgot a part of the text or a sentence but we improvised and helped each other out. We were all kind of afraid before starting because some of us are shy and were a little stressed by the idea of playing animals in front of the class. But after the class we all spoke and realized that once you have started you really get caught into it and forget the rest.
It was really a fun thing to do and left us with really nice souvenirs!
