Miller+Accomplishments

Miller Mrosek Dr. Farley Richmond THEA 2100H 1 December 2014

Accomplishments  I have enjoyed working on this project much more than I anticipated. I generally am not a fan of group projects because I am a bit of a perfectionist to a fault, but I was very pleased with my group. We got along well and worked together to create a high quality project.

I liked this play in particular because it is not a cookie-cutter play. Pinter chose to make this work controversial and almost certainly knew that it would not be liked by everyone. I love that about this play and I love Pinter’s daring nature in regard to this play. Through my work with this play (and this course as a whole) I have further deepened my affinity for theatre that I previously was not aware of. I now know that I much prefer to be able to see and feel the emotion of real people than simply staring at a screen.

 Through my individual work and research on set design, I have a new found respect for the professionals who do it for a living. Much more though goes into it than I ever knew. The different styles of lighting allow for a wide range of different influence on the stage that can have a subconscious effect on the way the audience views the set. Every little detail matters, from the placement of a potted plant to the color of a rug underneath a coffee table that is barely even seen. After having to make these decisions for myself, I now fully appreciate all the work that goes into designing and lighting a stage for a play.

 I feel as though I was successful in drawing the stage. It took me a lot of time and effort to complete the colored rendering, and I’m proud of the job I did. I also think I made some valuable contributions to the joint responsibilities, primarily to the Production Details (#3). I entered this class as a novice in the field of theatre, but I am now knowledgeable enough to be an important part of the group.

From a technological standpoint, I was responsible for assembling all of the different parts of the project and linking them to our wiki. After a little while I got the hang of it and got a system down. I feel like our page is organized well and all of our work can be accessed with ease.

 Rachel did a fantastic job analyzing the characters and picking actors to play each role, as well as choosing costumes for the characters. I was very impressed with her individual work as well as her contributions to the joint responsibilities, especially the analysis. She also set up our powerpoint and which ended up looking great.

 Jonathan seemed to be in his element as the producer/advertiser/marketer of the play, and came up with some great ideas that I never could have. He also was vital in completing the concept statement and did a good job with that as well. He came up with the idea to use dropbox.com to allow each other to see the work we had done individually. This ended up being a great way to share ideas and I will definitely be using it in the future.

 Our group worked well together, and I’m not sure our group or I personally could have done anything a whole lot better than we did. I would have liked to meet as a group more than we did, but schedules didn’t permit any more than the three meetings we had and we were easily able to complete the project in the meetings we had. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome of our project.