Blog #11

What Act and Scene or portions are you producing for your digital play?

The part that we are going to interpret is Act 3, Scene 4. This Act is basically about how Hamlet is revealing himself to his mother and fighting with her about why she married the king's brother. The biggest part that we also have to interpret is when Hamlet murders Polonious thinking it's Cladious behind a curtain.

What Theater Jobs are showcased in your group?

The theater jobs that are showcased in our group are Robert and Jaime as both documentarians, Jasmin as the play supervisor, and me as wardrobe and actress.

This photo represents Robert in the scene where Polonius is hiding behind the "curtains" in Gertrades room and is dead. The thing that went well for this scene was that we could find a place that Roberts feet could peak out since in the play Poloniou's feet stick out from the curtain and that is why Hamlet sees him right away. The challenges that we faced during this was that Jaime was supposed to be Hamlet and be there, but since she was absent we had to make the scene anyway. Me and my group managed to do a great job of putting everything we were going to do together, this worked out very well and we got almost everything that we had for that day finished. In this part the most interesting part of it was at the beginning when we didn't know how to act dead or anything so we just took it how we thought it looked best.

This picture demonstrates behind the scenes of the making of the actual scenes we were supposed to do. Since our theme is humor and only behind the scenes footage of what happened in Hamlet, Jasmin and Robert got in a fight and I took a picture of them being mad at each other and arguing about what part they wanted to play. The thing that was going well in this scene was that they acted really naturally make it seem like Jasmine was really going to hit Robert with the water bottle. But, one of the challenges that we faced while taking the picture was that Robert and Jasmine were really fighting over who got to be who and I didn't know what to say so I just went along with whatever they said, but I got some ideas through as well. My group was collaborating as usual in this scene since it was really easy to take the perfect picture. The thing that was really interesting to me in this picture was that even though that it seems real and in real life Jasmin and Robert weren't mad at each other, deep down inside them they really didn't stand each other.

In this picture I was supposed to be portraying Gertrade and how shes really uptight so I just shrugged what they were telling me and they took the shot however I was posing. This went really well since I knew what I was supposed to do and I just went with what I thought Gertrude was going to do if they asked they had asked her to do the same thing I did in the confessional booth. There was only one challenge that I think we faced with this picture, which was the fact that it was supposed to look like a confessional booth and instead it looked like we filmed both scenes in the same place that we did Roberts scene. Me and my group collaborated very well, we each listened to various ideas that we had and made them work together so that our work could look best. The most interesting part for me would have to be having fun and staying on task at the same time, it was very fun coming up with humorous scenes and at the same time make them work for the Act and scenes we were trying to interpret.