The Macbeth Acting Extravaganza

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The Macbeth Acting Extravaganza taught me how to manage group work better, made me analyze Macbeth in a different way, and gave me a greater appreciation of theater. I was very happy with the group I was put in, and we worked well with each other. Initially, we wanted to do the scene about Macduff’s family. We decided to go with the banquet scene because we had the perfect amount of people. The Sunday after we were assigned this project, the group got together to work on our scripts. One of the most challenging parts of the project for our group was coming up with a modern theme. We came up with the theme of band when we were talking about half of the group being gone on the band retreat the weekend before the video was due. We decided to …show more content…
We also didn't have time to meet over the weekend, so instead of all getting together, anyone who was available went onto the shared document and we edited it together. After finishing the scripts we realized that we needed to work on our performance. We used our class time to start rehearsing for our in class performance, and deciding on our props and costumes. We decided we would get together after school on Wednesday to practice the live performance, and also to start filming our video. On Wednesday, we started by practicing our lines and making sure everyone knew exactly what they needed to bring for our performance the next day. Then, we started working on filming. We got a good amount of the video done, and we were confident that we could finish the rest on Friday. The next day for my groups in class performance, I feel we could have done better. I wanted to meet before school to get one last practice in, but the rest of my group did not want to. When we got together on Friday to finish filming, I was surprised at how quick we were. We finished filming the video in a little more than three

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