What I Have Learned from Performing A Scene

During reproducing this scene, It has taught me a lot about editing and how to cut down seemingly unnecessary elements in order to make the scene move faster or in order to fit it into a certain timespan. Watching other people perform has given me ideas on how to portray my part or how not to portray it, it has also given me ideas for staging and stage directions. Watching other people perform their scenes can give you inspiration on how to act out your scene so sometimes its good to watch other people and not focus so much on what your scene is like because after the scene you might have an idea of how to stage or direct or act out your scene. It gets difficult for me when I try to have the right tone of voice or the right volume because trying to reenact a play in older english is sometimes difficult because you don't exactly always understand what the person is trying to say so sometimes I speak louder than I'm supposed to and that ruins the scene. It's normally really easy for me to adapt to my character and to own the part because if I understand the plot of the play and who the characters are and what they do in the play I can normally act them out and own the part really well . A good scene consists of good stage directions, accurate acting, good projection, gestures and owning the part, if you don't own the part, it will seem fake to the audience and in a lot of ways it will ruin the scene and it will make the actors around you look bad too. For improvement I can definitely work on projecting more and maybe speaking slower and more clearly and maybe at times owning the part a little bit better.

Scene Rewrite

If I were to rewrite a scene for Romeo and Juliet I would choose the part where Tybalt dies and instead I would place it outside VdP maybe or somewhere in that area and I would have someone come and challenge Romeo to a fight. Romeo would accept but then his friend instead would jump in and his friend would get hit in the face and knocked out. Romeo would then follow in pursuit of Tybalt and find him at Simosa Field where the two would fight. Romeo would start off on the defensive with Tybalt throwing most of the punches, but as the fight progresses, Romeo becomes a bit more anxious and starts throwing more punches and then eventually he connects a punch with Tybalt's jaw and proceeds to knock him out. Romeo backs away in shock as this is his first ever fight and he has never ever hurt anyone, Benvolio comes running in to report to Romeo but then sees that Tybalt has been knocked out and that Romeo must run away because it won't be long before news reaches Tybalt's friends and they will come for him. They eventually come for him and there is a massive school yard brawl between the two sides, the news gets to the dean and Romeo is called to meet with him. The dean says that he will be called for a C.C. Once in the C.C, they tell Romeo that instigating fights is breaking a major school rule in which Romeo attempts to object but it is sustained. The C.C tells him that they will give him the chance to withdraw from the school but if he fails to within 24 hours, they will expel him and put a huge smudge on his record. Romeo nods and he goes to a teacher and tells the teacher about the situation and that he wants to hurt himself if he has to be without Juliet, the teacher tells him to wise up and be grateful for them giving you this chance to withdraw from here because it is not a common thing that they let slide. Romeo tries to tell Juliet's friend that he needs to see her one more time, Juliet's friend then notifies Juliet and comes back to Romeo and tells him to go to her room window at lights out. He does so and they spend the night together and Romeo wakes up in the morning and Juliet asks if he has to leave and he says that either way he will have to leave and that he just wants to make it easier on his family to get him into another school. Romeo then proceeds to withdraw from the school and leave.

Death

Death in this scene is depicted to Romeo as basically saying "if I can't be with Juliet I might as well be dead". To him Juliet is the only think keeping him alive and without her he believes there is nothing worth living for. Romeo has been sentenced to be exiled, which means banished from Verona, meaning he won't see Juliet ever again, and to him, she is his everything and without her he would rather die. In this scene, Romeo is basically saying that being exiled is just as bad as killing him because they are taking away the one thing that he is living for and his one true love, Juliet.

When night time falls the dreams all come to life 

Angry

Anger is a powerful emotion because sometimes it doesn't stay with one person it could spread. I was once in a situation where my friend was being bullied and he got angry and retaliated and I felt his anger and retaliated with him, it ended very badly for the other person and before we knew it everyone was angry and our two groups merged and there was a huge scuffle and it was ugly. This situation could have been avoided in two ways. A. my friend could have walked away from the situation or B. The kid could have walked away from my friend and stopped picking on him 

Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

The version I watched was made in 2013 and directed by Carlo Carlei. They changed the original language around a little bit but mainly kept it the same. It was set in the same setting as the original play, Verona, Italy. I thought it was very true to the original play, I thought Juliet acted very much how a teenager would act and Romeo more like an experienced bachelor which I thought was good. The adaptation stayed true to the rivalry of the Montagues and the Capulets and a lot of the characters acted the same as they would in the play. I did think that Benvolio would be older but he looked like a little kid in this adaptation of the play. The movie was released in the UK so the accents were British although there is a little bit of Italian spoken. The language also stayed the same mostly but they did change around a few words into modern English which I thought was cheeky yet smart and it mixed modernality with originality and I thought that this version did a great job of that. 

Compared to the play I thought it was quite similar to how Shakespeare would have filmed it and directed it which how you would want a work by Shakespeare to be like. Overall I did like the adaptation a lot. I liked it because the characters stayed true to how Shakespeare made them, Also unlike what a play would offer, the movie offered a musical score that took the emotions of these two lovers and they handed them to you through music which I thought was just so well done and so beautiful. The music conveyed more emotion in my opinion than the characters themselves did, or might I say, the music assisted the emotions being portrayed by the characters but sometimes so peaceful and sorrowful and beautiful that it made you feel something more than what the characters themselves with no music would have made you feel which I think was just so well done. Overall the film impressed me and to me is more Than the panned ratings it got, I thought the characters were original which I liked and no one tried to mess around with them and I thought the score was just absolutely beautiful and I think that was my favorite part of the film. If you want a truly beautiful, emotional film adaptation of the play that makes you feel something more than I reccomend this highly. 

Balcony Scene

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