Reflecting on my oral there were things that I did good on and then some that I can improve on. Things that I felt I did a good job was being organized and clear when I was speaking.  The first ten minutes of my presentation I felt as if they were really strong because I knew what I wanted to talk about and was able to do so fairly strongly. But I found myself scrambling towards the end of it, right around the conclusion when I needed to wrap everything together I struggled with that and I think that's a result of not preparing enough since I didn't make a first draft when we were suppose too and that set me back because if I submitted my draft I typed up then it could have been revised even more and would have put me in a better place. I would have been able to prepare and have more knowledge if i would have done that. Another thing I wish I did more off was talking about the performance part, I started to talk about it but then changed topics into something else and I forgot to go back and talk about it.  I would have liked to also talk more about my character and maybe how I chose to step into the role more and then talk about what I learned because of doing that. If I did that then It would have gave me more time, and also fill in the gaps that I had left vague. I felt that I did a good job talking about themes and the relationship the mother and son had. And symbolism, I gave the example of the curtain and how it shows the mother and how she covers him from the harsh realities of the world.

Hello my names Ethan Kornacki and me and my partner chose to recreate the story night woman from krick krack and transform it into a black box production. The story night woman is about a haitian family living in hadi. The mother is a prostitute and only works at night hence night woman. Her son is around 8 ish years old and during the story is the conflict the son has about what his mom does for work, he isn't old enough to know what she does exactly but he kinda gets the idea of it. And the mother fills his head with lies and stories and she thinks in her own head that he doesn't know and is oblivious to the fact that her son knows about her night job. Some themes you can take away from this is the sacrifice parents made for their children's and this was a big part in us coming up with the storyline for the play, because i think sometimes as kids we forget what are parents did to get us to where we are know. And we wanted to hone in on that. Because of that when we were creating our script we wanted to have the son be much older so we had it fast forward 10 years where he is now a senior in highschool and is going to college. With all of the thoughts and lies she plagued her son with as a child caused their relationship to be broken.

And during are play we wanted them to go back in forth really talking about why the mother did what she did, and just didn't do what any other single mother would do and pick up extra shift. And the reason to justify her actions is hati is a huge male dominated country. Women get treated with little respect and don't get the same job opportunities that a man would be given. After coming up with a solid script we went over the staging of are scene. This part is really important because it's one thing if you talk about what's going on to the audience it doesn't sink in, however if they can see it it give them the insight to what maybe a similar familie would be going through. And we wanted to show that this family was struggling to get by so we chose to just have one wall separating the mother and the son, just too rooms. We wanted to use this wall to show the clear divide between the two. And with this there really isn't that much emotion since there was only 2 interaction scenes. A way to add that was when ever we felt has the actor or actress we would put our hands to the wall as a sign for love, and passion.

When performing this being the son was hard because you can never really know what he went through, you have and idea of emotions and colors to bring out but you can never know so it was tough to portray him and really stepping in his shoes, maybe because we didn't have anything in common. “Compared to some of my friends,I have lived a dreadful and miserable 18 years of my life hiding behind a curtain, living in poverty” this line is important and i think very powerful because being a broken and sheltered kid they don't like to talk about their struggles and this is himself finally trying to do that and living behind a curtain and get really deep you start to analysis it. It can symbol him and his mother is the certin that covers him up and tries to protect him from the truth.

Looking back on how I did somethings that I would like to improve would be bringing out different tones of voices, and example when i'm standing up for myself I should raise my voice and say it with pride and like you mean it. And when i say something about the mother and her night job i should lower my voice because i'm not suppose to know what she does. And that's hard to do when you're in the moment and you didn't memorize your lines like that so that's something in the future I would like to improve on. Because it's a great way to show emotion in such a low key way.

Bullet points, to practice not having a much of next and will help me be more prepared
-talk about what you did well

-what you can improve on

-did you like your finish product

-did you protect your character

-what line was your favorite

-what line was your lest favorite

I was confused on what this should be...and I was going to talk to you about it in class

When programming this play I felt that there was a lot of things that I could have done better, for one it was truly to remember most of my lines because a lot of the were similar to one another, this caused me to get them mixed up and intern having to improvise. So there wasn't a long enough gap in between and because of this it messed up my partner a couple of times I think because she was used to starting after one of the lines I did and because of this it really impacted it and cause some dysfunction within the play when we were performing. However I feel that we didn't do that bad because that was the first time we officially ran through are play, and i think it was somewhat noticeable. It would have been better if we were able to release one or two more times prior before doing are final. But that's just something to do later, down the road in the next play we do for this class. Another thing is the length of the play throughout this process of coming up with this scene we had a common struggle and that was not having enough time. Because of this we had to add another act,causing it to be harder to memorize are lines since we add another 5 mins worth of scene time. So that was a factor during this next time if we had that from the beginning it wouldn't have had us scrambling in the last week to go over that last scene.  One thing that when we ran through the first rough draft was allot of our classmates thought that we didn't show enough emotion throughout are scene. So a way we fixed that was we used the wall we have to portray emotion so throughout our play we would put are hands on the wall to show me being shy or worked or even scared. Another thing that we got with are feedback was that we didn't really have a climax in a scene and because of the they were confused because it was just narration. So a way we changed that was we added a climax part where the son that I played finally leaves the mother and because of this when we added it it made the scene more meaningful.  And the last thing that I feel that we did poorly was reflecting on the final performance was the blocking could have been little bit better . What I mean is since we were in are rooms the whole time we could have done more within the room was maybe like pace back and forth to create emotion at the same time. With this these would have been the things to  fix that are classmates had questions on and thought we had to work on.