Seize the Day Reflections

In class we performed the poem "Seize the Day." We were able to adapt it in anyway that we wanted to and we had a wide variety of options to choose from in terms of performing this poem. In my group, we wanted to show the comparison between a rich person and a poor person. Lesley was the rich girl and Josh was the poor boy. The reason why we did this was because we wanted to show that life is the same for everyone. Everyone lives and everyone dies. We switched back and for between two sides of the stage because we wanted to show the separation between the two worlds. But by the last two stanzas of the poem, the stage was completely lit and we could see both worlds collide together. Looking back on our performance I felt like we did a good job coming up with an idea. There was a lot of ideas that were thrown around within the group. When I was watching the performance it went the way that I thought it would go. The staging was very successful and the music that was picke out was a good fit for our performance. Personally, I messed up with the spashinsh words accept they were translated to English. In the video you can hear me talk when I should not have. It helped me to explore the words of the poem because we wanted to incorporate movements and lighting into out performance. I think this also helped me to think of ideas quickly because we had limited time to put this performance together.

I felt like every group that I watched had a different idea. None of them were really the same. Although, it was common for most groups to have everyone read a part of the poem. I really liked the direction that Nan's group went in by making a song out of the poem. I really found it interesting that Nan would sing the same lines throughout the performance and Jamaal, Jack and Ivan would read different parts. Their performance was unique because it was a song. I was also interested in what Jacob's group did by walking in circles. I feel like the closest one to my groups was Jamsines group because they did movements correlating to the words being read.

Nan's groups strengths was that they sang and rapped the poem which made it interesting. The weaknesses was that I couldn't hear some of the people in the performance. Yun's groups strengths was that they were at a slow pace and it was easy to follow. The weakness was that for a lot of the performance they walked back and forth across the bridge. The strengths for Jacobs group was that it was fast pace however the weakness was that it was too fast to follow almost. Cassidy's groups strengths were that they had a very simple performance. However their weakness was that it was maybe too simple for the poem. Jasmine's groups strengths were that they had some good body movements in their performance. However, their weakness was that they started to laugh and lose their composure but hey got it together and were able to finish the performance.