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Chrissy and I completed our scene for The Glass Menagerie. The two of us spent a great amount of time figuring out our characters. We needed to figure out the whos, whats, wheres, whys, and hows.
Here is what we’ve concluded about our characters:
Laura is Amanda’s daughter. They are in their apartment. There is a bed, a chair, a kitchen, a door, and a balcony. She is shy but has a lot of ideas about what she believes is right.  In the scene, she is contemplating who this Jim O'connor person is and how she will react to his arrival. She decides that she will be too nervous when Jim O'connor arrives and begs to not go anywhere near him (for example opening the door for him). Instead, she begs her mother, Amanda, to complete the task of opening the door for Jim.
Amanda is Laura’s mother. The scenery is the same as in the synopsis of Laura (look above). She is very motherly and a little bossy because she also has a lot of ideas about what is right. In the scene, she is explaining that gentleman caller will be coming over for dinner, nudging Laura to make small talk with him for when he arrives. She determinedly commands Laura to pull herself together and to stop overreacting about going near Jim O'connor (for example opening the door for Jim). Amanda gets what she wants in this scene by talking with conviction and trying to reassure Laura that everything will be okay.
Chrissy and I did silly things to try and figure out how we wanted to say our lines. The two of us read our script with all different types of accents and used all different types of emotions. I the end, we found what we were looking for. Laura and Amanda both had to have some kind of stubbornness to them and also some kind of separateness.
I’m glad with the outcome of our scene. It took a couple of times, but we got to a point where we were really able to react to each others emotions. I think the two of us just have to let go a bit more. When you let go a little, you get the emotions and naturalness in the scene that you’re  looking for.
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My character for the play, The Glass Menagerie, is Laura. Laura is an interesting character. She is super fragile. When I think of Laura, I think of something that is extremely lite and easily damageable, like a feather, or a dandelion seed, blowing in the wind. She has trouble controlling her own fate. That is the reason why when the wind blows, she gets swept up by the strong, cold, forceful air. And all the dandelion seed does is follow the wind and absorb all the sunlight it can possibly get. But sometimes the dandelion really wants more sunlight. It just has trouble going about anywhere without the wind. That is how Laura is. She really wants to get a career and meet the life of her life, a nice companion, but she feels as though she just cannot. Laura has a walking disorder. She feels as though it stops her from doing the things she wants to do. One of these things being attending business school. Laura is also very sensitive. She cares greatly about her loved ones, her brother acting as the main one she cared about in this play. Laura is also a representation of the glass menagerie itself. Her emotions are CLEARLY easy to see through. Her emotions are very clear. With a sudden move, word, she can break. There is nothing she can hide meaning her emotions are clear (her emotions mainly showing fear, sadness, want, awe through facial expressions and body language). When she finds the things that make her happy in life, she is less nervous and more happy, excited, full of life.she always remains a little secluded to herself even till the end.

I think the silent movie came out pretty great! We started off with all of these ideas about what we wanted the movie to be about. Here are the main things we knew we wanted:
The movie was going to be French themed
There HAD to be a rude waitress
The characters in the movie were going to get super angry
We knew that those three things, those three ideas would make a great movie. The problem was that we didn’t have a plot. We only had those ideas. We brainstormed for a really long time and I’m pretty sure that took longer than the actual filming process and acting process. I’m glad we worked on that though because the plot needed to be fixed. It was way too all over the place and everything was moving almost too quickly. I’m glad Michael is back because we needed his ideas! Michael is great to have around because his ideas are vibrant, yet he keeps everyone in reality. This reality being what really is possible to do in a certain time frame. Afterall, it’s not like we had 2 months to do this! I’m glad we keep having these mini projects though because it’s helping me communicate and also move quicker. I feel like I’m always on my toes and I’m not as slow. The main thing I wish we could have fixed was the view of the movie. By this I mean it would have been nice for some things to be more zoomed in. Like Micheal for instance. His character was all angry so it would have been nice to see the camera zoomed in on him being all angry. Overall, this silent movie was so entertaining and I think our acting was great. It was cool to see my peers expressing emotion but not even talking! Super cool project. I would definitely want to do this again.