Week 8 - Rehearsing the Performance

This week was a complete nightmare simply because the Art students from our group hadn't YET finished their puppets nor the video meaning that we couldn't rehearse anything. On top of that, they didn't have enough puppets for the whole story. I found it really unfair how music had finished everything on time and art hadn't and the art group even consisted of more people than music which was only Maria and I. Also one of the art students thought to have lost one of the main character puppets so we couldn't even rehearse the main scenes because they had to go search for the puppet which fortunately though they eventually found. Meanwhile some of the group went to try and find the puppet Maria practiced and Yasmeen did the narration instead of, so I could help Jackson with the video and tell him where each sound effect should go, even though there was a picture of the script with highlighted parts where to add the sound effects. I also had to tell the Art students what puppets to add and make in time for next week or else we wouldn't have had enough. Having said all that, I did really like the puppets that they had made and I could see they spent time and effort into making them even though we still needed more. In my opinion those two lessons were wasted this week, trying to find puppets, creating the video which was supposed to be created and making enough puppets for the show. We did rehearse the performance twice but we did it with missing puppets and without the music because since the art students had to fix their puppets we had to stay in the Art room, so we only had 10 minutes in music. I just really hope that they manage to finish creating all the puppets on time as well as the video. One thing that was positive this week is that we agreed on wearing black shirts during our performance so we blend in and make it seem very professional and nice altogether. Also we wrote down each person's job during the performance:
Federica: Narrator
Yasmeen: Changes the numbers on the keyboard/decreases and increases music/plays the loud boom at the end
Rana: Controls the puppets
Aria: Controls the puppets
Jackson: In charge of the video
Maria: Plays the music
Mario: Spraying the audience with water/walking through the audience in the alleyway part/ covering the projector when James dies


Here is the YouTube link to the video which will be playing during the performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feauture=youtu.be&v=jjKgFauzVmo