Week 3

At the beginning of week three the assistant technical director of our play asked us to create a prop list. As the director, I took it upon myself to ensure that it would happen. I did this by approaching all of the cast members individually and asking them what props they needed for their scenes. After collecting the information about the props, I handed the list that I had compiled over to the assistant technical director. She informed us about the props that we already had at the college and which ones needed to be purchased. Besides this, a few actors had approached me with lighting and sound ideas for their scenes. As this is not my area of expertise, I referred them to the ATD who fortunately was present during the majority of our rehearsals to assist us.

During the rest of the week I continued to focus on my characterization for the scene 'Fan' as I had slightly neglected this scene during the previous week as well as developing the blocking for the scene 'Flashback'. My main goal for the week was to have 'Fan' ready to perform. Unfortunately this goal was not achieved due to my fellow cast mates getting bored by the work we had done thus far. This resulted in actors wanting to change up their scenes completely preventing me from being able to focus on completing my own goals as it was my duty as a director to support and help my group to realize their changes to the scenes. This frustrated me as we had already spent lots of time and energy perfecting the scenes that they had now decided to change completely. The way that I would improve this the next time is by reasoning with my cast more about the decisions that they were about to make and how we could make their existing scenes more interesting instead of changing the scene completely.

Key Strength:My biggest strength this week was being able to adapt and remain professional in situations that were not favourable. To keep this as a strength I shall continue to listen to my cast mates when they're dealing with issues and try to come up with a solution before making drastic decisions.

Key Weakness:My biggest weakness this week was neglecting my own work to help others. Next week I would like to improve this by focussing on my own work more and less on others.