We made some minor changes to our piece one of them for example is when ven and jets gets knocked out and ven wakes up he asks jet what happened and jet tells this story of how heroic he was then ven see through his lie and asks him what really happened and jet told the truth this transition nicely to the next scene. Another minor change we did was when bad guy rabs was telling his backstory he was quiet at first and then ven and jet tells him to say it louder then bad guy rabs shouts it i think this change adds character to the villain of the story.

We also made costumes for ven and jet for ven I roughly based it on the eight year old costume party we did earlier so it was a white suit, cape, white fedora and a white mask. For jets we found a pilot suit with a cape and a helmet that doesn’t fit him jabs and i talked about how we make a joke about how it doesn’t fit but we later went against because it would have ruined the pacing and slowed things down. reason why jabs is using all this pilot gear is because his name is jets like jet the plane this a funny little detail that some audience member might catch on to.

another change we did was when jets and ven hear about the reason why bad guy rabs is bad that he is too short and got rejected jabs does a little laugh and everyone looks at him in judgment then jets shifts the blame on the president and everyone looks at her. this is a really funny bit that can get a lot of laughs from the audience. another little change we did was when ever the president wanted to talk to someone she would try to move her chair to them which is really funny and it give Lauren more funny things to do and say because of our huge personalities she gets overshadowed by us sometimes any opportunity for her character to express herself is good.

what we need to remember next time is to make things more natural acting is reacting and once a character says a line i need to be ready with it immediately because right now it is not natural therefore is does not feel real.

We came up with a very fitting name for this piece “Lets Be Heroes” this is a great name because it connects to a very emotional scene we added in which ven doubts his abilities in being a hero and gives up but jet tries to tell him that being a hero is not for the fame or glory it’s about having a good heart. This scene comes after when the heroes get knocked out by bad guy rabs and then after all that they will go help out the president.

Jorden rewrote the script that in my opinion was more structurally sound and much more powerful.

we developed a really interesting scene after the big emotional is a scene where ven and jet are going to bad guy rabs location and “i need a hero” plays and me and jabets run into each from wing to wing doing different funny actions. This was criticised for being too long and needed to be cut down a little bit which was fair.

the big emotional scene was mostly improvised and required a lot of emotion this scene is great because it strips the superhero stuff away and boils down to two people talking about what it means to be a hero and how they can improve. this scene is great because it show who are characters really are gives kids an role model they can look up to and maybe gives the older audience someone they can relate to. these people are not perfect they are flawed just like the rest of us. my only nitpick about this scene is that it is a little too short and it doesn’t help that me and jabs was talking really fast and not letting the emotion take over.

one thing we need to remember is to talk slower and give it more energy because in children’s theater that is one of the core ingredients and is extremely important if you piece doesn’t have enough energy then children will get bored and it will fail and i am lacking in that area.

We were criticised for being too goofy and that didn’t resonate with some people so we decided to change the story to make it stronger. We made ven and jet (the main characters) superheroes but bad superheroes

Typical superheroes are heroic and selfless beings that will sacrifice everything in order to save the day. But ven and jet are different they are selfish and only in it for the fame and glory you could consider them a deconstruction of typical superheroes which stuff like that does exist but none of them were for kids.

In my performance i wanted to emulate the classic square jawed superhero from the 60s so i put on a deep booming voice which superheroes from that time period were like but i used another voice similar to my normal voice when ven was talked to jet a person who knows his identity. I did this because if i did the deep voice all the time it would undoubtedly get really annoying.

We did a major change to the story and that is the entrance for bad guy rabs, in the original draft bad guy rabs were just introduced without no build up so we did something brilliant after the ven and jet stop arguing the imperial march starts playing a very menacing song then the henchmen of bad guy rabs comes out tricking the audience into thinking that he is the villain but we later find out that he is not the main villain the other less menacing guy is the villain. This is called subverting the audiences exceptions and when done well can it has a great effect on your audience.

what we done well was we made great scenes that added to the the universe we built and was tonally consist with the previous scenes and we did this with one member short.

what we need to keep in mind next lesson is that we need to develop more scenes like this one and keep that tone going and meld them all together.

We changed a lot of stuff from last time for example we were told to flesh out our villain and make him much stronger and more like a victim we were always going to redeem the villain from the start but we couldn’t come up with a good motivation for the villain until we got and good idea.

The two heroes were much taller than bad guy rabs so what if bad guy rabs tried out for the hero academy but was rejected for being too short. This is a great twist and adds moral complexity to both the main villain and the heroes.

The two heroes were too much like the mario brothers according to some people we were too goofy, silly and our performance has a lot of slapstick in it.

one of the changes we made to the script was to make the main characters superheroes this was a very good change because it adds to the world building and clears up a few stuff for example if in the original script ven and jet were just heroes and that was it heroes of what what kind of heroes were they make superheroes with capes was a good decision.

One thing that went well was that we had a clear direction for our characters because now they are superheroes which as an actor opens up many possibilities to betray this character because originally i was confused because i was quite sure who he was and how i should act like.

one we can improve on next time is to try to contrast jabs character because we are too similar which isn’t a bad thing but should be toned down again we are too much the chuckle brothers or the mario brothers too goofy and not serious enough.

We started out really strong jordan wrote a script and we titled it save the princess it was a simple story about two heroes trying to save the princess from the villain bad guy rabs. Me and jabets did mostly improv when playing the two main heroes and did what ever came to mind.

When we showed of what we did it was mixed Ella said that the story was too behind its time and overdone which I agreed with. In the story the two heroes were after the princess affection so we changed some things.

First thing we changed was the princess to the president which I thought was a good decision it also is very topical and gives Lauren a stronger performance. When we showed it off it was a lot better but they was a lot that needed to be changed.

I think what we done well was that we had a full script already that is a really strong start because it gives us a direction to go and even if our story isn’t that strong we have the basic structure down so it wouldn’t take that much rewriting.

I think one thing we need to do better is to establish our characters more like getting a good idea about our character like their backstory, their personality or their hobbies because right now i don’t really know who ven is really and how to act this character out and how to contrast jabs character because right now we are too similar and thats a problem.

Our group talking about our children’s theatre piece