A Midsummer Nights Dream Reflection:
Although most people think first of Romeo and Juliet when they hear the name William Shakespeare, many do not know how he has shaped our world today with his different meters with poetry, his impact on our language, and all of the stories and morals he created. When we began this project I was unsure how much I could really learn from this one man who seemed to live so long ago. We started reading a Midsummer Nights Dream and from it learned more than I could have imagined. Just the way that Shakespeare wrote through his characters was complicated and could be taken to a different level of deepness and meaning. We wrote an entire five paragraph essay on one monologues spoken by Theseus, the Duke of Athens, on reality, perception, and love. I had never critically thought so much on a piece of writing so short. We continued to critically think through more of Shakespeare's amazing work. We converted his poetry into our own and learned how for different characters we would use different meters. Finally we had learned enough to make his play into our own. My role in a Midsummer Nights Dream was Titania's Fairy and also a costume designer.
Though this project pushed me out of my comfort zone, I felt that this project brought me joy that I have never felt before. I loved being a costume designer and being able to take part in creating the final product that an audience would see. Seeing an image I once had in my mind go on to paper and then become an actually costume that someone was wearing made me so proud. Through out this project I think my favorite of this project was when we were standing out in our stage that we had created and seeing all the people who came to watch us. When I was performing I could feel myself starting to choke, but I stopped myself knowing that this was the only chance I had to do this play and cleared my throat to finish my lines. In that moment I knew that this project had done more than teach me about shakespeare and how he has shaped my world today, this project gave me self confidence and let me truly show who I am artistically and academically.
This project had a great outcome, but there were several struggles that my fellow costume designers and I had to persevere through. The day of the play we had some costumes missing, broken, or even forgotten to be made by us, the costume designers. That day we made a costume for the lion, a new fairy tutu, and figured out everyone else's costumes that they had not brought in yet. All of this put a lot of stress on the three of us. We really needed more help at the end so we asked some of the set designers who were done with there part to help us cut and grew things together. By the time that we got to the play though everything looked great and went almost as planned.
Shakespeare has impacted my life in ways I never knew before, but now this project has impacted in ways I never thought was possible. This project has made a better reader, actor and collaborator. When I read now I stop and think more deeply about what the author was thinking when they were writing their book and how they had to write to portray such vivid images in my mind. Although I am not a good actor and still struggle with the basic concepts of acting, I feel that my confidence grew through this project enabling me to act in our play without choking. Also because we only had three costume designers I feel that I am a stronger collaborator because now I know how to share my ideas and help make quick decisions when they are needed.
Although it has been over 400 years since William Shakespeare has released his amazing creativity with us all through his poetry and plays, we all still gravitate to his romantic and deadly tales. Shakespeare has a way with words that gives people the impress that these worlds and lives that he creates aren't very different from our own. Most of his plays are over dramatic, but tend to still relate to how we see our lives. The drama that he has created is not like any other plays because they usually don't end in a happy fairy tale ending. People continually remake movies and keep acting his plays because now they are also classics and are beautiful in the ways that they are written and told.
Though this project pushed me out of my comfort zone, I felt that this project brought me joy that I have never felt before. I loved being a costume designer and being able to take part in creating the final product that an audience would see. Seeing an image I once had in my mind go on to paper and then become an actually costume that someone was wearing made me so proud. Through out this project I think my favorite of this project was when we were standing out in our stage that we had created and seeing all the people who came to watch us. When I was performing I could feel myself starting to choke, but I stopped myself knowing that this was the only chance I had to do this play and cleared my throat to finish my lines. In that moment I knew that this project had done more than teach me about shakespeare and how he has shaped my world today, this project gave me self confidence and let me truly show who I am artistically and academically.
This project had a great outcome, but there were several struggles that my fellow costume designers and I had to persevere through. The day of the play we had some costumes missing, broken, or even forgotten to be made by us, the costume designers. That day we made a costume for the lion, a new fairy tutu, and figured out everyone else's costumes that they had not brought in yet. All of this put a lot of stress on the three of us. We really needed more help at the end so we asked some of the set designers who were done with there part to help us cut and grew things together. By the time that we got to the play though everything looked great and went almost as planned.
Shakespeare has impacted my life in ways I never knew before, but now this project has impacted in ways I never thought was possible. This project has made a better reader, actor and collaborator. When I read now I stop and think more deeply about what the author was thinking when they were writing their book and how they had to write to portray such vivid images in my mind. Although I am not a good actor and still struggle with the basic concepts of acting, I feel that my confidence grew through this project enabling me to act in our play without choking. Also because we only had three costume designers I feel that I am a stronger collaborator because now I know how to share my ideas and help make quick decisions when they are needed.
Although it has been over 400 years since William Shakespeare has released his amazing creativity with us all through his poetry and plays, we all still gravitate to his romantic and deadly tales. Shakespeare has a way with words that gives people the impress that these worlds and lives that he creates aren't very different from our own. Most of his plays are over dramatic, but tend to still relate to how we see our lives. The drama that he has created is not like any other plays because they usually don't end in a happy fairy tale ending. People continually remake movies and keep acting his plays because now they are also classics and are beautiful in the ways that they are written and told.