Friday's Presentations

Group 3, I thought at first, were not well prepared for the presentation. But as the time ticked by (and not slowly), I saw more and more of what they were trying to tell us. I kind of felt that they were just giving us another example as to what the class was about, but it's hard not to when the point of the class is to "retell" stories and find hidden correlations between stories. Their video clip was really interesting, though it was not their own, which is definately ok. We're not all that talented in that department. And the game with the class was a very clever way to engage the audience, and to have a little revamp of terms from the semester. All in all, I liked it.

Group 2 had a sort of mellow drama story retelling, which was a very clever idea. As i started paying attention, I started realizing that alot of the lines and characters were drawn as inspiration from already told, and all too familiar, stories and fairy tales. I started to write them down:
-Peter Pan
-Cathedral
-Christmas Carol
-Snow White
-Sleeping Beauty
-Pinocchio
-etc. .

I'm sure there were more that influenced the story line, but those are the ones that came to mind. The group did a fabulous job at portraying 5 of the normally seen archetypal characters: The wise old man, the eternal child, the earth mother, the trickster, and (unknowingly as it turns out) the clueless protaganist. Again, all in all, a very lovely short play that clearly portrayed what they wanted to say to the audience about what they learned in class. The bar has been set very high. My group goes today, wish us all luck!!!