DMP Artist/Educator Statement
Throughout this project, our group learned how to collaborate using our different backgrounds, interests, and talents. We noticed that the theater teaching majors offered key insights to the performance elements of the project. They were able to teach the English teaching majors basic key concepts such as blocking, cheating out, projecting, and incorporating physical theater alongside our scripted words. The English teaching majors offered great contributions to the script-development process itself. They were often focused on the storyline and helped to keep the project moving forward when we were stuck on a creative element. While we were in the phase of organizing ideas and trying to combine technical effects with the scripted storyline, I designed and shared the Google doc entitled “TMA457 Final Script Outline” based on the sample outlines we were given. This document allowed our group to see how all the different elements would be presented simultaneously and gave us the men...