Shakespeare Shadow Puppet Project
The William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Shadow Puppet Show Project was incredibly awesome. So much work, collaboration, and effort went into it. The project was a shadow puppet show of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. I had multiple jobs/roles. My biggest job was as a documentarian for the play. I filmed and took pictures of the production process of the play as well as filming both the morning and afternoon classes’ performances. I was also part of the stage and lighting crew during the production process. My character in the play was Ross, which was a medium role in the play.
When the project first started I wasn’t that interested in Shakespeare. The year before when I was at Mountain Middle School we studied Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in theater class, but all we did was read it, we didn’t perform it or doing anything special with it. So when we started studying Macbeth I wasn’t too interested. But when I heard that we were going to perform it and what we were going to do with it I was very enthusiastic. My favorite part about the project was the fact that we were producing a shadow puppet performance. I had never done anything like it before and the process that we were going through to produce the show made it extremely fun. My best moment during the project was a day when everybody was working hard and not whining about how much work they had to do and just having fun producing Shakespeare.
This project was difficult in multiple ways. For one, when some people were working and some were just hanging out and not contributing to the project it made other people’s jobs harder. Such as when we were recording our voice for our characters an when one person made some noise or something we had to start all over again, which was really not fun. Another reason this project was difficult was because it was such a huge project. I was flabbergasted when I found out just how big this project was. I thought we would never be able to pull it off. But through the collaboration and hard work we all persevered through it and created an awesome show.
During this project I learned that I am actually a great collaborator. The documentation group I was in had only two people (myself and another documenter) so there wasn’t really a leader between us. But we had to collaborate together so we each could get the proper camera angle and lighting to fit what was best for the final production process video that we made. I also had to ask the people that I was filming to see what was best for them so they could keep working effectively on their production area in the project. So I feel that collaboration is a very big skill of mine.
At the start of the project when Jessica talked about the essential question: Why, 400 years later, does the English-speaking world still gravitate/celebrate the works of William Shakespeare? I had no idea what the answer was. But after studying and working with Shakespeare’s plays for over a month the answer is clear to me. I have studied and performed other plays that are not by Shakespeare and after comparing them they don’t come anywhere close to being as good as Shakespeare’s plays. Coming to know how unique his plays are is just mind-blowing. If Shakespeare was alive today I think he would be the wealthiest person on the planet, and I don’t wealthy with lots of money but wealthy with lots of love. So many people would worship and adore him, and that is why we still worship him today
When the project first started I wasn’t that interested in Shakespeare. The year before when I was at Mountain Middle School we studied Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in theater class, but all we did was read it, we didn’t perform it or doing anything special with it. So when we started studying Macbeth I wasn’t too interested. But when I heard that we were going to perform it and what we were going to do with it I was very enthusiastic. My favorite part about the project was the fact that we were producing a shadow puppet performance. I had never done anything like it before and the process that we were going through to produce the show made it extremely fun. My best moment during the project was a day when everybody was working hard and not whining about how much work they had to do and just having fun producing Shakespeare.
This project was difficult in multiple ways. For one, when some people were working and some were just hanging out and not contributing to the project it made other people’s jobs harder. Such as when we were recording our voice for our characters an when one person made some noise or something we had to start all over again, which was really not fun. Another reason this project was difficult was because it was such a huge project. I was flabbergasted when I found out just how big this project was. I thought we would never be able to pull it off. But through the collaboration and hard work we all persevered through it and created an awesome show.
During this project I learned that I am actually a great collaborator. The documentation group I was in had only two people (myself and another documenter) so there wasn’t really a leader between us. But we had to collaborate together so we each could get the proper camera angle and lighting to fit what was best for the final production process video that we made. I also had to ask the people that I was filming to see what was best for them so they could keep working effectively on their production area in the project. So I feel that collaboration is a very big skill of mine.
At the start of the project when Jessica talked about the essential question: Why, 400 years later, does the English-speaking world still gravitate/celebrate the works of William Shakespeare? I had no idea what the answer was. But after studying and working with Shakespeare’s plays for over a month the answer is clear to me. I have studied and performed other plays that are not by Shakespeare and after comparing them they don’t come anywhere close to being as good as Shakespeare’s plays. Coming to know how unique his plays are is just mind-blowing. If Shakespeare was alive today I think he would be the wealthiest person on the planet, and I don’t wealthy with lots of money but wealthy with lots of love. So many people would worship and adore him, and that is why we still worship him today