Mirroring Performance
Drama Reflection: Mirroring Performance
Yash Arora
At first, the mirroring unit performance seemed like a creative, fun, and interesting idea for a group presentation. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there. The concept itself was great, but events throughout made it somewhat frustrating. In the beginning I had paired up with Otabek, but I didn’t know that he was going on an extended absence. That messed up a lot of things, since I no longer had a partner. Since Roger and Eric were away, I ended up being with them, and we had a group of three. The first problem with this was that I don’t look similar to Eric or Roger in terms of build, height, skin colour, etc., so the mirroring would look odd. Secondly, we were a group of 3, which meant that mirroring would be an issue, and we had a more limited spectrum of what we could possibly do. Furthermore, Eric and Roger were not even present that day, which meant that we would have less time to come up with ideas, discuss, or practice, and I would have to re-explain the assignment to them. Fortunately, I am comfortable with working with everyone in the class, but it would have been even worse if it was …show more content…
He made up for this by being an Information-Seeker, and he asked questions so he knew what the group was doing. He clarified what we said to confirm and understand, which helped the group develop the scenario. It seemed like a small role, but clarifying the scene helped remove any convolutions I had. On the other hand, he did clown a little bit. At first he seemed to be presuming positive intentions and breaking tension through humour, but after a while it started becoming unrelated and slightly disruptive. This wasn’t too bad though, since a quick reminder that we needed to stay on track would get all of us back to work. This is something that he can improve on by himself, and I think it will be helpful for future
Yash Arora
At first, the mirroring unit performance seemed like a creative, fun, and interesting idea for a group presentation. Unfortunately, things went downhill from there. The concept itself was great, but events throughout made it somewhat frustrating. In the beginning I had paired up with Otabek, but I didn’t know that he was going on an extended absence. That messed up a lot of things, since I no longer had a partner. Since Roger and Eric were away, I ended up being with them, and we had a group of three. The first problem with this was that I don’t look similar to Eric or Roger in terms of build, height, skin colour, etc., so the mirroring would look odd. Secondly, we were a group of 3, which meant that mirroring would be an issue, and we had a more limited spectrum of what we could possibly do. Furthermore, Eric and Roger were not even present that day, which meant that we would have less time to come up with ideas, discuss, or practice, and I would have to re-explain the assignment to them. Fortunately, I am comfortable with working with everyone in the class, but it would have been even worse if it was …show more content…
He made up for this by being an Information-Seeker, and he asked questions so he knew what the group was doing. He clarified what we said to confirm and understand, which helped the group develop the scenario. It seemed like a small role, but clarifying the scene helped remove any convolutions I had. On the other hand, he did clown a little bit. At first he seemed to be presuming positive intentions and breaking tension through humour, but after a while it started becoming unrelated and slightly disruptive. This wasn’t too bad though, since a quick reminder that we needed to stay on track would get all of us back to work. This is something that he can improve on by himself, and I think it will be helpful for future