Unit 2: Commedia dell'Arte Final Performance Task Process Update

What 3 initial ideas did you brainstorm with your partner?

• My partner was Saadman and he chose to be Harlequino and I am Pantalone. Out first initial idea for a scene between Harlequino and Pantalone was: Pantalone is trying to bribe someone from the audience to buy a deceitful obkect that would be useless later on but Pantalone wants the money. Then Harlequino jumps out from his hiding corner and foils Pantalone's plans by playing pranks on Pantalone's 'customer' and drives him away and then pulls a very mean prank on Pantalone when he goes to chase after Harlequino. 
• The second idea was of Pantalone getting inside the room where a crown is placed and Pantalone admires it and then plans to steal it. Harlequino sees this through the keyhole of the door, picks the lock and taps Pantalone on the shoulder and moves to the other side of Pantalone and Harlequino takes away the crown when he isn't looking and they fight each other in the process of fighting over it and the crown is destroyed. Harlequino tricks Pantalone again after that by offering him a sit but taking it away and Pantalone falls on the ground.
• Our third scene was of Harlequino mixxing poop and pee into the food that he would be serving Pantalone and then when Pantalone throws the food away, Harlequino pulls up people from the audience to mock Pantalone and play pranks on him.

Which idea did you choose and why?

• We chose the second idea because we thought that it was possible to fit in more audience interactions into it and more levels and emotions and physicality. We also that we could add tid-bits of the other ideas and put it into the piece for second idea, so it would be more diverse and humorous. 

How does your "story" choice fulfill the required elements? (Be specific.)

• Our story choice fulfills he audience interaction element because we bring up someone from the audience for pulling one of Harlequino's pranks on Pantalone. Pantalone also has to exaggerate his features in order to show his liking for the mimed crown since we aren't using real props. Harlequino has to be jumpy and use different levels all the time where as Pantalone has o be crooked-backed and uses a limited number of levels and he also has to be very slow when he's chasing Harlequino around. We also have good structure as in plot line and we also have good partner interaction and a good number of mimed interaction. 

Using the rubric, what strengths and weaknesses can you already identify within your performance?

• In our performance we already have emotions, levels, audience interaction but we have to add some more. We also have mimed interaction of opening doors but we need to clean up our scene because we have good miming but at the moment it looks like there are three doors to one room. We need to add sound effects and some Gromalot to make the scene more entertaining. But we have good partner interaction because we fight and play pranks.