As you may know, Drama is a form of art performance which includes acting, dialogue, and a stage performance. It is of course done on the stage with various decorations, lighting and also sounds effect in order to make the performance alive. As second year English department college student, we all get a Drama Lecture in our class. Drama class is one of the challenging and also time consuming because you need to do a lot of practice to make your performance perfect. By the way, this experience happen to me this last three weeks.
Three weeks ago, my lecturers gave us a final project, that we had to make a group consisting 13-14 people maximum. This group had to show a drama performance at the end of December. So, we have only 3 weeks to prepare. Well, 3 weeks preparation is long enough for me. Then, we could choose the members of the group randomly. My group consisted of: Me, Mayang, Ocy, Bianka, Andre, Jefri, Ayu, lala, Milla, Dayah, Ruri, Rani, and Indrayati. As the group was made, my team advised me to be the Team Leader which means I will be the director of the our Drama. :’) Still in the same day, I didn’t want to waste my time, our time, so that we quickly discuss what story that we want to perform. Well, my idea was really simple. I think, this drama would be very interesting and feasible if we just picked up a story from the movie on which our story was inspired. We decided to adapt family-genre movie titled “Joshua oh Joshua“, an Indonesian movie stared by Joshua Suherman, Mega Utami, Anjasmara, and Desi Ratnasari.
The story that our group made was about a missing child named Jessie who was left by her baby sitter 12 years ago and finally met her true parents. Well, you may think the story was very simple, but the preparation was not. It was consist of script-writing, casting, acting, costumes and decorating, rehearsing, and performing.
For the script-writing, we did a really great discussion ended up with very tempting and adapted story of the Joshua Movie. Well, people might not known and notice the plot which was adapted one. So, there were no big effort to make the plot. We just easily changed the ending, delete some unimportant and unnecessary scene and change few of the story’s complications. However, I wasn’t doing it by myself. My teams really supported and gave me some alternatives how the story would end. So, what I needed to do at that time were making the dialog. The script-writing took about 3 days to finish.
After the script was done, it was time to decides the characters cast. So, what I needed to do was casting the members. Actually, I had vision in my mind who would play as the protagonist and antagonist ones. But, of course I wanted to make sure that my vision was correct. So, I want them to demonstrate the dialogues. Even though the casting process wasn’t like I expect, I still believe that they can do the characters. Then finally, I chose Bianka, Mayang, Jefri, and Ayu as the main characters.
However, playing Drama in English was not easy as we playing drama in Bahasa. There were big difference especially in the way we express the dialogue. I have searched some expression that commonly used in for conversations, and I believed those would be hear able and sounds natural. I found that some of the previous teams didn’t have good dialogue because they use a very formal speech act that I thought might not suitable for drama. If the dialogue sounds natural enough, they could memorize it easily and practice it soon.
For acting part, the thing that really matters was confidence. Well, some of my teammates seemed have difficulties in pronouncing some words. And I hear it very weird when they were practicing with their partner. So, while they were practicing the dialogue, I had to listen carefully and suggest the correct pronunciation. Then, after 3 times of meetings, finally it was time for acting. Honestly, I dont have experience in acting, movies, or being an actress. But I do love watching movies and always judging the way the actors/actress’ act. I observed how they express themselves in certain circumstance and situation. Sometimes I saw a talented actors with a very different role and characters in different movies. So, I could compared the acting between characters, the personality of the characters, and also the main strategy to make acting looks natural. And I shared it to my friends. At first, they were little bit shy and not confidence with their act. They talk slow, too fast, and unclear. It is my responsibility to guide them. In the 2nd meeting of acting session, I could see their improvement and courage to be total in their acting. I could feel that.
Along with the acting, some of the teammates also helped me to prepare the decoration. It is me who design the stage decoration. I took us only a day to prepare the material and made the decorations which were mostly made from Styrofoam. We did that as fast as possible because the deadline was 9 more days for that day. Not only decorations, we should also prepare the costume, the material, the accessories and etc. Each of the individuals had their responsibilities to create or bring something.
Situations was getting serious and tense when the deadline was 4 days to go. We practice everyday, and starts to do some gestures and blocking for our acting. We had to record the narration, make the background videos, prepare the sounds and also the drama lab for rehearsal.
At the end, the results of our performance was very outstanding. I could see the audience enjoyed the show. Our lecturer, Mrs. Erly said that our drama wa so Excellent. And she gave compliments of our story, acting, decorations and many more. I was very proud of myself and my team. Finally we nailed it.
This good result of course no other than because our hard-work, commitment, and teamwork. At the end, they all said thanks to me that really warmed my heart that Saturday. It wasn't about me, but it was all about us. So, this was good learning that If you really committed to what you did, the result will be not dissapointing. The performance that day really made my day better.
I did appreciate what my team has done that Saturday, I knew that they did their best.
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| (From upleft to upright) Merry, Ruri, Lala, Mila, Ms. Erly, Ayu, Jefri, Rani, Andre. (From downleft to downright) Ocy, Dayah, Bianka, Mayang, Indrayati, and Me |
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