Thinking about Wednesday

Well, I guess the first think Wednesday was my lesson. We're supposed to think about the lessons that we've created and consider how effective they were. So, how do I think my lesson went? I thought it was OK. I was honestly a little scared going first, but I got lucky with being able to work with the Induction. I was lucky, I guess, but cursed too, because there's just too much going on there for me to cut it down to 45 minutes. I tried though, and the 45 minutes flew by. And there's only really one thing that I feel the need to amend. At the end of my lesson, Dr S asked why I chose to use the clip from the Matrix that I did. I guess I was kind of working backwards. I wanted to show the unreal world and then talk about how we got there. More specifically, Dr S asked why I didn't use the scene where Neo actually goes from one reality to the next. And now that I think about, I should have used that clip, because we were talking about the Sly plot, not the Taming plot. I wouldn't just show that clip, though. I think I'd rather show both. First, I'd show the clip of Neo making it into the new world and then talk about how Sly moves from one reality to the next and the implications of that move. But then, I'd show the clip that I did use, because it demonstrate--as I was hoping to show in my lesson--the necessity of the Induction for the audience's suspension of disbelief. Just like we wouldn't believe Neo's new reality if we hadn't been brought along with him into it, we wouldn't be able to believe the Taming plot without first being brought into that world through Sly and his plot. Anyway, I'd add that clip, and I think that'd significantly improve the point that I was attempting to make... I'm still interested, though: if you guys were staging the play, would you include the Sly plot? Why?

The afternoon session was... I don't know. I think I was pretty uncomfortable. I felt like the lines I'd picked were crappy, but I didn't know what else to do. I think the whole acting section isstill just feeling too forced to me. I'm not an actor, and I know that. I'll have to just keep trying, I suppose. We'll see how it goes.