Over the edge

Here's the link to the scene: http://youtu.be/Q4T0lWOB1Ww
John, Lisa, and myself preformed the scene linked above, and oh boy was it interesting. There was a lot of mad libbing and forgotten lines, but I think in the end it turned out pretty well.
I thought that it would be easier to memorize because you were going off of what other people were saying, but it turned out that it was actually a lot harder! Instead of totally forgetting my line, I was occasionally waiting for a cue that never came because either I was waiting for a specific word and instead someone used a synonym, or someone took my line... Oops. I do think that some of our weknesses in the scene were over winging it. There was a point where it was hard for me as an actress to locate where in the development of the plot we were due to all of the added "stuff," which made the scene as great as it was. What I do think would have helped this would have been to mark down the extra things and make note of them in the script.
One of the strengths in our scene was definetly the portrayal of our characters. There is no doubt as to what (drunk) personality traits each character has, and that is what made the scene so fun. For instance, Lisa was constantly laughing, which made her seem even more intoxicated. John's costume made it impossible to take him seriously, which is very funny because he was the most serious character if all. He did a great job of portraying frustration without just continually yelling, which is what he was doing and struggled with during read throughs, so he definetly developed his character well. Personally, I do think that I could have done a less awkwardly acted portrayal of the character, however I am overall pretty pleased with my performance in this scene.
Another thing I disliked about the scene was the cheesieness of the beginning.  I thought at some points the intro, which was entirely improvised, was a bit weird an cheesy, and also didn't do the best job to set the scene. What we were trying to portray was very hard to without tons of props and a real cliff. Taking into consideration the fact that it was improv and what we had, I do think it was pretty good, I just wish we could've made it better.
Overall, I really liked doing this scene- it has probably been my favorite project so far in this class. I'm looking forwards to doing a scene with a more dramatic edge for the next project. Also- fun little thing to find in our video of me making a mistake (in true Alexis nature), we were jumping from one scene to another and I thought we were pushing the car over the edge, so I pretended to push the car. We weren't supposed to be pushing the car. Good luck finding this little hidden gem of an out of place struggling face in a scene...