Storytelling

 

The storytelling activity was an incredible experience, it's been a long time since I didn't do one of these dramatizations, probably since my second year at the university. So, I was very excited about this, I've always loved doing these performances, since high school. We decided to change the story. Initially, we had selected Ligeia, an Edgar Allan Poe short story, but there were only three characters, and our group had 7 members, so that would be difficult. We tried to find a story with multiple characters that we could perform as. 

Finally, and with the approbation of our teacher, we chose the Greek story of Deucalion and Phyrra. I had never heard of this story, but I read it and it was amusing. It reminded me a lot of the biblical tale of Noah. So we read the story and we selected who was going to represent each character. I was going to be Zeus,  the great god of thunder. I was happy because he's an important part of the Greek mythology.

My mom helped me to create the costume, we tried to find a white beard everywhere, we thought because it was almost Christmas time we would find a Santa Claus beard, we went to stores, to the market, and downtown, and there was no luck, so I decided to make my own beard. then I crafted out of cardboard and a shiny gold paper Zeus' thunder, and the rest of the clothing was fabric that I already had.

The day of the recording was really fun, we hadn't seen each other for a while, so it was incredible to be reunited again. Everyone had their outfits ready, we prepared the scenography, and we recorded all the scenes. The filming was kind of difficult, especially because the background was falling off, but we did it, and we were proud of the hard work we did. After that, this subject was almost finished, I had a great time with literature, I didn't have great expectations after the French literature, but It was really interesting, everything, it reminded me of the times I wanted to become a writer, or the times I would analyze the story and character from movies and series, and I would like to thank teacher Lia for bringing back those memories with me, and also my friends who were with me the whole time.

Thank you for reading my blog, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.

- Carlos Meléndez