The Tragedy Project
In this project, we learned about a certain social issue in our society today. Also, we studied Greek tragedies and the format of which they are written. Then, we put the two together and wrote a modern tragedy based on the social issue we chose. My partner and I chose drug abuse for our topic.
Our play is about a 99 year old man, named Zwang Sumo, who dies a day before his one hundredth birthday via overdosing. His sister got him addicted because she thought that they would just help 'kill the pain' that Zwang induced during his best friends death. The moral of our story was; if society was more informed about drug abuse, there would be less 'innocent' deaths caused by drugs. This was the main point we wanted to get across because, in research, deaths by drugs often happened to people who didn't even know the very negative effects that could happen.
Our play is about a 99 year old man, named Zwang Sumo, who dies a day before his one hundredth birthday via overdosing. His sister got him addicted because she thought that they would just help 'kill the pain' that Zwang induced during his best friends death. The moral of our story was; if society was more informed about drug abuse, there would be less 'innocent' deaths caused by drugs. This was the main point we wanted to get across because, in research, deaths by drugs often happened to people who didn't even know the very negative effects that could happen.
In this project, thing thing I am most proud of would have to be the graphic portion. Probably not so much how it turned out in issuu, but how we made the character out of clothespins and using images on the computer as the backdrop. This makes me proud because we put a lot of effort into creating the characters. We colored each clothespin to match our vision of each character.
Some helpful advice I would pass on would be to leave a lot of time to make the 'comic strip' on the Google Doc and to refine that so that it looks and reads well on issuu. This would really help because sometimes, Google Docs decides to not work and you can lose a couple of 'drawings' that you did and have to redo it which is annoying and very time consuming. Something I would have refined in my project would have been to take more pictures than we did. I think this would have helped a lot because all the pictures were really repetitive which, I thought, looked bad. We did try to crop the pictures so they didn't look identical, but just taking more would've been the best solution.
I really enjoyed working in partners. Having another person to help carry the work load helps me a lot. For any project, I like to be able to bounce ideas with another person, and having that person as a partner works even better because they can put their ideas into the project too. Even though there are a lot of pros to having partners, I think that there are almost always cons too. Probably the biggest one for me is 'who gets to work on what, how much, and when'. However, I did not find this project to be prominent in this project. I think that the work load evened out really well. Overall, I like to have partners for projects.
The most difficult thing in this project that I encountered was probably editing the script. I find that I encounter this problem a lot in writing. I have trouble with editing my own work because I wrote it so what I put down makes sense in my head but maybe not in someone else's. Using my peers really helps to overcome this, and yet another reason why I like to have a partner. In conclusion, I think that this was a fun project and I learned a lot from it.
Some helpful advice I would pass on would be to leave a lot of time to make the 'comic strip' on the Google Doc and to refine that so that it looks and reads well on issuu. This would really help because sometimes, Google Docs decides to not work and you can lose a couple of 'drawings' that you did and have to redo it which is annoying and very time consuming. Something I would have refined in my project would have been to take more pictures than we did. I think this would have helped a lot because all the pictures were really repetitive which, I thought, looked bad. We did try to crop the pictures so they didn't look identical, but just taking more would've been the best solution.
I really enjoyed working in partners. Having another person to help carry the work load helps me a lot. For any project, I like to be able to bounce ideas with another person, and having that person as a partner works even better because they can put their ideas into the project too. Even though there are a lot of pros to having partners, I think that there are almost always cons too. Probably the biggest one for me is 'who gets to work on what, how much, and when'. However, I did not find this project to be prominent in this project. I think that the work load evened out really well. Overall, I like to have partners for projects.
The most difficult thing in this project that I encountered was probably editing the script. I find that I encounter this problem a lot in writing. I have trouble with editing my own work because I wrote it so what I put down makes sense in my head but maybe not in someone else's. Using my peers really helps to overcome this, and yet another reason why I like to have a partner. In conclusion, I think that this was a fun project and I learned a lot from it.