Personal Narrative: Better Off Dead By Sleeping With Sirens

When we first started talking about one hour scene creations in class, I was very interested in the idea. I started to come up with ideas, but unfortunately many of them had to deal with love. In class, you mentioned how you wanted us to move past stories of love and do something else, so my ideas did not really work. I started to think of new ideas, and I could not think of anything. I had wanted to do something involving music and create a piece based off of it. A majority of songs are about love though, so I had to look through many songs to try to find one that was not. Eventually, I got frustrated and started to listen to music that I enjoyed just for fun. Better Off Dead by Sleeping With Sirens was one of those songs. While listening
I had all my props with, and I knew what I wanted to do. Unfortunately some complications occurred. First of all, my piece was basically all music, but I did not get the speaker working until about 20 minutes into my time in the X. That is when I started panicking. I could not do much without the music, and I was having to improvise. Also, I had wanted room 20 (I think) because it had the mirrors I needed, but another group was using it. I tried coping with using the X, but that was not working. When my time was up in the X, I had not got anything done that I had wanted to. My group and I ended up working the rest of the time in a dressing room. I decided to use the dressing room for my piece because I needed the mirrors. However, this brought up another problem because we were not able to use the blocks while practicing in the room. The first time they performed the piece for the class was their first time ever using the blocks for the full song and in that room. My group was very patient with me and the complications and I am very proud of them for just going with what we had. In the end, I think it turned out fine, but I wish I would have had more time and less complications while creating this