For this project my story took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1920’s. Because of the prohibition act, Philadelphia's bootleggers and corruption rose. Gangs began to rise with reputations of better alcohol. The 1920s was a decade of new inventions, one invention that was very popular was the radio. Following the end of World War I, the industrial might of the United States was let loose for domestic and peaceful purposes. Few short years later, an economic shift took place. The economy changed from wartime production to peacetime production.
My groups murder mystery took place in an insane asylum. We had five characters, a patient, doctor, therapist, nurse, and a corner. In the insane asylum there were patients getting killed every week. The patient, that wasn't actually crazy, and the coroner teamed up to try to find out who was killing the patients. They found out that whoever it was, was using arsenic to kill the victims. The coroner then quickly interrogated the doctor, therapist, and nurse. The audience then had to find out who the murderer was, and in the end it was the doctor. The reason being because he grew up with a perfectionist mother and he had inherited her traits. He didn't like imperfect people and killed them on a schedule so it would be perfect and organized. When trying to make a story we started by thinking of a setting and we wanted somewhere interesting so we chose an asylum. We then started developing our characters and off of that the story was born.
Initially our group did not have a script but after our first rehearsal we saw that we needed them. In the beginning we were going through the storyboard but not really what we were going to say so we then made scripts. I do not think that going through the our skits with other groups was that beneficial. I don't believe that we had enough time to fix what we had to fix in between presenting with other groups.
I believe that our final performance turned out really well. Everything just came together and we fixed everything that we needed to. We also had, in my opinion, a better audience that was actually using the case files that we made about each characters and asking good questions.
I feel really good about how this project turned out. I really like how our story turned out, from the setting all the way to the characters. I especially like how developed and full of detail our characters turned out to be. Our outfits also went really well with the characters and time period that we chose. I believe that I participated very well throughout the whole project and exhibition, I might have done a little more behind the scenes, but nonetheless I did my part in the project. I feel proud about all of these things because of how well everything just went together, all the pieces came together.
I learned that mystery writing is quite difficult. There are so many details in a mystery story that can either break or make it. Especially when making a truly interesting one that works well. It has to be both not too easy or too hard and in the end make sense. With partners I feel that it could go both ways, good and bad, as long as everyone is on the same page I believe group members can be very beneficial.
My groups murder mystery took place in an insane asylum. We had five characters, a patient, doctor, therapist, nurse, and a corner. In the insane asylum there were patients getting killed every week. The patient, that wasn't actually crazy, and the coroner teamed up to try to find out who was killing the patients. They found out that whoever it was, was using arsenic to kill the victims. The coroner then quickly interrogated the doctor, therapist, and nurse. The audience then had to find out who the murderer was, and in the end it was the doctor. The reason being because he grew up with a perfectionist mother and he had inherited her traits. He didn't like imperfect people and killed them on a schedule so it would be perfect and organized. When trying to make a story we started by thinking of a setting and we wanted somewhere interesting so we chose an asylum. We then started developing our characters and off of that the story was born.
Initially our group did not have a script but after our first rehearsal we saw that we needed them. In the beginning we were going through the storyboard but not really what we were going to say so we then made scripts. I do not think that going through the our skits with other groups was that beneficial. I don't believe that we had enough time to fix what we had to fix in between presenting with other groups.
I believe that our final performance turned out really well. Everything just came together and we fixed everything that we needed to. We also had, in my opinion, a better audience that was actually using the case files that we made about each characters and asking good questions.
I feel really good about how this project turned out. I really like how our story turned out, from the setting all the way to the characters. I especially like how developed and full of detail our characters turned out to be. Our outfits also went really well with the characters and time period that we chose. I believe that I participated very well throughout the whole project and exhibition, I might have done a little more behind the scenes, but nonetheless I did my part in the project. I feel proud about all of these things because of how well everything just went together, all the pieces came together.
I learned that mystery writing is quite difficult. There are so many details in a mystery story that can either break or make it. Especially when making a truly interesting one that works well. It has to be both not too easy or too hard and in the end make sense. With partners I feel that it could go both ways, good and bad, as long as everyone is on the same page I believe group members can be very beneficial.