As you already know, in PLP each year we partake in destination imagination. For this years group, I was put on a team with Marshall, Kai, Luca OG, Jessie, and Adlih. Our group chose Fine Arts for our challenge. The main criteria for the fine arts challenge was to create a presentation with a storyline set within a game of the groups choice. Every prop, costume, backdrop, everything was to be held within a container that would be able to fit through a doorway, except for street clothes and whatever the performers would be wearing. Once our group got together we started thinking about which game we would be basing our story off of. I came up wit the idea of making our game be the game of life, since it would be really easy to incorporate a real-life  based game into our story. After we chose the game we started working on a script.

We also brought the real game of life to study it so we could incorporate it into our story accurately. After we finished the first draft for the script we started working on the props, backgrounds, and costumes.

I would also be creating background music for our performance.

Adlih worked on the costume side, while Jesse and everyone else worked on creating the props and painting the backgrounds. After many revisions of our script to make it fit within our time guidelines we finally had a solid script. All that was left to do before the big day was to rehearse. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse. It was quite intense! Especially the last few hours before presenting on that big day. One thing that I learned while rehearsing with our group as a whole is that everyone has to be paying attention at once for it to work. If one person is focussing on something else, it messes everything up. After we had handed in all of our forms and were finished practicing our lines, it was time to present.

The whole team was really nervous before performing since it was our fist time performing in front of a live audience. Even though we were nervous the presentation ended up going great! There were a few rough spots in the performance where we had a hard time remembering our lines but that was pretty much the only things we needed to work on.

Unfortunately the background music was so quiet that the judges couldn’t hear it so we weren’t given a score for it, which kinda sucked. After our performance we had our instant challenge, I personally thought that it went great! We all worked really well together as a team and we all felt very positive about everything. We ended up placing second for our performance and ended up not placing at all for our instant challenge. We are all hoping we can do better in provincials!