Silent Noise #5...

We did some more work on our final project. The whole metamorphosis thing is harder than I would've expected. I mean, I expected mime to be hard, but I never really thought about the actual creating of the mime. Mime, like dance, needs to be choreographed, and like a script it needs to be written. But in many ways it's a whole lot harder than simply choreographing or writing. There's so many more factors that come into play. When you are choreographing a dance the movement is symbolically representing something, so it's okay if your audience is a little confused because it's completely open for interpretation. And in a script, there are words that are spoken, so you have the visual and the audio to help you to understand it. But with mime, there is no speaking, and the movement is directly imitating an action that people experience in everyday life. That's why it's so hard. It's so simple, but yet so specific. It's definitely a challenge, but I'm loving every minute of it.