Evaluation

   Evaluation
     What Went Well

• Articulation
• Staying in role
• Reacting and listening to others
• Knowing and showing my character's objectives
• Showing feelings my character has
• Using physical theatre
• Projection
• Eye contact with audience
• Confident

     Even Better If

• Relaxing
• Stress
• Knowing my character overall
• Focus
• Hand gestures

In conclusion, I would say that the show we performed today was a great success. Though our scenes could have been developed further they also showed great progress from starting this term and finalising it. In my opinion, I have most certainly achieved my goals for the duration of this term and will hope to further my skills during my time at this school.

Theatre H/W - Pairs Review

Pairs Review

Unit 3 - Lesson 4

Lesson 4 - Character's Objectives
In this lesson we focused on finalizing our performances as we ran through every scene that our acting class had. One of the improvements that we were told about was linking ourselves with the character's objectives in the scene. Our group was told about the effect "Objectives" before this situation happened and learned that if you know what your character wants in the scene then you can connect with them even more and emphasise the character to the audience. Through body language and voices our groups were showing a drastic change in their performances and some of which created professional and high quality scenes. This is because they were showing the objective of the character by movement and vocals, my group also did the same and I will explain some of the techniques we used to illustrate this effect.    

One of the ways we connected with our characters was through physical movement. Instead of standing or sitting with a blank expression while my partner was speaking her part of the scene, I reacted to more or less every sentence she said. I could feel within me that my character's overall objective in the performance was to stay together with Sephy for as long as possible. For example, I showed pain in my body and facial expressions after the sentence that my partner stated, "...your a Nought and I'm a Cross and we can never be together...", as I felt it would reveal or make clearer to the audience that Sephy and Callum wanted to stay together no matter what, which is also Callum's objective. A second way we achieved this is the approach we took to setting up and staging our scene. We decided to split them up like the Noughts and Crosses with Callum sitting, facing away from Sephy of which was standing and looking towards Callum approximately 3 meters apart. However, the separation of the characters during this scene created an aura of lust and want for each other and emphasised that their love would be on another level and never taken down. On the other hand, we showed we are also desperate for each other in the scene and scared that society, the way it is at the moment, would never accept this true love. 

In conclusion, all three of these aspects revealed our character's main objectives and overall created a distinction worthy performance. All I can hope now is that our scene during the live event is the best it can be, with rehearsal and practice, I'm hopeful it will be.         

Unit 3 - Lesson 3

Lesson 3 - Overview
In this lesson, in simplified terms, for the most amount of time I rehearsed together with my partner about our specific scene in the Noughts and Crosses production. Moreover, we continued to learn a variety of acting skills such as breath control or articulation, which are both significant in the way of performance and, overall, taking a step closer to my long term goal.

Firstly, as always, our director brought together the actors and actresses for our starting vocal and physical warm ups, of which are very important extremely in our situation. We need every piece of help we can get before our rehearsal's and performances, warming up is just one of the ways we actors achieve this. After our voices have been exercised, we joined together with another pair of eager actors to aid each other in improving our skills. We were able to achieve this in an effective way, while the other pair was performing their scene we judged what went well in their performance and what could be improved on, the other group then did the same to us while we were performing. Together, with both groups evaluated, we decided to conclude each other's performances with a grade for our tasks. Me and my partner were fortunate enough to be awarded a distinction for our scene. This has definitely reassured me with my acting skills and my ability in confidence has surely become stronger.

Taking on board the improvements and details the other pair gave us during our evaluation, we decided to practise and put the positive actions into affect and negate the negatives in our scene. Feeling more confident and with the help from Monday's performance our group discussed our scene and replaced old actions with new and improved versions allowing us to secure a high merit to a possible distinction.

Nearing the end of our Theatre session we were given targets to aid us in finalizing our classes performances. On this sheet included what we improved from the session and what we could improve the next time. My goals were to link my characters feelings with my body language and to make my character's overall "target" in my performance as visible as possible to the audience. Furthermore, I added to the list of improvements eye contact to the audience and sustaining movement throughout my scene.