On the 14th December 2015 we performed our devised piece 'Humanity In Crisis'. My groups piece was based on Womens Rights and how they've been treated unfairly over hundreds of years. Our performance was shown to year 10's, 11's and 12's in the main school hall and was performed using traverse staging.
During our performance we had many things go well and a few things that we could've changed to improve the final showing of it. What went well during the performance was our dialogue, the reason why this went so well was because in the rehearsal process my group and I worked on creating quality dialogue and how that having good dialogue will have an effect on the audience. This was especially shown in our Soldier scene as long sections of dialogue were exchanged between two characters.
Secondly, the movement went very well. Most of our scenes included movement and therefore we made sure that during the rehearsal process everyone would be spot on with timings and positioning. During the performance every cue was perfect. This meant that no one was left waiting around whilst other people got into position.
A main thing that was a problem during rehearsals but went well during the final performance was the lifts. During rehearsals the group and I had many problems with lifts as one of the members were dropped and got injured. This leads onto things that we could've done better as once this incident had occurred there were trust issues between members of the groups and this meant that for a long time we couldn't practice lifts in our rehearsals. To prevent this from happening next time the group need to decide on one person to count the lifts/timings and then there'll be no problems. Another way of preventing this from happening again could be to put down safety mats when undertaking potentially dangerous lifts.
Linking in with the loss of trust during the rehearsal process this meant that our rehearsal schedule broke down for a while as there was a divide in the group and there was no trust within each other. The problem with having no rehearsal schedule was that we'd go into each lesson not knowing how each person is feeling about each other and also not knowing what we could accomplish each lesson.
To make improvements to our final performance I think that we should've done more full run throughs before performing and done a full tech rehearsal as during the performance the person in charge of changing our powerpoint and sound effects hadn't seen our performance in full and had only been given a sheet with each cue line and what music to play.
Overall our performance went very well and was enjoyable to create. Although the rehearsals were sometimes stressful and challenging we managed to get through it all quite well and put our ideas together to create a really good and effective piece.
During our performance we had many things go well and a few things that we could've changed to improve the final showing of it. What went well during the performance was our dialogue, the reason why this went so well was because in the rehearsal process my group and I worked on creating quality dialogue and how that having good dialogue will have an effect on the audience. This was especially shown in our Soldier scene as long sections of dialogue were exchanged between two characters.
Secondly, the movement went very well. Most of our scenes included movement and therefore we made sure that during the rehearsal process everyone would be spot on with timings and positioning. During the performance every cue was perfect. This meant that no one was left waiting around whilst other people got into position.
A main thing that was a problem during rehearsals but went well during the final performance was the lifts. During rehearsals the group and I had many problems with lifts as one of the members were dropped and got injured. This leads onto things that we could've done better as once this incident had occurred there were trust issues between members of the groups and this meant that for a long time we couldn't practice lifts in our rehearsals. To prevent this from happening next time the group need to decide on one person to count the lifts/timings and then there'll be no problems. Another way of preventing this from happening again could be to put down safety mats when undertaking potentially dangerous lifts.
Linking in with the loss of trust during the rehearsal process this meant that our rehearsal schedule broke down for a while as there was a divide in the group and there was no trust within each other. The problem with having no rehearsal schedule was that we'd go into each lesson not knowing how each person is feeling about each other and also not knowing what we could accomplish each lesson.
To make improvements to our final performance I think that we should've done more full run throughs before performing and done a full tech rehearsal as during the performance the person in charge of changing our powerpoint and sound effects hadn't seen our performance in full and had only been given a sheet with each cue line and what music to play.
Overall our performance went very well and was enjoyable to create. Although the rehearsals were sometimes stressful and challenging we managed to get through it all quite well and put our ideas together to create a really good and effective piece.
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