Review of the performance

. The overall performance of Noughts and Crosses went really well.  Everyone one was really focused and performed really well and it was nice see how everyone had progressed from the beginning of term. I thought every performance was really believable and everyone stayed in role for the whole performance.  Something that stood out for me when I was watching the performance was how professional everyone was, I felt like I was watching a professional cast, not Year 10 theatre strand.  

What were the strengths of your performance? Why?

. I think characterisation was, definitely, a strength  throughout the whole performance, as when I was watching it, I believed that I was watching the character on stage, not my class members. Also I could tell that everyone there had all developed their character from the beginning of the term, and that everyone had put in the effort to connect with their character, and you could tell that all the character warm up and character profiles had helped.

. The staging was also one of our strengths, for instance, how we started the scene, we were all standing in neutral which created  tension, this was a strength as it grabbed the audience’s attention and made them want to find out what was going to happen next.  

. I also think that facial expression was a strength in our performance as everyone not only showed their emotion through their body language and voice but also in their expressions. This made the performance even better as you could tell the emotion of each character without them speaking, which I feel made the play more interesting to watch and add more depth to the scenes.

What did another actor do that was effective?

Something that I found effective from another actor was Tim’s performance. This was because I don’t think he had a very dramatic scene yet when he performed, he still drew the audience in and made it really interesting to watch. I think this was because he had really good energy throughout the scene and he used a nice range of tone and vocal colour. This kept the audience interested as the scene did not just stay at the same level, he showed the emotion Callum was going through in the scene.

My performance

The strengths

In my performance I feel one of my strength’s was staying in role. I think this as in the middle of my scene, some of our lines got muddled up, however nor me or anyone else in my scene came out of role and I feel we covered it well as nobody noticed.

Something else that I feel was a strength in my performance was facial expressions. I think this, because  as an actor I feel one of my strength are my facial expressions, and I feel that in my performance I didn’t under or over play any of my facial expression and I think it helped the audience understand what emotion Meggie was going though.

What would you have changed/developed?

Something that I would have changed/developed if I could perform my scene again would my spacing. This is because I feel that I faced the right of the stage a lot and the centre but never really the left. Therefore this would be something I would change as I didn’t use the space that I had available to me and the left side of the audience might not of heard all of my lines if I was not facing them.

Also I would obviously like to change that fact that two of my lines were missed, I am still not really sure what happened, however I am really annoyed at myself because it was something  that had never happened before, and it was a silly mistake. Everyone in my scene including me still stayed in role and quickly recovered but I would still like to change that, as I feel it was a mistake that should not have happened

Long term target review

At the beginning of the term (lesson 3) we set our self long term targets, mine was to:

‘My long term target is to improve on my body language when performing. For example, become more connected with my character so I have to stand the same way as them and use all their hand gesture they would use. This is my long term target as I want all my characters to be as realistic and believable as possible.’

I have achieved this target as I work hard on my character physicality as I know it was something that needed improving on, therefore I worked on it a lot in the lesson and at home. In the lesson I thought about how my character would stand and walk, then at home I would go over the lines but I would be focusing on my physicality.  This helped me achieve my target as eventually when I performed my scene it just came naturally to me.  Also the more I connected with my character the easier it became to become physically like my character as when I was performing I did generally feel like I was Meggie McGregor.