Personally I thought it was our best run through. We nailed it. We were all motivated and focused throughout the whole performance. Even when we weren't on stage we were still in role as our characters. You could clearly see it was well rehearsed show. I felt everyone was with it and knew what they had to say and do next which is why the play flowed so well.
What went well for me?
My two scenes went extremely well. The pace of the scenes, kept the audience drawn in. I felt both the scenes were effective because of there simplicity.
What also went well was the repetition of the word "Oh" which I did find quite challenging.
I thought about what I would be thinking when saying each individual "Oh" in response to Marks "Yeah".
I felt I stayed in role throughout the performance, even when not on stage. I made interaction with other characters near to me.
One actor that impressed me was Alex. I loved the way she played Danny, when she spoke I always wanted to hear more from her. The way she approached her character drew me in. I noticed she was constantly reacting to the situation and instantly made the scene become more alive and up-beat. The way she said her lines were humorous but extremely effective. Overall I was really impressed and she most defiantly stuck out to me.
Our whole performance was effective. I think the music in our opening scene- "Pumped up kicks" made it effective from the start. The music is up beat and quite ideal for a teenager to listen to, which makes sense as all the characters are teenagers. The set was quite bare- a swing hanging downstage left and a bench sitting upstage right. Interesting the set never changed.
The green ties we all wore over are white shirts made it clear that we where all school kids. Each prop was simple but symbolic which meant the audience could have a lot more focus on the actors themselves. Key pieces of clothing like "Jans" bright orange jacket or "Marks" grey hoddie helped the audience into understand that each key piece represented the same character.
Characterization was one of our main strengths. We were pretty much always in character, on stage or offstage. The timings were on point and everyone knew when to say their lines. Lines were remembered and were effective as we all emphasized our words clearly and loudly in the style of our characters.
Everyone was focused which was why the whole performance flowed so nicely. As a group we had a lot of energy which helped us stay in role. Our pace was good and most scenes withheld it nicely.
Overall we all did brilliantly and created a very moving and effective piece.
Characterization was one of our main strengths. We were pretty much always in character, on stage or offstage. The timings were on point and everyone knew when to say their lines. Lines were remembered and were effective as we all emphasized our words clearly and loudly in the style of our characters.
Everyone was focused which was why the whole performance flowed so nicely. As a group we had a lot of energy which helped us stay in role. Our pace was good and most scenes withheld it nicely.
Overall we all did brilliantly and created a very moving and effective piece.
Even though we all did withhold a nice pace during the performance I still felt some scenes lacked it. We could of developed the change-overs between scenes. We all could of done the change overs with more energy. Everyone did interact with each-other but not constantly, this could of been developed further.
