evaluation

Our performance this term didn't go very well. When we were asked to create a list of WWW (what went well) and another list of EBI (even better if) the page was full of improvements. My group actually found it easier to come up with bad points and we struggled intensely on creating good points. Our biggest problem I think, was the fact that we made our performance to film based. Our performance might have been good if we would have made it 2 hours long. Our story was too complicated that yelling it in the space of 30 minutes was a big challenge. From the start of this term my group had struggled with creating a story line and we would often drift into film techniques, rather than performance techniques. Another problem was the stage combat. We over-used the stage combat and even even though we rehearsed it a lot, it still didn't look real. It looked as if we had just thrown in fight scenes at any given opportunity. Another problem was fluency. We hadn't practised exiting and entering stage, so when we didn't need to be on stage we didn't know where to go, making the performance look messy. Also the lighting didn't go as.planned and the ending was completely ruined because the lighting didn't change. This tells that we were far too dependant on lighting to make our performance good. We shouldn't depend on lighting, the price should look amazing without it. But instead we all stood on stage, frozen, for at least 10 seconds not knowing what to do, just waiting for the strobe to switch on. The audience could not relate to the characters, so when they died they didn't really care. We needed to engage the audience in the characters a lot more. I think saying a short monologue on each of their lives was no where near enough. The romance also didn't engage our audience and seemed childish as well. Looking back on the performance I would change almost everything about it. We were too stuck on a film based idea, and when we realised this would not work, we didn't have time to change it. I am glad we were able to see all these improvements, this tells me that next time we won't make these mistakes again.