After our performance of School song we got to watch back the video that had been recorded of us performing it. The performance was in front of an audience which had our family and friends in. Before watching the video back I feel as though the performance went really well and I had done my best with showing off all of my skills which I had learnt and developed. The audience gave us feedback and also told our teachers what they thought we had done well. Some of the audience feedback which we got was, "they were all really aggressive" they said this because they hadn't seen the song before so they didn't know what to expect and thought we all presented our characters well. Another piece of feedback we got back was "Good use of the boxes" again they hadn't seen the song before so didn't know how the boxes were going to be used but they though the boxes were a really good addition to the performance.
Whilst watching the video I made notes on what I personally thought I had done well. I thought that we all had really good starting positions and it really showed are aggressiveness and it showed off our characters really well. I was behind the bard for the beginning of the song and I though that this looked really effective and it worked well with the theme of the song. I also though that we had really good volume from the first word that we sang and we maintained that throughout. Singing and dancing at the same time is sometimes hard from some people as they struggle to keep up with the timing of the song and will loose breathe quickly. I felt as though the whole group managed this really well and we was able to stay in time and in tune for the whole performance. Linked to this, I think that we all had really sharp movements and everything looked precise and on time. One negative is that I think we was all starting to loose facial expressions throughout the number, this may be due to focusing on getting the movements right or just because it was our first time performing in front of an audience. I also feel as though we was all in time with each other and not one person missed anything or looked out of place. This also links in with the fact we all had good interaction with each other and we performed it all together and didn't just focus on ourselves we focused on everyone. Having good interaction with each other shows that we work well with each other and we can all contribute with new ideas and we can all listen to each other. Also, i think that we all had good interaction with the audience and we all at some stage made eye contact with someone in the audience. Doing this will make the audience feel more involved in the performance. With audience relationship, we was all acting intimidating so that even the audience would feel more intimidated and scared of us. During the song, i also feel as though we all had good spacial awareness. This is because we used up a lot of the stage and we always balanced it out so there wasn't always lots of people on one side of the stage.
As a group, i think that we had good harmonies in most parts of the songs. Through some parts of the song we could hear that the harmony was lost and you couldn't hear it at all because the tune was really loud. I also think that we had really good diction throughout the song and everything was pronounced really well and it made the song sound even more effective. Also as a group, i feel as though we worked well together and we all picked choreography up well. We all remembered all the choreography for the whole song which is really good. Another area which went really well for my group was that we got all of the box section spot on and sharp. Due to getting new boxes that day, some of the letters had changed places but as a group we managed to figure out quickly what we had to change. Thankfully we didn't have to change much and on the actual performance we got all of it right and dint mess it up.
We watched back the performance video again and we had to watch someone else. Lara watched me and gave me feedback. One piece of feedback she gave back to me was "You had good positions behind the gate at the beginning" she said that she said this because i looked menacing and more intimidating. She also said that the use of the gate was good because it looked like i was locked in jail and it fit really well with the theme of the song. The next piece of feedback she gave me was "Throughout the song i had good strong movements" she said that she said this because i was always on time and every was sharp and looked really effective. The next piece of feedback she gave me was "You knew the choreography really well" she said this because she said that through out the song i didn't have to look at anyone to see what we was doing and what was coming next. She said that i made everything look confident which was really good. Lara said that her favorite part of the performance was when Claudia and i was using the box and pulling it about between us and then had to change it sharply to G, she said that this looked really effective and it drew her eyes (from the audience) straight towards it. The next piece of feedback she gave me was that everything was really exaggerated. Lara said that she said this because the whole group looked exaggerated and it wasn't just me and she think that this made the performance look even better. The last piece of feedback Lara gave me was "you had good projection" she said that the whole song was really loud but it wasn't to loud so we wasn't shouting. She said she could hear me singing throughout the whole song which made me think that i had good projection and i was opening my mouth which would make em sing louder and in tune.
After this performance i feel as though i still have a couple of areas that i need to work on in future performances. One main thing for me is charcterisation, i know that i need to become a lot more confident in this area and just exaggerate my character a lot more and not be small and afraid of performing it. I also feel as though i need to become more of my character quicker and not wait until the last few lessons to get into character. I also feel as though i need to work on keeping facial expressions throughout the song as well. Whilst i was concentrating on singing and dancing i wasn't focusing on charcterisation or facial expressions which i really need to do so this is the main area i need to work on.
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