In my own performance my strengths were following my Directors (Rob) directions to the best of my ability and that he didn't have to tell me twice the same improvement to make. I got it the first time which is what I label as one of my biggest strengths. For example I would always be moving my feet while acting which was never good but , Rob told me to stand still its always better. I took this on and I noticed straight away that it makes your acting much more believable because one of your biggest challenges are your audience and if your moving your feet when you shouldn't be , they will just be asking themselves questions in their heads why is he moving? It will overall confuse the audience. Furthermore another strength for me would be my ability to play a blind character which was my hardest role to date so far because you can't make no eye contact with anyone ,even if its a little glance at someone straight away you lose the status of your character. In this role I kept my eye contact past the audience to the corner of the room , I was told by Rob instead of just looking up ,he told me to focus myself on the corner of the room which would make my character more effective. I thought I played my character to the best of my ability given the circumstances of the character. The only weakness I had was I was to into my character to the point I was standing on stage like a statue with my arms sticking out to much, which let me down. Again this would confuse the audience with them asking why is he so still? Overall I thought my performance met the standards of my teachers and audience. In my group our Strengths were the tension rising between us two with what was going on in the piece. By this I mean the different emotions had to be delivered for different lines for example some lines ,had to be said with anger behind them but not by shouting only at absolutely necessary times which were done. That was my groups biggest strength was getting the emotions bang on correct at the right times when saying the lines. One more thing is that once again the tension was played to perfection we created the exact mood we wanted especially between the two main characters. (Tyrisias ,Oedipus)
The other performances I watched was the level 3 musical theatre class and music class and the level 2 music ,acting. The content of the musical theatre was very different due to the fact the level 2's did devising pieces while the musical theatre did scripted pieces. For example one of devising pieces was based on two men who decided to join the army and left there wife's behind. Which I thought was a good idea to base a piece around. Both groups did very well I was impressed I thought they delivered a good successful piece. The strong points for the drama groups was the ability of working together to make good piece and the especially the chemistry between each other from the level 2's. The level 3's musical theatre strong points were, working as a whole group together to make a good piece worked very well because there piece on stage required the whole class to be on stage. For the level 2's there weakness was projection for some of the actors I couldn't hear what they were saying. Furthermore all acts entertained the audience to a good level, so its safe to say all the acts delivered a successful performance. I thought they used good technical skills which always adds to the mood of the piece, all acts used this successfully.
Overall my Greek play I did Oedipus, the whole play really was a standout performance for me due to the fact it was very different character from previous characters I've played. I played a blind profit accusing Oedipus of murder , this was my hardest character to date because everything I had to say was to be underplayed and also not to make eye contact with anyone. What really made it special for me was the fact playing a blind character which I have never done before. It was an interesting experience for me. When playing a blind character you can't do the normal mechanics of a human being , so it was an interesting journey for me to see how I adapted to this character. This is what made it special behind the scenes of show ,when it came to the actual performance that was different. The standout moment in the performance for me was me standing their looking in the corner of the room accusing Oedipus, the whole piece was standout performance as I stated earlier on. Playing the blind character, it was eating at me to watch my performance to see how I played this blind. That's what made it special for me playing the hardest character of my life that's really made it special playing a character being very different to other characters I've played. Certainly this blind profit was the most interesting character I've ever played.
The conventions differ when it comes to a music show and theatre show, its always louder when its a concert or festival because what makes it good at those shows are the audiences, who are there to join in to create an atmosphere. The whole point at a gig is to be jumping around making noise. Its different at the theatre because actors ,if theres noise the actors get distracted its not fair on them. Imagine standing there trying to remember lines and the audience is making a lot of noise its going to distract you isn't it. At a gig the audience don't distract you because the whole point is singing or rapping along with the artists who are on stage. So noise is absolutely necessary or the gig is rubbish without noise. A few years ago I went to the old vic to watch the Valley of astonishment, I had a water bottle in my hand I crunched it once by mistake and a lady in the audience got very annoyed. So even the audience expect other audiences to be quite while actors are on stage which is completely right even if you make a noise by accident. Now if I did that at a gig no one would notice they would be to busy jumping and singing to hear me.
