On the 16 th of December me and my class watched Puss in the boots I enjoyed it very much first things first all the cast were fantastic , I was very impressed by the performances of every individual involved in the show. All the actors spoke with projection so I heard every word to perfection from all the way at the back I heard everything very cleary. I could tell all the actors worked very hard to put this piece together with a show as big as this for them, you have to be commited I could tell they were all commited to this show. I thought the actions used by the actors brought out their characters to the best they could be brought out ,I praise the cast very highly.
The set of the show was very good from the images from the projector and the backdrops used this really made the show stick out very much and assisted the actors on stage to deliver a brilliant performance. The backdrops really give the audience more interest in the show and makes it clear to us of what is happening in the show and the whereabouts of characters and purposes of characters in the play. Back drops are really imporatnt elements of plays to help the audience understand exactly what is happening without any confusion running across the audience. For me personally I find backdrops very interesting , I anaylse them carefully to form an opinion for if it suits the style of the play. In the show Puss in boots the set really suited the play to perfection.
The costumes for the characters I thought were spot on and brought out everything the characters really needed to be brought out. The costumes assisted the actors on stage to put on a great performance , the costumes give the audience an idea of what that character will be like. Costumes are very improtant is well to completely show off what the character will be like through out the show. Costumes must suit the style of the play because it brings out the characters personality in the show.
I was very impressed by the lighting and sound affects of the show, lights and sound give the show another pair of legs and creates a certain mood in the piece making it more interesting to the audience. The lighting affects in this show really made the play stood out and made it even more good then it was , I liked the lights in the piece hopefully in plays coming up for me we can have a play around with the lights. Lighting and sound create an atmosphere to make the play even more engaging then it is. Lights and sound are key to making the audience be on the edge of their seats, like I said I would like in the future to use lighting and soun to my advantage when doing a play.
Overall I thought the play was brilliant , I praise all the aspects that went into this play for me it was a very successfull play ,well done to everyone in it who delievered a great performance keep up the good work.
Friday, 25 December 2015
Monday, 14 December 2015
The Homecoming Evaulation
The Homecoming was written in 1964, it premiered 1965 in London and 1967 in New York.
The playwright is Harold Pinter , Pinter was born and bread in Hackney ,London. He was born the 10th of October and died 24th December 2008. Pinter's career as a playwright began with the production of The Room in 1957. Pinter is best known for his plays The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming and Betrayal(1978), his best known plays have all been adapted on screen. He has also directed and acted in his own film productions .
The main starting point is Max the father talking with his son Lenny, Max is explaining a story that happened years ago but Lenny in his thoughts is ignoring him reading the newspaper but also saying to himself what is he on about. The main characters are Max (Father of 3 sons) a retired butcher in his seventies , Lenny apparently a pimp in his early thirties , Teddy a Philosophy Professor in his middle thirties who is married with 3 sons, Joey an aspiring boxer who works in demolition , Uncle Sam Max's brother a man of sixty three who is a chauffeur and Ruth Teddy's wife in her early thirties.There situations are pretty much having there own lifes and putting up with each other in the same house. Only man who's situaution is different from the faimly is Teddy who lives in his own life in America with his wife.
The Designer of The Homecoming is Soutra Gilmour , I thought the design of the show was great , it really went well with the style of show and assisted the characters in a great way to make the show really stand out which it did. I like the setting of the living room with the grand chair for the father max located on the other side of living room with nothing surrounding it , it really stuck out to the audience. I liked the design of the back door it really stood out and was a big part of the show , so did the stairs going down and up I liked the way it was designed in the corner. The whole design to me really made the whole show stand out.
The light designer of The Homecoming is Richard Howell, the lighting contributed a lot to The Homecoming to give the play a sense of mood. There was one part in the show were the lighting really stood out it was when a new scene was introduced the lighting would get lighter and the sound would get louder , then the character will come in everything would go back to normal. This was a great way of using lights to add an atmosphere to the play. They did this across the play this lighting affect gave the show an extra pair of legs and assisted the play to be even more sucessful. They used this lighting effect to establish different parts of the day. They used this effect were all the characers came together in a line smoking this added a very dark mood at that time in the play.
In terms of costumes the actors wore it really suited there characters. The costumes always give an idea of what that character is like for example smart clothing shows us how muture that character is it could mean an intelligent/sucessful person , scruffy clohting would suggest imature , not well mannered abit of a joker you could say. The costumes in The Homecoming really brought out the characters especially Teddy who is the most intelligent person out of the family from his clothing I could tell straight away that he was a sucessful and wealthy man. Uncle Sam had smart clothes I could tell he was a well matured man, Max from his clothing were just casual for men around his age. Lennie's clothes were casual for men in his error and Ruth clothes showed how wealthy she was. Clothing brings out peoples personality and from the clothing in this play it really stood out for me it was a well designed play. The other son Joey clothign showed an early adult which was casual.
I enjoyed the piece I praise the cast and the design , lighting of the show all these elements of the show made the show sucessful. The cast were fantatsic actors what should out for me the chemistry between the Max and his sons at eahc others throats but I could see the love they had for each other. The lighting really brought out the show it was some of the best lighting effects I've ever seen , I would love one day to use lights that in one of my performances. The design was very good it really set the scene ,so we had a clear view of everything of what was going on. The only unsucessful things of the show was that why they presentend the character Joey with such a deep voice I really didn't get that was it nescessary? The story was very confusing I didn't really get the concept of the show at all. Last thing is that the play was very sexist Was Harold Pinter trying to tell us how women were treated in the 60's?
The playwright is Harold Pinter , Pinter was born and bread in Hackney ,London. He was born the 10th of October and died 24th December 2008. Pinter's career as a playwright began with the production of The Room in 1957. Pinter is best known for his plays The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming and Betrayal(1978), his best known plays have all been adapted on screen. He has also directed and acted in his own film productions .
The main starting point is Max the father talking with his son Lenny, Max is explaining a story that happened years ago but Lenny in his thoughts is ignoring him reading the newspaper but also saying to himself what is he on about. The main characters are Max (Father of 3 sons) a retired butcher in his seventies , Lenny apparently a pimp in his early thirties , Teddy a Philosophy Professor in his middle thirties who is married with 3 sons, Joey an aspiring boxer who works in demolition , Uncle Sam Max's brother a man of sixty three who is a chauffeur and Ruth Teddy's wife in her early thirties.There situations are pretty much having there own lifes and putting up with each other in the same house. Only man who's situaution is different from the faimly is Teddy who lives in his own life in America with his wife.
The Designer of The Homecoming is Soutra Gilmour , I thought the design of the show was great , it really went well with the style of show and assisted the characters in a great way to make the show really stand out which it did. I like the setting of the living room with the grand chair for the father max located on the other side of living room with nothing surrounding it , it really stuck out to the audience. I liked the design of the back door it really stood out and was a big part of the show , so did the stairs going down and up I liked the way it was designed in the corner. The whole design to me really made the whole show stand out.
The light designer of The Homecoming is Richard Howell, the lighting contributed a lot to The Homecoming to give the play a sense of mood. There was one part in the show were the lighting really stood out it was when a new scene was introduced the lighting would get lighter and the sound would get louder , then the character will come in everything would go back to normal. This was a great way of using lights to add an atmosphere to the play. They did this across the play this lighting affect gave the show an extra pair of legs and assisted the play to be even more sucessful. They used this lighting effect to establish different parts of the day. They used this effect were all the characers came together in a line smoking this added a very dark mood at that time in the play.
In terms of costumes the actors wore it really suited there characters. The costumes always give an idea of what that character is like for example smart clothing shows us how muture that character is it could mean an intelligent/sucessful person , scruffy clohting would suggest imature , not well mannered abit of a joker you could say. The costumes in The Homecoming really brought out the characters especially Teddy who is the most intelligent person out of the family from his clothing I could tell straight away that he was a sucessful and wealthy man. Uncle Sam had smart clothes I could tell he was a well matured man, Max from his clothing were just casual for men around his age. Lennie's clothes were casual for men in his error and Ruth clothes showed how wealthy she was. Clothing brings out peoples personality and from the clothing in this play it really stood out for me it was a well designed play. The other son Joey clothign showed an early adult which was casual.
I enjoyed the piece I praise the cast and the design , lighting of the show all these elements of the show made the show sucessful. The cast were fantatsic actors what should out for me the chemistry between the Max and his sons at eahc others throats but I could see the love they had for each other. The lighting really brought out the show it was some of the best lighting effects I've ever seen , I would love one day to use lights that in one of my performances. The design was very good it really set the scene ,so we had a clear view of everything of what was going on. The only unsucessful things of the show was that why they presentend the character Joey with such a deep voice I really didn't get that was it nescessary? The story was very confusing I didn't really get the concept of the show at all. Last thing is that the play was very sexist Was Harold Pinter trying to tell us how women were treated in the 60's?
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Evaluation for Our Country's Good
When researching about Mr Stanislavski I came across a lot of his techniques , I used some of his techniques for example he wanted actors to produce realistic characters he was very fond on this . I found this very useful to help me to develop my character and make as realistic as possible. Another technique I applied to the development of my character is the technique was Motivation which was using your mind or emotions to stimulate your actions. This really makes you think about why you should do this action , the motivation technique really helps you to make your character realistic. Research I carried out on the play the background story really helped to understand my character even more and the what was going on in the society. This gave me straight away an idea of what my characters purpose was in the scene I performed, he wants to leave the play so his whole purpose was to persuade his Captain for him to leave. The whole play is based on convicts who put on production, all of this background research gave me a recipe from where to start from. Stanislavski techniques really link with this play. One thing that really goes with this play is one of Stanislavski's ways of learning he said when playing a character ,which was when playing a bad character look for where he is good and when playing a bad character look for where he is good. This play is about convicts taking a turn in life to do something good , the playwright of Our Country's Good believed convicts could turn there lives around through theatre. This works with Our Country's good because the convicts are bad but like Stanislaviski said look for where there good. This helped me to develop my character.
We developed a lot of skills ,we practiced various amounts of Technical skills ,we worked a lot on vocal skills mainly practicing on articulation of words and speaking clearly. For this we worked on a lot of tongue twisters to help us speak very clearly when delivering words due to the fact some words were hard to pronounce. We developed a lot of physical skills due to the fact of using Stanislavski's physical skills which were unique from others. For us to make our characters very realistic ,we worked a lot of voice exercises to really show our characters emotions. As in so at sad moments talk with a lower voice and when angry talk with a very loud voice. I think your physical skills are very important to the audience to show the status of your character. Next time I would love to player a character with the highest status to really challenge my self to play character with such authority over others.
I felt the collaborative performance with the dancers went brilliant ,this brought out more of our abilities to try work in different ways to do something different. Working with the dancers gave us good experience with working under different circumstances. I must say this was one of my favorite performances I've ever down at Westminster Kingsway college , I'm a fan of drama pieces with elements of dance pieces , it worked very well. I believe we hit the nail on the head and went over our expectations we were set to achieve. One thing particularly I was surprised at how fast we were able to put the acting and dancing together. At the end we collaborated very well ,I was proud of what we all achieved together well done to everyone.
What was strong in my performance was the relationship between the characters , my partner Segun had more authority over me as he was the Captain , I really showed this in our performance by how I listened to him and looked up to him. Segun showed he had authority by his stance during the performance and how he persuaded me not to leave the production. Another thing that was strong was our facial expressions when saying certain things. My facial expressions were confused most of the time because my partner Segun was talking about things that my character Ralph didn't have a clue what he was on about. Seguns facial expressions were serious due to the things he was talking about. This really worked so the audience could understand even more about the story. What was weak was the use of space , we could have used the space a bit more to our advantage. Next time I would like to use a bit more space. For example when my partner was talking he was telling me stories he should have been walking around a bit more to show how much he was into his story and me when he says good luck with the play I should have been a bit closer to the exit of the tent . For next time space and movement needs a bit more work.
The production elements were successful but were very basic we didn't really use anything fancy just a simple turn on and off. Looking ahead next time we do show, I would love to have different lightnings. For example red lighting, circular lighting , I liked the lighting from the Level 3 year 2's performance like there red lighting was very cool. Next time I would like further develop the use of production elements have a play around it and use to our advantage for our next production. Furthermore for next term I would like use sound affects it gives more tension and atmosphere for productions ,its a big help and makes everything more interesting.
This term my skills have improved a lot in everything ,I like say all my skills have improved particularly my articulation due the number of tongue twisters we have done have really helped me to pronounce words to the best of my ability. This term my goals were to have a successful performance with the dancers and my other performance which I believe I achieved. For this performance the reason I believe it was successful was due to me practicing in my own time vocals tongue twisters to nail my performance which I believe I did. My goals for next term is to deliver another successful performance and to carry on the effort I'm giving this course. Furthermore other goals I would like to fulfill is to play a another challenging character.
We developed a lot of skills ,we practiced various amounts of Technical skills ,we worked a lot on vocal skills mainly practicing on articulation of words and speaking clearly. For this we worked on a lot of tongue twisters to help us speak very clearly when delivering words due to the fact some words were hard to pronounce. We developed a lot of physical skills due to the fact of using Stanislavski's physical skills which were unique from others. For us to make our characters very realistic ,we worked a lot of voice exercises to really show our characters emotions. As in so at sad moments talk with a lower voice and when angry talk with a very loud voice. I think your physical skills are very important to the audience to show the status of your character. Next time I would love to player a character with the highest status to really challenge my self to play character with such authority over others.
I felt the collaborative performance with the dancers went brilliant ,this brought out more of our abilities to try work in different ways to do something different. Working with the dancers gave us good experience with working under different circumstances. I must say this was one of my favorite performances I've ever down at Westminster Kingsway college , I'm a fan of drama pieces with elements of dance pieces , it worked very well. I believe we hit the nail on the head and went over our expectations we were set to achieve. One thing particularly I was surprised at how fast we were able to put the acting and dancing together. At the end we collaborated very well ,I was proud of what we all achieved together well done to everyone.
What was strong in my performance was the relationship between the characters , my partner Segun had more authority over me as he was the Captain , I really showed this in our performance by how I listened to him and looked up to him. Segun showed he had authority by his stance during the performance and how he persuaded me not to leave the production. Another thing that was strong was our facial expressions when saying certain things. My facial expressions were confused most of the time because my partner Segun was talking about things that my character Ralph didn't have a clue what he was on about. Seguns facial expressions were serious due to the things he was talking about. This really worked so the audience could understand even more about the story. What was weak was the use of space , we could have used the space a bit more to our advantage. Next time I would like to use a bit more space. For example when my partner was talking he was telling me stories he should have been walking around a bit more to show how much he was into his story and me when he says good luck with the play I should have been a bit closer to the exit of the tent . For next time space and movement needs a bit more work.
The production elements were successful but were very basic we didn't really use anything fancy just a simple turn on and off. Looking ahead next time we do show, I would love to have different lightnings. For example red lighting, circular lighting , I liked the lighting from the Level 3 year 2's performance like there red lighting was very cool. Next time I would like further develop the use of production elements have a play around it and use to our advantage for our next production. Furthermore for next term I would like use sound affects it gives more tension and atmosphere for productions ,its a big help and makes everything more interesting.
This term my skills have improved a lot in everything ,I like say all my skills have improved particularly my articulation due the number of tongue twisters we have done have really helped me to pronounce words to the best of my ability. This term my goals were to have a successful performance with the dancers and my other performance which I believe I achieved. For this performance the reason I believe it was successful was due to me practicing in my own time vocals tongue twisters to nail my performance which I believe I did. My goals for next term is to deliver another successful performance and to carry on the effort I'm giving this course. Furthermore other goals I would like to fulfill is to play a another challenging character.
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