Perfomance Evaluation

My performance

My performance went very well and I am pleased with my performance. Because I wasn’t there on the day of the original performance because I was in hospital I had to perform mine at The BRIT School’s opening evening for Year 9’s, which turned out to be more fun than I thought. I was really excited to perform my piece for my audience. My group and I performed 5 times to five different audiences.

In my performances I made sure I included key emphasis on keywords in my lines. I was given this advice for my character by my teacher. Ms Lee told me to emphasis the keyword my character thought was important. I made sure I included tone of voice and body language in my performances to make my piece as good as possible. And I feel like these areas I succeeded in. Another area I was proud of was my projection and facial expressions, I didn’t break out of character once and I made sure my voice could be heard throughout the whole of the room so everyone could hear me clearly.

The way I communicated my character to my audience was the way I spoke as well as body language and facial expressions. The way I spoke was common which gave away to the audience that I was not high class and I was from a lower class because I did not speak posh. My tone of voice was full of anger so my audience could understand that I was not happy in my scene and that my character was very upset, annoyed and disappointed because she had just found out that her son and husband had just committed many murders.

I also communicated my characters objective by my body language. I used my body as a shield for my sons from my husband. My character Meggie, wanted to protect her sons from her husband’s terrible behaviour because she didn’t want her sons to follow in his behaviour. She wanted to protect them from him, so I showed this by standing in between my “sons” and “husband”. I wanted them apart from each other. I also held my “children” a lot as well as if I wanted them to be mine and not Ryan’s (the name of my husband). This helped me show the audience my objective of protection and guarding my children from my criminal husband.

I also communicated my characters emotion and objectives by my movement in the scene I done a lot of moving. I moved closer toward my “husband” to show that I wasn’t my point across and perhaps try and show some strength and bravery because I was standing up for myself and my “sons”. I also showed my emotion of confusion, disappointment and sadness by moving away from my “husband”. This showed the audience I was full of anger towards my husband because I wanted him as far away from me as possible. This portrays me and him were in an argument because usually husbands and wives usually are loving towards each other, but having my character far away from her husband shows she is angry at him.