Evaluation for 10th & 11th October

10th October (Tuesday) Review for Music Level 2&3's performance

We are going to watch the performance from Music level 2&3 students!!

Although i was not in college that time, I get to watch some little bits of the performance  through short videos taken by friend (not sure if it's alright to take video of the performance). There's a guy singing Billy Jeans by Michael Jackson, I think I'm in love with that just like everyone else on that day. I believe that not only the song that's taking our attention, but also his nimble movements on stage. He was so confident to show what he had been working on, as an audience, I can feel the joy he brought to everyone of us. 

What did I learned from above?... 

As an actor, sometimes we don't know how will we look like for an audience. This performance had made it clear for me, i think one of the most important point will be our confidence. Why? It's the same for a musician or an actor. We perform on stage, and show our story. Audience wouldn't want to pay and watch for you standing at the back of the stage speaking your line or singing with a voice that only you can hear it. 

For musicians, they need their voice, and also their skills on playing instruments. But for us actors, we need not only our voices, the movements and expressions will be as important as our voice. How do we perform them well all together? Confidence. 

A part from that, I think their band did a great job too, as a team. Teamwork has been a very basic knowledge for an actor, we are a group not alone. Everyone is going to have their own lines, own objectives and own characteristics on stage, but not on their own. For example, even as Montagues and Capulets, everyone knows that this two groups are enemies. So for us, we need to show much more conflict in between, in order to let the audience know we hate each other on stage but also working really well together with our eye contact to each other, interactive movements, and the pace we speak. All of it were the main common things that every performers should know, but showing them in different way.  

11th October (Wednesday)

It was our turn to perform what we learned and what we did during the induction period together with Musical Theatre students and Dance students. In the morning, all of us gathered ourselves in the dance studio. Sharon did some warm ups with us such as, tongue twisters, reflection exercise, and some voice projection exercise.

We rehearsed two rounds before we need to go to the theatre, i can see that everyone of us had fully into our own character with all the blocking, the lines and movements. We get a little nervous while watching other students performing their piece but still giving most of our attention to those performers while they were performing, and give them our biggest applause.

When it's our turn to be on stage, all of us started to be very serious and remember the little details Rob and Sharon told us like what to do and what not to do on stage. To be honest, i think we did better in the performance than in rehearsals.

What we did better during the performance?...

• we did not face our back to the audience and has used the space well, so that the audience can see every cast members on stage. 
• our tension during performance were much more stronger, we put 100% of focus in to our character. 

What we could improve for our next performance?...
During the party scene, most of us stayed at the back with our group, and left with a big space in front. We should move more to upstage so that audience will get to see us clearly. And we wont feel wasted for our party character as we did so much on our detail for the party as guests. 

Overall performance : Everyone put in their best effort in the play, and it does turned out not bad, audience enjoyed it and i enjoyed it too. For other performers from Dance and Musical Theatre, they did really well too, all of them were so energetic on stage,  their movements were so natural to tell that's been planned.