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Unit 3 Acting Skills: DATE: 18/09/14

MY LONG TERM TARGET IS…

To use more physicality 

To be more confident in myself

Improve my use of space

My long term targets of using physicality has been improved by putting my self in real life situations and thinking what my character would do, how they might behave and their unusual mannerism. Furthermore, I have improved in my confidence by the whole class run through and also the exercises ran by the teacher as this helped me to get used to performing in front of an audience. Finally this links back to how I improved my confidence by the exercises ran by the teacher because I had to be spatially aware of my surroundings.

For the evaluation:

What were the strengths of your performance? Why? One of the strengths of the performance was my tone because I really emphasised Sephy's emotions by using a panicked tone when it was needed and a demanding one to show her strong mindedness. I was able to show control because as in my scene I had to run around, I had to control my voice effectively so the audience do not loose my lines, also everyone was walking on at the same time as me so I had to project and control my voice so I could be heard over the shuffle of people

How did the overall performance go? The overall performance was really focused and good because we were all able to project our voices so the audience can understand us in the large space, it helped a lot because it showed how hard we worked on our articulation, we were also able to stay in role this made us portray a believable character because we were all focused. Generally, although we worked hard on our characterization, I felt that we could of worked more on our use of body language to show our characters more.

What did another actor do that was effective?  Oliver really used his range of voically skills effectively according to his mood, you could really tell the characters variation of emotions by the tones he used.

What would you have changed/developed if you had to do the performance again? (About your performance) I think I would spend more time on my use of pause because I felt as if I rushed my lines and the audience struggled to hear everything I was saying.