We have finally performed our TIE pieces! I was pretty nervous all day.
We had the first two lessons to rehearse our pieces (One and a half really) and I think that was very useful to refresh our memories about the piece, since we only got to rehearse once a week. Our costume was simply all black and everyone had brought in one prop. This extra time was very useful. The only thing we didn't do was organise our workshop.Our performance was period 5, and my nerves were building after the other groups had performed. They were all brilliant. It was also a 2-1-2 day, so we didn't have lunch time to set up like we'd expected, but we managed to set it up fine.
We thought we were only performing to one year 8 class, but we performed to two and afew sixth formers (A level drama class). The room was really full, but all of the audience seemed to listen and no-one was disruptive.Sometime before our performance, Imogen was playing Pink - Perfect on Sebs guitar, and we thought that it fitted almost perfectly with our piece, so we asked her very nicely to play it while the Year 8's came in and sat down. I think it was very effective because it's a well known song as it has been on the radio for a while, and the audience didn't need to think too hard what it was about so it gave an instant effect.
The performance went very well, I didn't notice any mistakes and nothing came up in the feedback, so that's great.
The workshopafterwards was sort of off the top of our head, Beth decided to do some hot seating after the performance because she knew her character very well. They asked a few questions in the hot seating and the questions seemed to flow more when we had got them started then died down. The questions were relevant showing that they paid attention to the piece, and also shows that we chose the correct target audience and correct language in the piece that they were able to follow.
Our Feedback;
Mr. Truscott; He picked up on the song at the beginning. I think he was abit confused as to why we used that song and not the one we had spent time writing in the lessons which was written specifically for our TIE piece, but he still liked the song choice.
Miss. Bentley; She loved Beths use of 'direct address'. She asked us if we'd meant to do most of it but most of the parts that she had pointed out were just natural things we did and we weren't planning them as a certain technique.
A Level Class;
They had different feedback sheets on the piece. A list of what they said;
- Direct Address was really well done.
- Strong imagery, e.g the skeleton. Shocking to the audience.
- 'Fat, Trapped, Alone' - 'YES' 'Brect 'Slap-Tickle Technique'.
- Good audience choice to talk about anorexia with
What could we improve?We had the first two lessons to rehearse our pieces (One and a half really) and I think that was very useful to refresh our memories about the piece, since we only got to rehearse once a week. Our costume was simply all black and everyone had brought in one prop. This extra time was very useful. The only thing we didn't do was organise our workshop.Our performance was period 5, and my nerves were building after the other groups had performed. They were all brilliant. It was also a 2-1-2 day, so we didn't have lunch time to set up like we'd expected, but we managed to set it up fine.
We thought we were only performing to one year 8 class, but we performed to two and afew sixth formers (A level drama class). The room was really full, but all of the audience seemed to listen and no-one was disruptive.Sometime before our performance, Imogen was playing Pink - Perfect on Sebs guitar, and we thought that it fitted almost perfectly with our piece, so we asked her very nicely to play it while the Year 8's came in and sat down. I think it was very effective because it's a well known song as it has been on the radio for a while, and the audience didn't need to think too hard what it was about so it gave an instant effect.
The performance went very well, I didn't notice any mistakes and nothing came up in the feedback, so that's great.
The workshopafterwards was sort of off the top of our head, Beth decided to do some hot seating after the performance because she knew her character very well. They asked a few questions in the hot seating and the questions seemed to flow more when we had got them started then died down. The questions were relevant showing that they paid attention to the piece, and also shows that we chose the correct target audience and correct language in the piece that they were able to follow.
Our Feedback;
Mr. Truscott; He picked up on the song at the beginning. I think he was abit confused as to why we used that song and not the one we had spent time writing in the lessons which was written specifically for our TIE piece, but he still liked the song choice.
Miss. Bentley; She loved Beths use of 'direct address'. She asked us if we'd meant to do most of it but most of the parts that she had pointed out were just natural things we did and we weren't planning them as a certain technique.
A Level Class;
They had different feedback sheets on the piece. A list of what they said;
- Direct Address was really well done.
- Strong imagery, e.g the skeleton. Shocking to the audience.
- 'Fat, Trapped, Alone' - 'YES' 'Brect 'Slap-Tickle Technique'.
- Good audience choice to talk about anorexia with
- 'Fat, Trapped, Alone' would have been alot better if we had thought of a way to get more people involved, e.g getting other diploma members in the audience?
- Include more statistics/facts about anorexia/eating disorders.
- Hair needed to be tied back.
I'm impressed with how well the theatre went. I expected it to go well, but I expected some noticable mistakes, but I don't think there were any. I feel relieved that it's now over!
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