After all the rehearsals and practicing, it finally came down to this final performance. Personally, I found the strengths of my particular performance with my group is that we had tried to make it our own. From the advice given from Rob and Sharon, to make the performance unique was to add originality, especially with my monologue. I decided to make my monologue in a rap style to allow the audience to relate as we were the last group to perform and at this point of the entire induction, as a group we wanted to make our performance the best we could.
However, the weakness of our performance is that at some point we had lost the diction in our words as we rushed the scene. As a whole drama group we had done very well as we had given it our all. Furthermore, enjoying what we do is the key aspect of getting tasks done to the best of our ability. As we are all passionate about drama, it to allowed us to flow freely throughout every performance we had done and leading up to the induction we had always gave each other feedback on how to improve one another's scenes. For example, early on, one group (Tarkan, Isaiah and Zulaiha) were very good considering they had learnt their lines early on had now began to develop their scene on one hand. On the other hand, they had to work on their projection and their use of the stage due to the fact that Tarkan's character is blind. In result of this factor, as a group for feedback, we had suggested to take the scene to centre stage rather than to the far right as they may be heard better and could use the stage more rather than confining it in one place.
The Musical Theatre class were strong in the moves they were portraying in their singing piece as this got the audience excited as particular moves are ones we can all relate too. In addition, the piece was very unique in its own way. On the other hand a weakness that their piece had was that at some points the whole group were not in sync and some fell out of time with one another resulting in the piece looking dis-organised.
The Level 2 drama performances were very good as the use of sound and props were very effective due to the fact that it was clearer to the audience what the scenes were about. In addition, their projection was brilliant and in my opinion i could really feel the emotion of the characters reach the back of the theatre. They had used the space really well and had portrayed their main theme of love physically making it clear to the audience how strong it is to the characters. However, the weakness of some performances such as the opening was that some of the actors came out of character and decreased the power of the scene that was intended at the start. For example, one was talking about legalising weed but when the audience reacted, they had come out of character and this can deeply affect the moral that was originally intended to be exposed about the piece.
The music performance were outstanding in engaging the audience which links to their strengths. Furthermore, the Level 3 music group, as they were the last to perform, were giving it their all due to the fact that they were adding originality by adding raps to their songs and playing around with the piece as they went along. In addition, one singer engaged the audience by exclaiming 'clap your hands' which in result is a very good way to engage everyone in one community, even if some people did not know the type of music that was being performed. However, one weakness of some of their performances is that they kept the well known track to the way it was produced and there was no seen originality or personality seen within these performers.
Overall, all the performances were outstanding. However a key factor of the audience reaction depends on the type of performance that is taking place. For example, for a drama performance, the audience are required to be quiet so that the actors may be heard, whereas a music gig, the audience are more likely to get involved due to the fact that music closely relates to everybody and a community is built within this. However, it also depends on the type of drama and music is performed. For example, if drama performed a modern piece, due to the generation we live in, a higher percentage of the audience may have been able to relate compared to the current induction piece which was Greek Theatre. Furthermore, if the music group had performed a different style of music which the audience may not closely relate to, it may result in less engagement.
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