Evaluation

Evaluation

I thought that the overall performance went very smoothly and there was a lot of energy during all the pieces from dance to music. I liked the way we engaged the little children and I hope that we inspired them through our arts and crafts. I think it was really nice to be able to do something like that because it helped us as actors to be more versatile and use our imagination during the devising work, and it also helped to push us into areas that may have been uncomfortable to us as actors. From the first performance we did (Naughts And Crosses) to this performance I have noticed that my acting has become a lot more versatile and has expanded widely, especially during the physical theatre we did which gave me confidence in using my body to bring extra characteristic's to my character. Our piece was suitable for the target audience because everything we did had engaging moments throughout, the bright coloured clothing drew them in straight away because its nice for little children to see bright colourful clothes because when they watch tv and children programmes that's what they see so for it to be live in front of their eyes definitely engaged them. The use of music and rhythms helped a lot because it kept the play moving swiftly but it brought it to life and kept the energy needed to engage little children. I think the best devising skill I used personally was my imagination and outside of the box thought process because I knew that the most of the play would be happy and bright but in the book there is a section on the 'non-dreamers' so I thought it would be a nice twist especially when that gets broken by the super hero dream savers which made it more inspiring for the little people. The repetitive movement of the non dreamer adult world section had the  'never let go of your dreams' type feel to it which I thought was good for the children. The other group used improvisation to devise there piece as there was a small amount of time to rehearse.