Evaluation of first run.
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At the start, when doing my monologue, I started off with good volume and clarity which would allow the audience to hear what I'm saying with ease. However, towards the end of the monologue my volume started to drop. To improve this, I will make sure that my volume consistency stays high to allow the audience to hear every word. Also the pauses I put into my monologue i feel were too short making it sound rushed, meaning the pace was too quick. this may effect the audience by not understanding or being able to take in what my character is implying, also reducing the amount of characterisation. The pace of my speech could also be slowed down. In the lines I have with one word or a short phrase, I feel that they need more volume otherwise the audience wont hear the line, also needing more emphasis and meaning to them, especially the island voices lines such as " nothing " and " don't think so". The line " which is fast becoming the hub" I think needs to be slowed down much more as it becomes quite hard to understand. Also during the cleaning scene, my volume and articulation was good however, I could add more emphasis on certain words. Towards the end I need to be clearer on my lines, however I think its because I'm too focused on the blocking and getting the correct props whilst on stage, and my characterisation needs to change between island voice and pupil characters. This should be done through my tone but it didn't happen in the run.
Evaluation
for Hope Springs.
In Hope Springs I thought that the planning for my character, build up
towards the show and vocal techniques I used was good. Before we started on
this unit I didn’t have any ideas on my usual vocal habits. I realized that the
consistency of volume during shows wasn’t too great, as I have been picked up
on it when performing in other shows. In the past I had studied on vocal work,
but only the vocal work inside singing or performing in a musical. However,
this did give me some insight into the vocal techniques, as some were similar
to the techniques used during singing, for example, articulation and diction
especially. During the unit, I found that I never really had to think about my
pace or even pauses, this is because I sung. I think that adding pausing and
changing my pace for different characters has definitely improved my acting or
even the way I can portray a different character now, as different characters
may talk with a completely different style. When I was trying to improve my
vocal approach I struggled with emphasis on certain words or phrases, as to me
the phrase was emphasized enough to know what my character was feeling but to
others it wasn’t. I improved this by making the emphasis more exaggerated, for
example, the phrase “where’s the dignity in that” wasn’t exaggerated, so during
the show I exaggerated and you could tell that I wasn’t happy about the
situation. During the piece I faced problems with my monologue at the beginning
of the show. Firstly it was my consistency with volume, as I went on I also got
quieter, that was easy to improve though as I just projected my voice better.
Also in the monologue I feel that I struggled with m pacing quite frequently as
when I knew the lines I would just try and get them out of my system reducing
the characterization that I was supposed to have.
During the piece I had many standards that I wanted to achieve in the
performance with my vocal. At the beginning I wanted a significant change
between island voices and pupil 4, however when nearer the show I thought about
the story and though that the island voices could be pupils that had suffered
on the island. This made me change my tone but not completely different to
pupil 4. I felt that in the show this standard or target was reached. Another
target was that during my monologue I wanted the audience to feel sorry for my
character. I did this by emphasizing some words with more expression, also
dropping the pitch of my voice but still articulating the words properly and with
a good, clear volume. I felt that I reached this target as a member of the
audience came up to me at the end and said they felt touched by the emotion the
pupils were giving off. However I feel that in the performance I could have
upped the standard of the smaller island voice lines I had by increasing the
volume and slowing the pace. I feel that I’m revealed as a learner who thinks
and knows what he has to do, however sometimes I don’t have the confidence to
portray the character how I want to and it takes me a few goes before I get to
the standard that I am happy with. To begin with I thought the play was going
to be hard for me to produce a character without singing however, once I was on
the stage I really felt myself in the characters shoes, and this came through
by volume in my voice and emotion throughout the play.
In this unit, I feel as if I approached the vocal performance similarly
and differently to others in my class. Firstly I feel this is because my
character was different to theirs and mine got upset quite easily meaning the
dropping of my tone had to be done throughout most of the play, with also an
adrenaline in some parts of the play. If I were a teacher looking over myself I
would tell myself to slow down and not to be so unconfident when speaking a
longer phrase as I feel I rushed a few of my lines and this would make it hard
for the audience to understand. The most engaging moment in my vocal
performance for me was the monologue at the beginning as I had to show
expression and everyone would have been looking at me, so it made my improve my
vocal techniques by having a louder volume or even just changing the tone a
little bit more in my voice. My classmates picked up on me rushing on my
dialogue however, they also said that my pronunciation, diction and volume was
clear and at a good consistency after the show however, I thought my volume was
slipping towards the end.
One thing I would like to improve on vocally is the pace that I speak
when I’m confident with my dialogue otherwise the audience wont be able to
understand what I’m saying and the next show could be broken up and
misinterpreted if they don’t understand my lines. If I could do this piece
again I think I would have a significant change in tone between the island
voices and pupils, so I took a different take on it, which may have been more
understandable. Also I would have slowed all of my lines down. So for my next
show I would like to slow the pace of my whole dialogue adding more pauses and
reducing the pace so it’s even easier to understand my and my character can
have more characterization. In the future I would also like more help with
emphasis on certain words and also pauses during my dialogue as sometimes I
feel that I put my emphasis on the incorrect words. To get my next teacher to understand
that my pace is too fast I could show her the rehearsal run of hope springs
showing her my dialogue as I thought it was to quick.
Overall I am really happy with my performance I just need to adjust a
few things in my vocal for the next show, this includes pace, emphasis and a
continuous sustained volume.
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