Monday, 6 January 2014

My Evaluation for Nightmare before Christmas

Evaluation

When we started our practical we first all watched the nightmare before Christmas DVD then when we came back after half term sir showed us Antonin artaud and he does theatre of cruelty which means he wanted his audience to feel different emotion so like fell uneasy and sometimes feel sick and sad. My initial response was that he was a very weird person but very clever at the same because I can’t believe that just his performances would make people feel like that and make them fell ill and upset for some characters but others feel hate towards them. Sir then showed us what the A level students had done and how we could take some of those ideas and put them in our performances.
Our teacher then asked us to pick a character that we would wanted to play in the performance. We then went on the computer and thought up some really good ideas for monologues based on that character so if they were scary or if they needed help we would have to realise their emotion and then come up with ideas for ourselves. So on mine I had to make my character look and sound really upset and lonely because in the DVD she was a bit of a lonely character.
Then the week after we had been practicing our monologues over the weekend and then we showed the monologues to the whole class and we took it in turns they were the first monologue that we had written because then we have changed it over the weeks.
We changed our monologues by adding questions so we that we would be involving the audience then we could also change it by adding pauses so it makes more tension then we could also put lighting and sound.
Then sir showed us some more videos of other people who had done Antonin Artaud style and we took some ideas of how we could say our lines and how we can express our emotion so that the audience feel our emotion and feel sorry for the characters that are sad and feel scared and uneasy of the characters that were scary.
Then the rest of the time we had we were practicing for the performance day but in between sir would show us our videos that sir had taken of us but we just kept practicing for the performance and i think the performance went really well and everyone remembered their lines.


By Aleysha Briggs       

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