Devising Evaluation

Evaluation

I think the main thing that went well in our piece of drama was the movement. This is because we used the fact Meg and Dom are dancers to our advantage and we were able to use them to create synchronized as well as cannon pieces of movement and dance. This was a success because it shows how we were able to utilize people’s strength and in this case it was the skilfulness of our dancers. The movement piece was also a strength because it created an interesting sequence that allowed the audience to learn a lot about characters and it also allowed the audience to see the progression of the story.

Another strength of the performance was the way we all were able to work together successfully and were able to discuss and create ideas together. Our teamwork helped us brainstorm and plan all our ideas before we started to elaborate and create pieces of drama. This was a strength because this meant we had written down all our ideas and didn't have to focus on ideas as soon as we thought of them. This allowed us to take ideas from previous brainstorms where we knew they didn’t work and use them in new places because we didn't forget them. Another way our team work helped us was it allowed us all to talk freely within the group and no personal issues prevented people pushing ideas forward as we all felt comfortable and there was no arguments.

Another strength was the way we experimented with ideas. We tied lots of ideas in lots of scenes and experimented with how things played out during the performance. This was a strength because it allowed us to think about how the audience would view the performance and whether particular techniques and events would work together well or not. This allowed us to evolve and begin to think more creatively as a group and helped us work together closely as we began to use each other’s ideas and use them to adapt an elaborate on our own ideas.  

One weakness was our date scenes lacked the story and emotion they needed to be as effective as we wanted them to be. Feedback from other people was that they didn't feel as if they knew enough about the characters and their relationships to feel sympathy or understand fully the emotions shared between the two characters. To change this into a strength we should have added more to the scenes that allowed the audience to see the progression, such as discussions about their feelings, the change in behavior when these characters are together alone and ect. This would have maybe added the extra information and explanation the audience needed to feel emotions towards the characters and understand them more. I also feel as if the relationships had been more realistic and didn't seem so fabricated they would have made more sense and portrayed the emotions we wanted to, better.

Another weakness was because of how comfortable we were around each other, we got distracted a lot and this led to a mass of our time being wasted on pointless and off topic conversations. This affected us because it meant we lost a lot of time we could have used on planning or rehearsing to talking off topic. To make turn this into a strength we should have created a rehearsal schedule that would have given us clear and concise information on what we had to do and give us the structure we needed to break off any off topic conversations and begin to focus more on what we needed to get done. This rehearsal schedule also would have helped us track and create things for people to do when they weren't in a scene most people were working on and let us be more conservative of our time and not waste any time or resources.

Another weakness was we didn't use the performance space as much as we should have. We spent a lot of time in another rehearsal space rather than where we were really going to perform the piece. This meant we didn't feel fully comfortable in the space and didn't use the facilities in there as much as we could have. We also didn't use the space to plan entrances and exits so when it came to the performance scene transitions weren't as smooth as they should have been. To turn this into a weakness we should have planned a rota for the performance space so it was planned who used what rehearsal space and when so both groups had equal or similar times in the room and could plan the use of the space more successfully.

In conclusion I feel as if the performance was a success however it could have been smoother and much more successful if as a group we had improved on the weaknesses that we highlighted and maybe tried to create strengths for each weakness before we performed the piece.