EVALUATION
Looking back on my performance, I felt that on the whole it had gone quite successful. I feel that my skills as an actor over the past four weeks, with the help of mentors Rob and Sharron, have progressed a great deal. I feel that the practise that me and my partner Chloe , did the piece justice and reflecting on it it wasn't as bad as I had thought.
Ill admit , that I was nervous a great deal, doing my performance. I had never performed in front of people I had never met, only perhaps at GCSEs, but all productions at my old school were performed in my comfort zone. But , I never forgot any lines, they just came out in an unexpected order, but with improvisation skills me and Chloe worked together to overcome it.
I had managed to project my words out without coming across shouty, and even when I am meant to come across angry toward my final monologue I just projected my words a little louder without shouting. Because my character is meant to be a little psycho, psychopaths tend to come across shady and use subtle ways in manipulation, so that's how I intended to portray my version of the character.
My main objective was to ship Chloe's character off to serve a master. I portrayed it with a calm approach , more like a headmaster having a conversation with a student. She had no choice as she was a woman at the time and women had to be submissive at that period of time. That's how I had to come across. The character was quite snappy with words, as in he would always be quick on his feet with a comeback , sort of like he knew how the conversation would go before he had had it. His super-objective, being how he will make his goal happen, would be to slyly manipulate Chloe's character, Hecuba, in believing it to be her duty to serve. As it was unusual for a woman to plea with her fate, he sort of snapped at the ending monologue. But to make it come across more menacing , Rob and I agreed it to be said like , " Oh enough", like a reminder of who's actually in charge here.
What I could improve with my skills , is that remember what Rob and Sharron had taught me within neutral stance. That walk and stand with knees slightly bent. I did , however it looked as tho I appeared to walk without any kneecaps at all. It came back to nerves and I slightly made my body uptight, but I now know with experience with performing in front the audience at west king, that I can act more loosely and freely.
I feel that I had used my skills effectively. I used the right expressions and used the right gestures appropriate to my character , and all-in-all , It came across a quite good performance.
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