Durrington high school is one of the local high school in our college area. We took a selection of the songs from rent down to their school to advitice the show and do a workshop activity with them.
Out of the songs we performed here the song i felt that i found went best was 'Santa Fe'. The actor playing Collins in this song did forget some of the lyrics but as a performance i feel that it went well in terms of the chreography. I had spent a lot of time on my movements and coming up with gestures that i could do during the song. I felt that I always stayed in my character and didnt have any tim where i was just sitting there. I explored the different ways of filming the train and the passangers. I also did some mimed movements, i feel that this helped fill the scene and make everything come to life. I did things like read a newspaper and talk to others on the train.
If we were to have done more work on our workshop performances i would have liked to spend more time on our transitions and how we linked each of the songs to others. i would have either done it smoothly and promptley, which would have given it a professional touch. The other opotion that i think would have worked would have been to do it in a stylised way, either to a piece of music or to a beat that would have fit the next song.
For the work shop we did a chair duet excerise, this linked to the song 'Santa Fe' which we performed. This also gave the students a chance to get up on their feet. I was with a pair of boys and we looked at different ways of manipulating each other and how we could control each others movements. They worked really well with each other and also responded well to any of the feedback i gave them.
Worthing High School - Workshop
We did our second workshop performance as worthing high school which is my old school and is quite close to the college its self. We did the same selection of songs that we did at the last one. I felt that this workshop went much better with the timing of the songs and the whole flow of the piece, but we had quite a few people missing in this performance as they were doing another show. This then meant for one of the songs 'Will I' i had to do my part on my own, which i would normally do with two ther boys, i had to then start off the solo part on my own and then this meant that i had to pay extra attention on my projection and making the words clear as i had to sing over the top of the other groups. This then went on to be the one of the best songs in the performance as the feekback that we got was on how effective it was and how the audience could really feel the emotion of it.
I thought that the tranisions all worked a bit better in this workshop, this may have been because we were more familuar with the order of the songs and the way it all flowed with each other. We did the same exercise with these students as we did before, this was as effective as it was before and we all worked really well with each other. What i enjoyed the most from doing these is listening to what the audience thought of the show and what they understood about the story lines. I spoke to some studnets about my character and how they saw him compared to others. They all had the general idea that my character was quite and kept himself to himself.
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