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When starting on our piece we all went and did interviews that were going to be vital to our piece, when we gathered all our interviews we then discussed about which interviews, we as a group decided would be the most suitable for our performance, for the scene I did which was called 'What do you see' the start of the interview extract was "When I close my eyes..." This was a good opening because as the audience, you can feel as if the person answering the question by them actually closing their eyes and saying their what they can see. We also made a consent form so the interviewee would feel as comfortable as possible and they would fully respected during the the interviewing process, this was beneficial to the piece because then we could get our interviews for our performance. When we were discussing our target audience we thought that having our target audience as 16+ would be the most effective because, that is people who are college age and probably have experienced mental health problems and some are probably still suffering and we thought our message could be that, it's okay to be open about these problems because you are never alone, due to that are people suffering with you and they're are people who you can talk to and they're are people who can help as well.

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Evaluation of our work from our show (25/01/17)

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Evaluation of our work from our show (25/01/17)

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On the 25th of January, we performed our verbatim work, Our decided to prepare the material via a running order, then myself and Alice decided to piece together all our scenes and form a script, this was a organised and contrustive way to sort out our work, because we knew what scene was next, it also helped out the technicians so they knew what lighting we wanted for each scene, we also made sure that all the material from the interviews we created, the names of the people we interviewed were anonymous.

When the performance ended, i was relieved that it was over, but was really proud of how it went, because we all work as a team and i thought we all were able to convey emotion, we also were able to perform this piece on mental health, without crossing the line, or offending anyone, i personally believe that i had enough confidence to, perform such a difficult piece on a sensitive topic.

I believe that our piece was catered to the target auidence we had in mind, which was 16+, we chose this as our target auidence, because we thought anyone younger wouldn't understand the seriousness of our piece, we also picked 16+ because people this age, would have gone through something mentally.

The auidence response that I was given for our group, was very postitive, everyone thought we protrayed, the theme of mental health, we also felt like the auidence, weren't offended by our piece.

We used the storytelling techniques we used were, spilt staging and convection of character.

The strongest aspects of our performance I personally believe was, teamwork, because we all worked as a team, I think our piece worked well because we all worked together, and we listened to eachother.

The greatest challenge, was communication, because sometimes the group wouldn't listen to others and ideas wouldn't be taken note of, another challenge was people thinking they needed to lead the group, but this is a team effort and everyone's input needed to be included.

If I could improve anything that we did was using our rehearsal time wisely, this would mean we didn't get distracted so easily, and we didn't lose track, I think we could do that by, knowing what we're going to do, and then start doing it.

I think I could apply these skills, by concentrating on what needs doing and also making sure that when I'm next doing theatre practice, that there is teamwork, and that everyone is included in making decisions, and no one gets left out.

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On Tuesday's lesson we carried on with our mental health verbatim piece, we polished some of the remaining scenes we had left to rehearse, we then decided on a christmas target for our group. We thought this would a good idea because then we knew that we needed to focus and concentrate on the work that we needed to do.

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On Thursday's lesson we carried on working on our mental health pieces and how we can make the scenes appropriate to our target audience, we also were making sure that we used certain drama techniques, I thought this lesson went really well because our group really well as team.

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On Wednesday's lesson we practiced more of our big verbatim theatre pieces, our mental health group discussed on what improvements we could make with our interview questions and our consent form.

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On Tuesday's lesson we carried on with our mini verbatim theatre pieces, by rehearsing,this process was difficult because not everyone was in, which meant that the rehearsal process was very slow.

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On Thursday's lesson we continued talking about the topic we were doing for the verbatim theatre project, we also presented to our group what facts we had found out about mental health, we also discussed about what we should include when sorting out a contract, when we want to interview someone about our topic, just to let them know that nothing they say to us will be used against them.

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On Tuesday's lesson some of the class performed their pieces of verbatim theatre, we also gave the performers some constructive criticism, afterwards we were given a new project to do that involved verbatim theatre, my group's topic is mental health we chose this because it is a serious topic and it's something you cannot ignore, also I suggested to the group that we do thought-tracking, when we're talking about the people's stories.

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On Thursday's lesson we carried on with Ann Deavere Smith, whilst annotating the pieces of work we given, saying how this person was feeling and how they would express it my their tone of voice and their body language. I believe this lesson went well because I was understanding what I needed to do, so I could make the piece seem like I was that person telling their story.

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On Wednesday's lesson we learnt about the verbatim theatre, with the works of Ann Deavere Smith, the work we looked at the LA riots. We were then given some examples of her work during the LA riots, that we had to learn and perform back.

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On Tuesday's lesson we learnt about soundscaping, and how powerful it can be when you're creating a story, because you can make a story about anything and you don't always need words to make a story.

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On Thursday's lesson we started putting together different types stories, my group had to do a instructional story, we chose to do one how to do behave, when there's a house fire. This was difficult to do because we had to think about how we could do this performance whilst making it instructional.

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On Wednesday's lesson we learnt about different archetypes that can be found in a story, examples included, Hero,Mother,Fool etc. We then discussed what elements could be included when making a children's story, and also the purpose of creating certain types of children stories, for example you can an educational story that teaches people about how to act in certain situations. I believe this lesson went well because we all had ideas that we could create a children's story with.

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On Tuesday's lesson we did communication games, to improve our communication skills, first we did a game where we put chairs around the room, we then had someone leave the room, afterwards, we got someone to do the obstacle course before the person that left the room, had to do it. After we played that version, we did the game but this time the person who left the room, was blindfolded, and two people were trying to guide them around, but one of them would be lying to them and trying to make them bump into an obstacle. This lesson I felt went really well because we learnt about how important communication can be and also learning how to trust one another.

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On Thursday's lesson we did the final performances of our object stories, which concluded the first bit of the storytelling unit, we then started to discuss what we would be doing next for the storytelling unit.

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On Wednesday's lesson we discussed, about the techniques of the stand up comedians we watched, we used these techniques to involve them in our storytelling work, we also discussed what target audience these stories would be.

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On Tuesday's lesson we performed our object stories, to eachother, we also gave eachother constructive criticism, about the work, so we knew what we could do better, if we were to perform them again. I felt this lesson went really well because we all worked well together, and we also knew how to respect eachother whilst performing.

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On Thursday's lesson we continue, to learn about our storytelling unit, the main activity we did, was one minute stories, where we picked a topic and Kelly gave us a minute to talk about the topic we chose, I picked 'Christmas' and I found this very challenging because it is quite difficult to talk for one minute about one certain topic.

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On Wednesday's lesson we learnt about the works of Augusto Boal, we did this by playing the great game of power with chairs and we had to decide which chair would be the most powerful. I felt this lesson went really well because we got to the learn about how we can symbolise power even without using physical actions.

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On Tuesday's Lesson we learnt about Storytelling and the skills and Features of it.

First we did an exercise which involves sheets of toilet paper, these sheets of toilet paper were equal to the amount of facts you had to tell about yourself.

Then we had to go in pairs, label ourselves A&B, the people labeled B , had to tell person A a story about them, A had to remember the story, so they could tell it back to the class, and B would let them know if they missed anything.

Afterwards we were put into groups, we then had to create a mind map about what makes a good story, an example of what makes a good story is tension build  up.

The final thing we did this lesson, we were again put in pairs, Kelly gave us an object and we had to create a story that was mainly based around the object we were given.

I believe this lesson went really went, and i learnt there are many elements that create a story.