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Since the last milestone I have worked on adjusting facial expressions and also checking the script to make sure it’s completely how we want it. When doing this we made adjustments to the script as we lost a character from when we had started. When doing this we had to give people a second character so we didn’t have to change the script too much, other then making sure the characters didn’t cross over in certain scenes. I think I partially improved on my last target as I believe I could still be more confident in giving specific acting skill feedback to the actors. Before the performance I think u need to work on my confidence giving notes to improve the performance of different characters.

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My responsibilities as a director are to block and direct scenes, focus on acting skills such as projection, timing, body language, focus etc.

Being a director is important because you make a lot of the decisions for the play this is a big thing because the actors are relying on you for staging and feedback

The skills I need as a director are to be able too work well with the people around you and be able too listen too everyone's opinion, you also have to be patient and have good leadership skills.

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Final Piece - BTEC Level 2 First Award Performing Arts

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I focused a lot on the awareness of the size of space in the creation of this performance by making sure that everyone was in there right places facing the front so the audience could see and hear everyone more clearly, although I planned on focusing more on the body language of all the different characters this could have been more successful in the final performance if I had given each character a specific characteristic. Next time I will focus more on the characteristics as they changed a lot throughout the play.

This play was developed to focus on real life situations and problems that people are potentially facing at the moment such as things like drug use and gang violence. As a director I believe I should’ve focused a lot on timing as lines were said out of place this could’ve been fixed with more practise or even just a more simple direction.

In scene one me and Francesca walk out together and you can tell our differences in characteristics well, she is portrayed more silly and jokey whereas I was portrayed more serious and stern this is really shown when we answer the door too ruby’s character and Fran tells her name and I shout and tell her not too give her name out and call her a ‘twit’ I think this shows it well because it shows that Francesca’s character was more silly and I’m more telling her what to do and bossing her around.

In scene four the facial expressions are strong this is good because it shows the emotions of the character, this was good for prims character as she was angry, and this shows when ruby’s character says that they won’t be able to pay the money back that is owed for the drugs. Ruby’s character was clearly nervous and quite scared these emotions were showed well by the physical characterisation specifically when she paces back and fourth when talking.

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When picking what the play would be about we discussed different options mainly about real life problems that the world was facing in that moment of time, such as inflation and gang violence in the end we chose to go with gang violence and interpreted it with drugs and mental health.

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We worked on some of the choreography so we could be more comfortable when it came to performing. We worked on what would look better with the songs chosen, I think I contributed today by staging everyone where I believed they would look best.
I believe that next rehearsal we should work on getting more comfortable in our characters and expanding on facial expressions and our tone of voice. The last target was to plan the rehearsal out before hand as we didn’t leave ourselves enough time, I believe we achieved this target and we got more done.

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We listened to the songs as a group to see which ones we thought would fit best with the theme we had chose to do, I think we worked well while doing this. I feel like I worked well when it came too talking about characters and their characteristics, this is important when creating a play because that would show the emotion that this play could create for an audience. I think we could’ve worked at a quicker pace and got more done in this time, so next rehearsal we will plan our time before hand rather then just getting on with it. The target for next week is to finish writing the script as it gives us a better chance of learning it quicker.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZToidUZ9CpU&ab_channel=Mollie-AnnaRiley

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtJnJOwM-Dg&ab_channel=Mollie-AnnaRiley