evaluation

To prepare for the show I had to do a lot of initial research on my characters background, costume, how she acts and ect. I did all of this because I knew it would benefit me tom really understand my character and what she has been through. I needed to know what the time was like back then, so I could understand my character a little bit more and what it was like to be in silent movies but then tossed aside when the talkies came about. I looked on the internet, I watched sunset boulevard, I watched silent movies and I also watched talkies I feel like doing all of this really helped me because really wanted to get inside the mind set of what it was like to be a movie star back then and how talkies were such a big thing. A lot of woman and men were put out of jobs because people thought they didn’t have the right voices for film. I had to research costume because I needed to know what was fashionable in the olden days and how it looked on people, I did this by looking online and one of my grandmothers has old pictures of different woman in different outfits. Another source of research I used was reading and watching different interviews by different stars explaining about being in talkies and silent movies, although Norma Desmond is a fictional character her story is quite common when it comes to movie stars in those days. The reason I used all those different methods is because I feel like they were the easiest ways to help me really develop my character especially because before the show I did not know what Sunset Boulevard was about, so I think that looking online and in books really helped.  Using all the different research helped me get into my character a bit more, it helped me also think of different ways to act and speak as times were very different back then they spoke, moved and communicated differently. I also researched other movie stars who were in silent films, so I could come up with a backup story a back story for her. 

During this time, I feel that I have developed many different skills, I feel like playing a person who is insane but doesn’t believe they are insane was hard because I didn’t know how I would be able to act it out as first and I had trouble with it but then after watching the film and different renditions of it and studied the different movements and actions that the people playing Norma Desmond did. I also had some trouble with the singing, at the beginning i didn't think that i would be able to hit certain notes and i also thought that i would not be able to sustain notes as long as the singer does but i was able to over come it by practicing i also had trouble with projection but when it came to the performance i think i was able to over come it. To start with my project was just going to be me on stage but one day i was speaking to my teacher and we agreed it would be a good idea to have everyone on stage as reporters although they were only on stage for a brief moment i had to tell them where to stand and what to do. I found it easy talking to them because they just took what i said into account and did as i asked. I asked them to wear white masks because they are supposed to be like ghost and they have no emotion i also wanted the focus to be on my face. i feel like they made the piece stronger than before when i was by myself, although they were only in the piece for a little bit the piece became so much stronger with them there. 

i think overall the piece went very well i personally think that i did well because i changed my idea so many times and then learning something new and so complex i found it hard to pull her off. i think my strengths were that i stayed in character the whole time and although i found it hard i think i caught the essence of Norma the fact that shes happy, confused, lonely, exited and crazy was hard to play but i think i did well in capturing that. I also think my singing was strong i at first thought that it wasn't going to be good but when i got on stage and sung i think it sounded good. however i feel like i did not project enough and i don't think that i addressed the audience enough i felt like i was holding back because i did not want to look crazy when i should have given it my all. doing this project has made me realise that i need to always give it my all and in future projects stick to characters i'm not used to doing. 

i was also in other peoples pieces

Annie's piece 
in Annie's pieces i was playing a king i didn't really do much i had a coupe lines and the rest of it was just acting liked i enjoyed what the dolls were doing. i found it hard at first because we had to overreact and when i did it i think it sounded really weird and came of fake. but i think the piece went well despite minor technical difficulty
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Nerissa's piece 
being in Nerissa's piece was fun it was like being in a sleepover but on stage. i found my character very easy and again i did not have many lines, i found Nerissa's skill as leading us was very good she set deadlines to learn our lines and she always gave us notes on what we needed to do to make her piece even better. i think hers was a good performance the only thing i would say was the dress change took a bit to long. 

Jordan's piece 
in Jordan's piece i think it was one of my favourites, however he didn't give us a sense of direction we were supposed to do the whole song but then out of nowhere we were told we weren't going to do it and we came up with most of the dance. however the end result was really good and i think it was a good piece

Clairs piece          

in Clair's piece although i was just a back up dancer i thought it was really good a great way to end the show. she was very good as a choreographer and director she told us what to do and where to be and the dance turned out very good. 

to conclude i think the show was very good and we all worked very hard i feel like i have earned a lot of skills