Term 2 - Performance Rehearsals

At the start of Term 2, we have been put into separate groups which relate to what our performance was based on, so I am in the group for soldiers.

We started the lesson by warming up and then getting into pairs and creating 5 moves each that showed one person working in the conscription office and the other person being a soldier trying to sign up to fight. I was with Cameron and we came up with a handshake, then me looking nervous, as the soldier, and him stroking his chin, sizing me up. Then he puts his hand under my chin and pulls me up and then I follow where he moves his finger with my eyes and then we salute each other.

Jack saw our moves and gave us some feedback to make it more interesting, with different tempos and different strengths to our moves. So, we made the handshake a bigger movement which we follow with our eyes and when our hands touch, we make eye contact. Then we quickly move our hands and face different sides, so that we appeal to the three-sided audience. We then made the chin movement quite slow and changed it, so that I follow where his fist goes. He then pushes me back down and then we salute to each other quickly.

When we performed our moves to the rest of the class, we got some really helpful feedback. Jack has told me that I need to work on my masculinity, so I look more like a soldier. The class told us to just make sure that I know where Cameron's fist is going to move, so that it is clean and precise and we could add different paces and strengths to the actions, apart from that, they really liked it.

We saw everyone else's moves and they were really good, but everyone needed the same note to make it clean, to change the pace and strengths of the movements to make them interesting and captivate the audience.
This is our opening scene to our performance - I think it's strong and will capture the audience's attention, especially when we're all doing our moves at the same time.