Today was that we would perform 1984 to a live audience. I think it went extremely well it was the best it could have gone and I was really proud of how it turned out. I think this was much different to Flint Street because we were playing different characters but I was playing a child so I had some skills and techniques from Flint Street but it was a older child not as young as I played in Flint Street. I think Goldstein was a interesting and challenging character to play I only had to film the section that he says when everyone is shouting at the screen I feel when I filmed this character well so people would hate me thats why they were shouting at the screen you could not really hear me when everyone was shouting but it still looked effective when filming this I had to think about how I was going to come across to the audience and how I would act.
When I spoke to my mum who came to see it she said it went really well she said she did not notice any mistakes that I made which was good because I don't think we made any mistakes.
I think I have improved a lot with my child character during rehearsals at first I found it difficult to understand who the child was and how I was going to present my lines. When discussing child we understand that he is Winston as a child and he did not have a good relationship with his mother or sister because he was horrible and always wanted to eat all of the chocolate. Also during rehearsals I understood how I was going to say my lines I had to be a cruel and spoilt towards my mother thats why she left me as a child, at first I found it very difficult because I could not say 'criminal' this would lose the scare factor of my character so I had to go over it a lot so I got it right. On the night of the performance I said it all right which I was really proud of because it took me a while to get it right.
Everyone got all of their lines right and remembered what scenes come after the other we had some troubles in rehearsals with remembering what lines we all had and what came after each scene but we got it all right and it looked amazing.
The physical theatre pieces were fantastic and went smoothly we remembered it all and nothing went wrong and we had no accidents. I think all of our characterisation, body language and facial expressions were amazing and we showed the audience our abilities and strengths. The set and costumes looked really good and they portrayed the dystopian world that we wanted our audience to see. However, the posters that we did put up for the performance started to fall but we over came this as we tried not to take notice. Also some of us didn't put our coats on with in book club so it may have looked quite strange as we looked modern where as everyone else looked different. We only started using our props on the day as well so I think that we could have done with some more practise with them so we knew when to use them and not to use them because sometimes I was a bit confused but managed to get the props and the taking of the coat right.
I think if we did it again we should pin all the posters up and not use tape because when we ripped them down it got stuck it my feet and I had to keep taking them off. I think we need to make sure the video protection is louder because we could not hear some of the speeches for example when I am Goldstein I am speaking a speech but you could not hear me because everyone is shouted this was not a big problem because I think it added a good effect because everyone had to shout and hate on me. I think we need to practise more with props because some we did not have but some worked really well because the whole piece is unnatural and not real.
