Jackie's Work! :)

TARGET AUDIENCE.

Our target audience is year 10 students and the age ranges from 14 - 16. Because our target audience are teenagers we had to come up and devise a piece that was suitable for their age, and we had to make the piece interesting so that they wouldn't sit and just ignore the whole piece. unlike the primary school performance were the children would happily sit there and listen to us tell them a story in costume and having fun with them, we had to get the teenagers attention in a different way.

I strongly believe that performing a piece about domestic violence and Internet safety, we would be able to attract the attention because most teenagers today use the Internet and are not aware of the dangers that are on the Internet. And i also know that most teenagers of today are not aware of domestic violence, because most teenagers think, " oh he is beating her, what can we do". So i think it was good t show them that just by simply talking to someone about it, you will get support, people will try and help when your in that situation.

DEVELOPING IDEAS.

When we began developing ideas in groups of 4. i was with Crystal, Shabill and Cameron, and we decided that our little part of the scene can be done in the style of Jeremy Kyle. So when we began to devise the piece i decided to go ahead and create the characters names, and come up with a reason to why each character was on the "so called show". Anyway Crystal, became Claire, and the reason why she is there is because she was being abused by her boyfriend. Then i made Shabill Claire's best friend, and he is basically there for moral support for Claire. then i made myself the doctor who explains what injuries Clair's has taken on, and we made Cameron the very hyperactive TV show host.

But, unfortunately our piece was not used, and we became one big massive group and nick came up with an idea of putting the performers which is us, in a horse shoe shape around the edge of the performance space. then after that group 1 and group 2 we came together and we used some scene from groups and added a few monologues from people. And that is how it stayed for the performance.

PERFORMANCE IN REHEARSAL.

during the rehearsal period everything was very consistent and repetitive. but because we merged with the other group we wouldn't always rehearse everything with them. but because i had a bit of time off due to family circumstances i was taken of the performance and i just worked the camera. so whatever happened in rehearsals when i wasn't there, happened.

MY POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION.

my positive contribution to the group was helping everyone with their work, and giving as many ideas as i could.

Theatre In Education - Secondary School Performance 5th - 8th March

Monday 5th March

Yesterday was really cool. we began the first part of blocking our scenes for the secondary school performance.
and we changed the whole thing into a horseshoe because before we were just performing our pieces one by one. but now we have joined with the other group, so the piece will be more powerful.

it starts off with a people leaving a voicemail message to the person the are trying to call and at the end of that part someone will say all message deleted "BEEEP". then one by one we set up eachothers scenes so like if charle's piece is first then me esther mahine rebecca and prince, we will have a short conversation describing the character what her home looks like and then the piece will satart and the other groups in the piece are doing the same, so it is very repetitive.

Storytelling Performance! EVALUATION

Today We Performed Our Story-Telling Piece To Gwyn Jones Primary School.

in my opinion everything went ok, i wouldnt exactly say it was amazing. the kids enjoyed it but some certain parts were not working for me.

costume for me and mrs hedgehog were a basic monkey onsie but we just tucked the head so it then looked like a headgehog, cameron also wore a onesie which was a bunny rabbit style so that worked and yvonne was dressed as an old room and she added this cough to add to her character which was really good.

there was a part when mrs hedgehog shouts and mr hedgehog and i changed something at the last minute and i should not of done that, we changed the line to going to pick some flowers for mrs hedgehog instead of making dinner. and i thought it would be a good idea to get some of the children up to help. and all they were doing was standing picking some fake flowers out of this make shift flower pot and then they just stood there not knowing what to do, because i had to do part of a scene with cameron.

then after that was the part with the race and that was a little messed up because were supposed to say a few lines but we all completely forgot, and just went straight into the race and some of the kids just looked at us and i could tell that they were thinking, "what the hell just happened". then it finished and we gave them some fake flowers as a thank you for watching our little story, and some of them started to fight over them, and that was a bad mistake.

but all together i was pleased with the outcome, and it was really enjoyable to work with Cameron, Yvonne and Simone.